Field Reports
This discovery made my fishing trip!
Fish actively feeding are keyed in on bait that knows it’s under attack and needs to move to avoid being eaten. Fast-moving lures are needed.[…]
Year: 2023
Fishing
Morakniv Floating Knife
With a flexible, 4mm Swedish stainless steel blade and natural cork handle, the 49-gram knife floats, so no worries if you drop it.[…]
Field Reports
Crushing big winter trout
Chas Champagne finds and catches monster speckled trout lurking the shoreline of eastern Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Hunting Reports
Gator sniffs out another one
Brayden Hunter shot this 8-point buck with a 21 3/8-inch inside spread in Grant Parish on Dec. 24. It was recovered by Scott Lewis and Brandy Lewis’s dog Gator, “The Louisiana Hell Hound.” “The deer
Field Reports
Trout, reds and bass all over the grass
Chas Champagne finds trout over the shallow grass flats out front of Lake Pontchartrain and finishes off the day loading the boat with them.[…]
Columns
Venison and Eggplant Lasagna
Open your freezer and grab a bag of your favorite wild game to get your new year started on a healthy note![…]
Deer of the Year
Does alert McGehee to big buck’s approach
A big buck stepped out, one with an unusually tall rack and McGehee immediately identified it as the one he had seen on camera in velvet in October.[…]
News Breaker
Metairie charter guide arrested for multiple violations in St. Bernard Parish
LDWF enforcement agents arrested a Metairie charter captain for alleged charter guide and criminal violations in St. Bernard Parish.[…]
News Breaker
Louisiana OMV representative will be at LDWF Baton Rouge headquarters beginning Jan. 30
The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles will resume having a representative at LDWF headquarters in Baton Rouge.[…]
Hunting Reports
Boar on the run
Bubba Himel shot this boar on the run broadside in West Feliciana Parish on Cat Island with a Glock 45 pistol at 30 yards.
Ducks
STORMR Stealth Gauntlet Gloves
Stealth Gauntlet neoprene gloves from STORMR keep your hands warm, dry and camoflauged when waterfowl hunting.[…]
Fishing Reports
Kimani’s first redfish
Kimani caught his first redfish on Nov. 26 in the marshes near Lake Boudreaux down in Chauvin on a trip with his dad, Howard. Facebook
Hunting Reports
Brody Vines gets 9-point buck
Brody Vines, from Sicily Island, La., “went exactly where his pawpaw told him to go,” and shot this 9-point on Dec. 21, 2022 with his Savage 350 legend.
Fishing Reports
Jim Kullman’s surprise fish
When fishing for speckled trout, we sometimes have fish catch us, as was the case with this redfish and drum.[…]
Hunting Reports
Caleb Blanchard’s nice buck
Caleb Blanchard, with nephew Lucas Guillotte, after a successful hunt in St. Mary Parish on Nov. 26, 2022.
Fishing Reports
Big bass for Maurice Smith
Maurice Smith from Ward, Ark., with a nice bass caught on Bald Knob Lake in Central Arkansas. He was using a swim bait in about 8 feet of water. It weighed 6 pounds and 10