outdoors

The Sportsman's Paradise is known for an abundance of outdoor activities

Hunts can also be gifted to the hunter or fisherman in your life.

Watch as she pulls this bad boy out of the water, and it's got her entire arm in it's mouth.

The 2014 Gulf of Mexico red snapper season has been extended almost two weeks longer than 2013. This year's season will be a total of 40 days, opening on June 1 and closing on July 10, NOAA Fisheries announced Tuesday.

Hunting, fishing, camping...well, just anything to do with the outdoors, you will find it all at the Cajundome and Cajundome Convention Center this weekend. It's the annual Louisiana Outdoor Expo presented by Fire & Safety Specialists.

Nothing adds character to your garden—at least in a caveman-like, primordial sense—than an outdoor fire pit.

Louisiana is known as the Sportsman's Paradise. Whether you're sitting in your duck blind, in your boat out in the Atchafalaya Basin, geared up in your camo in the woods, you're ready for some great hunting and fishing. When you do bag that buck, catch your limit of fish, or whatever you're after, you know you want to show it off...

Looking for things to do outdoors this summer? Well we asked our staff here at The Dawg what they like to do outdoors around Lafayette. They had some great suggestions but there was one little problem... 

In South Louisiana it's almost as common as breathing, the desire to hunt. Fathers pass the tradition to sons and daughters who in turn pass the tradition down the line. However, disappearing land for leases and perhaps the advent of computer games and a more sedentary lifestyle are cutting into the time honored tradition of the hunt.