Louisiana Sportsman

Louisiana’s National Hunting and Fishing Day (NHFD) will be held Sept. 27 at four locations across the state, the LDWF announced.[…]

LDWF enforcement agents are investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred on Sept. 11 in St. Martin Parish.[…]

The LDWF has completed the drawdown and application of aerial herbicide to the Wham Brake Impoundment on Russell Sage WMA.[…]

LDWF enforcement agents cited a Minden man for an alleged mourning dove hunting violation on Sept. 9 in Webster Parish.[…]

The LDWF has announced that the 2025-26 Louisiana deer hunting season will begin Sept. 20 in Areas 3, 7, 8 and 10 when archery season opens.[…]

The LDWF Enforcement Division awarded their inaugural Louisiana Boating Educator of the Year Award at the LWFC meeting in Baton Rouge.[…]

LDWF enforcement agents cited 32 subjects for alleged dove hunting violations on the opening weekend of the 2025-26 dove hunting season.[…]

The LDWF will host a public meeting on the current state of recreational freshwater fishing in the Atchafalaya River Basin on Sept. 18.[…]

The LDWF has scheduled a drawdown of Clear-Smithport Lake for giant salvinia control, organic sediment reduction and fish habitat improvement.[…]

A portion of Highway 975 through Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is scheduled to be closed from Sept. 15, 2025-June 12, 2026.[…]

The LWFC approved a Declaration of Emergency (DE) establishing 2025-26 hunting seasons for Flatwoods Savanna and Bogue Chitto WMAs.[…]

The LDWF will conduct two youth waterfowl, 30 marsh waterfowl and 30 rice field waterfowl lottery hunts on White Lake WCA.[…]

Search and rescue crews recovered the body of a missing boater in Lake Pontchartrain in Tangipahoa Parish on Sept. 3.[…]

LDWF enforcement agents arrested a Shreveport man for alleged forgery and filing false public records in Caddo and East Baton Rouge parishes.[…]

The 2025 dove hunting season begins Saturday, Sept. 6, statewide, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]

LA Creel indicates that 720,127 pounds, or 80.5%, of Louisiana’s 2025 annual private recreational allocation has been caught.[…]