Calendar

SUNDAY

• IHMSA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HANDGUN METALLIC SILHOUETTE MATCH: Final day, Ascension Parish Sheriffs Training Range, St. Landry Road, Gonzales. Smallbore (.22) and Field Pistol matches.

MONDAY

• RED STICK FLY FISHERS PROGRAM: 7 p.m., Orvis Shop, Bluebonnet Boulevard, Baton Rouge. Regular monthly program. Call Dan Weber [phone]. Website: http://www.rsff.org.

THURSDAY

• A WILD NIGHT: 6:30 p.m., Live Oak Arabians, Jefferson Highway. 2012 Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Foundation fundraiser (Youth Hunter Education Challenge, La. Saltwater Series, Whooping Crane Restoration, etc.) Dinner, live/silent auctions. Call LWFF [phone].

FRIDAY-SATURDAY

• TOYOTA TUNDRA BASSMASTER WEEKEND SERIES/TEXAS EAST DIVISION REGIONAL: Wright-Patman Lake, Texas. Top anglers qualify for Nov. 7-10 series championship, Lake Sam Rayburn, Texas. Last in five-event series. Call [phone]. Website: http://www.weekendseries.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

• 23RD ANNUAL WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL: Maritime Museum, Tchefuncte River, Madisonville. Oct. 12, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Maritime Mania/patron party ($75 singles, $125 couples). Oct. 13-14, Festival, Fee $10 adults, $5 seniors, no fee children 11 and younger. Includes Children’s Village & Quick ‘n Dirty Boat Building Contest. Call Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum [phone]. Website: http://www.woodenboatfest.org.

SATURDAY

• FLY TYING CLASS: 9 a.m.-noon, Ascension Parish Library, 708 S. Irma Blvd. Gonzales. No fee. Basics of tying fresh and saltwater flies (Bendbacks, poppin ‘ bugs, crickets, spoon flies, sardines). Call Darrell Crawford [phone].
• 5TH ANNUAL WODVILLE DEER & WILDLIFE FESTIVAL: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Courthouse Square, Woodville, Miss. Exhibits, Wild Game Cook Off, Children’s Village. Admission $5, no fee children 5 and younger. Call Polly Rosenblatt [phone]. Website: http://www.deerandwildlifefestival.com.

AROUND THE CORNER

• OCT. 20-21 — LOUISIANA STATE HIGH-POWER RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP: Palo Alto Rifle & Pistol Club, Donaldsonville. Open to NRA-affiliated state association members. Fee $25/adult, $15/junior. CMP EIC “Leg” Match. Entry deadline Oct. 13. Field limited to 60 shooters. Call Jay D. Hunt [phone]. Email [e-mail]. Website: http://www.PaloAltoGunClub.com.
• OCT. 27 — FALL N’ TIDE V KAYAK FISHING TOURNAMENT: Delta Marina, Empire. Sponsored by the Bayou Coast Kayak Fishing Club. Fee $40 includes meals, shirt, captain’s bag. Preregistration required. Website: www.bckfc.org.

JUST ANNOUNCED

• OCT. 20-25 — 6TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXPO ON COASTAL AND ESTUARINE HABITAT RESTORATION: Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Fla. Coastal and estuarine habitat restoration. Registration fee $550, one-day fee $250. Email Suzanne Giles Simon: [e-mail]. Website registration: https://www.cmpinc.net/rae.
• OCT. 25 — S.T.A.R. AWARDS BANQUET: 5:30 p.m., Live Oak Arabians, 6300 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge. Prizes for winners in CCA-Louisiana summer-long fishing rodeo. Tickets $50 (11-and-under no fee), $500 tables. Dinner, awards, auction. Call Rad Trascher [phone].
• OCT. 27 — SAC-A-LAIT/BREAM FISHING WITH THE JIGGIN’ POLE CLASS: 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., A.P. Tureaud Hall, LSU, Baton Rouge. J.B. Salter-taught Leisure Studies class, LSU, Baton Rouge. Fee $42/LSU Union/student members, $53/public. Hands-on and classroom instruction; artificial and live baits; patterns; and area fishing hot spots. Call LSU Leisure Studies [phone].

RESCHEDULED/POSTPONED

• OCT. 17 — SECOND ANNUAL SOUTH LOUISIANA BRANCH/QDMA GUN BASH: 4-H Mini Farm, AgCenter Drive, LSU, Baton Rouge. Dinner, gun raffles, deer stands, feeders, etc. Tickets $100, $800 tables. Originally Aug. 29. Call William Shockey [phone].
• OCT. 27 — SLU FISHING CLUB FALL FUNDRAISER TOURNAMENT: Postponed due to conflict with Southeastern Louisiana University homecoming. Date TBA. Call Andrew Cavell [phone].

OPENED & CLOSED

• CLOSED: Elmer’s Island area.
• OPEN: State Fall Inshore Shrimp season (all inshore waters), but closed in Elmer’s Island-Fourchon area; recreational amberjack season.
• CLOSED-GULF OF MEXICO SEASONS: Recreational red snapper and gray triggerfish, state and federal waters and commercial king mackerel and gray triggerfish.

HUNTING SEASONS

• DEER/ARCHERY: State Deer Areas 3 & 8 through Jan. 15; State Deer areas 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7 through Jan. 31. Deer Area 6 & Special Atchafalaya Basin/I-10 south (Oct. 1-15, bucks only) through Feb. 15. Either-sex deer allowed to be taken except where noted. Special license required: $10.50 for residents (ages 16-59); $26 for nonresidents (16 and older).
• SQUIRRELS/RABBITS: Statewide through Feb. 28. Daily limit 8 for each species.
• DOVES: North Zone, second split through Nov. 4. Saturday (Oct. 13), opening day, South Zone, second split through Nov. 25. Daily limit is 15. Possession limit is 30. Hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
• DEER/PRIMITIVE FIREARMS: Saturday (Oct. 13), opening day, State Deer Areas 3, 7 & 8 through Oct. 19. Oct. 20-26, State Deer Area 2. Either-sex deer allowed to be taken. Special license required: $10.50 for residents, $26 for nonresidents.
• DEER/MODERN FIREARMS: Oct. 20-Nov. 2, State Deer Area 7 (still-hunt only). Oct. 20-Nov. 25, State Deer Areas 3 & 8 (still-hunt only). Oct. 27-Dec. 5, State Deer Area 2 (still-hunt only). State Basic & Big Game licenses required.
• NOTE: Deer tags are required for all hunters no matter their ages for taking deer in Louisiana. Tags must be affixed to the deer before taking it from the field.

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