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2012-13 WMA Forecast
Did you know when mast-producing trees are stressed, as they are in a drought, they produce a bumper crop of acorns?[…]
September 2012
Ask Captain Paul
Lost platform
Dear Capt. Paul:
I’m trying to locate a small satellite platform I used to enjoy fishing located in ST63 block. It shows up on my GPS as an icon that was already on my map card; therefore, I never saved it as a waypoint.[…]
Hunting
Ameristep Chair Blind
The new Ameristep Magnum Tent Chair Blind is compact, lightweight, durable and was designed with the archery hunter in mind.[…]
Deer Hunting
Whitetail reproductive studies benefit all cervidae world wide
While youth hunters and their chaperones are celebrating and taking pictures of their harvest, LSU graduate student Jessie Saenz is up to his elbows in deer guts looking for oocytes — immature egg cells.[…]
Hunting
Sherburne WMA wildlife survived great flood
Remarkable resilience best describes Sherburne Wildlife Management Area, the huge tract of public acreage in the upper part of the Atchafalaya Basin that was subjected to both natural and man-made flooding in the spring and early summer of 2011.[…]
Columns
Making the Dog Rabid
I’ve been blessed to have known some of the greatest fly tiers of the modern era. Folks like George Harvey, Polly Rosborough, Mike Verduin, Chris Helms, Gary LaFontaine to name just a very few.[…]
Fishing
Maui Jim sunglasses
A new collection of sunglasses from Maui Jim were designed specifically for fishing, marine and water sports enthusiasts.[…]
Cobia
Occupy West Delta: Cobia fishing explodes around West Delta rigs
Anglers can head to the West Delta rigs to take advantage of the cobia invasion as these hard fighters make their way eastward.[…]
Hunting
Goodbye Ben’s Creek
Say goodbye to the 13,044-acre Ben’s Creek Wildlife Management Area, which ceased to exist June 30 when the Department of Wildlife & Fisheries alerted outdoorsmen four that the Washington Parish property lease would not be renewed.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
During September, water temps begin to drop. Slowly at first due to radiative cooling, and then increasingly as cool fronts invade the state.[…]
NEW PRODUCTS
Carolina Cradle
The Carolina Cradle can be affixed to the stock of your favorite turkey gun and allows you to work any 3 5/8-inch call with minimal movement.[…]
Cobia
Little need for live bait when fishing for cobia
When it comes to catching cobia on the shallow satellite rigs in West Delta during September, Capt. Gray Long insists on using jigs.[…]
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2012-13 Rut Calendar
The key to having a good deer population is to have good reproduction to replace the deer harvested from the previous season and those that die from natural mortality.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Activities
Sept. 8 — 4th annual Rio Grande Fly Fishing Tournament[…]