Radio personality Don Dubuc will host Ducks Unlimited staffers on his “More Outdoors” show tomorrow morning (Feb. 5) to discuss the impacts on hunting of DU work. LouisianaSportsman.com’s Andy Crawford also will be a guest on the show.[…]
The 2010-2011 duck season looks to be one that will be talked about for a while in Louisiana waterfowling circles. Without a doubt, the birds came down to our state, aided largely by frequent cold fronts and a flyway-wide drought that put more birds in Louisiana ponds for most hunters.[…]
Every duck hunter has his quirks, his ways, and the things he always does when he hunts. This is a guy who lives to duck hunt, can’t get enough and pounds it out till the last day of the season. He is very successful with his ways, and has been for the better part of his life, but yet he is open to listen to what other hunters do; he takes it in; thinks about it; and then decides to cast it aside or add to his arsenal.[…]
If a waterfowl hunter happened to be stuffed in the cab of a pickup truck, blindfolded and driven to the Gueydan Civic Center back on Aug. 24, he would be liable to think he died and went to heaven. And he wouldn’t have had to go any farther than the parking lot.[…]
Randy Lee has spent countless hours over the past several decades convincing mallards to drop into shotgun range of hunters. […]
This is it! We are in the heart of the second split; it is time to pull out all the stops. Nothing can be overlooked. I know y’ll are tired of the mud and low water, tired of being wet and cold, tired of having your birds flare and just plain tired of going duck hunting.
But guys, this is what it is all about. This is when we actually have the best duck hunting in the country – there are plenty of us who would argue the best duck hunting in the world.[…]
I opened the email and started to read. “And, like a drug pusher,” it began, “he eased the intoxicating liquor of waterfowl feather to his friend. ‘Take a sip,’ he said. ‘If you don’t like it, that’s okay.’ Duck hunters are a strange lot and it’s not for everybody.[…]
Soft yelps and yodels from a specklebelly slipped across the atmosphere overhead, where a high winter fog hid circling birds from our view. By contrast, a slight northerly breeze kept much of the wet mist off the face of the flooded rice fields where we set up along a levee.[…]
David Sims exchanged yodels with wary specklebellies, coaxing them ever closer to our pit blind. Stopping to catch his breath before starting another series of calls, he whispered to remind us, “Wait ’til I say shoot ’em.”[…]
Who in their right mind would pick up a topwater rod during the middle of winter? It doesn’t seem like a very smart thing to do, but there is a contingent of speckled trout anglers who do just that when most everybody else is mining the bottom.[…]
Most waterfowlers were happy with the first-split hunting, and that trend looks to be holding as the second split gets into high gear.[…]
Waterfowl season reopens this weekend (Dec. 18), and the recent wave of cold fronts along with great first-split duck numbers points to great potential. The only problem might be access if low-water conditions persist as the winds switch back and forth.
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The 2010 duck season has been just what the doctor ordered, so far. Following lackluster early starts in recent years, this year bucked the trend with a parade of respectable cold fronts pushing into the Bayou State.[…]
My problem with the point I’m fishing is that the bass just have to be biting better on the one across the lake.[…]
Louisiana hunters have been delighted this season to see the skies over the Bayou State peppered by clouds of dabbling and diving ducks, but the strong season hasn’t been a surprise to Pat Kehoe.[…]
Opening morning in the east zone started with great anticipation this weekend. We awoke with enthusiasm and, like a well-oiled machine, my son and I dressed, threw the gear in the truck and quietly slipped out of the house like thieves in the night.[…]