2022 CALENDAR
It’s one thing to talk about fishing, and another thing to talk about catching fish.
Ducks took center stage during the holiday week, and trends developed in the days after both East and West zones opened the first splits of their 60-day seasons.
What’s most important this week is going — going fishing, going hunting, just going into the outdoors.
State Wildlife & Fisheries Waterfowl Study group's estimate of 11 species of ducks along with coots in Louisiana's southwest and southeast coastal regions and on Catahoula Lake during aerial surveys conducted Nov. 8-10 (**-fewer than 1,000 in …
As if we needed any more scares from this pandemic, the latest from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is inspectors have found the COVID virus in whitetail deer in four states — Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania.
It’s that time of year when sportsmen converge on our coastal marshes for the widest variety of hook-and-bullet adventures, and it’s time to learn how to share those marshes.
Before we get waist deep in a big hunting seasons push, it’s time to take a quick look at the changes approved earlier this year.
Junior Southwest Bassmasters
Hurricane Ida left a swath of destruction that will be felt for months in a handful of areas along and inside our coast mostly in waters between Grand Terre Island west to Cocodrie.
Finally, the worm has turned, and this stretch of cooler weather should help fishermen and hunters put meat on the table.
Outdoorsmen across Louisiana know its time to be outdoors. Cooler water temperatures mean more active bass and sac-a-lait, and we’re walking into the door of the deer, squirrel, rabbit and dove seasons.
Any evaluation of September’s 16-day teal season has to be taken with a grain of salt, maybe a little pepper and, for some, the onions and other spices making a celebratory duck dinner.
Sunday, Sept. 26, is the annual Clean Out Your Freezer Day. The Hunters for the Hungry collection sites include:
By now anyone who wanted to know knows about the new red snapper season.
Louisiana’s recreational offshore anglers will be allowed to catch red snapper under new guidelines issued Wednesday by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The appeal never gets old, and the motto “Hunters who care, share,” has been with us for more than 25 years.
MANY— Top 20 results from 152-team Louisiana High School BASS Nation-West Division bass tournament held from Cypress Bend on Toledo Bend with anglers, their high school/team, number of bass weighed in parentheses (5-bass limit), total weight in po…
HUNTING SEASONS
Except for power and water restoration for some, recovery for thousands more across southeast Louisiana appears to be weeks, months, maybe a year after Hurricane Ida left a vast, destructive swath across as many as 18 parishes.
Amidst the magnitude of this unfolding tragedy, there is a laughable moment.
A low Mississippi River and Atchafalaya Basin and Gulf of Mexico waters warm, almost hot, and the approaching hurricane is building in to the dangerous Category 3 maybe Cat 4 level.
Ascension Area Anglers bass tournament
Among the many nuisances of this pandemic is what can only be called “calendar creep.”
Checked out the Mississippi River lately?
The call came late in the afternoon, and the unmistakable voice on the other end was the always-excited Venice charterboat skipper Peace Marvel.
If there is one overwhelming reason hundreds of thousands of Louisianans like to fish is because they like to eat their catches.
GRAND ISLE — Saturday’s final leaderboard from the three-day 93-annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo with anglers, their hometowns (boat name and boat captain listed in tag & release divisions) and weight of their catches in pounds and…
Coming off a six weeks of rain, and coming into what appears to be the beginning of the “dog days,” it’s time to change your fishing strategy if you plan to catch fish the rest of the summer.
Jr. SW Bassmasters