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Postage Stamp Plots
Last deer season, I learned that the thrill of the hunt for me is more in the preparation and the chase than the kill.[…]
Statewide LA
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Cover: August 2009-Fishing
In August, seas are flat, bait is everywhere and cobia move in close for the feast. On terra fima, seer hunters start to make serious plans for rapidly approaching seasons.[…]
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Cover: August 2009-Hunting
In August, seas are flat, bait is everywhere and cobia move in close for the feast. On terra fima, seer hunters start to make serious plans for rapidly approaching seasons.[…]
News Breaker
Deadline for alligator lottery hunt applications – July 22
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will conduct alligator lottery hunts on four Coastal & Nongame Resources (CNR) Division Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), 11 Wildlife Division WMAs and 16 public lakes for the 2009 alligator harvest season in order to increase alligator harvest opportunities for the public.[…]
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2010 turkey hunting season dates proposed
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries proposed the season dates for the 2010 turkey hunting season to the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission at the commission’s July 2 meeting.[…]
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L.W.F.C. sets tentative early migratory bird seasons
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission set the tentative dates for the 2009-10 early migratory bird hunting seasons at their July 2 meeting.[…]
Events & Announcements
L.D.W.F. to hold alligator lottery hunts
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will conduct alligator lottery hunts on four Coastal & Nongame Resources (CNR) Division Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), 11 Wildlife Division WMAs and 16 public lakes for the 2009 alligator harvest season in order to increase alligator harvest opportunities for the public.[…]
Fishing
The Boat Doctor provides valuable information about use of ethanol in boats
I look forward each month to receiving my issue of Soundings Trade Only Magazine. This magazine is full of information and news for and about the marine industry.[…]
Currents
30 mpg? Well, father knows best
Ahhhhh! Smell that?
That, my friends, is the smell of fresh air in our new, clean environment.[…]
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Alligator Ambush
For most hunters, the traditional fall and winter hunting season begins the first Saturday in September when dove season opens.[…]
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Great 8
Taking a topwater to the crotch doesn’t sound like something a speckled trout angler would have to worry about. Sling a trout in the boat, let him flop around on the floor, grab him and unhook him.[…]
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River Wild, Part I
Today, the Red River is a fishing mecca. Both largemouth and white bass prowl around its rock jetties, huge catfish lurk in the deep holes and crappie school up on the oxbow lakes.[…]
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Sweating to the Hits
If you were to list your all-time favorite things to do on the water during a lazy Louisiana summer, where would you rank catching crappie on a cypress-tree lake? Probably not too high, huh?[…]
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Bunny Huggers
If fishing is like religion, then fly fishing is high church,” news anchor Tom Brokaw has said. And[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Where is Breton Sound’s Five Wells?
Dear Capt. Paul:
I’m trying to find the coordinates for Five Wells in Breton Sound.[…]
Columns
Blues are La.’s freshwater big-game fish
Seldom do anglers associate “freshwater” and “big-game fish” together. But Louisiana, with the continent’s largest rivers, large and small lakes and reservoirs, vast freshwater marshes and seemingly endless miles of small rivers, bayous and streams, is home to several species of large freshwater fish.[…]