Mike Carloss loves to hunt with coot decoys. By this time of the season ducks have been hunted the whole length of the Mississippi Flyway and then another month here, they have gotten pretty wise to the ways of hunters.[…]
One of the main reasons (besides enjoying his company) I button-holed Mike Carloss for a duck hunt was the chance to get him away from distractions to pick his mind about the future of waterfowl hunting.[…]
John Hanks, LDWF’s biologist supervisor for private lands in the Mississippi alluvial valley, said that, while squirrels are capable of mating anytime during the year, there are two main rutting periods.[…]
For those obsessed hunters who just can’t give up precious duck days to stalk squirrels, why not combine the two?[…]
Hunting ground squirrels with a shotgun can be very productive, but it’s much more fun to use a .22.[…]
Here are some nuggets of wisdom to help you locate fish along their seasonal routes.[…]
Errol Dennis Sr. recalls it quite well.
“It all started with me wanting to give both of my sons pirogues as Christmas presents,” Errol Sr. said. “The design of the pirogue came from a cypress pirogue built in the 1930s from which a fiberglass mold was made.[…]
Scott Dennis runs Fanny’s Family Guide Service (named for the nickname with which his grandfather had been tagged), where he is able to share his family’s hunting traditions with others.[…]
The proper pre-spawn approach is kind of a moving target, but covert ops usually prove prudent.[…]
While he has utmost confidence in 33 Point Buck and the Vapor Maker delivery system, avid archery hunter Barrett Van Cleave realizes the necessity of taking scent containment to the extreme.[…]
It’s rainbeaux trout time in Louisiana. Each winter, East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes stock selected ponds with this coldwater species. In addition, LDWF now stocks ponds as part of their Get Out and Fish! community fishing program.[…]
Officials with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries have cancelled all lottery waterfowl hunts on the South Farm Unit of Sherburne Wildlife Management Area because of extensive flooding.[…]
Monroe’s Blake Jones considers himself fortunate to get to hunt on a particular farm in Caldwell Parish — his brother’s father-in-law owns a farm near Columbia with mostly bottomland and CRP that is butted up to the Lafourche Canal.[…]
Dr. Jeffrey Anderson and his father were riding in their Ranger checking on cattle early last month on family property bordering Bayou Pierre in Natchitoches Parish when they jumped up a very odd-looking buck that neither one of them had ever seen before.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a Metairie man on Monday for allegedly driving under the influence on Bayou Sauvage in Orleans Parish.[…]
Lauren Hall, a senior in pharmacy school at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, is set to graduate this May. […]