It was the first whitetail buck John Preaus had ever seen in the woods. Naturally, when the monster 15-point behemoth jumped over a pine top squarely in Preaus’ crosshairs and he fired, he assumed this is what all buck deer looked like.[…]
The front that blew through North Louisiana yesterday (April 4), dumping rain and producing high winds, dropped temperatures at Caney Lake dramatically. Air temps were in the high 30s this morning, while water temps dropped into the low 60s.[…]
Sgt. Duane Taylor sat in the chilly morning air listening to volleys of shotgun blasts in the greentree reservoir on Russell Sage Wildlife Management Area.[…]
If you look at Louisiana’s state records, you’ll find that anglers catch most of the big shellcrackers (chinquapin) in Caney Lake near Chatham.[…]
Doing the same things the same way at the same places day after day can become monotonous. Sometimes a break from the mundane routine and a change in scenery is good for the soul and can get your batteries recharged.[…]
We’ve all heard about the absent minded professor. You know, the one who scratches his pancakes while pouring syrup on his itching foot.[…]
The deer wasn’t supposed to be there. Robert Chenier was sitting a couple hundred yards from where the buck was expected to be, not because he didn’t want to kill a big deer. No, it was because one of his buddies had claimed the prime spot.[…]
When Milt May purchased a 3,000-acre tract of land in Madison Parish six years ago, it already had a head start on helping May fulfill his purpose for the purchase – to turn the former farmland into a mecca for waterfowl. Appropriately, the tract was named Waverly Waterfowl, was enrolled in the Wetlands Reserve Program and had been planted in thousands of ash, cypress and oaks.[…]
Frank Coyne and two of his sons have made the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge lottery rifle hunt a tradition during the past several years, but this year’s hunt didn’t start off very well and the trio didn’t even try to go to their primary area on Dec. 11.[…]
Hunters took just less than 200 deer during the second Tensas National Wildlife Refuge lottery hunt held last weekend (Dec. 11-2), according to the refuge’s Kelly Purkey. Of those kills, 107 were bucks, and 89 were does.[…]
The hunt wasn’t going according to plan. Patrick Kelleher hit Giles Island on Dec. 6 with visions of big bucks running everywhere, but his day and a half of hunting didn’t live up to his dreams.[…]
Dusty McGehee was in a blue funk earlier this deer season. He had hunted hard around his dad’s home in Union Parish for a particular big buck he’d had his eyes on since last season.[…]
Two Ouachita Parish men were cited for allegedly night hunting Nov. 23 after they sought treatment at a hospital for a gunshot wound, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported yesterday.[…]
Kris Melancon knew there were bucks on the 1,200-acre Concordia Parish hunting club. He’d seen a number of them on his trail cam.[…]
While anglers hunting big bass head up D’Arbonne Bayou, many anglers are content to fish the river to get in on the fast action with schooling bass. […]
Sometimes men get too macho for our own good; We think we know more than we actually do. It often takes a gentle word or suggestion or intuition from our better halves to cause us to stop for a minute, rethink things and realize, by golly, they’re right.[…]