Ask Captain Paul
Enstar, Mardi Gras hold spring, summer action
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have heard a lot about two locations south of Dularge — Enstar and the Mardi Gras. What is the easiest way to get there from Dularge, Dulac or Cocodrie.[…]
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Columns
Shows offer tremendous opportunities
It seems that the boating season is getting off to a slow start this year. I wonder if it has something to do with a certain football team winning the Super Bowl.[…]
News Breaker
Prudhome recognized by NWTF
Frierson’s Belinda Prudhome was awarded the National Wild Turkey Federation’s 2010 Annie Oakley Award this weekend to recognize Prudhome’s work in getting women involved in the outdoor sports.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Reach skinny-water crappie with your feet
Coastal Louisiana anglers are no strangers to wade fishing for speckled trout, but there’s a different kind of “speck” that folks are starting to realize bite just a little bit better when the water isn’t slapping the sides of their boats.[…]
Events & Announcements
LWF announces conservation awards winners
Louisiana bluesman and conservation advocate Tab Benoit has been chosen to receive the Louisiana Wildlife Federation’s Governor’s Award – Conservationist of the Year for 2009.[…]
Deer Hunting
Winter continues, hunters should turn thoughts to habitat work
Another round of cold weather is moving into the state and that means more winter stress on the deer habitat.[…]
General
Jindal proposes combining LDWF and State Parks
Governor Bobby Jindal has been advocating canning the lieutenant governor’s office since Mitch Landrieu announced he was running for mayor of New Orleans, and that idea has been elevated now that Landrieu is set to take the reigns of the Big Easy on May 3.[…]
Events & Announcements
Wildlife Federation to Celebrate 71st Convention at Toledo Bend
Conservation groups, sportsmen, environmentalists and natural resource management professionals from throughout Louisiana will convene Feb. 26-28 at Cypress Bend Resort near Many, La., for the 71st Annual Louisiana Wildlife Federation Convention.[…]
Hunting
Louisiana hunting-regulations changes proposed
Hunting seasons for the next to years have been proposed, along with regulations for the state’s wildlife management areas.[…]
Hunting
Louisiana Wildlife Management Area hunting schedules proposed
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Thursday issued a notice of intent to adopt 2010-12 hunting schedules for the state’s wildlife management areas.[…]
News Breaker
Duck season fizzles to close
As the duck season kicked off in mid-November, Louisiana waterfowlers held hope that Old Man Winter would arrive to bring down the hoards of birds we had all heard about.[…]
News Breaker
Sick waterfowl being investigated
Sam Fulkerson and some buddies had finished the morning hunt on Sunday (Jan. 31), and were headed to scout out some new fields for an evening goose hunt near Gueydan when they saw something strange.
“We saw some geese on the road, and we stopped and sent the dog after one of them,” said Fulkerson, known on LouisianaSportsman.com as “Uncle Bud a.k.a. Sam Fulkerson. “It just sat there.”[…]
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Bayou Welcome
The French named the wandering waterway “Bayou Bienvenue” (Bayou Welcome) probably because it was like a welcome mat, providing passage for ships entering from Lake Borgne almost to the very doorstep of New Orleans.[…]
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Hunting With House Pets
Die geschichte der schweinekopf Snoopy (The story of the pighead Snoopy) are the opening words of the 1967 rock-and-roll classic, “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.”[…]
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Easy East
Doc’s brother, Toby, seemed perplexed as he chatted with Pelayo’s brud-n-law Zach, in from Atlanta for Mardi Gras. Toby’s face contorted and his eyebrows scrunched as he asked Zach again and again: “East Bay? Sure it’s East Bay? Why on earth East Bay — especially this time of the year?”[…]
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A Sprig of Crappie
In February 2009, for the first time in nearly 15 years, Crappie USA came back to Louisiana to hold a qualifying tournament. The area the organization selected was the Atchafalaya Basin, with Morgan City the host.[…]