The Dean of Delacroix — This family patriarch still duck hunts the old way
“I was born in 1940. Things were a lot different back when I was growing up as a kid on Delacroix Island. There was no electricity or running water.”
Errol Dennis Sr.[…]
“I was born in 1940. Things were a lot different back when I was growing up as a kid on Delacroix Island. There was no electricity or running water.”
Errol Dennis Sr.[…]
There are a few items I’ll never leave home without when heading into the woods to deer hunt. Of course, if it’s during the rut, I’ll tote along a grunt call, doe estrous and even rattling horns, in addition to items that are useful all season.[…]
Deer hunting has gone full circle. In the ’60s, bucks-only hunting was the rule and any legal buck was fair game. No one was going to harass you at the game pole about the size of your deer.[…]
They want to go. They probably will go; it’s just a matter of when they’ll go.[…]
Following conventional wisdom about deer hunting and wind direction, Brandon Nettles never would have hunted the buck he did where he did on the opening day of the 2015 Mississippi archery season.[…]
The headline stopped me cold: “New report finds that most sediment that replenishes marshland comes from the Mississippi River.”[…]
Everybody, and I mean everybody who fishes, offshore loves groupers. They are attractive fish, resembling overgrown and (usually) more colorful largemouth bass. They are brutal fighters when hooked on tackle that isn’t too heavy.[…]
The 2015-16 deer-hunting season is drawing to a close, but the big boys like this one killed on Loggy Bayou WMA by Jerry Bailey are showing up to play.[…]
The deer-hunting closure in the Mississippi River delta will only last a week, with the exception of batture land that will remain closed until further notice, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced tonight.[…]
Two Belle Chasse men were cited Dec. 27 in Plaquemines Parish for several hunting violations, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today.[…]
The fall red snapper season closes in state waters Jan. 1 at 12:01 a.m., the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
Retired Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Wildlife Division head David Moreland said today the impending closure of tens of thousands of acres to deer hunting is “one of those political things.”[…]
The deer-hunting closure announced Monday (Dec. 29) that included hundreds of thousands of acres in the Mississippi delta has been postponed until just after sunset on Jan. 3, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries official said today.[…]
Bob Weiss shares his recipes for Oysters and Tasso in Cream-sauced Pasta and Oven-finished Panko Trout with Baked Tomatoes.[…]
Deer hunting season will close at sunset on Dec. 29 along the Mississippi River from the Arkansas state line south to Vidalia, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced this evening.[…]
Two Winnsboro men were cited Dec. 22 in Richland Parish with several deer-hunting violations, including hunting at night, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]