Joe Macaluso

4 days ago | theadvocate.com | Joe Macaluso

Happy Mother’s Day. Here’s hoping you have your mom with you to celebrate this cherished day. Many of you don’t, and I know you will remember fondly those days when she anxiously awaited your return from fishing and hunting trips, cooked your fish and game, ordered a bath or shower and washed your dirty clothes — sometimes with a little fuss and fuming just to let you know she cared. So, all mothers, enjoy this day and hope it’s not the only day when yours make you feel special.

4 days ago | theadvocate.com | Joe Macaluso

RED STICK FLY FISHERS MEETING: 7 p.m., Regional Branch Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Baton Rouge. Open to the public. Email Brian Roberts: [email protected] Website: rsff.orgLA. FINFISH TASK FORCE MEETING: 10 a.m., state Wildlife & Fisheries headquarters, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge. BUGS & BEERS: 6:30 p.m., Skeeta Hawk Brewing, 455 N. Dorgenois Street, New Orleans. Fly tying. Open to the public. Email A.J. Rosenbohm: [email protected]. Website: neworleansflyfishers.com LA.

4 days ago | theadvocate.com | Joe Macaluso

FARMERVILLE—Sunday’s top 5 teams from the two-day La. High School Bass & top 4 teams from the one-day La. Junior Bassmasters State championships held on Lake D’Arbonne with anglers, their schools/teams and total catch weight in pounds (5-bass daily limit):HIGH SCHOOL/TOP 5 1, Bennett Fontenot-Braxton Speyrer, Port Barre High, 30.59 pounds. 2, Ridge Mabile-Evan Aucoin, Assumption High, 28.88. 3, Gage Dowers-Cade Whittington, Sulphur High, 25.23.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Joe Macaluso

It happens every spring. While that’s most often said about baseball, spring is equally as important to Louisiana shrimpers who await Wildlife and Fisheries biologists to arrive at something called a “crossover” day. It’s the day the Shrimp Study staff advises the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission about the best date to open the spring inshore shrimp seasons in our state’s major coastal basins.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Joe Macaluso

AMELIA — Age-group results from the Junior Southwest Bassmasters-Denham Springs’ May tournament held from the Amelia Public Landing with anglers, their hometowns, number of bass weighed in parentheses (5-bass limit), total weight in pounds and big-bass winners:15-18-year-old age group: 1, Aiden Alvarez, Addis (3) 5.04 pounds. Big Bass: Alvarez, 3.29. 11-14 age group: 1, Reid Leonard, Walker (4) 4.19. 2, Lane LeRay, Brusly (1) 2.04. 3, Landin Sholty, Denham Springs (2) 1.71.