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Redfish with rope attached hooked in Vermilion Bay
Donald Gilbert caught a bull red with a rope tied around its neck in Vermilion Bay near the mouth of Boston Canal on Aug. 21.[…]
Vermilion Parish
Geese
Seven cited for alleged goose violations in Vermilion Parish
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited seven people in two incidents for allegedly hunting migratory game birds from a vehicle on a public road, according to a press release.[…]
General
Gueydan man pleads guilty to shooting whooping crane in Vermilion Parish
A 21-year-old Gueydan man was fined $2,500 and will serve time in federal prison after pleading guilty to shooting a whooping crane in November of 2014.[…]
Contents
Vanquishing Vermilion — How to catch Vermilion Bay trout
Those wiggly, slimy, little silver fish just do something to a person. […]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Specklebelly Superstation: How to kill geese in the Vermilion Parish fields
If a waterfowl hunter happened to be stuffed in the cab of a pickup truck, blindfolded and driven to the Gueydan Civic Center back on Aug. 24, he would be liable to think he died and went to heaven. And he wouldn’t have had to go any farther than the parking lot.[…]
Fishing
Vermilion Parish offshore waters close, St. Bernard waters reopen June 3
A small portion of state offshore waters in Vermilion Parish closed effective just before 8 p.m. today (June 2), and waters in northeastern St. Bernard Parish reopens for fishing tomorrow (June 3) at sunrise, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]