The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Thursday set the recreational red snapper season in both federal and state waters to kick off on Friday, May 25, according to a news release from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
The CCA Louisiana STAR (Statewide Tournament and Anglers Rodeo) begins Saturday, May 26, and concludes on Labor Day, Sept. 3. During the competition, anglers compete for over $500,000 in prizes.[…]
One man is dead and another is missing after a 27-foot boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning about a half-mile from South Pass in Plaquemines Parish.[…]
Derek Mong and his dad Dave have been fishing bass tournaments together since he was just a 4-year-old kid. […]
Spring has definitely sprung in South Louisiana, and that means everything is active, including speckled trout and alligators. I set out on a fishing trip this week with my son, Joel, to celebrate his last day of high school. We caught plenty of the former, but a representative of the latter could easily have eaten our entire haul in one gulp.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a Texas man for alleged crabbing violations on April 27.[…]
It’s hard to beat a Carolina rig for catching big summer trout, Grand Isle’s Capt. Jake Scardino said.[…]
This spring was crazy, with fronts pushing through the state well into April. But things should be settling down as summer approaches, and that’s when Grand Isle trout fishing will really get cranked up, according to Good Times Charters’ Capt. Jake Scardino (504-382-5639.)[…]
The body of a 42-year-old man who was missing after a boating accident Sunday afternoon was recovered from the Tickfaw River, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Another 2,000 tons of limestone and crushed concrete will be added adjacent to the existing Brad Vincent Reef in Big Lake this May, expanding the original 6-acre site by an additional 3 to 4 acres.[…]
As bass baits evolve and get better at attracting bites from green fish, they also get more irresistible to redfish. On a trip this week, I found that was definitely true with shaky heads.[…]
If you’ve been fishing for specks and reds at all, then you know how important clean water is.[…]
Spillway openings have been frequent in the last few years, and for Lake Pontchartrain anglers, that usually means short-term trouble.[…]
There’s an area that Bill McCarty never passes up when he wants to put bass in the boat in May.[…]
A scenic barrier island known as a great pelican rookery and near-offshore waters teeming with speckled trout and other saltwater fish in the Gulf of Mexico will be very popular in May.[…]
The list of good places to fish on the Cane River in Natchitoches is long. You’ve got miles of shoreline reeds, scattered brush tops, a plethora of boat docks, grass beds, lily pad fields and combinations of all those. And that goes on for 30 miles (60 total miles of shoreline if you count both banks).[…]