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.
