Deer Hunting
Is your deer program working?
Managing your deer herd can make hunting a pleasure or a chore. Learn how to achieve your goals and enjoy your time in the woods.[…]
Year: 2014
Hunting
Squirrel Skinner
Dressing your game can be cumbersome and very time consuming if a mistake is made. With the Hunters Helper Squirrel Skinner, small game hunters can make the process smoother and easier by mounting the squirrel or other game in this ingenious holder.[…]
Fishing
Bass Assassin
Whether you’re fishing inshore or offshore, freshwater or salt, Bass Assassin has you covered. Under the brand names Bass Assassin, Saltwater Assassin, Panfish Assassin, Walleye Assassin and Bang Lures, they offer many styles and lure options.[…]
Columns
More ducks is good news? Maybe, but …
No one who really knows me would accuse me of being a die-hard duck hunter. While I’ve spent a lot of time over the years pointing a shotgun at waterfowl (“pointing” being the operative term), what has traditionally gotten my hunting juices flowing has been the thought of climbing into a tree and having a deer — any deer — walk into range.[…]
Deer Hunting
Choosing the right broadhead
Whether you set out this bow season with your old reliable fixed-blade broadheads, or decide to step up and pay a bit more for the latest mechanical broadheads on the market, the bottom line is that a well-placed shot with either one will bring a deer down.[…]
Deer Hunting
Many resident pleads guilty to felon in possession of firearm charges
Jerry Kenneth Thompson Jr., 44, of Many, pleaded guilty last week to one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition after a felony conviction, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Apex Predator
Cleaning squirrels — the easy way
What hunter doesn’t enjoy bagging a limit of bushy-tailed tree rodents?[…]
Columns
Trout Masters excerpt: Trolling for trout on Lake Pontchartrain
Harry Hildebrand is known for modifying his artificial lures with yellow and red paint to simulate blood and trigger instinctual bites from predatory trout.[…]
News Breaker
Spotty teal season comes to a close
State teal hunters indicated teal season stayed pretty consistent during the 16-day season: Consistently better in the southwestern part of the state, and not as steady the further east you hunted.[…]
Columns
Chemical foams — gun cleaning magic
I don’t remember where I picked up the can of Wipe-Out Brushless Bore Cleaner — but it had been sitting on my workbench shelf for quite a while.[…]
Fishing
Hot new electronics are coming
Here is a look at a cross section of the new electronics coming our way:[…]
General
Lafayette boater arrested for DWI on Vermilion River
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a Lafayette man last weekend for allegedly operating his cigarette boat while intoxicated on the Vermilion River.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Quality speckled trout not back in Lake Pontchartrain — yet
Wednesday marked September’s new moon, and Capt. Mike Gallo feels like it won’t be too much longer before quality speckled trout start migrating back into Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hackney reflects on 2014’s amazing tournament run
After grinding through more than six months of fishing on both the Bassmaster and FLW pro circuits, Greg Hackney can finally relax a little.[…]
Deer Hunting
LDWF corrects archery season dates for Tunica Hills WMA
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is advising bowhunters using Tunica Hills Wildlife Management Area that the correct dates for the bucks only archery season are Oct. 1-15, 2014.[…]
News Breaker
Hackney enjoys the complete Honey Brake experience
Roughing it smoothly – that’s how Greg Hackney and the crew spent some time last September shooting the latest episode of Sportsman TV, ‘Hackney Brake Experience.’ […]