Fishing
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Year: 2013
Fishing
Mooring Buoys placed on Calcasieu Lake artificial reef
Six mooring buoys were placed last week on the Brad Vincent Artificial Reef, which was constructed last year in Calcasieu Lake as part of a CCA Louisiana effort to increase fishery habitat across the Louisiana coast.
The buoys include mooring cleats for boats to use, and are held in place by 400-pound concrete anchors.
Coordinates for the center of the Big Lake reef are 29° 56’ 30.844” N/93° 17’ 24.894”W.
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Events & Announcements
2013 Louisiana High School Fishing Championship to be held March 10
The 2013 Student Angler Federation Louisiana High School Fishing State Championship will be held on Caddo Lake on March 10, the Bass Federation announced.[…]
Fishing
Semiautomatic fish finder operation
In the early days of automatic fish finder operation, I advised serious anglers to switch to manual mode where they could tune in a much better look at the underwater world.[…]
Other Hunting
Late-Season Squirrels
From the piney woods of the north to the alluvial Mississippi River basin’s bottomland hardwoods to the coastal marshes — all across Louisiana there is a certain quietness that seems to take over in late winter.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Drift ‘Yaking
Anchoring and trolling are undoubtedly productive methods of fishing in Southeast Louisiana.[…]
Fishing
Take steps before storing duck boats
Duck season has come to an end. What will you do with your duck boat now?[…]
News Breaker
Tuna fishing expected to pick up at the Midnight Lump
It’s Midnight Lump season again, and Capt. Andy Cook with Captain Cook Charters said fishing there should be better in the months ahead than it has been in the past few years.[…]
Deer of the Year
Red River WMA gives up huge buck
Hunting public land takes a bit of extra work. That’s a lesson Trent Boudreaux learned when he first started hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area as a teenager in 1998.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pompano Platforms
We arrived at Doc’s French Quarter bungalow elegantly early only to find the place already packed.[…]
Deer of the Year
Hunter’s wish comes true with trophy Tensas Parish buck
Kyle O’Neal of West Monroe has followed the big-buck articles in Louisiana Sportsman, texting comments to the author that always end with statements similar to “I wish I could get one big enough for you to write about.”[…]
Deer of the Year
Red River WMA gives up huge buck
Hunting public land takes a bit of extra work. That’s a lesson Trent Boudreaux learned when he first started hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area as a teenager in 1998.[…]
Apex Predator
Tracking heroics on my brother’s first Louisiana buck
My younger brother has been joining me on a few public-land gun hunts over the past few seasons on Red River WMA.[…]
Columns
To catch a poacher
One of the more memorable cases I recall working was during the mid-80s in Rapides Parish. It all started when the LDWF district lieutenant received a call from a state police narcotics officer in early September.[…]
News Breaker
Louisiana anglers ask for regional red snapper management during meeting
A standing-room-only crowd turned out for a scoping meeting held in Baton Rouge by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on Jan. 14 to collect public input on the ongoing management of red snapper — specifically, whether or not the Gulf of Mexico fishery should be managed as a single unit or broken up into regional management units.[…]
Hunting
Hunting seasons to reopen on three WMAs flooded by recent heavy rains
Hunting seasons on three wildlife management areas closed earlier this month due to high water levels will reopen tomorrow (Jan. 23), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today.[…]