It’s looking like the opening weekend is going to be a wet one according to local forecasts from Sabine to Slidell, but that’s not going to stop legions of long-suffering duck hunters from taking to the fields and marshes.[…]
At their August meeting, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved several changes to the 2009-10 Canada goose hunting season in Louisiana.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission adopted a notice of intent at their Sept. 3 meeting to amend the Special Bait Dealer Permit rule.[…]
In addition to the dove hunting opportunities available on several Wildlife Management Areas, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has leased one field in Beauregard Parish for public use.[…]
Passing over the Calumet Bridge that crosses the Wax Lake Outlet spillway, I glanced south. In the wee hours of the morning, close to the end of the graveyard shift, white stern lights dotted the waterway like the string on a plumb-line as far as the eye could see.[…]
To raise trophy deer, you need to establish a long-term land-management program, including plans for supplemental feeding, green-field planting, protecting younger age-class bucks and maintaining your herd under the carrying capacity of the land.[…]
Few things in the Louisiana coastal fishing arena can match the fall and winter speckled trout run. The problem lies in the timing of such an event. Myriad factors go into exactly when the fish turn on, whether it’s catching them in the passes during years of a low Mississippi River or in the surrounding bays when the Big Muddy swells.[…]
Talk to the experts, and a hunter can come away with a comfortable feeling he has a reasonable chance to harvest deer, rabbits, squirrel, waterfowl, doves, turkey and feral hogs in one or more public hunting areas within a reasonable driving distance of his home in the Sportsman’s Paradise.[…]
At almost every seminar and tournament, I’m often asked how I’ll fish a new lake. Today, advanced technology allows anglers to quickly and easily obtain information on lakes all over the country.[…]
Sleek, fast and glamorous, wahoo are the Formula One race cars of the fish world. Scientists know them as Acanthocybium solandri.[…]
Cosmologists believe that over 90 percent of the universe consists of something called “dark matter.” This is not to be confused with anti-matter.[…]
In a recent e-mail, a reader requested help with what he believes is a cavitation problem. He described his boat as a 1994 16-foot center console with a 1994-model 70-horsepower engine.[…]
About two decades ago, a serious fisherman named Joseph Mardesich left the high-tech halls of California’s computer geekdom and set out to change the world of electric trolling motors.[…]
Nothing makes a better personal self-defense handgun than a snub-nosed revolver. For concealability and dependability, you simply cannot beat one of the little wheelguns.[…]
The story about one of the most popular soft plastics coast to coast, border to border, is oh, so sweet.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for lottery hunts to be held on several Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) this upcoming hunting season.[…]