Deer of the Year
Old stand yields trophy buck for 10-year-old hunter
Alexandria farmer Peter DeKeyzer was puzzled when his son 10-year-old Jack told him which stand he wanted to hunt on the afternoon of Jan. 2.[…]
Year: 2012
Events & Announcements
Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Championship offers $10,000 top prize
The first Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Championship to be held March 10-11 in conjunction with the Louisiana Sportsmen’s Show offers anglers the chance to win a guaranteed $10,000 first-place prize.[…]
Deer of the Year
Close encounter turns into 190-inch St. Landry Parish buck
When 12-year-old Thomas Artall finally realized that the deer whose rear he was looking at sported a big rack on the other end, a couple of problems quickly became evident.[…]
Deer Hunting
Department proposes either-sex deer tag, other hunting changes
If the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has its way, hunters across all of the state will see some type of alteration to their regulations for the 2012-13 season.[…]
Fishing
The Boat Show in New Orleans kicks off today!
The floor of the Superdome will be filled with boats and all the necessary accessories beginning Feb. 2 at 3 p.m., when The Boat Show in New Orleans kicks off. The show will continue through Saturday.
“We’re looking forward to bringing the public the best boat show ever held in New Orleans,” the show’s organizer Lionel Dowling said.[…]
Columns
It’s a bird; it’s a plane
If it’s not a bird and it’s not a plane and it’s over the ocean, its bound to be a flying fish, one of the most interesting fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Actually, there are more than one species of flying fish in the Gulf: 12 of them, in fact.[…]
Columns
Take a holiday for sac-a-lait
Fishing is a lifetime pursuit; one never stops learning. Sometimes the education comes from books, videos or seminars. Sometimes it comes from the kids down the street.[…]
Hunting
2011-12 Deer of the Year
The 2011-12 season kicked off in style when Cecilia’s Nick Thibodeaux arrowed a buck that green scored 160 inches Pope & Young while hunting on Sherburne Wildlife Management Area.
The kill turned out to be a hint of things to come, as monstrous bucks fell at a steady pace throughout the season. By the middle of December, more than a dozen deer scoring over 145 inches had been discovered by Louisiana Sportsman staff.[…]
Bass Fishing
Potential winning patterns
With strange new fishing techniques like the Alabama rig gaining momentum with professional anglers, local anglers who fish the Red River more than most believe this Bassmaster Classic will be won on some very simple baits fished in some very predictable ways.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lots of locations for Classic field to scout
A myriad of possible locations exists for 2012 Bassmaster Classic competitors to analyze in the practice days leading up to the actual tournament. After deciding to fish Pool 4 or Pool 5, anglers must then decide if they’re going to try to fish a proven community hole or find an unknown, isolated area that they can have all to themselves.[…]
News Breaker
Duck season ends strong for most, despite continued drought
Following a heralded first split, Louisiana duck hunters had high hopes for the second portion of the 2011-2012 waterfowl season.[…]
Contents
Have Knife, Will Travel
The rugged man flipped a business card to the fishermen at the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo. It displayed a bowie knife in its center and read Slimeslingers Professional Fish Cleaning: Willing to Travel.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: February 2012-Fishing
Louisiana will shine this month as the pros descend on the Red River for the Bassmaster Classic.[…]
Currents
LDWF proposes its own raid
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced in December that it was implementing mid-year budget reductions of $2.2 million.[…]
Columns
A new year in paradise
The magazine in the doctor’s office referred to Grand Teton National Park as a nature lover’s paradise. No doubt it is, especially in the winter when the game descends the mountains and walks around with the humans.[…]
Columns
In the rearview mirror
After 34 years with LDWF’s Division of Law Enforcement, I retired as assistant chief in April 2011, and returned home to Gardner. My career with LDWF provided the opportunity to work with dedicated fish and wildlife enforcement and management professionals, elected and appointed officials and hunters and fishermen throughout Louisiana.[…]