Ron Cheramie

The family needs some serious prayers right now guys. She didn’t make it

Not a wasp. Looks to be beetle. Maybe a borer of some sort

Been a couple of times Never ate one due to the places we catch them definitely have some sewer running though them.

Just pick a canal in broward county and go. You will probably be like me and stop at 20 other canals before you get there

The smaller heavily vegetated canals are the best. It doesn’t take much water for them to live in. Just be careful some of their backyard neighborhood canals can be a little sketchy.

First time we went the iguanas were everywhere They would scare the hell out of you when they would come out of nowhere and jump into the water I think the they are getting shot on the regular now and also the freeze did a number on them

Peacocks and Mayan cichlids are fun also

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So saying this is something that is “not ever done in normal circumstances” just isn’t accurate. Maybe it’s not the preferred method today with drills readily available, but broadcasting wheat onto a disked pasture for winter grazing absolutely has been a normal farming practice.

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I think the argument is the timing of the year when it is done. Ain’t nobody planting winter wheat in August unless they are trying to kill doves

MS allows it because of politics Lots of MS game laws are due to politics. Trent Lott got a lot of rules changed for migratory birds. Most of them weren’t for the benefit of the birds

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i walk at least 200 yards in the woods

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That close to the truck I wouldn’t worry about packing the hole world with you. Toilet paper, water, and a flashlight

The Hawk Crawler game cart is great

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Kisatchie has rebounded since the dogs went away, and now all the dog people or clamoring to get in there to kill everything.

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There is a big push right now to try and get dog hunting back on Kisatchie

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IMO, roundup and mowing to make pasture look like yards has been a huge impact.

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This is huge for turkeys and other ground nesting birds and also fawns. Called recreational mowing syndrome. We just have to mow when something looks overgrown. That nice cool day in may when we go to the camp we just have to Bushhog that weedy food plot that is perfect brood habitat for ground dwelling birds

Everyone wants to talk about the good old days but honestly for deer hunting in Louisiana the good ol days are right now Turkey and ducks and all that may have passed but we have more deer now than we probably had when Boudreaux first got here

You don’t realize how crappy deer hunting used to be. Talk to an old timer and see. That’s why they dog hunted. The deer were so sparse they needed dogs to find them

And if you shot a doe you were the scum of the earth

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I used to come across quail in all types of habitat, including wiregrass pine woods of the Florida panhandle

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That’s probably still the best population of wild quail in the eastern United States in the wiregrass Longleaf and slash savanna’s there.

The habitat where they used to be in Louisiana is now row planted pines that the owners only care about growing pine trees and killing every plant that isn’t a pine. That’s the habitat issue

You can also look on any Facebook page dealing with habitat management and the number one question is what is this plant growing in my food plot and how do I kill it Most the time its a great native plant that provides much more value than the rye grass monoculture they are trying to create

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Wrong. the issue is fire ants destroying their eggs

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Fire ants will definitely kill a young quail but habitat is the reason for the decline. If you took a snapshot of when peepaw
could walk the back 40 and shoot a limit in an hour and look at what that place looks like today you would see. If you stocked every place that had quail in the 70s, 99% would starve to death in a few days because the habitat isn’t there anymore.

Cutovers used to be full of insects and great annuals and then get burned. Now they get nuked and planted with pine trees so thick nothing can grow

Those weedy fence rows peepaw used to have around his little gardens and cow pastures that were full of briars are now sprayed with roundup and patrolled by feral cats all days and night not even a cardinal can make a nest there and survive

There are places in Louisiana right now that are teeming with quail due to good habitat The people who know are tight lipped about it

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Believe it or not, a ton of people want to shoot big bucks. They spend money feeding supplements, plant food plots, travel to different public lands across the state and even across the country to try and kill a good buck.

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A lot of Louisiana folks go out of town to kill a good buck only to shoot the first 14” 8 point they see