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Fanny’s Family Guide Service
Scott Dennis runs Fanny’s Family Guide Service (named for the nickname with which his grandfather had been tagged), where he is able to share his family’s hunting traditions with others.[…]
Hunting
Deer Hunting
Taking scent control to the extreme
While he has utmost confidence in 33 Point Buck and the Vapor Maker delivery system, avid archery hunter Barrett Van Cleave realizes the necessity of taking scent containment to the extreme.[…]
Other Hunting
January squirrel rut is perfect hunting period
John Hanks, LDWF’s biologist supervisor for private lands in the Mississippi alluvial valley, said that, while squirrels are capable of mating anytime during the year, there are two main rutting periods.[…]
News Breaker
Lottery waterfowl hunts cancelled on Sherburne WMA South Farm Unit
Officials with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries have cancelled all lottery waterfowl hunts on the South Farm Unit of Sherburne Wildlife Management Area because of extensive flooding.[…]
Deer of the Year
Monroe hunter downs monster 8-point in Caldwell Parish
Monroe’s Blake Jones considers himself fortunate to get to hunt on a particular farm in Caldwell Parish — his brother’s father-in-law owns a farm near Columbia with mostly bottomland and CRP that is butted up to the Lafourche Canal.[…]
Deer of the Year
‘Freaky buck’ goes down in Natchitoches Parish
Dr. Jeffrey Anderson and his father were riding in their Ranger checking on cattle early last month on family property bordering Bayou Pierre in Natchitoches Parish when they jumped up a very odd-looking buck that neither one of them had ever seen before.[…]
Deer of the Year
Pharmacy School student fills prescription with big symmetrical 8-point
Lauren Hall, a senior in pharmacy school at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, is set to graduate this May. […]
Deer of the Year
Tallulah youngster downs 162-inch buck on Tensas River NWR
Jacob Martin has taken a few deer in his 12 years, but nothing that compares with the big 9-point buck he downed in Madison Parish on Dec. 30 during a Youth Hunt on the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
Hunting
Arkansas man cited for hunting license fraud in Claiborne Parish, LDWF says
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited an Arkansas man on Jan. 7 for allegedly obtaining a hunting license by fraud in Claiborne Parish.[…]
Hunting
Arkansas man cited for hunting license fraud in Claiborne Parish
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited an Arkansas man on Jan. 7 for allegedly obtaining a hunting license by fraud in Claiborne Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
Beekman youth kills 183-inch Russell Sage WMA buck
Noah Mason turned 14 on Dec. 15, but he received his best gift four days later when he dropped a 180-class Russell Sage Wildlife Management Area 15-point while hunting with his father.[…]
Field Notes
Top 3 late-season duck hunting tactics
All of the prep work earlier this fall will culminate in the next few weeks as another duck hunting season heads into the history books.[…]
Deer of the Year
Sterlington hunter blasts 160-class Ouachita Parish 12-pointer
Four deer seasons ago — on January 2, 2012 to be exact — Melissa Winkler was alone in her box stand in Ouachita Parish when a big buck stepped out. […]
Deer Hunting
Morganza Spillway remaining closed good news for local deer herd
Although deer season is currently closed now in the lower Atchafalaya Basin from Interstate 10 south to U.S. Highway 90 because of high water, word that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ditched plans to open the Morganza Spillway for now is good news for the deer herd located there.[…]
Deer of the Year
Thibodaux youth downs 7-point piebald
When Jeremy Landry’s 9-year-old daughter unexpectedly expressed interest in joining him in the stand for a deer hunt, he decided on a high tech approach to get her ready for the big day.[…]
Columns
Mother nature is messing with us
For some reason Mother Nature does not seem too happy with us hunters this year. September rolls around, the early seasons open for migratory birds, temperatures were hot and the ground was dry, very dry.[…]