Inshore Fishing
Hard-plastic Hopedale trout
There’s no doubt that a popping cork with a soft-plastic underneath is a deadly way to catch a boatload of speckled trout — particularly in the fall when fish are gorging on white shrimp.[…]
News Breaker
Deer of the Year
Palmated 16-point goes down in Natchitoches Parish
Until a heavy-horned Natchitoches Parish buck stepped out into a shooting lane on his 1,500-acre lease near Ajax, Chris Ebarb never knew the deer even existed.[…]
General
Swamp tour airboat and mud boat collide in Lafourche Parish; one dead
A 35-year-old Des Allemands man died Monday afternoon when the mud boat he was operating struck a swamp tour airboat near Mud Lake in Bayou Des Allemands, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Deer of the Year
ULM junior drops hammer 190-class buck in Concordia Parish
Hayden Cassels spent most of last season and all of this year bowhunting for a big, heavy-horned Concordia Parish buck he’d seen in trail cam footage on the 1,000 acres of private land he hunts near Monterey.[…]
News Breaker
Two cited for alleged migratory game bird violations near Laplace, LDWF says
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two men for allegedly being over the limit on wood ducks and shooting after hours last weekend in St. John Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Targeting pre-winter slot redfish in upper Calcasieu estuary
These aren’t your typical redfish making wakes along the shoreline. You won’t see their tails or silhouettes darting on the water’s surface, and you’ll rarely see a bird picking overhead. […]
Deer of the Year
Morgan City hunter’s two November bucks total 300 inches of bone
There’s an old saying that lightning never strikes in the same place twice — but don’t tell that to Joey Busbice.[…]
Deer of the Year
Big 11-point goes down in Union Parish
Brandon Lindsey was comfortable with the 36-degree morning in his Union Parish deer stand — but the same couldn’t be said for his fiancee.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Metairie man cited for trawling without a TED
A 62-year-old Metairie man was ticketed last week by enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for allegedly shrimping in Lake Pontchartrain without a turtle excluder device.[…]
General
2016’s Top 10 Christmas gift ideas for the sportsman
Christmas trees, sparkly white lights and inflatable Santas have been up in retail stores since Halloween ended, and now the full-court press of holiday shopping is about to ramp up even more with Black Friday and Cyber Monday staring us square in the face. […]
Deer Hunting
MDWFP makes cases for illegal cervid importation
Mississippi conservation officers last week made nine cases of illegal importation of cervid carcasses, enforcing a new regulation passed in May aimed at protecting the state’s deer herd from chronic wasting disease.[…]
Deer of the Year
Hammond hunter kills 16-point doe
Hammond’s Jimmy Giacone was enjoying a morning hunt at a buddy’s Mississippi lease Sunday (Nov. 20) when three deer stepped out.[…]
Deer of the Year
Friend’s invite ends with 152-inch Bossier Parish buck
Shreveport oil and gas industry representative Cody Upchurch owes his friend named Mike a steak dinner for an event that took place Nov. 4. Mike invited the 28-year-old Upchurch to his Bossier Parish hunting club and, in the process, Upchurch downed a big 220-pound 13-point buck that taped out 152 inches.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Lavigne owns B.A.S.S. Nation Championship
Gonzales’ Ryan Lavigne did what no other Bassmaster angler has done before: He rose to the top of the B.A.S.S Nation Championship as a non-boater during this weekend’s even at Lake Conroe outside of Houston.[…]
Fishing
Catfish, crab advisory issued in Southwest Louisiana, LDWF says
High PCB levels in some tissue samples prompted several state agencies to issue a precautionary advisory concerning the consumption of fish and shellfish for Bayou D’Inde, the Calcasieu Estuary and the Calcasieu Ship Channel.[…]
Fishing
Week-long aerial herbicide treatment for Lake Bistineau to start Monday
Helicopters are expected to hover over Lake Bistineau next week starting on Monday to administer an aerial herbicide to treat giant salvinia, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]