It’s that most wonderful time of the year — again — and lots of loving family members and friends are just as stumped about what to get their favorite outdoorsman as they were in past years.
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Ever spent Christmas in the hospital?
1. Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
Saturday, December 08, 2018
Talk around the campfire this week, and it’s just “camp” talk, jumped to night hunting and why most all of us, federal and state game agents included, call it “hunting.”
Saturday, December 08, 2018
Recreational fishing groups, CCA Louisiana topping the list, are urging recreational saltwater anglers to attend a public hearing set for 6 p.m. Monday at Embassy Suites, 4914 Constitution Ave. in Baton Rouge.
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
A third deer, a 2-year-old doe, taken on a November hunt in Issaquena County, Mississippi, has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
Every duck season is a mixed bag. A hunter whose marsh or ag field is loaded with feed and perfect water depth may be covered with more ducks than Eli Haydel’s blind in heaven, while that guy’s lease neighbor swears migration patterns have changed…
Saturday, December 01, 2018
When Steve Dupuis sent along a photo of his son Reno’s magnificent buck the young hunter took in the days leading up to Thanksgiving Day, it was notable Steve said the giant whitetail had followed a doe into an spot close enough for Reno to take a…
Saturday, December 01, 2018
A third deer, a 2-year-old doe, taken on a November hunt in Issaquena County, Mississippi, has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Commercial fishermen have one more day to take advantage of state Wildlife and Fisheries’ Licensing Section staff to handle fishing licenses and motorboat registration at the New Orleans office.
The filling station near Mike Gallo’s Slidell lodge hates his favorite fishing destination this time of year.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
For most hunters and fishermen the sight of an approaching Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agent foretells producing licenses, boat registration, counting fish and/or game, and, well, at times, waiting for a shoe to drop in the form of…
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Gray hair might be a requirement for a first-hand account of this hunting memory: Back in the days when Louisiana had its fair share of wild quail, many an in-the-country Thanksgiving Days began with granddads, dads and their sons heading to the f…
The local Quail Forever Atchafalaya Chapter has dedicated funds from its annual banquets as base funding to help the Cedatol obtain matching funds for work at Sandy Hollow. All funds raised by the chapter, and the state’s other QF chapter in Lake …
Weekly tidal ranges for Shell Beach at Lake Borgne, South Pass of the Mississippi River, Grand Isle at Caminada Pass and Caillou Boca south of Cocodrie:
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Notebook for sunday, Nov. 18
Wounded and disabled military veterans, among the millions we honored last Sunday, hopefully will find out just how much Louisiana appreciates their service to our country with a special program to get them on the water.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
David Cavell is usually so upbeat, so positive, you’d think the guy had one too many cups of coffee that morning.
There are days when there are “coming” ducks and days with “going” ducks, and waterfowl hunters greeting Saturday’s opening morning saw both, but in Louisiana’s coastal marshes separated by a little more than a hundred miles — as the teal flies.
B.A.S.S. Nation
Saturday, November 10, 2018
November Waterfowl Survey
It’s no big secret about it being grinding season in south Louisiana.
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Coots, known in south Louisiana as poule d’eau — Cajun French for “water chickens,” will surely be all over the marsh this year, and charter skipper and waterfowl guide Ryan Lambert plans on mowing them down.
State Wildlife and Fisheries managers have a new “self-clearing” app for hunters planning to use wildlife management areas.
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes afield knows that Mother Nature giveth, and she also taketh away.
Saturday, November 03, 2018
Although there’s no firm commitment from the state to increase access to Elmer’s Island beaches, a move during Thursday’s Wildlife and Fisheries Commission could open up more of these coastal acres to sportsmen.
If Chad Courville didn’t physically show how upset he is with recent catch data posted for each of the five Gulf states, his words certainly did during Thursday’s Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission monthly meeting in Baton Rouge.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
High School Bass
What an upcoming weekend. Duck season opens for youngsters in two waterfowl zones, and there’s those two monster football games putting south Louisiana in the center of the football universe.
If there’s one time in Louisiana’s extra-long deer hunting seasons that excites deer hunters, it’s the rut.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Wow! How time flies, and young waterfowl hunters are hoping ducks are flying, too.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Junior Southwest Bassmasters
Baton Rouge angler Derek Hudnall went into Saturday’s final day of the Bassmasters Opens Championship on Missouri’s Table Rock Lake needing a little push to fulfill a bass-fishing dream.