Last day of the season in area A , wanted to be in the woods before sunrise. Overslept and did not get there until 7 AM. Called and no
response anywhere. Decided to set up a decoy on a lane. Sat there about 20 minutes looked to the right about a hundred yards away, seen him slowly makings his way. No gobbling no sounds of any kind. It took him about 15 minutes to get within shooting range. 1st one in four years. 91/2 inch beard 1' spurs 17.5 pounds. Each of the previous years something went wrong, missed shots, movement....falling asleep and waking up to see a gobbler walking in front of me. { I know you have to be awake hunting}.
I was about to give up turkey hunting. This one kept me in the game.
Need some advice in to where I can go catch some sac au lait with my grandkids.
I have a seventeen foot flat boat. Any information on where to go will be greatly appreciated.
Looking for reports for Hopedale Shell Beach area.
Has anyone fished there lately?
Taking to young kids for a trip to Hopedale this weekend. Have not been there since Katrina hit. Any tips where to go once there? I have a 17' flat boat. I was thinking the march towards Lake Borgne. Has anyone fished there lately? How about the dam? I hear there are so many boats that it gets very crowded. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the reply redroofer, may just go to barataria bay.
Has anyone fished bayou bienvenue, shell beach or hopedale lately? Catching any fish? Fished Myrtle Grove last weekend,worse fishing trip ever. Looking to fish other areas.
Any reports will be greatly appreciated.
I can't remember a time going fishing out of a boat and not coming back with any fish.
That happened yesterday fishing out of Myrtle Grove area. Fished Bay Loria, Lake Hermitage, honey holes and canals in that area. A few no keeper trout and reds. Not ONE keeper. My fishing partner caught one midsize sheephead. Worst trip ever. Spoke to some other fishermen, no one had caught anything.
Asked the two ladies working at the marina, they said no one was catching anything to speak of.
Did anyone catch any fish to speak off this past weekend?
DOES ANYONE KNOWS IF THE BAYOU BIENVENUE WORK AT THE LOCKS IS FINISHED YET?
THANKS FOR ANY INFO.
Saturday morning we had Bradley Barber and his buddies Brother David, Hunter @ Shay with their dogs. Hunted our lease and one other. Their dogs run hard. Finally ended up with two boars. One weighing around two hundred pounds and another about half that size. First time on pig hunt with dogs that got some pigs. Lots of fun, plus two pigs off our lease.
Thanks Bradley, Brother David, Shay and Hunter.
This 10 point buck came out at 2:30 pm looking for the rattling that I had been doing. Shot him at 35 yards, run about 20 yards and collapsed.
16 1x2 inside spread. 185 pounds. Took about 2 1x2 hours to haul him out; but it was worth it.
Congratulations guys.
Nice trip. Freezer meat and horns. You can't beat that.
I AM LOOKING ONLINE AT A REPO BAY SEEKER 172 BAY BOAT. ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH THAT BOAT?
COMPANY THAT WAS MAKING THESE BOATS WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
READ ONE REVIEW ABOUT A NEW BOAT PURCHASED IN CORPUS CRISTI TEXAS, HAD CRACKED HULL.
ANY INFORMATION WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
I HAD A SMALL POND IN MY BACK YARD SOME YEARS AGO.
A BULL FROG FOUND HIS WAY IN IT. WE NAMED HIM FRED. HAD HIM FOR A COUPLE YEARS. ONE DAY I FOUND HIM DEAD IN THE YARD. PICKED'M UP TO LOOK AT HIM, HAD A TAIL STICKING OUT OF HIS MOUTH. I THOUGHT IT WAS A LIZZARD. TOOK A PAIR OF PLIERS AND STARTED PULLING AT THE TAIL, OUT CAME A GOOG SIZED RAT, NEATLY FOLDED WITH ALL FOURS TUCKED IN UNDER HIS BELLY. APPARENTLY FRED WAS FEEDING ON RATS. GAVE HIM A DECENT BURIAL AND SAID A FEW GOOD WORDS FOR THE GOOD HE HAD BEEN DOING.
RIP FRED.
I WENT OPENING WEEKEND IN OUR LEASE IN FORMER BEN'S CREEK. SAT SAW TWO GOBBLERS, DIDI NOT RESPOND TO CALLS.
SUNDAY I HUNTED AN OLD LOGGING ROAD, TRACKS EVERYWHERE.CALLED AND ABOUT 45 MINUTES LATER A NICE GOBBLER WALKED UP AND STARTED SHORT STRUTTING AND DRUMMING LOOKING INSIDE THE BUSHES THAT I WAS IN. CAUGHT ME COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE.
