Hunting
LDWF accepting applications for 2026 Elbow Slough WMA dove and White Lake WCA teal lottery hunts
The LDWF is accepting applications for the Elbow Slough WMA dove lottery hunt and the WCA teal lottery hunt.[…]
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Newsletters
Hunter shoots rare ducks during second split
Jake Pierron harvested the 10th oldest male blue-winged teal on record, then two weeks later shot a hybrid blue-winged teal/cinnamon teal.[…]
News Breaker
Waterfowl population estimates in Louisiana’s Coastal Zone and on Little River Basin
The 2025 statewide teal season in Louisiana, during which cinnamon, blue-, and green-winged teal may be harvested, began Sept. 20.[…]
Features
Klondike teal
There’s not a lot of places you can go and kill a 9-man limit of teal in 45 minutes. Southwest Louisiana is one of them.[…]
Hunting
Proposed changes for the 2025-26 hunting seasons
The special September teal season will run 9 days, not the 16 days of recent years, due to overall teal numbers having fallen.[…]
Newsletters
Teal hunters took advantage of smaller groups of birds over opening weekend
While the storied grounds of southwest Louisiana still produced teal for solid outings, many hunting marshes to the east had spotty results.[…]
News Breaker
Teal season opens in Louisiana on Sept. 14
The 2024 teal hunting season begins Saturday, Sept. 14, statewide and runs through Sept. 29, the LDWF announced.[…]
Features
September teal season primer
The perennial early teal season can offer stellar wingshooting when the migrators are passing through and the season timing is just right.[…]
Field Reports
Duck Camp Dinners: Teal Hole Hustle
Chef Jean-Paul Bourgeois and the crew are back with Duck Camp Dinners. They hunt alligators and get ready for teal season.[…]
Dove
LDWF now accepting applications for Elbow Slough WMA dove and White Lake WCA teal lottery hunts
The LDWF is accepting applications for Elbow Slough WMA dove lottery hunt and White Lake WCA teal lottery hunt for the 2024 hunting season.[…]
Features
Spring teal study provides knowledge to protect ducks, other fowl
This spring teal study and banding monitors low and high pathogenic avian influenza diseases, also known as bird flu.[…]
Features
Teal tune-up
For many waterfowlers, the September teal season offers a tune-up before the real action begins in November.[…]
News Breaker
Applications being accepted for Elbow Slough WMA dove and White Lake WCA teal lottery hunts
The LDWF is accepting applications for Elbow Slough WMA dove and White Lake WCA teal lottery hunts for the 2023-2024 hunting season.[…]
Hunting Reports
Joey Sampson’s family teal hunt
Joey Sampson, 8, from Ponchatoula, went teal hunting with his father and grandfather in Buras with guide service Cajun Fishing Adventure.[…]
Field Reports
Duck Camp Dinners: Heritage is a hand-me-down
The Duck Camp Dinners crew is back in the bayous as Chef Jean-Paul Bourgeois wraps up his last hunt of the season.[…]
Newsletters
Opinions may vary, but early season teal haven’t disappointed
Some guys limited out and some shot zeroes during the opening week of the teal hunting season in Louisiana.[…]