When Bienville stuck his flagpole in a spit of high ground near an arcing bend in the Mississippi River, his cartographers labeled the haunting flooded forests surrounding the hard-clay oasis as ...

The new gator season has entered week one. We opened with Troy Landry who said things were getting out of hand as hunters and those who live at the water’s edge are facing a crisis. Bold new ...

Even old-school pirogue hunters would be well served to get out of the blinds and cover up with brush around ponds ducks are using THIS year. They'll feed the alligators. This autumn, of course, has ...

THIBODAUX — Jonathan Boudreaux, 13, was the youngest person to ever enroll in wooden boat-making classes at the Louisiana Center for Traditional Boat Building. A November 1994 Daily Comet article ...

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Once a staple of Cajun living, the pirogue has evolved into a novelty item, largely replaced by plastic kayaks that can be purchased at outdoors stores and big-box retailers.

Similar to a canoe, the pirogue was first used by Native Americans in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana, before it was refined by French explorers, hunters and settlers. The pirogue was dug out of a ...

Four fishermen left their homes in Mayaro last Tuesday and set sail on a five-day fishing expedition. But something went wrong and the pirogue overturned off the coast of Cedros. The vessel, a 32-foot ...