Deer Hunting
Hunting the rut in 2018
The rut is always the best opportunity for a hunter to connect with a real trophy buck during deer season.[…]
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Catfish
Pitch black cats
It was black on the water. Of course, it was midnight.
We sat as quiet as death in Sidney Haynes’ 17-foot aluminum SeaArk boat. In the distance, automobile headlights flitted busily through New Roads, perched hard on the shores of False River, the big oxbow lake of Pointe Coupee Parish.[…]
Features
Top tactics to help you hunt squirrels
Fall is here. Hunting season is here. At the core of it all is this simple fact: For fun and challenging hunting, squirrels are hard to beat[…]
Features
Doormats in decline?
If Jim Morrision thought people were strange, I wonder what he thought about flounder. […]
Deer Hunting
Keeping up with the Joneses
The rut won’t start for six to eight weeks now in the deer woods of Union Parish. But one family of successful deer hunters is already make plans and preparations for being there when it happens.[…]
Features
Trestle mania 2018
When October arrives, Mother Nature typically loosens her grip on the heat and humidity that have gripped the state since early summer, and teases us with a few tantalizing cool fronts that usher in the start of fall.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend’s fall feeding frenzy
Days grow shorter; appetites grow larger. Water temperatures will be falling, but bass aggression is spiking.[…]
Deer Hunting
In the ‘Cross’Hairs
Crossbows are still looked down upon by some traditional bowhunters, but they definitely give people another option during archery season.[…]
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Mullet mayhem -Target mullet schools to catch more bull redfish
If you are having trouble getting on redfish, just look for schools of mullet. It’s as close to a guarantee to hot action as you’ll get.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hills and valleys
After Chad Wiley weighed-in on the final day of the 2014 Bassmaster Central Open on the Red River, his three-day total of 34 pounds, 14 ounces landed him in fifth place.[…]
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Public domain
Biologists from each of Louisiana’s seven wildlife management area regions crunched the numbers and analyzed data from last year’s hunting seasons to give you an idea of how some of the 50 state WMAs might perform this fall.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Bull bream beatdown
It was September.
It was hot, and it was late in the day.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hitting the spots
The grizzled veteran perched on the bow of the small flatboat expertly swung it in a half-circle in the swirling current of the Tangipahoa River.[…]
Deer Hunting
Taking the heat
It takes a diehard deer hunter to brave the elements that are pervasive during Louisiana’s early bow season, which opens for most residents on Monday, Oct. 1. […]
Bass Fishing
Black Lake big boys
The drive from Morgan City to Natchitoches was a long four hours after I knocked off from my day job at 5 o’clock. And, by the time my wife and I checked into the Chateau Saint Denis Hotel downtown, it was after 9 p.m. — and I was just hearing from Pure Fishing ambassador Jimmy Jeansonne.[…]
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Reds in transition
The water was a sheet of glass when Capt. Austin Plaisance wheeled his Blazer Bay out of the canal into the shallow, grass-filled pocket.[…]