Hog Hunting
Video: When wild hogs attack
Hunting is often described by the uninitiated as an act perpetrated on innocent animals. And, well, we do hide in trees and wait for deer to meander into our sights.[…]
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Coastal Projects
Don’t rush to judgement: Causes of erosion
To raise awareness for one of Louisiana’s first politically spurred campaigns against coastal land loss, former Gov. Mike Foster took a publicity team into open water off of St. Mary Parish, cast a line and showed the crew his GPS, which showed them on solid ground.[…]
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Mississippi man dies from vibrio infection
An Ocean Springs, Miss. man who spent a lot of his life in the Gulf of Mexico was killed by bacteria that attacked his body after spending a day in those very same waters.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout fishing sporadic out of Delacroix
Specks are being caught now with live shrimp out of Delacroix, but Capt. Randall Shaw said the bite just hasn’t been as consistent moving into mid-summer as it’s been in years past.[…]
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Potential new No. 5 Warsaw grouper caught at Fourchon Oilman’s Tournament
Simon Guidry was underweight, overmatched and outmanned when he picked a fight with a 305-pound Warsaw grouper Friday afternoon, but the Cutoff angler still managed to come out on top.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Seven tips for beach-fishing success
Grand Isle guide Capt. John Chauvin of Capt. John’s Fin-tastic Charters gives his top tips for surf-fishing success.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Cutoff angler wins CCA-Louisiana STAR tournament’s Chevy pickup truck
Jake Duet went to bed Sunday night dreaming of a brand new 2014 Chevy Silverado pickup, and thankfully for him, things didn’t turn into a nightmare Monday morning.[…]
Bass Fishing
Night-fishing trip near the Indian Mounds yields 10.43-pounder at Toledo Bend
When Gary Wilson decided to wrap up his day at Toledo Bend near a stump at the Indian Mounds early Friday morning, a nearly-full moon was shining bright and sunrise was still more than three hours away.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Texas angler catches big 8.76-pound trout on Sabine’s north jetties
When Dean Halewyn woke up last Monday morning and realized it was the seventh day of the seventh month of the year, he remembers thinking it could be a pretty lucky day.[…]
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Applications available for Elbow Slough WMA opening weekend dove lottery hunts
Applications are now being accepted for lottery dove hunts on Elbow Slough Wildlife Management Area in Rapides Parish for opening weekend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Use topwater strikes to locate more Big Lake trout
The rapid fire ‘swish-swish-swish’ of Capt. Nick Poe’s rod as he walked the dog over oyster reefs in Big Lake Wednesday was followed up regularly with the splash of a nice speckled trout blowing up his MirrOlure She Pup.[…]
Events & Announcements
Online petition underway urging Chalmette Refining to resume manufacturing non-ethanol gas
With the status of production at the facility still unclear, a petition urging Chalmette Refining to resume the manufacture and sale of ethanol free gasoline has been started online.[…]
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Slidell teen wins Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo
As years go, 2014 has been a keeper for young Corin Knight of Slidell, and it’s the kind that can make a daddy very proud.[…]
Fishing
Two Jefferson Parish men arrested for alleged commercial crabbing violations
Two Jefferson Parish men were arrested for allegedly stealing crabs in Plaquemines Parish, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout stocks in no danger, LDWF official says
Work on the soon-to-be-completed statewide speckled trout stock assessment indicates the species is in good shape despite recent concerns from some coastal anglers, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist told a crowd of almost 200 people last night in Lake Charles.[…]
Fishing
Trout stocks in no danger, LDWF official says
Work on the soon-to-be-completed statewide speckled trout stock assessment indicates the species is in good shape despite recent concerns from some coastal anglers, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist told a crowd of almost 200 people last night in Lake Charles.[…]