Joe Macaluso

Red snapper season wide open again | Louisiana Outdoors

It’s about this time every year when the folks who live near rice fields and the marshes in our southwestern parishes begin seeing teal.

Saturday, the opening of the dove season, begins an almost unbroken months-long chain of hunting opportunities in Louisiana.

The DeRidder leased-for-hunting site has two fields (500 acres of harvested corn and soybeans) north and south of U.S. 190 about five miles west of its intersection with La. 171

While south Louisiana poured sweat to get ready for Hurricane Francine, teal hunters had a little more concern for what the storm would leave in its wake.

It always brings a curious smile when you watch and listen to older, more veteran bass fishermen talk, and most times complain, about trying to catch fish in a tournament,

Sportsmen, young and old, need to give themselves pats on their backs when Saturday rolls around.

You’d think after his years serving our country, retired Navy SEAL Spencer Calvin had done enough.

The first shots of the duck season came this muggy weekend when West Zone youth hunters got the first crack at early birds.

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries waterfowl biologists early November aerial surveys of the coastal (Southwest & Southeast) and Little River Basin (LRB; Catahoula Lake) zones to estimate waterfowl populations. (*