Freshwater Fishing
Halbrook is a fishing fanatic
Eddie Halbrook fishes five days a week (but never on Sunday), year-round.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
How to identify striped, yellow, white and hybrid bass
Louisiana has three species of bass that bear bold, black stripes running the lengths of their bodies: yellow bass, white bass and striped bass.[…]
Sidebars
The making of a duck addict
“I’ve always been fascinated by ducks,” Mike Carloss said with a grin. “My dad bought two baby ducks for me when I was little. They grew up to be Muscovys and ran loose around the yard.[…]
Sidebars
Why coot decoys should be in your duck-hunting set
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.[…]
Sidebars
Challenges to duck hunting
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.[…]
Other Hunting
January squirrel rut is perfect hunting period
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.[…]
Other Hunting
Double your hunting fun with duck, squirrel combos
For those obsessed hunters who just can’t give up precious duck days to stalk squirrels, why not combine the two?[…]
Other Hunting
Subsonic .22 rounds perfect for quiet squirrel hunts
Hunting ground squirrels with a shotgun can be very productive, but it’s much more fun to use a .22.[…]
Bass Fishing
Location consideration for pre-spawn bass
Here are some nuggets of wisdom to help you locate fish along their seasonal routes.[…]
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The story of Paw Paw’s Pirogues
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.[…]
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Fanny’s Family Guide Service
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.[…]
Bass Fishing
Position and timing for pre-spawn bass
The proper pre-spawn approach is kind of a moving target, but covert ops usually prove prudent.[…]
Deer Hunting
Taking scent control to the extreme
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.[…]
Fishing
Tippets
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.[…]
News Breaker
Lottery waterfowl hunts cancelled on Sherburne WMA South Farm Unit
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.[…]
Deer of the Year
Monroe hunter downs monster 8-point in Caldwell Parish
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.[…]