General
Gubernatorial Q&A: David Vitter
Four major candidates are vying to replace Gov. Bobby Jindal: Republicans Scott Angelle, Jay Dardenne and David Vitter, and Democrat John Bel Edwards.[…]
Statewide LA
Inshore Fishing
Top 3 Shell Beach transition trout tips
Transitioning speckled trout are on the proverbial doorstep at Shell Beach, but they haven’t quite yet come on in and committed to interior marshes, according to a local fishing guide.[…]
Deer Hunting
Sight-in your rifle the easy way before hunting
Properly sighting-in your rifle scope can be the difference between meat in the freezer and going home empty-handed this hunting season.[…]
Catfish
‘Clean and healthy’ catfish baits
Mike Spinks of Sumter, S.C., has branched out in other directions when searching for the perfect catfish bait. He goes with fruit and soap.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Three men cited for Grand Isle redfish violations
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited three men last week for redfish violations on the Caminada Pass Bridge in Grand Isle.[…]
News Breaker
Lafayette angler’s giant mangrove snapper certified as new world record
It’s official now — the hammer 18.63-pound mangrove snapper Tim Champagne landed this summer out of Cocodrie is now the International Game Fish Association’s new world record holder for the category.[…]
Fishing
One dead after boats collide on Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
Authorities with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Cameron Parish Sheriff’s Office are investigating a boating collision Thursday morning on the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge that left one person dead.[…]
Columns
End your crustacean frustration: Experts share advice on fishing crab flies
It was one of those idyllic October mornings in the Louisiana marsh. The air was brisk following the passage of a cool front the day before.[…]
Columns
Grunts, gobbles and whistles? Bobwhites responding to habitat work
If the quail keep multiplying on our property I might need to add another call sound to the column title.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
How to transfer Google Earth data to your GPS
Dear Capt. Paul:
I learned how to plot a path with waypoints on Google Earth. The problem is I am unsure which format to use so it will work with my GPS.
I have a month-old Garmin 547xs. Does anyone know which format I am supposed to use? If needed I can list the options that GPS Babel gives me.
The Truck Man[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout action ignites inside Delacroix
I just returned from a trip with Capt. Mike Wittich in Delacroix Island, where we put a three-man limit of specks in the boat before noon. […]
Deer of the Year
Madison Parish 13-pointer arrowed on opening day
The only thing better than getting off of work early is getting off of work early on the opening day of bow season — and Cody Landrem made his time off count when he stuck a big 13-point in velvet last Thursday on family property in Madison Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
Big 10-point goes down in Atchafalaya Basin
Barret Fritscher is a guy who readily admits he usually takes pretty good care of his hunting equipment — especially his BowTech RPM 360 bow.[…]
Hunting
Caddo Parish committee shoots down proposed subdivision rifle ordinance
In packed chambers Monday night, a Caddo Commission committee voted down a proposed ordinance that would have restricted where rifles could be fired around subdivisions in the parish, according to media reports.[…]
News Breaker
New zone map boundaries could mean big changes for Louisiana duck hunters
The entire Southeast Louisiana coast — including all of Lafourche Parish — would move into the East Zone for 2016, and large swaths of rice fields in Vermilion, Acadia and Jeff Davis Parishes currently in the Coastal Zone would also move into the East Zone next season if proposed waterfowl hunting zone boundaries are ultimately approved by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission at their next meeting on Nov. 5.[…]
Hog Hunting
Crowley hunter downs 549-pound wild hog in Acadia Parish
Jason Mire installed a new box stand this summer so he could bow hunt on his lease near Egan, and started putting out corn early in August in anticipation of Area 10’s season opener on Sept. 19.[…]