Features
Enhanced fisheries
While it could be a difficult endeavor, Louisiana stock enhancement through hatchery programs should be given serious consideration.[…]
Year: 2024
Features
Spawning speckled trout
Hopefully new regulations will keep more spawning trout in Louisiana waters so these highly prolific fish will continue to delight anglers.[…]
Field Reports
Catching crabs from a roadside ditch
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné went to catch crabs in a roadside ditch and bayou using chicken legs for bait.[…]
Field Notes
Do you have Alpha-gal disease?
Alph-gal syndrome is a tick-borne disease that causes red meat allergy, and you might have it and don’t even know it.[…]
Fishing Reports
Andrew Mejia’s yellowfin tuna
On an offshore fishing trip out of Venice with Capt. Bob Hovey on Jan. 29, Andrew Mejia caught multiple yellowfin tuna using live mullet. The largest of them all weighed in at 150 pounds.
Fishing Reports
Addison Rae Stanley at Cypress Lake
Addison Rae Stanley after a successful fishing day on Jan. 27, 2024 at Cypress Lake in Benton, La.
Hunting Reports
Finley Koles gets her first deer
Finley Koles, 7, of Wakefield killed her first deer, a doe, on Nov. 24, 2023 and then killed her first buck, a 4-point, on Jan. 21, 2024.
Hunting Reports
Beau Bagala’s first deer
Beau Bagala, 6, shot his first deer on Dec. 16 in Cut Off.
Hunting Reports
Gracie Caldarera’s first deer
Ten-year-old Gracie Caldarera of Ragley with her first deer. She shot this big, old doe in Ragley with a .243 rifle on Dec. 10, 2023 while hunting with her father, Charlie Caldarera. She put her
Fishing Reports
Roy Cathcart with a stringer of sac-a-lait
“Bad weather was coming and the sac-a-lait were being allusive as always, but once we figured them out it was on. The first few wanted no action at all just the jig sitting still right
Hunting Reports
Konner Davis gets late-season buck
Konner Davis killed this buck with a 20 6/8-inch inside spread and 22-inch main beams on Jan. 22, 2024 in Kelly, La. The buck’s G2’s measured 9 7/8 inches. He had been after this buck
Hunting Reports
Ayden Neevel’s first deer
Ayden Neevel, 9, of Bossier City got his first deer on private family land.
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Shoreline speckled trout
Chas Champagne got to the eastern shorelines of Lake Pontchartrain to avoid the high winds and boat traffic and catch some speckled trout.[…]
Hunting Reports
Chris Russo’s St. Helena Parish doe
Chris Russo with a 148-pound doe he put down in St. Helena Parish.
Hunting Reports
Big group of hogs
This photo is from an evening hunt with outfitter Southern Eradicators, located near Crowley, La. The group was checking rice fields and crawfish ponds when they capitalized on a big group of hogs up to
Hunting Reports
William Fernandez’s first deer
William Fernandez, 12, of River Ridge shot his first deer on Jan. 21 with a 7 mm rifle near Kentwood, La. The doe weighed 135 pounds.