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Get to know a crossbow
Although crossbows have been around for thousands of years, until recently, their use for deer hunting has been legally limited or restricted in most of the country.[…]
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Lull Busters — How to kill bucks when they’re laying low
The dog days of summer have nothing on the dog days of December.
Anybody fishing during the dog days of summer knows before launching his boat that tough fishing lies ahead. […]
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Sneaky ducks — How to use a kayak for duck hunting
The hunt didn’t last long. Good hunts never do.
The ducks never had a chance.[…]
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Get out and relax
A chaotic year is coming to a close. Spring flooding swamped North and Central Louisiana, and Toledo Bend reached historic levels. Then the Great Louisiana Flood in August destroyed homes and businesses down south.[…]
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Cover: December 2016
The season is at the halfway point, but there’s still a lot of deer hunting left.[…]
Deer of the Year
St. Martinville hunter nails 170-class Caldwell Parish buck
When Gregg Durand pulled into The Spotted Dog in Columbia on the day after Thanksgiving, he wasn’t looking for any awesome Black Friday deals — he was simply trying to get a green score on a thick-horned Caldwell Parish buck he’d just shot. […]
Deer of the Year
Palmated 16-point goes down in Natchitoches Parish
Until a heavy-horned Natchitoches Parish buck stepped out into a shooting lane on his 1,500-acre lease near Ajax, Chris Ebarb never knew the deer even existed.[…]
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Swamp tour airboat and mud boat collide in Lafourche Parish; one dead
A 35-year-old Des Allemands man died Monday afternoon when the mud boat he was operating struck a swamp tour airboat near Mud Lake in Bayou Des Allemands, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Deer of the Year
ULM junior drops hammer 190-class buck in Concordia Parish
Hayden Cassels spent most of last season and all of this year bowhunting for a big, heavy-horned Concordia Parish buck he’d seen in trail cam footage on the 1,000 acres of private land he hunts near Monterey.[…]
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Two cited for alleged migratory game bird violations near Laplace, LDWF says
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two men for allegedly being over the limit on wood ducks and shooting after hours last weekend in St. John Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Targeting pre-winter slot redfish in upper Calcasieu estuary
These aren’t your typical redfish making wakes along the shoreline. You won’t see their tails or silhouettes darting on the water’s surface, and you’ll rarely see a bird picking overhead. […]
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Cajun cook does shrimp his way
Lane LeMaire is a dedicated Cajun cook and a skilled outdoorsman. So it is no wonder so much of what he cooks is fish, seafood and game.[…]
Deer of the Year
Morgan City hunter’s two November bucks total 300 inches of bone
There’s an old saying that lightning never strikes in the same place twice — but don’t tell that to Joey Busbice.[…]
Deer of the Year
Big 11-point goes down in Union Parish
Brandon Lindsey was comfortable with the 36-degree morning in his Union Parish deer stand — but the same couldn’t be said for his fiancee.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Metairie man cited for trawling without a TED
A 62-year-old Metairie man was ticketed last week by enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for allegedly shrimping in Lake Pontchartrain without a turtle excluder device.[…]
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Chronic Wasting Disease
As I mentioned in our last installment, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is focusing on the spread of chronic wasting disease in wild deer.[…]