Lake Cataouatche was 98 percent covered by hydrilla in 2007, and that mass of vegetation fueled a big-bass fishery that grabbed world attention in 2011 when Kevin VanDam won his fourth Bassmaster Classic by seining those grass beds for more than 69 pounds over three days of competition.[…]
The skies opened and the bottom fell out the first weekend in October across North Louisiana, as a weather system with accompanying cold front sloshed through. But Bill Petrus, a West Monroe businessman and avid bow hunter, didn’t let that bother him.[…]
Mitchell Franks’ Wednesday afternoon bow hunt started out like countless others he’d experienced as he settled into a 20-foot-high lock-on tree stand in central Caldwell Parish.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently announced recreational fishing for gray triggerfish will close in Louisiana waters at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15.[…]
The time and effort Michael Marciante spent carefully concealing and brushing a ground blind at his West Feliciana Parish lease over Labor Day weekend paid off pretty quick just before dark on opening day.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced the temporary closing of Elmer’s Island on the southwestern tip of Jefferson Parish.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a training academy for enforcement agents starting in December to fill field office vacancies throughout the state in 2014, according to a press release.[…]
Lance “Coon” Schouest’s elusive quest to land a new state record tarpon will have to wait.[…]
Water conditions remain solid and the speckled trout bite is improving in Vermilion Bay as the season’s first real cool front is expected to push through this weekend.[…]
The Kisatchie National Forest is open for hunting and fishing despite the government shutdown that has closed other federal lands to all access, a U.S. Forest Service official told Louisiana Sportsman this afternoon.[…]
The closing weekend of teal season was pretty much like the opening weekend of teal season: some mixed reports of good hunting, but a nagging feeling that fewer birds than normal made it into the state.[…]
All Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries properties, including state wildlife management areas and state wildlife refuges, will remain open during the current federal government shutdown, according to a press release.[…]
Hunting and fishing — along with any other activities — are prohibited on all national wildlife refuges as part of the government shutdown that began today, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official confirmed.[…]
Speckled trout have arrived in the inner bays and coastal marshes near Delacroix, according to a fishing guide.[…]
The dove season dates for the second split of the 2013-14 dove season at Elbow Slough Wildlife Management Area are listed incorrectly in the printed version of the current Louisiana Hunting Regulations booklet.[…]
A 28-year-old Chalmette man pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a hunting incident in St. Bernard Parish on Jan. 4, 2013.[…]