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?
Earlier this year, a proposed ban on the use of female deer urine attractants in hunting deer gained Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approval, a move that brought comment from businesses involved in producing these products.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY
Creole Classic
Oh boy, fireworks, food and fishing. Does the Fourth of July holiday get any better combining these three Fs?
With 215 teams from across the eastern United States in the field, it’s a feat of giant proportions to come away with victory.
Had trouble fighting the southwest winds on the coast? Having trouble finding speckled trout?
Back in the not-so-long-ago days when the recreational red snapper season was dwindling to a very few days, the two-per-angler daily limit was more prized than it is today.
With apologies to Charles Dickens, fishing in south Louisiana right now is either the best of times or the worst of times.
After last week’s report about the impacts of the continued flooding along the lower Mississippi River and throughout the Atchafalaya River on commercial and recreational fishing, it was natural Gov. John Bel Edwards followed with a request for fe…
Don’t know if you’ve ever thought about it, but a wet spring — and it’s been extraordinarily wet — is good for strawberries and crawfish, but bad for shrimp and crabs. It’s been that way for years.
Don’t know if anyone is counting, but in about three months Louisiana’s wild waterfowlers will be able to hunt.
Venice is changing, and that’s manifested in a way Ron Price hasn’t considered until it was pointed out to him by Venice Marina owner Bill Butler.
With limited exceptions, anglers across the coast are complaining about enough fresh water to turn the Sahara into a rain forest.
It happens every summer, and it’s happened every summer for as long as most sportsmen can remember.
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There are very few days defining a people and a century.
Catholic High Alumni Rodeo
With freshwater chasing speckled trout from many of their usual spawning grounds, there’s no hotter fishing spot along the entire coast than the ribbon of sand at the farthest eastern stretches of the Bayou State.
Next weekend, June 8-9, Louisiana’s celebration of National Fishing and Boating Week includes Free Fishing Days.
Bid applications for alligator hunts on some Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ wildlife management areas and Corps of Engineers for the 2019-2021 alligator harvest seasons have a 10 a.m., June 21 deadline.
Come Sunday, when the first pins are pulled from the Morganza Spillway gates, the entire 60 miles of our country’s largest overflow swamp will change.
