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Cover: February 2017
This month marks the height of crappie fishing, and the Crappie Psychic knows how to stack your ice chest with slabs.[…]
Statewide LA
Hunting
CTS Targets Pro-Hanger Kits
The Pro-Hanger Kit from CTS Targets has everything you need to set up your own backyard range or add to an existing range.[…]
Fishing
Cool Bubbles
The Marine Metal Products 8-quart Cool Bubbles bait container is a reliable addition to any angler’s arsenal. This insulated livewell was designed for fresh and saltwater use and the multi-purpose lid has a large opening for easy bait net access, a cutting surface and mounting tabs for tools or tackle.[…]
Columns
Give yourself the shaft
With all of the annual hype and focus on the latest and greatest compound bows, the arrows they shoot are often an afterthought. In reality, the arrow is just as important, if not more, than the bow it is shot from. […]
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Sportsman’s Fishing Boat Showcase
Aluminum boats are often described with these terms: utilitarian, practical, serviceable, functional and no-frills. In actuality, aluminum boat are all that and more; so much more.[…]
Deer Hunting
Suspect arrested for allegedly hunting from vehicle in Concordia Parish
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a 46-year-old Waterproof man for allegedly hunting from his pickup truck on a Mississippi River levee road in Concordia Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
172-inch buck goes down in Caddo Parish
Angie Parker is a bowhunter at heart, but her decision to spend a little quality time with her father on a rifle hunt last November in Caddo Parish resulted in her biggest deer ever — a 170-class buck of a lifetime. […]
News Breaker
State record blackfin tuna caught out of Venice
Capt. Joey Davis knew something was up last Friday when one of his clients was battling a blackfin tuna 18 miles out of Venice’s Pass a Loutre.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Two Avoyelles Parish men busted for allegedly gill-netting crappie
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two Avoyelles Parish men for taking gamefish illegally after they allegedly witnessed them offloading fish caught in gill nets in an area of Old River near Vick, according to a news release.[…]
Deer of the Year
Icy hunt produces awesome public lands 8-point
The winter of 2016-17 may well go down in history as just a two-day event, with the weekend of Jan. 7 and 8 featuring bone-chilling cold while above average temperatures dominated the rest of the season. […]
Inshore Fishing
Hot Water Canal goes cold
For Chalmette area wintertime speckled trout and redfish anglers, the Hot Water Canal was about as close as you could get to a sure thing.[…]
Deer of the Year
Erath hunter drills huge 172-inch Natchitoches Parish 9-point
Chris Louviere shot his first buck ever — a 6-point — last November on his 550-acre lease near Lena in Natchitoches Parish. […]
Fishing
Marine electronics for your wrist
An electronic watch can be as smart as Einstein and still be useless to fishermen if it isn’t waterproof.[…]
Deer of the Year
Big Bienville Parish 9-point stretches tape to 163 inches
Shortly after joining a 500-acre hunting lease in Bienville Parish, Ray Cooper went on an early-season scouting trip last summer and jumped a heavy-horned 9-point still in velvet along a pipeline.[…]
General
LDWF enforcement agent shot during traffic stop to be released from hospital
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agent who was shot five times during a vehicle stop on Jan. 7 could be released from the hospital later this week. […]
Fishing
Obama’s last minute order phases out lead fishing tackle and ammo on public lands
On the day before President Barack Obama left office, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued an edict to phase out lead fishing tackle and ammunition from hundreds of thousands of acres of land under its management. […]