Field Reports
Catch and cook: Flounder gigging + Speckled trout fishing on the Mississippi Coast
Experiencing a full 24 hours on the Mississippi Coast. Speckled trout fishing during the day and flounder gigging at night.[…]
Month: July 2026
Fishing Reports
Brayden Callegan’s bull red
Brayden Callegan with a bull red caught at Oyster Bayou on July 3, 2026.[…]
Fishing Reports
Sam Englehart’s mahi-mahi
Fishing Reports
Millie Chatelain’s big redfish
Millie Chatelain, 10, of Mansura with a big redfish she caught in Hackberry.[…]
Hunting Reports
Sutton Carter’s first buck
Sutton Carter with his first buck, a 9-point, killed in Webster Parish.[…]
Hunting Reports
St. Mary Parish frogging trip
Alivia Crappell and Makayla Theriot with frogs caught on Feb. 26 2026 in St. Mary Parish.[…]
Field Notes
Tips on how to extend your hunting career
You have to want to hunt badly enough, enduring some pain and other setbacks, to ultimately achieve the goal of hunting later into your life.[…]
Hunting Reports
Fishing Reports
Myles and Michael score redfish
Baton Rouge’s Myles Maynard and his friend, Michael Meredith, both 14, landed two trophy redfish near Lake Peigneur on the Delcambre Canal on March 28.[…]
Hunting Reports
Field Reports
Residential canals holding tons of marsh fish
When temperatures get this hot, the fish that normally call the marsh home move into deep-water residential canals.[…]
Fishing Reports
Michael Keller’s lunker bass
Michael Keller with the 8.13-pound lunker bass he caught at Toledo Bend.[…]
Fishing Reports
Hunting Reports
Hunting Reports
Alligator
LDWF alligator management program honored during Scales of Success program in Washington, D.C.
Once on the brink of extinction with only about 100,000 left in 1972 in the state, the LDWF developed its alligator management program.[…]