SHOT FROM ABOUT 30 FEET... AND MISSED.... WENT BACK AT DAYBREAK YESTERDAY. LOTS OF TRACKS. DID NOT SEE OR HEARD A BIRD.
NEWS RELEASE FROM LDWF; TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR TRAPPING HOGS IN PRWMA AND OTHER WMAS LISTED ON THEIR NEWS RELEASE. BEGGINING IN MAY 1 TO AUGUST 31ST. EACH SELECTED APPLICANT WILL HAVE AN AREA ASSIGNED TO SET CORRAL TYPE TRAPS.
I WILL ASSUME THAT THEY WILL BE ALLOWED TO BAIT THE HOGS TO THE TRAPS. WELL WHY DONT THEY CONSIDER ALLOWING HUNTERS AFTER DEER SEASON CLOSES
TO USE BAIT FOR HOGS?
KILLED OVER 150 HOGS IN THE 40 OR SO YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HUNTING THEM. NEVER HAD TO LIVE ONE OUT IN THE WOODS BECAUSE OF SICK LOOKING OR BAD SMELL.
WELL COOKED WILD HOG IS PROBABLY THE BEST MEAT I'VE EVER HAD. RABIES IS A VERY RARE DESEASE FOR HOGS AND IT IS NOT ONE OF THE DESEASES THEY ARE CARRYING. NOT SAYING THEY CAN NOT CONTACT IT, BUT FROM WHAT I HAVE READ THEY ARE NOT CARRIERS OF RABIES. A RELATED DESEASE CALLED PSEUDORABIES IS WHAT THEY ARE CARRYING. A HERPES VIRUS THAT AFFECTS THEIR REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. IT IS ALSO COMMON AMONG DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
LWDF HELICOPTER HOG HUNT WAS A FIRST. SO, THAT DID NOT HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON HOG NUMBERS. OFCOURCE I DONT AGREE WITH WHAT LDWF DID.
AS FOR THE FEDERAL WILDLIFE REFUGE'S NOT ALLOWING DOGS, IT IS NOT CORRECT. BOGUE CHITTO STARTED ALLOWING DOGS IN 1997. AND IT IS STILL GOING ON. CHECK THEIR PERMIT PAMPHLET.
I'VE HUNTED PEARL RIVER SINCE THE 70'S. OPENING WEEKENDS YOU COULD NOT WALK DOWN A TRAIL 200 YARDS AND NOT SEE A GUT PILE FROM HOGS THAT WERE BEING TAKEN BY HUNTERS. I DON'T HAVE ACCTUAL NUMBERS BUT IT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE.I WOULD SEE HERDS OF 15 HOGS OR MORE ON SOME OF THE HUNTS. YOU COULD EASILY GET ENOUGH HOGS FOR YOURSELF AND GIVE SOME TO FRIENDS AND NEIBHORS. NEVER HEARD ANY FUSS BEING MADE FROM HUNTERS, LDWF OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER. DEER HARVESTS WERE OVER 30 ON A SEASON. OPENING DEER SEASON THERE WAS LINES OF VEHICLES WAITING TO CHECK IN. GAME WARDENS WERE PRESENT TO CHECK IN. A LOT OF MONEY WAS BEING SPENT ON LICENSE SUPPLIES ETC. LDWF HAD THE MONEY TO KEEP THE TRAILS CUT, PLANT SEVERAL FOOD PLOTS EVEN PICKING TRASH LEFT BEHIND BY SOME INCONSIDERED SO CALLED SPORTSMEN.THEN IT WAS DESIDED TO ALLOW DOGS FOR HOGS.JUST A COUPLE SEASONS LATER HOG NUMBERS HAD DRASTICALLY DECLINED. NUMBERS OF HUNTERS WENT DOWN.HUNTERS WERE GOING TO PRWMA BECAUSE THEY HAD A GOOD CHANCE OF GETTING A HOG, IF NOTHING ELSE.FOR OVER 20YEARS I AVERAGED 7 HOGS A YEAR UNTILL THE START OF DOG HUNTS. AFTER THE DOGS THE MOST I HAD WAS 3 HOGS.LAST 3 YEARS ONE EACH. I HUNT THE SAME AREAS AS BEFORE, THEIR NUMBERS ARE NOT THERE. REVENUE FOR THE LDWF DECLINED, AND I THINK IS DUE TO THE LACK OF GAME. FIRST THE MAJORITY OF FOOD PLOTS WENT AWAY.THEN THE CHECK IN WARDENS WENT AWAY. YOU CAN SEE THE TRAILS NOW. WHEN KATRINA CAME, IT DESTROYED THE PLACE. I AM SURE A LOT OF DEER AND
HOGS GOT DISPLACED OR KILLED.HOG NUMBERS WILL INCREASE QUICKER THAN DEER BECAUSE OF PROLIFERATION. I SPOKE WITH ONE OF THE WARDENS NEAR THE END OF DEER SEASON, HE TOLD ME THAT HOG HARVEST WAS DOWN AND ONLY SEVEN DEER WERE TAKEN. I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FINAL NUMBERS WERE. TAKE THE HOGS OUT OF THERE, AND THERE WILL BE NOTHING TO HUNT EXEPT SQUIRELS. I,VE ALSO HUNTED BOGUE CHITTO REFUGE ADJACENT TO PRWMA, SAME THING HAPPENED THERE WHEN DOG HUNTERS CAME. {THOUGH DEER NUMBERS ARE HIGHER THAN PRWMA BECAUSE OF SHORTER DEER SEASONS}. TALK TO SOME, BOTH IN PRWMA AND BOGUE CHITTO, IT IS NOT UNCOMMON TO HAVE 5 OR MORE HOGS IN A DAYS HUNT. BOTTOM LINE: STOP DOG HUNTS WITH DOGS. LET HUNTERS LOOK FORWARD IN TO GETTING SOMETHING BESIDES A SQUIREL OR TWO.
