Louisiana Sportsman

Ben Naquin operates the Louisiana Alligator Snapping Turtle Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to breeding captive alligator snapping turtles.[…]

Devin Denman takes an early morning run out of Port Sulphur to catch an easy limit of speckled trout on soft plastic lures.[…]

Todd and Joel Masson decided to do a cumulative-weight challenge — weighing every fish we caught — with the winner earning a $50 gift card.[…]

A drawdown of Clear-Smithport Lake for giant salvinia control, organic reduction, fish habitat improvement and structural assessment.[…]

Louisiana’s hunting and fishing community lost a companion and champion in Chris Berzas, an outdoor writer who passed away July 1.[…]

LDWF enforcement agents are investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred in Bienville Parish on July 3.[…]

Chas Champagne’s latest lure, the Matrix X-Shad Croaker, is a dead ringer for a speckled trout’s favorite summer meal.[…]

Hatsan has entered the rimfire market with a bolt-action .22 rifle, simply named the 22LR. It is only 41 inches long and weighs 6.1 pounds.[…]

Tommy Vidrine was fishing Grand Isle on July 1 when he found speckled trout in the deep cuts of the Grande Cheniere marsh.[…]

Louisiana 4-H Shooting Sports has won the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships for the second time in three years.[…]

Thad Bellow, a LDWF volunteer Hunter Education Instructor, has been named the Todd Roberts Achievement Award winner for 2020-2021.[…]

The LDWF has issued a request for proposals for waterfowl breeding grounds habitat work through the next three years.[…]

The LDWF has scheduled a drawdown of Lake Bistineau for the purpose of reducing further expansion of giant salvinia.[…]

Capt. Donnie Jackson, Jr. hooked a massive, 309.9-pound swordfish on the final day of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic.[…]

Lauryn Atkins hooked her first bluegill on live crickets during the spawn on Lake Henderson.

Matthew Carmichael with a grouper caught 60 miles south of Fourchon.