While state biologists finished dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s on the final count through the summer-long red snapper season, recreational fishermen can pretty much count on more days to catch red snapper this fall.
Brendan Bayard used two days on the waters near Grand Isle to fulfill a dream over the weekend.
If you believe Coach O, LSU’s assistant coaches and players have stepped up their game this season — and why wouldn’t you? — then Hunters for the Hungry were in right in line with the Tigers over last weekend.
Oh, boy, was it hot, and if teal hunters found Saturday’s opener of the 16-day run hotter than 2018’s special September season, well, that’s because there are more teal in the state than this time last year.
SUNDAY
Despite the high temperatures, bass fishing has more than hit its stride across most of south Louisiana.
THURSDAY
During the past handful of years, any discussion among Louisiana hunters about ducks and geese came with a mix of good and bad news.
Sunday will be one of those days when Louisiana’s sportsmen and sportswomen will be asked to give, not from their wallets, but from their freezers.
The message came in “Lima Charlie” — loud and clear — during Thursday’s Wildlife and Commission meeting.
Want to hit a sore spot for outdoor store owners?
Thank goodness state wildlife biologists shucked that old Southern notion that the opening day of dove season needed to be celebrated with a lunch before letting hunters get into fields for opening day.
State agents cited two men accused of using electrified nets to shock and catch more than a dozen catfish in an Iberville Parish river, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Tuesday.
Don’t have a place to hunt doves Saturday?
The first news from Wildlife and Fisheries’ speckled trout study is on Thursday’s Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission agenda.
Even with the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend, it’s doubtful Grand Isle will be busier than it was last weekend.
The deed is done.
Ever notice how there are four summers?
State Wildlife and Fisheries managers have set a Sept. 20 close-of-business deadline for 2019-2020 lottery waterfowl hunts in the marshes and rice fields on the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in Vermilion Parish.
Jr. Southwest Bassmasters
It’s hot. No big secret there, not in August in Louisiana.
Words fail to describe the sadness in the fishing community after news spread about Theophile Bourgeois’ fatal seaplane crash over the weekend.
Duck hunters between ages 10-17 have until Sept. 12 to apply for youth waterfowl lottery hunts set Nov. 2-3 on the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in Vermilion Parish.
When it comes to skeet shooting, one of the most accurate competitors in the country resides in Lafayette and he’s only 15-years-old.
If there’s one thing Christopher Capdeboscq and Sam Acosta have proved this year, it’s they can hold their own with the peers on most any waters.
There are days Cole Browne is staying with his grandpa Ray Schmidt that he rides his bike to Lake Pontchartrain from Ray's Mandeville home.
While it’s become a habit for James Corley Sanders and brothers Bradford and William Morrison to place in the Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association’s Youth Journalism Contest, this year’s list of winners features three newcomers to the writing and…
Judging from weekend report from Grand Isle, recreational fishermen had a whale of time doubling down on amberjack and red snapper.
Remember when you were a kid, recalling those days when you had a cane pole or your first rod and reel?
Two Gulf of Mexico fish species, greater amberjack and gray triggerfish, have been removed from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s “overfished” list and two were added, gray “mangrove” snapper and lane snapper, to that list in N…
Monday will be a busy day along the state’s coast after the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission set the opening dates for the fall inshore shrimp season during its Thursday meeting in New Orleans.
VENICE
The Ascension Area Anglers have set an Aug. 17 date for its annual open bass tournament at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville. AAA is linked into the B.A.S.S. Federation, and this tournament raises money to help Louisiana’s work-a-day qualifiers fo…
Faux Pas Rodeo
For the folks who believe the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo has lost its luster, there’s proof to the contrary.