THE LDWF TODAY ANOUNCED THAT ON MARCH 10TH THEY WILL BE HUNTING HOGS ON THE MARSH AREA ON THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE WMAWITH HELICOPTERS.
THEY DONT WANT ANYONE TO BE ALARMED IF THEY HEAR SHOTS COMING FROM THE HELICOPTERS....VERY CONSIDERED OF THEM...NOT ENOUGH HOGS WERE KILLED LAST SEASON AND THEIR NUMBERS ARE INCREASING. WHY DON'T JUST INCREASE HUNTING DAYS ON HOGS IN ALL OF THE WMA , FOR ALL TO ENJOY? HECK I WON'T MIND PAYING FOR AN ADDITIONAL PERMIT, SO I CAN HUNT A COUPLE EXTRA MONTHS OR LONGER. WIN - WIN SITIUATION FOR LDWF AND SPORTSMEN.
WHAT YA'LL THINK?
Has anyone fished the spillway between Norco and Laplace lately? Catching anything ?
I was wondering if those new ponds along Airline Hwy are open to fishing.
Looking for some bank fishing for my grandkids.
Thanks for any information you may have.
Boat launch on highway 11 at Irish bayou, Dos Lagos marina.
Thanks for the information copperhead.
Thanks
Thank you guys for taking the time to respond, on the Locks.
HUNTED PRWMA SINCE THE 70'S. ALWAYS HAD GOOD SEASONS HOG HUNTING, UNTILL DOG HUNING STARTEDIN THERE SOME YEARS AGO. FIRST FEW COUPLE YEARS WITH DOGS, HAD HUNTERS COME FROM FLORIDA AND TEXAS TO HUNT PRWMA. HOG NUMBERS WENT DOWN A LOT. LDWF ISSUES PERMITS FOR LIVE TRANSPORT OF HOGS OUT OF THE WMA'S.TH0SE HOGS ARE BEING TRANSPORTED AND RELEASED ON PRIVATE PROPERTIES AND HUNTING CLUBS. ESCAPED HOGS FROM THIS AREA SPREAD OUT AND CREATING THE PROBLEM EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT.
THERE WAS NO PROBLEM WITH HOGS IN THE 70'S AND 80'S. IT ALL STARTED WITH THE DOGS AND THE BIG MONEY CHARGED TO HUNT HOGS ON 'PRIVATE RESERVES'.
Hardly any hogs left on public lands after dogs have going thru.
Knock the antlers together hard enough to be heard to only about 100 yards then rub them together for about 10 seconds and grunt when done do this two or three times. Repeat at about 1x2 hour or so.
sometimes it works sometimes it does not.
Has worked for me several times over the years.
A few times I had does coming in, trying to shake off young bucks. Shot the bucks.
Good luck
I assume that the question is if you can hunt either sex with archery at anytime.
You can hunt either sex anytime except when bucks only is in progress. Page 38 LDWF regulations, under archery season. Hope that answers your question.
I WAS IN PRWMA THE FIRST WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY.
