News Breaker
Houma angler lands potential No.3-tarpon near Grand Isle on Monday
Lance “Coon” Schouest’s elusive quest to land a new state record tarpon will have to wait.[…]
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Cover: October 2013
With the opening of bow season, it’s important to set up just right to ambush that buck you’ve been seeing on trail-cam photos.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speck bite getting better in Vermilion Bay
Water conditions remain solid and the speckled trout bite is improving in Vermilion Bay as the season’s first real cool front is expected to push through this weekend.[…]
General
National forests open for hunting, fishing
The Kisatchie National Forest is open for hunting and fishing despite the government shutdown that has closed other federal lands to all access, a U.S. Forest Service official told Louisiana Sportsman this afternoon.[…]
News Breaker
Teal’s closing weekend a mixed bag statewide
The closing weekend of teal season was pretty much like the opening weekend of teal season: some mixed reports of good hunting, but a nagging feeling that fewer birds than normal made it into the state.[…]
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After the shot — Tips on tracking deer
It is often at the most disheartening times that we have an epiphany and realize we must change our ways. For Thibodaux’s Joshua Chauvin, that defining moment came when he was just 17 years old.[…]
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End of the Beginning — How to make the move from deer hunter to deer manager
A tan streak flashed across the front of my truck as my son and I made our way to school a few weeks ago.[…]
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Next in Line — How to score during the early bow-hunting season
The earlier the opening date the easier it is to kill the game.[…]
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Going Whole Hog – Part II
Last month, we left Chef Mark Falgoust and Bill Borges, president of New Orleans Fish House, admiring the impressive tusks of a wild boar Falgoust had just shot. […]
Bass Fishing
Calcasieu Convergence — Bass fishing tips for the Calcasieu River
Eyebrows were raised this spring and summer as the Calcasieu River coughed up double-digit bass.[…]
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Early Bird — How to arrow a deer in the early bow season
Dan Preaus, owner of Shelter Insurance agency in Ruston, has been a bow hunter for the past 10 seasons. Hunting on Shiloh Hunting Club as well as family land in Union Parish, he has learned and accomplished a lot as a bow hunter.[…]
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Bombing the Rocks — Speck fishing East Timbalier Island with Bomber Long A’s
Getting up at 6 a.m. to go speckled trout fishing is a luxury I could get used to.
Well after daylight, I sauntered downstairs from my kitchenette at Bobby Lynn’s Marina in Leeville. Tracy “T.L.” Bayles, owner of Choctaw Guide Service (225-284-5256), had just launched his boat and flashed a big smile at me as I walked around the corner of the building.[…]
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Lucky 7 — Top Lafitte fishing hotspots
October changes everything. In gaming parlance, you’d say it reshuffles the deck and ups your odds for a winning hand.[…]
Columns
Is there a devil in your ditch?
Crawfish are almost our totem animal in Louisiana. A big, red crawfish held aloft in a clenched fist is the symbol of Cajun Power.[…]
Columns
Revived passion
As a kid, I spent as much time as possible in the woods on the 600-acre working ranch on which we lived on the edge of Baton Rouge. During the summer, when I wasn’t sitting on a tractor bush-hogging a pasture or helping in the hay field, I ranged through the 300 acres of hardwoods doing whatever struck me at the time.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Communication
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions.[…]