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Accurate Gulf count, state control provide expanded red snapper season
This year, Louisiana’s offshore fishermen will have the chance to take red snapper every day of the week beginning May 26, 2023.[…]
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Sloppy Doe
If you were lucky enough to bag a few deer this season, take out a pack of ground meat and get to cooking this Sloppy Doe recipe.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Slicks help anglers catch Sabine trout
With large numbers of baitfish that trout and redfish alike are gorging on this time of year, slicks are a productive means of locating fish.[…]
Fishing Reports
Unique Elmer’s Island drum
“We caught a lot of black drum throwing chunks of blue crab into the surf at Elmer’s Island – this fish took our bait around noon. We thought it was a red at first when
News Breaker
Volunteer instructors recognized by LDWF’s Hunter Education Program
Volunteer Hunter Education instructors from around the state were honored at the LDWF 2023 Hunter Education Instructor Workshop.[…]
Fishing Reports
Jax’s pre-spawn bass
Jax Matherne from Houma and his grandpaw, Larry Huddleston, went fishing for pre-spawn bass in Theriot, La., once the strong winds had died down on the morning of Feb. 24. They picked up this nice
Fishing Reports
Fishing in local private ponds in St. Francisville
Colt (Landry) Stevens, 12, loves to fish in local private ponds in St. Francisville with his grandfather, Frank Landry. Pictured here are some of the fish he caught that were 4-6 pounds!
Fishing Reports
Caleb and Cayden Rodrigue fish at Poverty Point
Louis M. Ory’s grandsons had a great time over the Mardi Gras holidays. The family elected to make a trip up to Delhi and stayed in a cabin on the lake at Poverty Point. Caleb and
Fishing Reports
Paula Rader’s best drum
Paula Rader of Baton Rouge caught her personal best drum in Cocodrie on Feb. 20, 2023. The fish weighed 25 pounds 10-ounces and was caught on 15-pound Berkeley Big Game.
Fishing Reports
John Spinosa caught an 8.27-pound bass
John Spinosa caught this 8.27-pound bass with a Yum Senko from a Denham Springs neighborhood lake on Feb. 14.
Hunting Reports
Emily Pearson’s Tensas Parish buck
Emily Pearson with the big buck she killed on Dec. 26, 2022 in Tensas Parish.
Hunting Reports
Cooper Higgins shot his first deer
Cooper Higgins, 8, of Gonzales was hunting on Oct. 29 during the youth weekend in Area 6 when he shot his first deer with a 308.
Bass Fishing
Alton Jones, Jr. wins $100,000 MLF big bass title on Caney, Bussey
Alton Jones, Jr. caught 81 pounds, 15 ounces of bass at Bussey Brake to claim the Major League Fishing Heavy Hitters $100,000 first prize.[…]
Field Reports
Catching crabs and crawfish for a catch and cook
Jared Serigné caught crawfish using nets and traps. Afterwards, he cooked a surf and turf burger with everything.[…]
Field Reports
Fishing the flats
Chas Champagne head out away from the bridges and stay in the shallows of the Pontchartrain Estuary for beautiful speckled trout.[…]
Fishing
LDWF deploys habitat enhancement projects at Saline-Larto Complex
LDWF Fisheries biologists deployed two habitat enhancement projects in the Saline-Larto complex – floating vegetation and Christmas trees.[…]