MET A GUY AND HIS SON HOG HUNTING WITH DOGS ON INDIAN BAYOU ROAD. CHUCK AND KEITH TWO OF THE GAME WARDENS WERE THERE AS WELL. THAT GUY SAID, HE HAD A PERMIT FROM LDWF TO TRANSPORT LIVE HOGS CAUGHT IN THE WMA'S. HE HAD CAUGHT SOME LAST YEAR AND TAKEN TO HIS PLACE..... TO FATTEN THEM UP.. YEAH RIGHT..HA..HA.. FATTEN THEM UP...
BLUE DIAMOND DENT, YOU SAY HOG HUNTING ON FEDERAL REFUGEE\'S IS NOT ALLOWED WITH DOGS. THAT IS NOT CORRECT. BOGUE CHITTO WILDLIFE REFUGE, STARTED HOG HUNTING WITH DOGS SAME TIME AS PRWMA. I BELIEVE IT WAS IN 1997, AND IT IS STILL GOING ON. DATES ARE PRINTED ON THEIR PERMITS.
CHECK THEIR WEBSITE. I\'VE HUNTED THERE SINCE THE EARLY 80\'S. SAME THING HAPPENED THERE WITH THE HOGS. DEER NUMBERS ARE HIGHER THERE THAN PEARL RIVER DUE TO SHORTER SEASONS AND LESS HUNTERS.
THERE WAS A LOT OF THICKETS IN PRWMA IN THE 70\'S AND 80\'S AND A LOT MORE GAME. WHEN DOGS FIRST STARTED AND FOR A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT, YOU HAD DOGHUNTERS FROM AS FAR AS FLORIDA AND TEXAS COMING TO PRWMA TO HUNT HOGS. THEY CAUGHT A LOT MORE HOGS IN ONE MONTH THAN STILL HUNTERS WOULD GET IN TWO OR THREE SEASONS. IF THE DEPT DOES NOT GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO HUNT EXEPT SQUIRELS.
A list of WMA'S that you can use shotguns with buckshot or slugs until March 31 is on page 47 of the LWF regulations. It does not say anything about using rifles. Boguechitto wildlife refuge will be open for the first two weeks of March. You will need a federal permit from the US Fish and Wildlife. Not sure you can use rifles there either.
A 22 RIMFIRE MAGNUM IS LEGAL! CENTERFIRE RIFLES ARE ILLEGAL. I DO NOT HAVE A 22 PISTOL, BUT I ASSUME IS A CNTER FIRE WEAPON. THE KEY WORD IS 'RIMFIRE'. READ PAGE 42 OF THE REGULATIONS. A COUPLE YEARS BEFORE KATRINA I PURCHASED A REMMINGTON 22 RIMFIRE MAGNUM AND USED FOR A COUPLE SEASONS WITH A GREAT DEAL OF SUCCESS.
I WENT BACK TO A 12 GAUGE 31/2 MOSSBERG 835 PUMP ONLYBECAUSE IT GO TO THICK FOR THE RIFLE.
IF YOU HUNT OR FISH IN LOUISIANA IT IS BEST TO GET A HUNTING OR FISHING REGULATIONS PAMPHLET, PUBLISHED BY THE DEPT OF WLDLIFE @ FISHERIES AND READ IT THRU. THERE ARE A LOT OF REGULATIONS YOU WILL NEED TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH. YOU DONT WANT THE GAME WARDENS TO CATCH YOU WITH THE WRONG GUN OR AMMO.
OUTSIDE DEER SEASON , YOU CAN USE T @ F SHOTS ON ADDITION TO BB'S. A FULL CHOKE 12 GAUGE SHOTGUN LOADED WITH 31/2' T OR F SHELLS WILL DO THE JOB ON MOST HOGS AT 20 YARDS. I HAVE BEEN USING 3 AND 31/2' FOR A LONG TIME WITH A GREAT DEAL OF SUCCESS.
IF YOU PREFER HUNTING WITH A RIFLE TRY A 22 RIMFIRE MAGNUM.
IT IS LEGAL, AND A LOT MORE POWERFULL THAN A LR22.
GOOD LUCK.
IS BOW HUNTING ALLOWED IN THAT AREA? IF THE REASON FOR CLOSING THOSE 206 ACRES TO HUNTING IS SAFETY TO THE RANGE, WHY THE SECRETARY IS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY ON THE 1-59 THAT RUNS THRU THE MANAGEMENT AREA? HUNTING IS ALLOWED
100 FT FROM THE CENTER OF THE ROADWAY? I THINK THAT SOME INSIDERS ARE KEEPING THE AREA TO THEMSELVES. LOOK ON THE SATTELITE PICTURE AND YOU WILL SEE ROAD ACCESS FROM THE EAST SIDE THRU PRIVATE PROPERTY.
It looks like a black bear