The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is currently working with Texas Parks and Wildlife to investigate developing a program that would allow recreational hunters in Louisiana the opportunity to pay and serve as gunners on helicopter flights to help reduce the state’s feral hog population.[…]
In tonight’s episode of Sportsman TV, host Greg Hackney travels to Violet for an airboat hunt to take down some feral hogs in the marsh.[…]
Like a carnival ride with a shotgun, we set out to control the feral hog population using airboats to run them down.[…]
In a brand new episode premiering tonight on CST, Sportsman TV host Greg Hackney traveled to Violet for an airboat hunt to take down some feral hogs in the marsh after deer season.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ aerial control program to shoot feral hogs from a helicopter last week on Sherburne and Pearl River Wildlife Management Areas netted a total of 54 downed pigs, according to the state veterinarian.[…]
With harvests by hunters not putting a dent in the wild hog population on state wildlife management areas, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is using helicopters this week to hunt down feral hogs on Pearl River and Sherburne WMAs.[…]
In Louisiana, hunters across the state have tried lots of different ways to control the feral hog population.[…]
The sun was just beginning to peek over the horizon on a clear morning. The early morning light revealed our group of hog hunters as we sat in silence on four-wheelers strung along a woods road.[…]
Because biologists have been called upon in recent weeks to release several bears caught in coyote or hog snares, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is strongly recommending that trappers refrain from using snares in at least 15 parishes across the state.[…]
When a hog hunt is successful, that’s when the going sometimes gets pretty tough.[…]
Hog’s head cheese, of course, isn’t a cheese made of dairy products; rather, it is a meat jelly known to professional cooks as a “terrine.”[…]
Boudin (pronounced BOO-dan) has become a cult food in South Louisiana, and is rapidly penetrating the rest of the state.[…]
Thirty-three-year-old Mark Falgoust considers himself a “Cajun Chef” even he grew up in Algiers, the portion of New Orleans that lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River.[…]
Feral hogs do have some friends, but they certainly aren’t located within the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Last month, we left Chef Mark Falgoust and Bill Borges, president of New Orleans Fish House, admiring the impressive tusks of a wild boar Falgoust had just shot. […]
Let’s face it, like other game (yes, I call feral hogs game), wild pigs are not all feedlot tender and young. Yes, some are, but lots of them are old and tough — like the boar that Falgoust killed.[…]