Ducks
Foul weather helps boost fowl success for state’s duck hunters
Weather proved to be the key ingredient in making for a successful 2022-2023 Louisiana waterfowl season for some.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Columns
Dog’s first hunting season
Time to get out there and put some birds on the water and cash in on your dog’s first waterfowl hunting season.[…]
Ducks
Cajun culture influence on duck hunting gets national TV exposure
Chad Belding, whose show is the No. 1 rated series on The Outdoors Channel, filmed an episode of “The Fowl Life” in Louisiana.[…]
Newsletters
Ice temporarily invades north Louisiana duck season
Many duck hunters found frozen water at their duck blinds on Christmas weekend as a brutal cold front swept through the south.[…]
Ducks
Waterfowlers enjoy the fast and furious shooting woodies provide
Matt Miller and Dustin Koeppel, both from Slidell, are die-hard duck hunters that have developed knacks for finding wood ducks.[…]
Ducks
Don’t duck the details
By January, ducks have been around the area for a while and know every place they can be safe and where they shouldn’t go.[…]
Newsletters
Additional birds diagnosed with Avian Influenza detected in Louisiana
Several captive birds in northeast Louisiana have died from H5NI Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu.[…]
Features
2022-23 Louisiana public land waterfowl preview
Louisiana’s WMAs across the state offer first-rate duck hunting success if the ducks funnel down the Mississippi Flyway.[…]
Newsletters
Early waterfowl numbers vary across the state
Despite an initial low count, habitat conditions inside and outside of our state tend to favor Louisiana waterfowl hunters.[…]
News Breaker
Phone number used to report birds with federal bands is currently down
Jason Olszak has shared that waterfowl hunters reporting banded ducks will need use the website www.reportband.gov.[…]
Features
Specklebellies save the day
Hunters accustomed to chasing ducks that are interested in upping their specklebelly game need to mind the details.[…]
Ducks
Improving pintail populations
Georgina Eccles’s pintail study will hopefully give waterfowl experts the insight to help give a boost to future pintail populations.[…]
Ducks
Duck Crackling Biscuits
In this segment of Sportsman TV, Chef Nathan Richard of Cuvée Wine Bar and Bistro shows us how to make Duck Crackling Biscuits.[…]
Columns
Duck hunter Monopoly. Pay $200 and go directly to jail
Duck hunting rules and regulations are flustering. It takes a mathematician just to interpret legal shooting hours.[…]
Columns
Dogs mastering “blind retrieve”
One of the metrics of a great dog is the “blind retrieve.” There will be times when a hunting dog won’t see a bird fall.[…]
Features
Mottled ducks live a tough life
Mottled ducks have been in steady decline over the last 50 years with hunting limits reduced to just one bird per day in Louisiana.[…]