Officials are offering a $5,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot two adult male black bears in early February south of Franklin.[…]
Ryan Melancon was supposed to be fishing out of his dad’s bass boat Saturday (Feb. 24), but the outboard wouldn’t start.[…]
Stefanie Rogers lives with her husband Scotty in the rural Louisiana community of Pine — the same village where they grew up. Considering where they live, it would be easy to assume she would simply cook Southern style dishes, with little seafood other than fried catfish.[…]
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office is not recommending prosecuting two former employees of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries who were accused of keeping thousands of dollars of fishing and sports equipment in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill, according to media reports.[…]
Seventy-five-year-old Mike Plank arrived at Toledo Bend on Valentines Day to begin a two-month fishing fest, with the goal of catching “whatever is biting.”[…]
Arguably the most underrated pattern along the entire Gulf Coast is throwing big, noisy topwater plugs to speckled trout as long as a man’s arm during the late-winter and early spring months.[…]
After last summer’s extended federal season, harvest numbers Gulf-wide indicate red snapper were overfished by 212 percent — even though Louisiana anglers actually brought less fish to the docks than the state’s historical quota.[…]
The floor of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome will be packed with boats, motors and trailers when the 11th annual Boat Show in New Orleans kicks off Friday afternoon.[…]
For the first time in 18 years, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is proposing restructuring hunting and fishing license fees — a move that could generate $10.4 million in annual revenue for the agency if the state Legislature approves the plan during its regular session slated to begin March 12.[…]
In the late 70s, some of the western states began establishing reward programs for information leading to the arrest of fish and wildlife violators. One of the original names for the programs was Operation Game Thief (OGT).[…]
Fishing a Louisiana Media Bass singles tournament on Lake Claiborne, things didn’t exactly start out so well for Chris Clement.[…]
Successful fishing is often a matter of figuring out which baits fish will hit in specific situations. Well, that’s not possible when you load a bunch of lure names onto a roulette wheel and let random chance determine what you’re going to fish.[…]
Troy Borill has been a man on a mission for about the last five years or so, actively hunting predators in Acadia Parish that impact deer and their habitat like wild hogs, coyotes and bobcats. […]
By the time you are reading this, unless you live in the extreme southern part of Mississippi, the 2017-2018 deer season will already be “in the books,” as they say.[…]
An enforcement agent with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries busted three anglers in Plaquemines Parish last week for alleged redfish violations while fishing from the bank in Port Sulphur.[…]
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.
That was proved Feb. 16 when Elton’s Phillip Durio arrived at Toledo Bend expecting his dad to have caught enough bass for a Lenten dinner that Friday evening.[…]