Hunting Reports
Precious Pete
Precious Pete the black lab might be 10, but she was still able to retrieve all 11 of the birds shot by her owner Victor Cox in under one hour. She was also disappointed in[…]
Month: October 2020
Fishing Reports
Slidell fishing pier
Jaxson Delume doing some damage near the Slidell fishing pier in September 2020.
Field Reports
Great fishing as hurricane closes in!
Capt. Dustin Bounds and Todd Masson head out to Venice as the earliest bands of Delta dumped rain on them throughout the morning.[…]
Columns
It’s going to be a good fall for trout, y’all
October can be a tricky month for inshore speckled trout fishing. But when the migration is early, the fish are easy to find.[…]
Fishing Reports
Beautiful Saline Lake bass
Cameron Floyd’s favorite activity is catching beautiful large mouth bass like this one out of Saline Lake.
Hunting Reports
First bird for Allie Welch
On her twelfth birthday, Allie Welch killed her first teal ever plus a daily limit while hunting with her dad near Elton, LA on Sept. 20, 2020.
Deer of the Year
First buck with crossbow a winner for Chandler
Mike Chandler of Arcadia took this Lincoln Parish 8-point buck on the 2,500 acre Simsboro Hunting Club on Oct. 2.[…]
Hunting Reports
Duck blind sunrise
Preston Salassi captured this sunrise over Pine Island while hunting with his friend Daniel Mesen, his son Kale, and their Boykin Spaniel, Sue. They scratched a two-man limit that day along with a pair of[…]
Bass Fishing
Baton Rouge pro keeps punching a D Bomb as October arrives
Derek Hudnall’s south Louisiana bass-fishing experience tells him in October he should still be punching grass mats.[…]
Fishing Reports
Flatboat Key speck
Four-year-old Sanders caught this nice speckled trout on a live croaker while fishing at Flatboat Key.
Bass Fishing
Lipless crankbait secrets
This video highlights some of FLW Tour pro Brian Latimer’s lipless crankbait secrets. He calls it his favorite fall fishing bait.[…]
Bass Fishing
Higher, cooler water leads to great October bass fishing on Toledo Bend
Expect great, shallow bass action on Toledo Bend in October. Bass will start tearing up topwaters, particularly buzzbaits and plastic frogs.[…]
Hunting Reports
First-time hunter now a sportswoman for life
Eight-year-old Ana Bergeron had been asking her father Willie to take her hunting for over a year. On the opening morning of squirrel season Ana finally bagged her very first squirrel, which was promptly fried up[…]
Hunting
Recreation opportunities resume at Lacassine NWR
The LDWF invites the public back to the Lacassine NWR after the USFWS recently announced the reopening of the area.[…]
News Breaker
Elmer’s Island to close on Oct. 8 due to Hurricane Delta
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announces the temporary closure of Elmer’s Island beginning Thursday, October 8, at noon.[…]
Fishing Reports
Best reds
Neal Laws and his son Shane Laws showing off the best two out of the five redfish they caught while fishing out of Cocodrie, LA.