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Snow Goose Confit Banh Mi
Snow Goose Confit Banh Mi is a complex dish to make, but it’s a great way to use late season geese in a recipe.[…]
Month: March 2023
Features
Toledo Bend dreams come true
Living the Dream Guide Service on Toledo Bend has fulfilled fishing hopes and dreams of more than 100,000 anglers that wanted to go fishing.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Secret sauce for crappie
John Guillot has a mixture that is great for the East Pearl River because the sac-a-lait can always use some extra help with finding lures.[…]
Features
Rig the speckled trout game
The distance between rigs keeps many inshore anglers from focusing on them as their primary speckled trout fishing destination.[…]
Features
Ruthless redfish
In the spring, giant redfish gather in large, marauding schools that go on a ruthless rampage through the shallow bays along the coast.[…]
Features
See gulls? Find fish!
Michael Lavarine of Metairie said there’s no other place he’d rather be when fishing for speckled trout, than fishing under the birds.[…]
Features
Trick turkeys, then take ’em
A turkey you’ve hunted and tried all the turkey hunting tricks on without success means you’ll have to think outside the box to take him.[…]
Features
Unhang stubborn turkeys
Tips for taking a tom turkey that’s hung up, gobbling his head off, not coming within gun range and driving you crazy.[…]
Hunting Reports
West Baton Rouge rabbit hunt
Kevin Mitchell of Port Hudson, La., grew up rabbit hunting his entire life with beagle rabbit dogs. His crew got 49 bunnies total on Jan. 21, 2023 in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Hunting Reports
Kisatchie National Forest buck
Brayden Hunter shot this buck on Dec. 24, 2022 at Kisatchie National Forest in Grant Parish with a 35 whelen at around 70-75 yards.. The buck had a 21 3/8 inside spread and was 4.5[…]
Hunting Reports
Max DeRoche has to scare off hog to recover doe
On the evening of Jan. 15, Max DeRoche of Duson, La., was hunting on family land in Washington, La., with his dad, Craig. At about 5:45, Max made a great shot on one of the[…]
Hunting Reports
Katelyn Welch gets her first deer
Katelyn Welch killed her first deer on Dec. 23, 2023 in Winn Parish. The 10-point buck weighed 205 pounds.
Fishing Reports
Mason Smith’s 52-pound catfish
Mason Smith caught this blue catfish at Toledo Bend over Thanksgiving break with friends and family. It weighed 52 pounds.
News Breaker
Tunica Hills WMA to be closed several weekends for turkey lottery hunts
Tunica Hills WMA will be closed to the public for all activities on the final weekend of March and all weekends in April.[…]
Big Bass
Reynolds boats his second Toledo Bend 12-pounder of 2023
Tater Reynolds of Florien landed his second 12+ pound bass at Toledo Bend during a Game Changers tournament on March 18, 2023.[…]
Field Reports
Bridge fish clobbered this retrieve technique!
Todd Masson and Capt. Justin Bowles set out on Lake Pontchartrain to see if speckled trout have begun their spring run at the train trestle.[…]