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Then register for the 5th annual Brian Harris Chevrolet Dreams Come True Bass Classic to be held March 1 at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville.[…]
The estimate of 1.8 million ducks on this survey is slightly lower than December’s estimate of 2.0 million, but 60% lower than the 4.4 million estimated in January 2007. It is the lowest January estimate since 1987, and is 44% below both the most recent 5-year and long-term averages (3.2 million).[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission suspended the rules requiring mandatory deer tagging for the 2007-08 hunting season at their Sept. 6 meeting.[…]
Ray Chagnard and Edward Adams, both of Metairie, caught a six-redfish total weighing 48 pounds, 2 ounces to win the Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series Western Divisions event in Cocodrie.[…]
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ construction of hurricane levees will soon become a boon to bass fishing in South Louisiana.[…]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched a new Web site that offers free online maps of marine debris in the northern Gulf of Mexico.[…]
When free agent quarterback Drew Brees inked his name on the richest contract in New Orleans Saints history last spring, the entire region rejoiced over the prospects of watching the overacheiving passer hurling bullets to the team’s speedy wideouts.[…]
Louisiana Sportsman contributor Humberto Fontova will appear on Hannity & Colmes Tuesday, April 24 promoting his new book, “Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him.”[…]
Among the tremendous losses resulting from Hurricane Katrina was an old lighthouse that stood for more than a century at the tip of Louisiana’s most remote barrier island chain.[…]
The biggest fish Zwolle resident Joey Lafosse had caught before Feb. 27 weighed about 6 ½ pounds, and he wasn’t necessarily looking to break that record when he slipped his johnboat off the banks of his backyard.[…]
The 50 Bassmaster Classic qualifiers showed up at Alabama’s Lay Lake for three days of practice last week, and were met by brutal weather. Temperatures remained consistently cold, and strong storms blew through the area.[…]
The Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series Western Division will make its first of four $200,000 regular-season stops March 8-10 in Lafitte.[…]
The Coast Guard is working with local, state and federal agencies today to respond to an oil spill in Bayou Perot near Lafitte.[…]
The new deer tag harvest cards for the 2006-07 deer hunting season can now be downloaded and printed from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Web site.[…]
Exactly 2 years to the day, and almost to the exact hour, that Hurricane Ivan struck Orange Beach, Ala., the Gulf of Mexico swordfish record was broken. Angler Del Sawyer, along with Capts. Randy Howland and Robby Griffiths and crew of the Sea Reaper III, hooked the swordfish at 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 16.[…]
The right of outdoorsmen to fish and hunt on navigable waters was issued a stunning defeat Aug. 29 when a federal judge ruled that the public has no “right to fish and hunt on the Mississippi River.”[…]