Deer of the Year
Opelousas hunter downs 10-point in Mississippi
A little scouting after last season paid off big time this year for an Opelousas hunter who bagged a nice Mississippi 10-pointer dubbed the “King of the Jungle.”[…]
Statewide LA
Deer of the Year
Baton Rouge hunter arrows big 11-point on Henderson Island
Inge Contois has bowhunted for six years, and always makes it a practice to attach her release before she hangs her bow and gets settled in her stand. […]
Deer of the Year
New mom takes a break, bags 150-inch buck
Kylie Garris decided she needed to take a short break from being a mom, so she headed to the peace and solitude of a deer stand on her mother-in-law’s property in Union Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Mild December temps mean specks still biting on Lake Pontchartrain bridges
With water temperatures still in the neighborhood of 60 degrees, one Lake Pontchartrain fishing guide expects speckled trout action to remain pretty consistent heading into 2015.[…]
Deer of the Year
Freeman downs two bucks in two days in Jackson Parish
Sometimes a special gift is received on Christmas Eve, and sometimes it comes on Christmas Day. And if Santa thinks you’ve been really good, you might even get a present on both days.[…]
Deer of the Year
Brown downs Madison Parish monster
If you know Teri and Dick Brown of Tallulah, then you know just how serious they are about hunting – especially deer hunting. […]
Deer of the Year
Weldon hunter nails big Claiborne Parish buck
Ordinarily on a Sunday night, Reba Lee attends church service.
But on Sunday, Nov. 23, services were cancelled because of Thanksgiving week, and Lee made the most of the opportunity.[…]
Deer of the Year
Plain Dealing hunter blasts Christmas Eve buck
If Lance Coutee had let some sniffling and sneezing keep him out of the deer stand on Dec. 24, then he’d still be hunting the buck he’s been chasing all season long. […]
Columns
The running shot
The small herd of does burst out of the woods and cut across the soybean field, the howling of the hounds behind them in the swamp.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Try glow and chartreuse for Cypremort Point specks in December
Capt. Elvis Jeanminette has just three words for anglers flocking to Cypremort Point for some December speckled trout action.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Montegut man cited for speckled trout violations in Chauvin, LDWF says
A 42-year-old Montegut man was cited last week for speckled trout fishing violations in Terrebonne Parish, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Fishing
Electronics serving in times of need
Search and recovery divers were pretty much on their own back in the early 1980’s; I know because I was one of them. I spent 10 years on the Dallas Fire Department’s dive team and worked from the department’s drag boats before the dive team came to be.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix speckled trout bite on fire, guides say
Salty water this month combined with milder temperatures have turned on speckled trout fishing out of Delacroix unlike anything the area has seen in at least three years, according to a fishing guide.[…]
Deer of the Year
Eames drops 9-point Tensas Parish buck with muzzleloader
How would you like to have a great place to hunt – but to do so, you had to follow restrictions on what deer you could shoot and what equipment you had to use?[…]
Hunting
October squirrel hunting accident blinds Harahan hunter
Saturday morning, Oct. 25, started out just like any other regular weekend at Chris Barrett’s hunting club in Fayette, Miss.[…]
Columns
Debunking the moon myth
With the whitetail rut fast approaching, I thought it would be perfect timing to revisit and discuss a subject that has been debated for decades in deer camps far and wide.[…]