This issue’s cobia story comes at a time when the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is set to hear public comment about a move to lower the daily limit and increase the size limit.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Grand Isle gets quieter in October.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Ashley Ferguson will always remember Sept. 25. It’s her dad’s birthday, and for a young woman who grew up at Donald Walker’s knee, then hip, then standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the man who raised her on the water, it was a day of celebration.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Change never comes easy, and, when weather is involved, changes become even more difficult.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Saturday, October 06, 2018
Deer hunters across Louisiana should prepare themselves for a constant stream of advisories during the coming years to be aware of what chronic wasting disease could mean to the state’s deer herds and the future of big-game hunting in the state.
The Louisiana Room, for decades the first-floor meeting room at state Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters, will bear the name of Joe L. Herring after the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved the honorarium during its Thursday meeti…
Saturday, October 06, 2018
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
A late addition to Thursday morning’s Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting agenda is the most recent hot-button topic among sportsman’s and conservation groups.
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Saturday’s the first day for Louisiana’s hunters to get into the woods, the first statewide day to hunt with modern firearms.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Despite top-drawer marsh and wetlands conditions in the eastern and south-central coastal parishes, the first 14 days of the 16-day special September teal season were a bust.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Junior Southwest Bassmasters
Unless something dramatic happens in the next couple of months, Gonzales’ Gerald Spohrer will be the lone Louisiana angler heading to Knoxville, Tennessee, next year to compete in the Bassmaster Classic.
If you’re on a quest to catch a speckled trout you can mount on your wall, and watch with a curt smile as your friends drool in envy, charter skipper Justin Bowles can’t tell you where to go right now.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Now that summer is over — the season not summer’s heat — it’s time to honor the young anglers among us, the youthful guys and gals who brought so many smiles to older faces for the past near four months.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
If moving water triggers feeding sprees for speckled trout, redfish, bass and the other inshore and coastal predators, then fishermen will want to make plans to get on the water next week and second week in October.
Venice bass are mean green feeding machines.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
September’s last days are a time for sportsmen — no matter what outdoor pursuits fits their fancies — to celebrate what their passions have meant to our state and our country — and, across Louisiana, to help the less fortunate.
Louisiana Hunters for the Hungry’s Clean Out Your Freezer Day efforts begin this week.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
While folks to our north and east are bracing for a giant hurricane — and let's pay attention to the system in the Gulf of Mexico — duck hunters across Louisiana are getting ready for to sample an appetizer Saturday, the opening day of the special…
BASS Central Open
What should be time of unfettered joy and celebration, Saturday’s first day of Louisiana’s five-month-long deer season ushers in a critical time for whitetail hunters.
Saturday, September 08, 2018
Thursday’s Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting was jammed with items ranging from an honor for a most deserving state Enforcement Division agent to red snapper, cobia, blue crabs, feral hogs, ducks and geese, Louisiana’s whitetail deer and a…
Fishing tackle retailer editor Ken Duke posted a report Friday based on a study entitled, “2018 Sportfishing in America: An Economic Force for Conservation,” which showed an 8 percent increase in the number of our country’s anglers and a net uptic…
Thursday, September 06, 2018
Louisiana wildlife agents wrote 39 citations for illegal dove baiting over Labor Day weekend, the start of the hunting season.
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
fishing results for sept 6
Folks who first fought for the state to purchase Elmer’s Island, then watched access to this viable beach access to recreationally valuable fishing and crabbing paradise — along with other seaside activities — diminish in the wake of the BP-Deepwa…
OK, who out there predicted LSU to handle Miami’s Hurricanes the way the Tigers did Sunday night?
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Boaters across south Louisiana need to be aware of the signs the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries placed during August to warn boaters of the possible presence of manatees — yes, the “sea cows” tourists pay handsomely to see in Florida waters.
Believe it or not, there are some folks among us who will not go coo-coo over the football season.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Two state agencies, Wildlife and Fisheries along with Ag and Forestry, are warning waterfowl hunters to avoid transporting or planting Roseau cane from any of the state’s southern parishes.
The legend that began in the wake of Louisiana’s most disastrous three-year run of hurricanes continued Saturday on Grand Isle when 628 “yakers” gathered for the ninth Ride the Bull Extreme Kayak Fishing tournament.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ project to estimate recreational red snapper catch came extraordinarily close to giving Louisiana’s offshore anglers the most days it could under the federally allowed Exempted Fishing Permit plan this year.
Three events during the next two weeks will focus on Louisiana’s efforts to rebuild marshes, enhance wetlands and maintain and improve conditions in the Vermilion-Teche watershed.