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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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He played football for the Baker High School Buffaloes. On a day when Louisiana should be at its celebratory best, it’s difficult for offshore fishermen to be overjoyed. JACKSON, Miss. — Legislation to restructure deer hunting seasons has been passed by the Mississippi House. The bill, passed 86-30 Thursday, now goes to the Senate. Events scheduled for this week. Area 6 deer hunters could have a dramatic shift in their seasons if the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission acts on suggestions from one of the state’s top wildlife biologists. Rusty Welch is a business consultant by day. Nights and weekends, especially football weekends, he’s a devoted cook. And Sunday is the biggest-ever football Sunday in football-crazy Louisiana. Dead and dying snow geese found in Vermilion Parish and near Bunkie in central Louisiana brought warnings for hunters taking to the fields for the Conservation Order season. Keith Price knows the value of being in the right place at the right time. And using the right lure. Price, of New Iberia, teamed with Jeanerette’s Brad Verret to haul in a 20.92-pound, five-bass stringer to win Sunday’s Doiron’s Team Tournament, the first in the Stephensville landing’s 2010 tournament series. Another weekend, another cold front on its way, and because we’re in an El Nino cycle, it means more El Raino that will muddy up El Watero into next week. David Moreland is a hunter. He’s a biologist, too, maybe the state’s most respected deer biologist. Last Wednesday morning, armed with his prized primitive weapon, a 54-caliber rolling block rifle, he made the most of this late-in-the-season special hunt and took a six-point buck, a deer he said was four years old. Jan. 31, 2010 It’s hard to believe time has passed so rapidly that hunters are taking the last shots of the season. Even more difficult to believe is that it’s time to talk about the 2010-2011 hunting season; that’s what we’re going to do this week at Thursday’s Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting. Andy Langlois and Cody Garon had seen the bucks before. Langlois had his shot earlier in the season — and missed. "Buck fever, maybe. It was something. Guess I was pretty surprised to see a deer of that caliber," Langlois said. "Maybe I shouldn’t be because that’s the third big deer taken from that (deer) stand." Outdoors Calendar for Jan. 24, 2010 Fish are dying across south Louisiana. State marine biologists are trying to find out how many. For the top hands in that Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ section, there’s an immediate response. |
