Turkey Hunting Archives - Louisiana Sportsman

Deer can swim and often wade out in ponds and lakes to feed on vegetation and will escape to high ground when the Morganza floodway gates are open. The best management activity is simply not to disturb them in the areas where they congregate.

What happens to the wildlife when the Morganza floods?

With the Corps of Engineers considering opening the Morganza Floodway, we take a look at how the opening will affect deer, turkeys, small game and bears. […]

Two men cited for turkey hunting violations in Rapides Parish

From News Reports

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited two men for alleged turkey hunting violations on May 16 in Rapides Parish. […]

Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed this solid white gobbler on March 17, 2019.

Mississippi hunter kills solid white turkey

Brian Cope

Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed a solid white gobbler on March 17. By then, he was intimately familiar with the animal. […]

5-year-old crackshot gets turkey on first hunt

Anthony Taylor

Five-year-old Hayden Johnson’s grandpa and dad recently brought him turkey hunting for the first time on their club in Jackson Parish and he got a fully plumed, wily tom squarely in the neck from 25 yards away. […]

Turkey season closed on three WMAs

From News Reports

A declaration of emergency has been passed by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) closing the upcoming turkey hunting season on Dewey W. Wills, Grassy Lake and Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Areas due to flooding. […]

Louisiana’s 2019 Turkey Forecast

Brian Cope

Who is ready to get into the woods with your back against an oak tree, listening for the early morning calls of a gobbler on the roost? It’s almost time; turkey season is fast approaching for Louisiana hunters. […]

Chose a top-drawer WMA and spend some time in the woods scouting; chances of taking a gobbler are good.

Top 5 turkey WMAs

Jonathan Olivier

Hunting opportunities for wild turkeys abound on public land in Louisiana — five Wildlife Management Areas boast a high hunter-success rate. […]

Flooding leads to turkey season closure at Richard K. Yancey and Grassy Lake WMAs

From News Reports

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced that there would be a closure of the upcoming turkey hunting season in Richard K. Yancey and Grassy Lake Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) due to flooding. […]

This aggressive turkey was a nuisance to one photographer, but a source of laughter for another.

Aggressive turkey provides laughter for outdoor photographer

Brian Cope

Outdoor photographer Rick Small could only manage one photo of an aggressive turkey getting a little too close to a second photographer during a shoot on Feb. 10, 2019. […]

Potential No. 2-ranked atypical Louisiana turkey downed in West Feliciana Parish

Patrick Bonin

After a pretty intense game of cat-and-mouse this past weekend, Clint Gray and Eric Templet teamed up and eventually put down a six-bearded gobbler Sunday morning in West Feliciana Parish that, once officially certified by the National Wild Turkey Federation, will become Louisiana’s No. 2-ranked atypical gobbler in the all-time record books.

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