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Species spotlight: Red Fox
With a keen sense of sight, smell and hearing, red foxes are adept at staying hidden. The red fox is a small, dog-like animal.[…]
Month: February 2023
Fishing Tournaments
New Orleans Big Bass Rodeo to be held March 25, 2023
The LDWF and the City Park Conservancy are gearing up for the 74th annual Big Bass Rodeo and Fishtival at New Orleans City Park on March 25.[…]
Hunting Reports
Carson’s youth weekend buck
Carson Rodrigue, 10, killed this 8-point on the afternoon of Oct. 29, 2022 over the youth weekend in Pointe Coupee Parish. Facebook
Hunting Reports
Gavin Trosclair’s first rack buck
Gavin Trosclair, 12, killed his first rack buck, a 145-pound 6-point, on Dec. 18 at his family’s lease just north of Greensburg, La., with his 7mm 08 at about 130 yards. Celebrating with Gavin is
Fishing Reports
Isaac Landry’s Big Lake reds
Isaac Landry with a pair of redfish from Big Lake.
News Breaker
Two Port Sulphur men cited for fishing violations in Plaquemines Parish
LDWF enforcement agents cited two men for alleged fishing violations in Grand Bayou in Plaquemines Parish on Feb. 1.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Louisiana Legends of the Outdoors – Bobby Phillips
Bobby Phillips was owner and operator of one of the state’s most popular and legendary fishing tackle shops, the Honey Hole in West Monroe.[…]
Columns
Natural Forage Baits are in demand at Toledo Bend
Natural Forage Baits are in demand by crappie fishermen and, more importantly, crappie, as owner J.R. “Beau” Davidson knows very well.[…]
Fishing Reports
George Lee’s Delacroix fishing trip
George Lee of Albany, La., with one of two bull drum caught tightlining in Delacroix in December 2022.
Hunting Reports
Carter Couvillion makes the perfect shot
Eight-year-old Carter Couvillion made a perfect shot with his 6.5 Creedmoor at 75 yards to take his first deer, this beautiful 125-pound doe. He was hunting in Bordelonville, La., on Nov. 12, 2022.
Hunting Reports
Colton Jellum doubles up
Thirteen-year-old Colton Jellum downed this 8-point and a doe while hunting with his grandfather’s Winchester model 94 30-30 open sites. He dropped the doe at 35 yards and the buck at 20. His first deer
Hunting Reports
Blake Chong’s first deer
Blake Chong, 15, took this big buck as his first deer on Dec. 3, 2022.
Hunting Reports
Father and son West Baton Rouge Parish hunt
Donnie Dupont and his son, Mason Dupont, after a hunt on Nov. 23, 2022 in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Hunting Reports
Mason Chatelain gets first crossbow deer
Six-year-old Mason Chatelain killed his first deer ever with a crossbow. He was hunting with his daddy, Jarred Chatelain, at Grand Lake Rod and Gun Club.
News Breaker
Hahnville man sentenced for fatal boating incident in St. Charles Parish
A Hahnville resident convicted of vehicular homicide and four counts of first-degree vehicular negligent injuring was sentenced to prison.[…]
Hunting Reports
Ross Louque’s first deer
Ross Louque, 10, of Gramercy, a 5th grader at St Peter Chanel Catholic School, shot his first deer on Dec. 4, 2022 in Jackson, La. It was an 8-point weighing 201 pounds.