With all the waterfowl gear available in the sporting goods world today, Davy and Colby Daniels are pretty basic — and old school — in their approach to guiding their 300 to 400 duck hunters each season.[…]
Despite no really cold weather so far, the annual November aerial waterfowl survey completed last week indicated almost 3 million ducks have already arrived along Louisiana’s coast.[…]
Louisiana duck hunters in the coastal and west zones who headed into their blinds for opening weekend reported seeing lots of birds — although heavy hunting pressure on Saturday seemed to make things more difficult on Sunday.[…]
Larry Reynolds, the state’s waterfowl study leader with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, spent all day Thursday flying 11 transect lines for November’s aerial survey of the coastal zone from the Texas line to Marsh Island.[…]
With Louisiana’s coastal and west zones set to crank up this Saturday morning, duck hunters across the state will be prepping all week in advance of opening day.[…]
New regulations for mud boats and air-cooled propulsion engines are in effect now through Jan. 31, 2017 at Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Area, and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries wants to make sure duck hunters are aware of the changes.[…]
Archer Daniels looked up at the ducks, grabbed the Haydel duck call and blew hard as he could.[…]
Backlit faintly by the early morning glow, they came as we’d hoped. Silhouettes — large and deliberate, and small and acrobatic — bombarded our spread.[…]
Louisiana duck hunters — especially those in the southwest and northwest parts of the state — need to be aware that new zone boundaries will be in effect when waterfowl season opens next month. […]
It’s not often it snows in Louisiana, but we got the timing just right for an epic duck hunt in the Mississippi River Delta.[…]
Not surprisingly, hunters and guides across South Louisiana reported relatively slow action for most of the 16-day 2016 teal season, which came to a merciful end Sunday on yet another 90 degrees-plus day.[…]
Larry Reynolds, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ waterfowl study leader, has an interesting recommendation to make regarding next year’s 2017 teal season.[…]
Larry Reynolds is normally a “glass half-full” kind of guy, but he’s admittedly not expecting great things for the final days of the 2016 teal season, which mercifully comes to a close this Sunday.[…]
Flooded wild millet growing naturally in the marsh can be a teal magnet when you can find it.[…]
Last month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its annual waterfowl breeding population estimates, indicating duck numbers had held steady and were similar to last year. […]
Hunting reports from Buras to Welsh and Pecan Island up to Catahoula Lake indicated what many duck hunters seemed to be expecting: teal — at least in large numbers — really hadn’t yet made it to Louisiana in time for opening weekend.[…]