A 44-year-old commercial fisherman on Grand Isle was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday after his sixth conviction for DWI, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission took action on a notice of intent and declaration of emergency on Thursday to modify the recreational grouper season, and increased the minimum size limits for black and gag grouper from 22 to 24 inches.[…]
Most of the 108 professional anglers on the Bassmaster Elite Series have had at least some experience on Toledo Bend — but probably not in the conditions they’ll face next week.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved a notice of intent to decrease the minimum length limit for black bass on the Lower Sabine River from 14 inches to 12 inches, according to a press release.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Thursday announced the 2016 spring inshore shrimp season will begin at 6 a.m. on Monday, May 23 for all state inshore waters.[…]
Tommy Giles owns an insurance company in Shreveport, but that didn’t stop him earlier this year from becoming a boat dealer — of sorts.[…]
Capt. Jacques “Jakamo” Laboureur said the rocks at the end of the MRGO are always the first place the trout show up to kick off the summer trout season, and this is the month it happens.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
Where is the Red River Pool? Do you have a GPS coordinate for it?[…]
The Tchefuncte River seems to attract every boater around the state this time of year. Go there as an angler in May, and you better be prepared to fight off some wakes.[…]
Tenth place at the 2016 Bassmaster Classic in Tulsa. Two Top 10s already, including a second place finish to kick off the season on the St. Johns River that would have likely been a victory — except for an improbable weekend run by Rick Clunn. Currently first place in Angler of the Year standings…[…]
Because of tax changes that came about during March’s special session of the legislature, boat buyers who purchase a boat from an individual are now sometimes required to pay taxes at the Louisiana Department of Revenue before registering their vessel with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
The first Louisiana Division events of the 2016 IFA Redfish Tour will be held May 14-15 out of Lafitte Harbor Marina in Lafitte.[…]
Shortly after Lake Cataouache vaulted Kevin VanDam to his fourth Bassmaster Classic title in 2011 with more than 69 pounds of fish, hydrilla that made the area great started vanishing — and the area’s bass population seemed to disappear right along with it.[…]
Lafitte anglers have to make long runs most of the year to reach hot trout action, but this month everything is happening near the little port south of New Orleans.[…]
“Amoco.” That word should conjure up the image of a gas station sign beckoning motorists to come to the pump and gas up.[…]
If it’s May, it must be time to catch speckled trout at Tiger Shoals due south of Vermilion Bay’s Southwest Pass.[…]