HUNTING SEASONS
Wind, cold, clouds, rain, rising rivers, muddy water.
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.
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
NOTICE: Previously scheduled events for October & November will not be posted and will be considered canceled unless advised by event organizers
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.