Ducks
Celebrating 50 years of duck hunting
This will be Dale Bordelon’s 50th duck hunting season. He loves teaching about the old ways and encouraging others to pass on the traditions.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Columns
Excel 1864 Switchblade
The Excel 1864 Switchblade is a game changer for waterfowl hunters that want to use their boats for more than just shooting ducks.[…]
Ducks
Out of State Destinations: Beaver Dam Lake, Mississippi
Many ancient oxbows along the Mississippi and other rivers provide outstanding waterfowl hunting in the Mississippi Delta region.[…]
Ducks
Adjust tactics for late-season ducks
You need to use subtle tactics, decoy set-ups and calls the ducks haven’t heard or seen often to take late-season ducks.[…]
Ducks
Keeping the tradition alive, one hand-carved cypress and cane call at a time
Duck calls are like musical instruments and the sound board is what makes it work like it is supposed to and brings ducks to your decoys.[…]
News Breaker
Avian flu warning
H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is once again causing mortalities in wild birds in Louisiana, the LDWF said in a news release.[…]
Ducks
$6.25 million coastal resiliency project coming to Lafourche Parish
Ducks Unlimited was recently awarded $6.25 million from the NFWF to construct living shorelines and marsh terraces in Lafourche Parish.[…]
Columns
The part-time retriever that inspired my only duck hunting poem
The author wrote a poem based on the real life trials and tribulations of duck hunters and what turned out to be a part-time duck dog.[…]
Ducks
First hunting fun, then the reward of eatin’ dem ducks
We love hunting ducks in Louisiana. But that is just the start of it. We love killing ducks, but we really love cooking them.[…]
Columns
Everything is prepared for duck season; make sure that includes your dog
Hopefully you’ve been training to get your dog in proper physical shape and focused for big duck hunting season.[…]
Ducks
The glory days of Wham Brake
Wham Brake is one of north Louisiana’s spots that earned a reputation with hunters during the waterfowl glory days of the 1960’s and 70’s.[…]
News Breaker
Anthony J. Padgett wins 2024 Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp Competition
Anthony J. Padgett of Noblesville, Indiana, has won the 2024 Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp Competition.[…]
Ducks
LDWF reminds waterfowl hunters of new mottled duck hunting regulations for 2023-24 season
The harvest of mottled ducks is prohibited in the first 15 days of the regular duck season in both the East and West zones.[…]
Ducks
Hand carved pirogue, wooden decoys, vintage shotgun; Bordelon walks the talk
Dale Bordelon, a resident of Effie, loves hunting out of a dugout pirogue made from a tree right from the swamp.[…]
Ducks
Ducks stopping short
Changes in weather, habitat and agriculture practices have made hunting difficult for many Louisiana duck hunters.[…]
Features
2023-24 WMA Waterfowl Hunting Guide
Biologists give their reports for the annual WMA Waterfowl Hunting Guide. Giving Louisiana hunters the outlook for ducks.[…]