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.
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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
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Here’s hoping it isn’t me, but until Hurricane Katrina came along the worst hurricane my parents mentioned in my hometown came in 1947. I was three months old.
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for October will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers.
Bassmaster Elite
Here’s hoping our dramatic weather change has lifted your spirits from the depths of COVID-19, public outrage and outright criminal behavior among some in our society and the unprecedented political turmoil of this election year.
NOTICE: Events previously scheduled for October will not be posted and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organizers about the status of each event.
Reworking a line from my friend and colleague Scott Rabalais, here a few notes made on the back pages of this year’s fishing regulations pamphlet.
About once each month the good, the bad and the ugly creep into our outdoors.
NOTICE: Events scheduled for October will not be posted and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organizers about the status of each event.
Louisiana youth bass
With Mother Nature spreading misery across the Gulf Coast, and coronavirus continually wreaking havoc in our communities, the need for those of us unaffected by these tragic turns of events is as great now as any in our lifetimes.
NOTICE: Events scheduled for September & October will not be posted and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organizers about the status of each event.
NATCHITOCHES — LSU legends Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Glenn Dorsey, New Orleans Saints star receiver Marques Colston and Southern baseball superstar Rickie Weeks headline a star-studded group of eight inductees for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame's …
Winners in the three categories in the Department of Wildlife & Fisheries’ Scenic Rivers Photography Contest as judged by professionals selected by LDWF staff. The contest celebrated the 50th anniversary of the state’s Scenic Rivers Act. Conte…
With a push to top last year’s record collection, Hunters for the Hungry is launching its 2020 effort next Sunday, Sept. 20, with the annual Clean Out Your Freezer Day.
NOTICE: Events scheduled for September & October will not be posted and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organizers about the status of each event.
There will be better hunting days, but not this year, at least for the folks in the southwestern parishes.
NOTICE: Events scheduled for September will not be posted in the calendar and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organizers about the status of each event.
Offshore fishermen and dove hunters have cause to celebrate the Labor Day weekend.
Junior Southwest Bassmasters
NOTICE: Already submitted events scheduled for September will not be posted in the calendar unless advised by organization/organizers about the status of each event.
The aftermath of Hurricane Laura has forced organizers of the Open Team bass tournament scheduled Saturday from Doiron's Landing to postpone the event to Oct. 24 from the same location in Stephensville.
What more can 2020 bring?
NOTICE: Events scheduled for August/September will not be posted in the calendar and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organization/organizers about the status of each event.
If you’ve been sleepwalking through the past several months, and some of us have, wake up!
NOTICE: Events scheduled for August/September will not be posted in the calendar and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organization/organizers about the status of each event.
The red snapper season for Louisiana's recreational fishermen is closed.
NOTICE: Events scheduled for August/September will not be posted in the calendar and will be considered postponed or canceled unless advised by organization/organizers about the status of each event.
After what happened during Thursday’s Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting, it’s difficult to know where to start for sportsmen in our Sportsman’s Paradise.
Louisiana’s fall inshore shrimp season will open Monday except in two areas where state marine biologists have found an abundance of small white shrimp.
Routines are nothing to talk about these days, but how many among us are taking to this “new-normal” thing to take the first steps into making something routine?
Louisiana High School Bass Nation Championship

