Deer Hunting
Mid-Season Scouting — Tips to maximize your deer hunting time
Tommy Milioto Jr. knew the deer was there. He had seen too many pictures of the fine buck. The problem was all the pictures were snapped at night.[…]
Hunting
Ruger 10-22: from caterpillar to butterfly
I remember the first Ruger 10-22 carbine I came across.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Cold fronts bring new ducks into South Louisiana for second split opening
Now that the jet stream has finally dipped down far enough to give Louisiana a taste of the arctic chill, the ducks should be migrating in full force. This weekend (Dec. 15-16) is opening weekend for the coastal and eastern waterfowl zones, and any outdoorsman with a shotgun should be in a duck blind to get in on the action.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fishing for Delacroix winter specks heats up
With this past cold front the speckled trout have begun to settle in deep holes of the lakes, bayous and canals around Delacroix, demanding a slightly different method of presenting baits.[…]
Fishing
Time to consider changing to LEDs
The lights on your trailer are your boat’s first line of defense against collisions. Running lights show other drivers that you have a boat behind you when towing in the dark.[…]
News Breaker
Giant California yellowfin tuna battle for world record
Two huge yellowfin tuna – the two biggest ever – have been caught in the past couple of months, but only one is being considered for a new world record.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Sick Day Crappie – Tips for catching Lake D’Arbonne sac-a-lait
My grandfather used to have a plaque at the end of his hall that read, “If fishing interferes with work, quit work!”[…]
Fishing
MirrOlure introduces newest MirrOdine, the C-Eye Pro
The MirrOdine series of floating, suspending and diving lures from MirrOlure have been popular since their release a handful of years ago.[…]
Deer of the Year
Buck of a lifetime comes for 61-year-old Minden hunter
Some people are lucky enough to shoot the deer of a lifetime early in life or on their first hunt. Others have to wait much longer to bag the buck of their dreams.[…]
Deer Hunting
Success is all about timing
If you like baseball, then you probably watched the World Series games between the Rangers and the Cardinals. If you did, you saw some excellent hitting — Albert Pujols hitting three homers in a game, Josh Hamilton hitting what Ranger fans thought was the Series winner in Game 6.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Top 5 Duck Guns
The last thing you want when you’ve been hunting through dew, mud and muck for three days is to hear a click when you have the perfect lead on a decoying mallard or pintail. So it’s wise to carry the most-dependable shotgun when you head to the duck blind.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout biting under birds at mouth of Lafitte’s Clovelly Canals
My son Boudreauxed James Wilson and Lane Zimmer on his fifth cast of the morning.[…]
Breaking News
Deer-tag validation system experiencing problems, LDWF ready to take hunters’ calls
Hunters have been experiencing some problems validating their deer tags with the toll-free voice recognition system, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).
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Deer of the Year
Despite comedy of errors, hunter arrows 205 class buck
Sometimes even when everything bad imaginable happens, fate smiles on you and bad turns to good. For Casey Young, who hunts his family’s property in Concordia Parish, the good couldn’t have been better on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 13 as he stood over the fallen form of a huge 18-point buck sporting lights-out headgear.[…]
Columns
A fly rod in his bag
Looking for something different to put under the tree for that angler who has everything? Think outside the tackle box.[…]
Fishing
Tippets
The colder, clearer waters of December – combined with low tides – provide some of the best sight casting opportunities of the year for those pursuing marsh reds. A wide variety of flies will work as the reds are more opportunistic in their feeding.[…]