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Theophile’s Flying Circus — Seaplane offers easy fishing access to barrier islands
Did you ever go to the circus when you were a kid? There really wasn’t anything else quite like it.[…]
Month: November 2013
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Clovelly two-step — Speckled trout fishing gets hot at Lafitte’s Clovelly
I couldn’t figure out why my son wasn’t making a cast.
It was obvious where the fish were. The gulls dive bombing nervous shrimp was a dead give-away.[…]
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Water Works — Hunting from a pirogue
Sid Havard exited his truck and left it parked along the banks of Black Lake Creek.[…]
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Ground Rules — How to stalk deer
Decades ago, most people deer hunted either by using dogs or quietly stalking through the woods. Today, both methods seem to be dying out because of the land lease system and the increasing popularity of climbing and box stands. […]
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Shoot-Don’t Shoot, 2013 Edition
A new age of deer management and hunting was ushered in when the concept of quality deer management began to sweep across the Southeast United States and eventually into the Bayou State.[…]
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Limited Success — Duck hunting Manchac WMA’s limited access area
I knew this would probably be my last Louisiana duck hunt.
The Sirens Ulysses had to deal with had nothing on the Call of the Grandchildren: The wife was putting on serious pressure to move to Colorado.[…]
Deer Hunting
Hunters nearly gored by deer in video
What do you do when you shoot a nice deer and a second rack buck refuses to leave? That’s the decision that faced some hunters who decided to video the confrontation.[…]
Events & Announcements
NOAA navigational chart PDFs available free during pilot program
April 13, 2014 will mark the end of an era for nautical navigational charts.[…]
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LDWF reminds waterfowl hunters to be alert for whooping cranes
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reminding waterfowl hunters to be alert for whooping cranes in marshes and fields that contain legally-hunted game birds.[…]
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Louisiana’s wood duck banding efforts garner USFWS award
Louisiana’s aggressive efforts at banding wood ducks were honored this week at a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director’s Honor Awards ceremony in Atlanta.[…]
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DU launches Beards for Conservation
If you grow out your beard during duck season, Ducks Unlimited invites you to participate in Beards for Conservation.[…]