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Front to Back Boat Service – Trailers Service
Join Ken Sherman as he talks about making sure your trailer is ready for the road.[…]
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Lightforce Lights
Lightforce Performance Lighting provides serious anglers and marine specialists with portable lighting systems that work each and every time they are needed without the failures that common marine lights experience.[…]
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Goal Zero
Ideal for camping or emergency preparedness, the 12-pound Goal Zero Yeti 150 offers users a portable power solution without the hassle, noise and expense of its gas powered counterparts.[…]
Columns
Doe days just don’t make sense
When I began deer hunting hard back in the early 1990s, I faced one major problem every season — my Nov. 25 wedding anniversary.[…]
Events & Announcements
Marksville man arrested for killing black bear in Avoyelles Parish.
A 30-year-old Marksville man was arrested Monday (Feb. 25) in connection with the killing of a black bear in Avoyelles Parish back in November, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.
Derek P. Sayer, 30, was booked into the Avoyelles Parish Jail on counts for his alleged role in killing the black bear, the LDWF said.[…]
Columns
Repeating Derringer…
My favorite daughter walked in the door one evening, after a shift of five nights straight as an RN in her hometown emergency room.[…]
Coastal Projects
Pace of Louisiana’s coastal erosion quickening, study shows
Stunning new data not yet publicly released shows Louisiana losing its battle with rising seas much more quickly than even the most pessimistic studies have predicted to date.[…]
Events & Announcements
Construction of latest Lake Pontchartrain artificial reef to add fishing opportunities
Work that began recently on an artificial reef near the St. Tammany Parish Fishing Pier south of Slidell will increase fishing opportunities for shore-bound Lake Pontchartrain anglers, the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana said.
The work is being done between the new westbound span of Interstate 10 and the pier — the latter of which is part of the old Interstate 10 Twin Spans Bridge that partially collapsed during Hurricane Katrina. The pier opened on Lake Pontchartrain in 2012 to enormous support, but has been closed since Hurricane Isaac battered Slidell last August. […]
Columns
Law supersedes tradition
Fish and wildlife violations investigated by wildlife enforcement agents in Louisiana cover a wide range of offenses. […]
General
Coastal-restoration projects approved in St. Tammany, Terrebonne parishes
In late January, the Coastal Wetlands, Planning, Protection and Restoration Act Task Force, better known as CWPPRA, approved construction of marsh-building projects in both the Bayou Bonfouca area in St. Tammany Parish and Terrebonne Parish’s Lost Lake.
The projects are sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in conjunction with the state. CWPPRA projects are funded by the federal government with a 15-percent funding match coming from Louisiana.[…]
Events & Announcements
$35,000 up for grabs in Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Championship
The Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Championship is scheduled for March 16-17, and there is a lot of money up for grabs. The team that rises to the top of the two-day event will walk away with a cool $12,000.
And the rest of the top-25 teams will split $23,000.[…]
Events & Announcements
Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission member Voisin dead at age 59
Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission member Michael C. Voisin, who in the mid-1980s helps found the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, died Saturday (Feb. 2) from a heart condition, the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board announced.
Voisin was the owner of Motivatit Seafoods based in Houma, and was set to remain on the commission until December 2015, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries. He was serving as the commission’s vice chairman at the time of his death.[…]
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Costa’s Tuna Alley
Tuna Alley is one of the new frame styles in the 2013 collection from Costa Sunglasses.[…]
Columns
How much are you worth?
Hunting and fishing are huge recreational factors for those of us who, by the grace of God, were born in Louisiana. It’s just engrained in our psyche. Bred into our very genes.[…]
Events & Announcements
LDWF corrects 2013 turkey hunting season dates
Turkey hunting on the U.S. Corps of Engineers’ Old River and Lock Area will be allowed March 23 through April 7, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported today.[…]
Events & Announcements
2013 Louisiana High School Fishing Championship to be held March 10
The 2013 Student Angler Federation Louisiana High School Fishing State Championship will be held on Caddo Lake on March 10, the Bass Federation announced.[…]