These snow geese descend on Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (Submitted Photo/Courtesy of John K. Flores)
On a cold Friday afternoon some 30 years ago, I hitched a ride down the Calumet Cut with my wife’s uncle, Harry Lee Wiggins, to him and my father-in-law’s trapping camp for the weekend.
Sanford Junot, left, and Adiren Wheeler hold up Junot’s 40-pound catfish caught in Lake Palourde near Lake End Park in Morgan City.
—Submitted photos
Lake End Park entrance
Adiren and Lynda Wheeler fish off the bank at Lake End Park in Morgan City.
Over and under and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go; the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh, through the white and drifted snow!
Crystal Coak, daughter of John Flores, with a limit of white-fronted geese and some bonus ducks. The season seems to be off to a fair start.
—John K. Flores
Sitting across from my grandson last Friday night eating Chinese food at Panda Buffet in Lake Charles, we talked about the ducks and geese we had seen an hour earlier while setting out decoys.
Cinnamon Teal like this are typically rare in a St. Mary Parish hunter’s bag but not uncommon in southwest Louisiana near the Texas state line. (Submitted Photo/Courtesy of John K. Flores)
Only a lunatic would try to make a prediction on what hunters can expect for the upcoming waterfowl season. Essentially, there are just too many variables to consider, and it’s impossible to know.
This mottled duck hen is being fitted with a GPS/GSM telemetry unit. (Submitted Photo/Courtesy of John K. Flores)
When it comes to mottled ducks, a lot has been written scientifically. But, according to Elizabeth Bonczek, a Louisiana State University graduate student working on her PhD.
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