Features
Beat the heat
Knowing about sun and heat protection when fishing and how to practice safe summer outdoor fun is so important.[…]
Features
Clean your catch
Borrowing ideas from several different cleaning tables to build a customized ergonomic fish and game cleaning station.[…]
Ducks
Hunters not allowed to shoot mottled ducks early; limits reduced
Mottled ducks will be off limits for the first 15 days of the season with a limit of one per day after that in both zones.[…]
Columns
Management of Louisiana’s great outdoors badly needs a makeover
Is it time for a serious, unbiased, comprehensive look at the way Louisiana manages and administers our great outdoor resources?[…]
Freshwater Fishing
BOTE Rackham Aero 12’ 4”
The BOTE Rackham Aero is a versatile piece of fishing gear, transforming from stand-up paddleboard, to kayak, to peddle-driven kayak.[…]
Field Reports
Redfish in a wicked west wind
This summer has been plagued with west winds. Check out this video for tips on how to attack west winds in the summer months.[…]
Columns
Bobby Garland Mayfly matches the hatch
The Bobby Garland Mayfly appeals to crappie or, as much of Louisiana calls them, sac-a-lait, because it looks like the things crappie eat.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bass pro gets record gar
Bass pro Jake Ormond of Sterlington was fishing at Bayou Bartholomew Lake on July 17 when he hooked the new state record longnose gar.[…]
Dove
Dove details
Drew Mire and Blake LeMaire hunt doves on thousands of acres of agricultural fields for corn, soybeans and milo in the Jonesville area.[…]
Columns
It’s time for LWFC to stop punting and get a win for our speckled trout
We are not much closer to rebuilding our speckled trout stocks than we were in 2019 when the issue of declining trout numbers was raised.[…]
Features
All in on Goggle-eye
Located just east of Fontainebleau Park in Mandeville, Bayou Cane is great for catching bass and perch, but also has plenty of goggle-eye.[…]
Features
Spot-tailed thunder at Calcasieu Lake
In late summer and early fall, massive redfish gather in enormous spawning schools around Calcasieu Pass and off the nearby beaches.[…]
Features
Chasing August trout
August can be a great month for speckled trout fishing and it can also deliver a lot of disruptions with the weather.[…]
Fishing Reports
Jenna Parra’s red snapper
Jenna Parra was fishing at the Ship Shoal blocks on July 9, 2022 when she caught this snapper in 45 feet of water.[…]
Fishing Reports
Big Cocodrie red snapper
Noah Prosperie hooked this red snapper onboard Coco Charters 42’ Freeman with Capt. Eric Pellegrin in Cocodrie.[…]
Fishing Reports
5th Annual Lake Tillery Catfish Classic
Robert Chavis, Adrian Blanks, Brandon Morton and Gage Morton with the 34-pound flathead and 36-pound flathead.[…]