
Features from October 2022
- It’s safe to say that the majority of the rivers and bayous on the Northshore are seeing a bumper crop of young crappie.
- Excerpt & Meta Description: There are plenty of benefits to saddle hunting, including that you no longer need to find the perfect tree.
- Jerry Antley is an icon in the world of turkey hunting. His company, Cedar Hill Game Calls, invented the Little Scratch Box.
- Poverty Point near Delhi and Lake Bruin near St. Joseph both have great places to stay, boat and just relax.
- This rut prediction is based on the timing of scrape initiation for each area, which tends to occur during the new moon phase.
- Seven regional biologist supervisors or biologist managers help hunters who want to choose one or more WMAs to hunt small game in 2022-23.
- Veteran Louisiana angler and writer Humberto Fontova has taken his case about the benefits of offshore oil rigs to the nation.
- Across Louisiana, there’s plenty of public access, a large squirrel population, a liberal bag limit and a long season.
- A more than $100 million restoration project to restore and protect Grand Terre Island was completed in late July.

Columns - October 2022
- After one week of letting the brine work its magic, you are left with some of the finest venison sandwich meat known to man.
- Use these steps to properly set up your bow. Failure to do so often results in frustration, additional work, and even total failure.
- Kinny Haddox recalls some hunting adventures he had with his friend Byron Rogers deep in the Caldwell Parish woods.
- Every deer camp has a cartoonish character like Elmer Fudd that comes back to the camp with outrageous stories of their adventures.
- Bass anglers near and far want to get their hands on JaBoom’s Beaver Ballz. The soft plastic makes infiltrating mats much easier.
- If you are a kayak angler, the time is now to head to the shallow marshes across coastal Louisiana for excellent redfish action.
- Todd Masson says he hasn’t see a decline in a fishery population like he’s witnessing with Louisiana redfish right now.
- Bobwhite quail are small birds that prefer walking more than flying. Their numbers have declined, but are still highly regarded.

Outdoor Updates - October 2022
- Another black eye for the pogie industry off the Louisiana coast — an abandoned net full of dead fish was left just off Holly Beach.
- Brad Case got this big 10.2-pound bass from his kayak on Lake D’Arbonne while practicing for a Saturday tournament.
- Baton Rouge hunter William C. Jenkins harvested a monstrous Alaskan brown bear and was recognized by Boone and Crockett.
- Cole Burton, 5, and Clay Burton, 7, started raising worms to fish with and now they’ve gone in to business.
- Anglers enjoying recreational fishing for Louisiana’s speckled trout may face changing requirements on length and daily bag limits.
- Some guys limited out and some shot zeroes during the opening week of the teal hunting season in Louisiana.
Hot Spots - October 2022
- According to Heath Kennedy, you can catch big bass on Caney Lake all year long, including October and November.
- One of former Louisiana B.A.S.S. Nation angler Andre Cazelot’s top choices to fish for bass during October is Henderson Lake.
- Veteran Captain Bill Lake has followed a successful speckled trout fishing strategy at Dularge for decades.
- October is a “game-changer” month at Toledo Bend. It’s a time to catch bass on whatever moving baits you like to throw, including topwaters.
Field Notes - October 2022
- As president of the Louisiana Tech Bass Fishing Team, Cooper Arthur of Calhoun feels a responsibility to rebuild his fishing team.
- When a buck walks by the WiseEye, it not only takes a picture, it analyzes all kinds of data and can track that specific deer’s movements.