The Kisatchie National Forest is open for hunting and fishing despite the government shutdown that has closed other federal lands to all access, a U.S. Forest Service official told Louisiana Sportsman this afternoon.[…]
The closing weekend of teal season was pretty much like the opening weekend of teal season: some mixed reports of good hunting, but a nagging feeling that fewer birds than normal made it into the state.[…]
A tan streak flashed across the front of my truck as my son and I made our way to school a few weeks ago.[…]
Last month, we left Chef Mark Falgoust and Bill Borges, president of New Orleans Fish House, admiring the impressive tusks of a wild boar Falgoust had just shot. […]
Crawfish are almost our totem animal in Louisiana. A big, red crawfish held aloft in a clenched fist is the symbol of Cajun Power.[…]
Dan Preaus, owner of Shelter Insurance agency in Ruston, has been a bow hunter for the past 10 seasons. Hunting on Shiloh Hunting Club as well as family land in Union Parish, he has learned and accomplished a lot as a bow hunter.[…]
Designed specifically as a potential life-saving device for all outdoor enthusiasts, the Fast Find Ranger is a lightweight and compact personal locator beacon providing a direct method of alerting search and rescue authorities from remote areas.[…]
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions.[…]
The earlier the opening date the easier it is to kill the game.[…]
Temperature’s dropping to 48! But it’s two days after Christmas. Getting in your deerstand for dawn? Probably. But you’re not really pumped for the occasion.[…]
You’ve been pumped up for months on end — really since the last season ended. The boat or ATV is ready, and the credit card statement has a laundry list of purchases of all the must-haves bought during the offseason.[…]
As a kid, I spent as much time as possible in the woods on the 600-acre working ranch on which we lived on the edge of Baton Rouge. During the summer, when I wasn’t sitting on a tractor bush-hogging a pasture or helping in the hay field, I ranged through the 300 acres of hardwoods doing whatever struck me at the time.[…]
It is often at the most disheartening times that we have an epiphany and realize we must change our ways. For Thibodaux’s Joshua Chauvin, that defining moment came when he was just 17 years old.[…]
Getting up at 6 a.m. to go speckled trout fishing is a luxury I could get used to.
Well after daylight, I sauntered downstairs from my kitchenette at Bobby Lynn’s Marina in Leeville. Tracy “T.L.” Bayles, owner of Choctaw Guide Service (225-284-5256), had just launched his boat and flashed a big smile at me as I walked around the corner of the building.[…]
Joe Lavigne saw more deer than probably half the Louisiana hunters who had humped their way up trees one morning last October.[…]
Eyebrows were raised this spring and summer as the Calcasieu River coughed up double-digit bass.[…]