Columns
A love-hate relationship with winter
Here we are in 2024 and duck hunters got their wish. Miserable cold isn’t what everyone wants, but there are benefits for the outdoors.[…]
Geese
Columns
Snow Goose Confit Banh Mi
Snow Goose Confit Banh Mi is a complex dish to make, but it’s a great way to use late season geese in a recipe.[…]
Features
Specklebellies save the day
Hunters accustomed to chasing ducks that are interested in upping their specklebelly game need to mind the details.[…]
Geese
Conservation Order Goose season is on
For more than a decade, hunters have enjoyed the Conservation season for light geese. Those are snow geese, blue geese and Ross’s geese.[…]
Features
Gueydan guides: Don’t play games with specklebellies
With specklebellies occupying more attention from waterfowl hunters, especially around Gueydan, don’t take any chances. Cover all your bases.
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Geese
Louisiana goose season begins like an old Clint Eastwood movie
Louisiana goose hunters have experienced the first 10 days of the 2021-2022 season. It’s been good, bad and ugly depending on where you are.[…]
Ducks
Goose, goose, duck!
Geese can add an extra facet to a Louisiana duck hunt in November. Take advantage when the goose seasons match up with duck season.[…]
Geese
How ‘bout 3 specklebellies?
Hunters chasing specklebelly geese will now have the opportunity to take up to three per person, up from the longtime daily limit of two.[…]
Geese
Greater white-fronted goose’s journey provides invaluable information
A female greater white-fronted goose tagged in southwest Louisiana by LDWF biologists in November helped reveal the incredible journey the birds make.[…]
Features
Specklebelly goose hunting
Tips, tactics and blind construction pointers to successfully hunt specklebelly geese in Southwest Louisiana. […]
Ducks
LDWF’s aerial survey: Duck numbers down 36 percent compared to last December
The LDWF’s December aerial survey numbers reveal about 1.94 million birds this month, about 32 percent below this month’s long-term average. […]
Geese
Seven cited for alleged goose violations in Vermilion Parish
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited seven people in two incidents for allegedly hunting migratory game birds from a vehicle on a public road, according to a press release.[…]
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Goose Fried Rice
The inky black predawn ride to the field where Clint Mathews and his crew of guides set out a decoy spread of several thousand rags, shells, full bodies, kites and every other trick — past and present — known to the goose hunting world was notably longer than usual as last year’s specklebelly season wound down.[…]