CCA Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are set to begin construction on a new artificial reef in Calcasieu Lake in Southwest Louisiana designed to create new marine habitat and support recreational fishing.
Fishing News
On Friday, May 4, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) took action to implement a "Louisiana-only" red snapper recreational season, set to begin in 2013.
This Louisiana red snapper weekend-only season would begin the Saturday preceding Palm Sunday each year and end September 30 of the same year, with a recreational bag limit of three fish per day at a 16 inch minimum. A weekend is defined as Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the exception of Memorial Day and Labor Day, when Monday would be classified as a weekend as well.
The annual drawdown at Catahoula Lake, scheduled to begin on May 1st and detailed in a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries April 25 press release, has been delayed until June 18 to allow for continuation of oil-drilling activity on leases administered by Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) on the lakebed. The water level needs to be maintained at or above 34 feet MSL for oil-drilling equipment to operate and move between drilling sites.
The Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association (LOWA) is accepting entries for this year's Youth Outdoor Journalism Contest sponsored by LOWA and the Louisiana Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) with support from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries stocked over 16,000 largemouth bass in the Pearl River as part of the Department's planned recovery efforts in the wake of last year's fish kill.
This is the Department's second stocking effort following the Temple-Inland incident in 2011 that killed over 500,000 fish and freshwater mussels in the river. The bass were raised and distributed from the Department's Monroe Fish Hatchery in north Louisiana. Northern largemouth bass are native to the Pearl River.