Happy Fourth!
Except for waters identified at the "double-rig line" in Breton and Chandeleur sounds, the spring inshore shrimp season will close statewide at official sunset Thursday, June 30, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced Monday.
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MONDAY
It’s time for some “atta boys” to be passed out, especially now with Louisiana sending 24 teams — 48 young anglers — to compete in the Aug. 11-13 Bassmaster High School National Championship set for Lake Hartwell near Anderson, South Carolina.
Explanations involving the new Wildlife and Fisheries licensing regulations come every week as this agency’s managers face increasing questions from outdoors folks.
Catholic High rodeo
Have you bought your new fishing and/or hunting licenses yet?
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has begun implementing changes to its hunting and fishing licensing this month with a healthy list of differences to note.
Ever see "The Big Year," the Steve Martin movie about the quest for birders to document seeing as many species as possible in a single year.
TUESDAY
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Oh, yeah! It’s rodeo time.
1. Life jackets/personal flotation devices: Each boat needs enough serviceable PFDs for all occupants. State law requires anyone 16 and younger to wear a PFD while underway in vessels less than 26-feet long. National statistics show 79% of drownin…
Safe Boating Week started this weekend, and it means more now than ever, because there are more dynamics working now than ever before.
Eight months ago, Grand Isle was a wasteland, a nine-mile spit of island crushed by Hurricane Ida.
We celebrate all sorts of things, big thing, little things, but for each of us, isn’t this day the most important?
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Fishing, the state Legislature, the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission and a penalty for an unusual crime could make the headline this week, but Wednesday’s 75-22 vote in the state House of Representatives to pass House Bill 1033 will likely have t…
From among 400 applications, a panel of judges named the Bassmaster High School All-American Team last week, and Thibodaux High School senior Levi Thibodaux was in that number.
Happy Easter, and here’s hoping this celebration is the forerunner of our next months being able to spend with family and friends for what should be a first-rate fishing season.
MONDAY
If there’s one thing a man’s fancy turns to in spring it’s — fishing!
Shooters and outdoorsmen alike joined the Louisiana chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association for its 10th annual Sporting Clays Classic shooting fundraiser April 1 outside of Husser, approximately 25 miles northwest of Covington, an easy dr…
If there’s a "wow" factor in fishing, it’s big fish. No matter if it's bass, sac-a-lait, catfish, red snapper, tarpon, speckled trout or redfish, a monster catch attracts attention.
Fishermen knew it and state fisheries biologists knew it, too.
Happy Vernal Equinox, and with spring comes renewal, the thought of the next months of flower's, home-grown vegetables, cutting grass, enduring mosquitoes and soon-to-be summer’s heat and humidity — and pray no hurricanes.
Don Hutchinson, the dyed-in-the-wool bass fisherman he is, has chunked at more fish than most anyone you know.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Jason Christie stood tall among the final 25 anglers in the Bassmaster Classic field and took home the $300,000 top money Sunday after a three-day catch totaling 54 pounds.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — New Iberia touring pro angler Caleb Sumrall came up with a 16-pound, 5-ounce second-day catch to lead Louisiana's four-man contingent after Saturday's second round of the Bassmaster Classic held on Lake Harwell in western South …