The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission today (Nov. 3) changed muzzleloader regulations for Attakapas Wildlife Management Area, making it legal to shoot bucks only during the special season, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
One thing that makes the Delta Young Guns so successful is not only their youthful zeal and hardcore tactics, but also their knowledge of duck food.[…]
Entrepreneurship is alive and well on Atchafalaya Delta WMA, where two young men, Nick Gaurisco and Josh Gros, put to use their custom-designed adjustable duck seat.[…]
October 1 found me up in a ladder stand in the mosquito-infested darkness before daylight at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA. […]
Nick Thibodeaux had missed a great deer last season while hunting on Sherburne Wildlife Management Area. He wanted to get into that area for another try, but he wasn’t sure it was worth the effort after the major flooding earlier this year.
So Thibodeaux scouted the area a week ahead of the Oct. 1 opener, and he was happy with what he found.[…]
Doin’ the DU (pronounced “dew”) may sound like a 1960s dance fad, like doin’ the twist, or the watusi, or the hully gully.[…]
It’s GO time!
Since my last blog, I have made a few more scouting trips down to the Atchaflaya Delta WMA, including one where I found my game camera broken by a black bear.[…]
Two Iota men were cited Sept. 1 for allegedly squirrel hunting in western Acadia Parish a month before the season opens, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today (Sept. 8). Squirrel season doesn’t open until Oct. 1.[…]
The Atchafalaya deltas are new marsh; two of the few places in Louisiana where new marsh is being built rather than los[…]
I got a good, early start to my third scouting trip at the Atchaflaya Delta WMA. Again the first thing I noticed was hog sign everywhere.[…]
A 39-year-old New Iberia man has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing a black bear during the 2008-09 hunting season, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today (Aug. 17).[…]
I guided the boat toward the location canal deep in the southern reaches of the Atchafalaya Basin, memories of one of the most-exciting goggleye trips in my life running through mind.[…]
All my buddies were working today and I was off. I didn’t have any other plans, so I decided to make a solo scout down at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA.[…]
My buddy Jimmy Kyle and I headed down to the Delta in early August for our first scouting trip in anticipation of the 2011-12 deer-hunting season. We got to our destination about 7:30 a.m., and my first observation was a pleasant one: No mosquitos![…]
A plurality of anglers surveyed about current bass regulations for the Atchafalaya Basin, Henderson Lake, and the Lake Verret, Grassy Lake and Lake Palourde system said they supported the 14-inch minimum size limit, according to a study just released by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Sherburne Wildlife Management Area will reopen Monday (Aug. 1), after being closed in May due to flooding associated with the opening of the Morganza Spillway, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced today.[…]