Features from February 2022
- We reviewed all of the big buck stories and share a few of the best that rank at the top of the class as 2021-2022 Deer of the Year.
- Hurricane Ida’s 150 mile per hour-plus winds scoured and decimated Louisiana’s coastal marshes in ways not seen since Hurricane Katrina.
- Anglers who target flounder usually fish with live shrimp, minnows and other natural baits, but artificial temptations can catch flounder too.
- Anglers will be able to catch blue catfish in Lake Pontchartrain with ease this month. Carl Schmidt of Abita Springs shares his best tips.
- Recently inducted into the Legends Hall of Fame, Villis P. “Bo” Dowden is one of only two Louisianans to have won the Bassmaster Classic.
- Running dogs for squirrels is work, but it’s still one heck of an exciting hunt. Michael Park shares tips for hunting the Pearl River system.
- Crappie anglers like Dan and Sue Dannenmueller have an ever-changing amount of technology available to them to help catch more fish.
- In his time off, bass pro Brett Preuett focuses on several lakes, from Toledo Bend to lunker incubator Caney Lake to Iatt Lake.
Columns - February 2022
- This recipe is easy to master and gives you another way to use some of your prime cuts, including backstrap from that deer you harvested.
- Kayak anglers are realizing that kayaks are quite suited for catfishing. Catfish can be caught in almost any freshwater river, lake or pond.
- Hurricanes have taken a toll on habitat and the forests. Active involvement is a must to keep properties productive for wildlife.
- When Prototype Lures LLC’s Smasher Frogs get eaten, they often wind up far back in the mouth of self-respecting, hungry bass.
- Most catches of amberjack are incidental catches by anglers targeting snapper and grouper while bottom fishing with cut bait.
- It’s amazing, but all spring all crappie, sac-a-lait or white perch — whatever you call them — seem to weigh two pounds.
- Joe Macaluso spreads out buck-lure canisters for West Feliciana Parish deer hunt and it attracts randy bull.
Outdoor Updates - February 2022
- For more than a decade, hunters have enjoyed the Conservation season for light geese. Those are snow geese, blue geese and Ross’s geese.
- Ross Wigginton, of Ferriday, harvested a trophy 17-point buck in his back yard in Concordia Parish on Nov. 14.
- With no place to go but up, Louisiana’s January duck numbers rebounded from the paltry numbers observed in the December survey.
- After first seeing a big deer five years ago, Daniel Sharkey killed the buck of a lifetime in Tangipahoa Parish on Dec. 12.
- What was an everyday hunting adventure for brother and sister Harley and Haven Harris one afternoon in November is a lesson for us all.
- The LWFC voted to amend a previous NOI, reducing Louisiana coastal buffer zones to Gulf menhaden harvest regulations.
- Chris Temple of Vidalia shot a monster 12-point buck that weighed almost 300 pounds on Dec. 7 in Catahoula Parish.
Field Notes - February 2022
- The prize of the harvest is the select cut off a deer — the backstrap. Deer season is over. It’s time to consume your harvest.
- A recent Canadian study compared the dispersal of tournament-caught largemouth and smallmouth bass across seasons.
- It’s about learning every day for high school bass angler Levi Thibodeaux. His skills paid off this past year.