Jr. Southwest Bassmasters
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A long-delayed pump station considered the linchpin for a series of Bayou Lafourche and coastal restoration projects broke ground in Donaldsonville on Friday.
Hunters, no matter their game, remember 2021.
Thursday’s Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission’s decision to set in motion a plan to dramatically alter speckled trout regulations should have come as no surprise.
Last month, an Omega Protein fishing boat overwhelmed by an unexpectedly big catch cut its 1,500-foot-long net and dumped an estimated 900,000 menhaden.
The federal government plans to pour $125 million into the fight against a mysterious disease that has ravaged corals in Florida and much of the Caribbean, and now poses a dire threat to the treasured reefs off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.
After near 90 minutes of outlines and public comment during Thursday’s meeting, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted to post a notice to limit coastal fishermen to 15 speckled trout per day and a 13½-inch minimum size for “keeper” trout.
State fisheries regulators are proposing substantially lower catch limits for the popular but likely overfished speckled trout.
State Wildlife and Fisheries secretary Jack Montoucet signed off on an emergency declaration to reopen the private recreational red snapper season Friday for an eight-day run through Oct. 14 with a daily limit of four red snapper per angler.
Speckled trout.
Apparently the experiment worked so well last month in Baton Rouge, that state Wildlife and Fisheries is continuing its Fishing Course Series with offerings in Walker, New Orleans, Houma, Lake Charles and Natchitoches.
GRAND RIVER — Age-group results from the Junior Southwest Bassmasters-Denham Springs August tournament held from Jack Miller’s Landing. Listed are anglers, their hometowns, number of bass weighed in parentheses (5-bass limit), total weight in poun…
“Literally, at 3:30 in the morning I’m holding my 3-year-old and I’m texting ‘I’ve got bad news,’” one ecologist says.
It can be called "Big Week," especially after the state Wildlife and Fisheries marine fisheries managers decided Louisiana’s thousands of offshore fishermen have come close to reaching our state’s annual private recreational red snapper quota.
Louisiana’s National Hunting & Fishing Day
Alligators bring in an estimated $250 million to Louisiana annually, according to state officials.
“It’s hard not to be disgusted when you see that,” said Chris Macaluso, marine fisheries director for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
Louisiana’s young outdoors folks adventures will continue this week when 11 high school fishermen from across the southern parishes are among the top 100 anglers in the second the Abu Garcia Bassmaster High School Combine.
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While thousands of our outdoors brethren have, and will have, their eyes trained on the skies — dove season is open, and teal season opens Saturday — fishing continues to claim the heavier efforts.
A total of 1,350 lbs. of catfish were allegedly seized from the boat.
Jr. SW Bassmasters
Enough already.
THURSDAY
Ever since Gulf of Mexico red snapper became a big issue more than 20 years ago, anyone paying attention has had to decipher a long list of governmental acronyms.
If you’ve never been to the Gulf of Mexico’s great depths off the Louisiana coast, you’re likely not aware of the denizens living in those depths.
The fall inshore shrimp season will open Monday in the majority of Louisiana’s inside waters, but there are two areas shrimpers will have to wait until Aug. 15 to drop nets.
GRAND ISLE — Spurred on by improving morning weather conditions, anglers entered in the 94th annual Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo showed this longest-running fishing event in our country still had teeth and plenty of bites.
GRAND ISLE — Saturday’s final leaderboard from the three-day 94th annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo with divisions, specie categories, anglers, their hometowns (when available) and weight of catch in pounds. Boat name (anglers in parent…
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission is changing its usual venue for this week’s monthly meeting, but the August issues appear to remain the same.
GRAND ISLE — Morning rains the past two days put a crimp in a fisherman’s best-laid plans going into Saturday’s final day of the three-day 94th annual Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo.
GRAND ISLE — Friday’s second-day leaderboard of the three-day 94th annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo with divisions, specie categories, anglers, their hometowns (when available) and weight of catch in pounds. Boat name (anglers in paren…
Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo