duck Archives - Louisiana Sportsman

Lean on online gauges, avoid hunting headaches

Some forethought in monitoring predicted wind strength and direction, combined with a close eye on water level gauges can serve duck hunters well. […]

Duck decoy basics hunters need to know

John Felsher

With fewer ducks and more hunters competing for limited hunting territory, successful waterfowlers need to reach deep into their decoy sack of tricks. […]

Pintail drakes like this were one of the prizes of the opening weekend of this year’s Louisiana duck season.

A good start for ducks in state’s East/West zones

Kinny Haddox

The first couple of weeks of the East and West splits of the 2019-2020 Louisiana waterfowl season went from great to fair and seemed to change every day. […]

Try these two Louisiana duck WMAs

Kinny Haddox

There are alternatives to emptying your checkbook to pay for great Louisiana duck hunting, like these two WMAs at opposite ends of the state. […]

Classic Louisiana duck hunt at Pecan Island

louisianasportsman

Hampton Rutland filmed this duck hunting trip to a classic Louisiana destination, Pecan Island, for his web series Louisiana Wetlands. […]

Don’t shut the door on opening duck day

Darren Digby

Duck hunting season is almost upon us here in Louisiana. Weed out common hunting mistakes so you’ll be ready when it opens again. […]

Avian-X Oversized Decoys

louisianasportsman

Avian-X’s new oversized TopFlight decoys come in six-packs of mallards and black ducks and are 17 inches long, 30% longer than normal-sized decoys. […]

Louisiana duck guide works with a Wink and a smile

Kinny Haddox

Morehouse Parish guide Johnny Wink shares his almost 50 years of duck-hunting know-how to help hunters kill more ducks this season. […]

Louisiana’s waterfowl eyes in the sky

Patrick Bonin

How does LDWF know how many ducks will be in-state for hunting season? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the numbers get crunched. […]

January's aerial waterfowl survey conducted by the LDWF was a fitting end to a weak migration year, according to waterfowl study leader Larry Reynolds.

January duck numbers 31 percent below long-term average

Patrick Bonin

Larry Reynolds with the LDWF discusses the relatively poor January 2019 aerial waterfowl survey results, saying this season’s poor migration was influenced by a relatively warm, wet winter. […]

A U.S. magistrate in Alexandria handed out some tough sentences for two Louisiana hunters who pleaded guilty to shooting five wood ducks over an area baited with cracked corn.

LDWF: Two plead guilty to baiting ducks

Patrick Bonin

Two hunters who pleaded guilty to hunting wood ducks over a baited area received tough sentences from a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Alexandria this fall. […]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday released its report on 2018 Trends in Duck Breeding Populations, based on surveys conducted in May and early June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service. […]