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.
GRAND ISLE—Saturday's final leaderboard from the three-day 91st-annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo with anglers, their hometowns (when available; boat name and boat captain listed in tag & release divisions) and weight of their catch…
No tarpon, not for two days, but, finally, one.
GRAND ISLE – How many of your office buds tell you they can’t wait for 5 p.m. Friday — ah, the weekend.
GRAND ISLE—Friday's second-day leaderboard from the three-day 91st-annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo with anglers, their hometowns (when available; boat name and boat captain listed in tag & release divisions) and weight of their ca…
GRAND ISLE—Thursday's first-day leaderboard from the three-day 92nd-annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo with anglers, their hometowns (when available; boat name and boat captain listed in tag & release divisions) and weight of their c…
GRAND ISLE—No Major League pitcher, not even the legends, the Hall of Famers, could match the curveball Mother Nature threw at anglers assembled Thursday for the annual late-July fishing celebration that is the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo.
THURSDAY
If you believe you have gathered all the fishing knowledge you can hold and it’s seeping from your pores, and want to share it with younger folks, then you need to attend the fee-free Aquatic Volunteer Instructor Workshop to free your body of this…
Let the trolling motor wars begin!
Under our sweltering summer sun, it’s difficult to believe hunting seasons are approaching, but they are, and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has opened up the application process for numerous lottery deer and waterfowl hunts.
A week sure makes a difference.
Note: The possibility of any event listed subject to cancellation or postponement in the aftermath of tropical weather.
For most south Louisiana residents, Hurricane Barry was like the neighborhood dog who goes bananas, snarling and baring his teeth, as long as you’re on one side of the fence and he’s on the other. Open the gate, however, and he runs off like Alvin…
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission passed a declaration of emergency during its July 1 meeting that modifies the deer urine ban for the 2019-20 hunting season.
Note: All events subject to being postponed or cancelled due to weather conditions.
Teal hunters have until July 25 to apply for lottery hunts on the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in Vermilion Parish for the 16-day September season.
Here we go again: Thank goodness Barry isn’t as strong as the four we remember divided equally between the years 2005 and 2008.
When it is as hot as it was, and still is, across south Louisiana, it’s hard to imagine there is something hotter.
PORT FOURCHON — Saturday’s final leaderboard from three-day, 71st annual Golden Meadow-Fourchon Tarpon Rodeo with anglers, their hometowns, weight of catch in pounds and ounces and divisional awards. Club names listed for winners in Scuba Division…
PORT FOURCHON — Saturday’s final leaderboard from three-day, 71st annual Golden Meadow-Fourchon Tarpon Rodeo with anglers, their hometowns, weight of catch in pounds and ounces and divisional awards. Club names listed for winners in Scuba Division…
Tens of thousands of fishermen — make that hundreds of thousands — don’t know it, but they’ve been members of Bill and Tommy Humphreys family for a long time.
What Fourth of July holiday isn’t complete without adding a little red, white and blue to the day?