Outdoors calendar for Aug. 19, 2012

MONDAY

• LOUISIANA SEAFOOD PROMOTION AND MARKETING BOARD MEETING: 9 a.m., Suite 310, 2021 Lakeshore Dr., New Orleans. Marketing & Sponsorship Committee.

WEDNESDAY

• WEDNESDAY EVENING BASS TOURNAMENT: 5 p.m., Canal Bank Club, Diversion Canal, Maurepas. Pick-your-partner. Three-bass limit. Fee $40/boat. Weekly. Call Canal Bank Club [phone].

THURSDAY

• CCA SUGAR CHAPTER BANQUET: 5:30 p.m., Cade Community Center, 1688 Smede Hwy., St. Martinville. Live/silent auctions, raffles, dinner. Tickets $75, $50 spouses, $25 youths, $500 & $1,000 tables (includes CCA annual membership.) Call CCA [phone].

THURSDAY-SUNDAY

• BASSMASTER ELITE SERIES: Oneida Championship, Oneida Lake, Syracuse, N.Y. Last in 8-tournament series to determine 2013 Bassmaster Classic qualifiers. Website: www.bassmaster.com.

FRIDAY

• FRIDAY NIGHT COOKIE JAR BASS SERIES: 7 p.m.-midnight, False River, Public Landing, Morrison Parkway, New Roads. Weekly through Sept. 14. Weekly fee $30 per boat/1-2 anglers. 14-inch minimum size for bass. Call Guy Perkins [phone].

SATURDAY

• LOUISIANA ANTIQUE DECOY COLLECTORS SWAP MEET: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, 10503 North Oak Hills Parkway, Baton Rouge. Dedication of center’s Charles Frank Antique Decoy Room. 35 exhibitors from Gulf States, carving demonstrations, videos & wooden boats display. Call Gary Lipham [phone]. Email: [e-mail].
• LOUISIANA WOMEN IN THE WILD HUNTING BASICS WORKSHOP: Waddill Outdoor Education Center, North Flannery Road, Baton Rouge. Class size limited. Preregistraiton required. Hunting safety, firearms skills, archery, tree-stand Safety, game calling. Call Karen Crabtree [phone]. Email Christine Pocorello/Cabela’s: [e-mail].
• CASTING FOR A CURE BIG BASS TOURNAMENT: Morrison Parkway public landing, False River, New Roads. Fee $75. Big-bass hourly payout & big-bass overall pot. $5,000 guaranteed payout. Benefits the American Cancer Society. Call Gene Branum [phone] or Tanner Pourciau [phone].
• FLY TYING AT BASS PRO SHOPS: 9:30 a.m.-noon, Conference Room, Bass Pro Shops, Denham Springs. Call Ron Brooks [phone].
• CONTRABAND CONCLAVE VII: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Moss Bluff United Methodist Church, Moss Bluff. Free. Fly fishing programs, tying demos, exhibitors, casting clinics. Sponsored by the Contraband Fly Casters. Call Warren Landry [phone]. Website: www.contrabandflycasters.net.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY

• DOIRON’S TEAM BASS TOURNAMENT: Final 2012 event, Doiron’s Landing, Stephensville. Pick-your-partner. Call Kim Landry [phone].

SUNDAY, AUG. 26

• 44TH ANNUAL LOUISIANA STATE DUCK AND GOOSE CALLING CONTEST: 10 a.m. (7:30-9:30 a.m. registration), Civic Center, Gueydan. Junior (13-younger), Intermediate (14-16) & Senior (17-older) Duck Calling Division classes; Junior (16-younger) & Senior (17-older) Goose Calling Division classes in Blue-Snow & Specklebelly goose categories. Boys and girls & men and women compete together. Sanctioned by World Duck Calling Contest, Stuttgart, Ark. in conjunction with Gueydan Duck Festival. Fee $20/category. Call Phil McDaniel [phone]. Email: [e-mail].
• SOUTH LOUISIANA HIGHPOWER CLUB MATCH: 8:30 a.m., Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Range, 9300 St. Landry Rd. Gonzales. Fee $12 members, $15 nonmembers, $5 juniors. $15 annual membership in Civilian Marksmanship Program. Call George Serrett; [phone]. Email: [e-mail].

ONGOING

• STATEWIDE TOURNAMENT & ANGLERS’ RODEO: Summer-long saltwater fishing event through Labor Day, Sept. 3. Truck/boats for tagged redfish. Prizes in species categories. Sponsored by CCA-Louisiana, CCA membership/$25 entry fee required (no fee for youth division). Call CCA-Louisiana [phone].

OPENINGS/CLOSURES

• OPEN: State Fall Inshore Shrimp season (all inshore waters); recreational amberjack season.
• CLOSED-GULF OF MEXICO SEASONS: Red snapper & gray triggerfish, state and federal waters.

JUST ANNOUNCED

• AUG. 29 — 2ND-ANNUAL SOUTH LOUISIANA BRANCH/QDMA GUN BASH: 6 p.m., 4-H Mini Farm, AgCenter Drive, LSU, Baton Rouge. Dinner, gun raffles. Tickets $100, $800 tables. Call William Shockey [phone].
• AUG. 31-SEPT. 2 — ORIGINAL GRAND ISLE REDFISH RODEO: Bridge Side Marina, Grand Isle. Call [phone].
• SEPT. 5 — BENGAL TIGER CHAPTER/DELTA WATERFOWL FALL MEMBERSHIP BANQUET: 5:30 p.m., JL’s Place, 1115 Bob Pettit, Baton Rouge. Dinner, auctions, raffles. Tickets $40 (includes DW annual membership). Call Josh Zumo [phone]. Email: [e-mail].
• SEPT. 29 — ANGLING AGAINST AUTISM TEAM BASS TOURNAMENT: Safe daylight, Doiron’s Landing, Stephensville. Pick-your-partner. Fee $150/boat. Benefits Baton Rouge Speech & Hearing Foundation’ early intervention Autism program. Call “Moonie” Bergeron [phone] or Keith Thibodeaux [phone]. Website: http://www.AnglingAgainstAutism.com.

AROUND THE CORNER

• AUG. 27 — RED STICK FLY FISHERS FLY-TYING SESSION: 7 p.m., Bass Pro Shops, Denham Springs. Call Emmitt Simmons [phone]. Website: www.rsff.org
• AUG. 27 — FIN-ADDICT FLY FISHERS MEETING: 6:30 p.m., Spahr’s Restaurant, 1400 W. Tunnel Blvd, Houma. Call Stephen Robert [phone]. Website: finaddictflyfishers.blogspot.com.

HUNTING SEASONS

• DOVES: First splits, South Zone Sept. 1-9 & North Zone Sept. 1-16. Take of mourning, white-winged, Eurasian collared and ringed-turtle doves allowed. Daily limit is 15. Possession limit is 30 after opening day. Hours: Noon-sunset Sept. 1 both zones; one-half hour before sunrise to sunset all other days.

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