Deer of the Year
Palmated 16-point goes down in Natchitoches Parish
Until a heavy-horned Natchitoches Parish buck stepped out into a shooting lane on his 1,500-acre lease near Ajax, Chris Ebarb never knew the deer even existed.[…]
Statewide LA
General
Swamp tour airboat and mud boat collide in Lafourche Parish; one dead
A 35-year-old Des Allemands man died Monday afternoon when the mud boat he was operating struck a swamp tour airboat near Mud Lake in Bayou Des Allemands, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Deer of the Year
ULM junior drops hammer 190-class buck in Concordia Parish
Hayden Cassels spent most of last season and all of this year bowhunting for a big, heavy-horned Concordia Parish buck he’d seen in trail cam footage on the 1,000 acres of private land he hunts near Monterey.[…]
News Breaker
Two cited for alleged migratory game bird violations near Laplace, LDWF says
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two men for allegedly being over the limit on wood ducks and shooting after hours last weekend in St. John Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Targeting pre-winter slot redfish in upper Calcasieu estuary
These aren’t your typical redfish making wakes along the shoreline. You won’t see their tails or silhouettes darting on the water’s surface, and you’ll rarely see a bird picking overhead. […]
Columns
Cajun cook does shrimp his way
Lane LeMaire is a dedicated Cajun cook and a skilled outdoorsman. So it is no wonder so much of what he cooks is fish, seafood and game.[…]
Deer of the Year
Morgan City hunter’s two November bucks total 300 inches of bone
There’s an old saying that lightning never strikes in the same place twice — but don’t tell that to Joey Busbice.[…]
Deer of the Year
Big 11-point goes down in Union Parish
Brandon Lindsey was comfortable with the 36-degree morning in his Union Parish deer stand — but the same couldn’t be said for his fiancee.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Metairie man cited for trawling without a TED
A 62-year-old Metairie man was ticketed last week by enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for allegedly shrimping in Lake Pontchartrain without a turtle excluder device.[…]
Columns
Chronic Wasting Disease
As I mentioned in our last installment, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is focusing on the spread of chronic wasting disease in wild deer.[…]
General
2016’s Top 10 Christmas gift ideas for the sportsman
Christmas trees, sparkly white lights and inflatable Santas have been up in retail stores since Halloween ended, and now the full-court press of holiday shopping is about to ramp up even more with Black Friday and Cyber Monday staring us square in the face. […]
Deer Hunting
MDWFP makes cases for illegal cervid importation
Mississippi conservation officers last week made nine cases of illegal importation of cervid carcasses, enforcing a new regulation passed in May aimed at protecting the state’s deer herd from chronic wasting disease.[…]
Columns
Buck indicators
In last month’s installment of Happy Trails, we began focusing on buck indicators as they would relate to positioning a web of trail cameras to most effectively identify and monitor bucks on a given hunting property.[…]
Fishing
Emergency electronics get faster
When Murphy’s Law suddenly sinks or disables your boat, your Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) is your no-nonsense, last-ditch rescue resource.[…]
Fishing
Catfish, crab advisory issued in Southwest Louisiana, LDWF says
High PCB levels in some tissue samples prompted several state agencies to issue a precautionary advisory concerning the consumption of fish and shellfish for Bayou D’Inde, the Calcasieu Estuary and the Calcasieu Ship Channel.[…]
Fishing
Week-long aerial herbicide treatment for Lake Bistineau to start Monday
Helicopters are expected to hover over Lake Bistineau next week starting on Monday to administer an aerial herbicide to treat giant salvinia, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]