Deer Hunting
Sherburne WMA deer recover from 2011 flooding
In May 2011, historic flooding once again swamped the Atchafalaya Basin when the Morganza Spillway was opened.[…]
Year: 2012
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War of attrition — maximizing your public-land hunting
The Friday after Thanksgiving 2011 found Lyle Savant of Central locating an active scrape near an oak flat deep within the interior of Sherburne Wildlife Management Area.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Looney’s Bayou Corne sac-a-lait tackle
Jim Looney is an artificial bait kind of guy. Except when he is targeting bream in the heat of the summer, live bait is never on his hook.[…]
Deer Hunting
Sherburne complex season dates
While archery hunting began Oct. 1, there is still a lot of deer hunting remaing for this season.[…]
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Scout’s Promise —Tips for hunting Atchafalaya Basin wood ducks
Long before daylight, Cole Romero laid flat on his back along the floor of the boat, the back of his head resting on a gear bag positioned on the front deck like a pillow.[…]
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Three ducks in the bag
From the season being totally closed in the early part of the 20th century to a limit of two birds in 1962, after 20 years where hunters could harvest just one, in the 2008-09 duck season the daily bag limit for wood ducks went to three.[…]
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Cover: November 2012
Ryan Bergeron’s huge buck turned heads last season; more trophies are sure to fall this year.[…]
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Five tactical considerations
Wood ducks differ and share some characteristics of other species ducks. Several things should be considered when targeting wood ducks:[…]
Deer Hunting
Indian Bayou Area offers more deer-hunting opportunities
Directly across the Atchafalaya River on its western bank in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes, another 28,500 acres of mixed swamps and hardwood bottomlands provide even more public access to deer hunting.[…]
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Lazy Limits — Venice duck-hunting tactics
The LSU-Ole Miss showdown wasn’t exactly a nail-biter. But our “tailgater” had Doc’s Venice houseboat fairly rocking and rolling with whoops and cheers as the Tigers put a 52-3 stomping on the Rebels.[…]
Bass Fishing
Outside the Box — Tips for better spinnerbaits
Few bass anglers give much thought about what spinnerbait they tie on the ends of their lines. Want proof? Take a look at what’s lying on the front decks of bass boats all across the Bayou State.
Odds are you’ll find 75 percent have tied on 3/8-ounce chartreuse-and-white spinnerbaits with tandem Colorado/willow-blade combinations.
The other 25 percent? According to West Monroe’s Kenny Covington, they’ll have tied on a 3/8-ounce chartreuse-and-white double-willow spinnerbait.
“But none of them know why they’re throwing either one,” Covington said. “They may know that bass are slamming spinnerbaits right now because they’re up shallow feeding on shad, but they don’t know why they have those particular kinds of spinnerbaits tied on.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
Separate and distinct
Because he fishes every day, Dr. Bob Weiss has more fishing partners than a bass pro wannabe on the co-angler circuit.[…]
Bass Fishing
Go identical to trigger more bass strikes
You would be hard pressed to find a spinnerbait at your local tackle shop that featured two blades of the same size. The front one is usually smaller than the rear one because it helps the blades work in harmony with each other.[…]
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Hurricane effect means more ducks this season
The 2012-13 duck season should be great, even though Hurricane Isaac blasted Southeast Louisiana’s habitat.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Hollow Who Dat Spoon three baits in one
The Who Dat chant at Saints games rings a little hollow this year, but for Capt. John Falterman Jr. and other Louisiana anglers throwing the Bomber Who Dat Spoon, they don’t mind a hollow Who Dat.[…]
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Stick, Move and Communicate — Catch more redfish on tough fishing days
As a soldier in a field-artillery unit based in Baumholder, Germany, three words drilled into my government-issue brain were shoot, move and communicate.[…]