Ever heard of a picayune?
It was cold, yep, but not as cold as it was in the early 1960s, nor in 1989 when south Louisiana’s daytime temperatures were in single digits venturing only into the teens briefly — and staying there nearly a week.
High school qualifier
The ongoing run of harsh winter conditions has forced BREC officials to cancel Saturday’s Geaux Fish Catfish Rodeo, and advised its next Geaux Fish event will be scheduled during fall months.
Here's hoping there are warm hearts all around on this Valentine's Day, because that's about the only thing that's going to stay warm.
The idea of commenting on the ongoing and recently concluded hunting seasons along with next season’s proposed dates and regulations had to be put on the back burner this week.
outdoors calendar for sunday, March 7
Jr. Southwest Bassmasters
If you’re new to south Louisiana and to the freshwater fishing adventures within a 90-minute drive from the Baton Rouge, New Orleans or Lafayette areas, then here’s a little secret — IT’S SAC-A-LAIT TIME!
THURSDAY
Don’t know how many wild waterfowl hunters you’ll find shedding tears on this, the final, day of the duck season in our state’s Coastal and West zones.
If a hunter wants to give an “atta-boy” to anyone, Wildlife and Fisheries wildlife biologists and managers should move to the top of the list.
HUNTING SEASONS
Wind, cold, clouds, rain, rising rivers, muddy water.
With hunters continuing to take to field, forest, marsh and swamp in the closing days of the current resident-game, migratory birds and waterfowl seasons, state wildlife biologists and managers took the first steps in setting the dates for the 202…
Happy New Year, and here’s hoping you outdoorsmen in our Sportsman’s Paradise will withstand the surge arising from our COVID-19 experience.
With a nod to President Franklin Roosevelt and his “Day of Infamy” speech which launched our country into World War II, can we bid goodbye to this “Year of Infamy” for our state and our country.
2021 CALENDAR
Is there anything better than seeing a child’s face on Christmas morning?
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for December will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
Numbers from what’s being called “The Great Red Snapper Count” were presented early last week to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and the numbers should be enough to throw the most recent federal red snapper counts into a paper shredder.
BASS Central Open
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for December will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
Now that the first major holiday of the last months of a disaster-filled 2020 is over — and we await the sure-to-come uptick in COVID-19 cases in Thanksgiving’s wake — we need to pay attention to a couple of major fisheries issues staring us in the face.
Junior Southwest Bassmasters
Keeping in mind that COVID-19 restrictions are important, it’s time to celebrate all Louisiana’s outdoors holds for us — especially with our youngsters having a week off from their topsy-turvy school year.
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for November & December will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for November & December will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
EMORY, Texas — Sunday’s final top 12 from the four-day Bassmaster Elite series Texas Fest held on Lake Fork with anglers, their hometowns, number of bass weighed in parentheses (5-bass daily limit), total weight in pounds and ounces and prize winn…
Like most bass fishermen who take their piscatorial pleasures mostly on home waters, Blake Sylvester knew where lay bass fishing’s mountaintop — the Bassmaster Classic.
FLORENCE, Ala. — Blake Sylvester, the 29-year-old angler from Plaquemine, qualified for the 2021 Bassmasters Classic after finishing second in the B.A.S.S. Nation Championship on Pickwick Lake.
We interrupt elections, a now notorious hurricane season, a pandemic, riots, forest fires and whatever else is ailing and afflicting our great country to bring you this news — sac-a-lait are biting.
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for November & December will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for November will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
Junior Southwest Bassmasters
Wow! Uncle! We’ve had enough!
It’s a mystery for most folks about where big bass and sac-a-lait go during the summer.
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for November will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
Connor Rushing, an 18-year-old from Pride and former Central High School angler, brought in a three-bass catch weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces to earn a spot in November’s B.A.S.S. Nation Championship.
B.A.S.S. Nation Central