THURSDAY-SUNDAY
SWOLLFEST RODEO: Grand Isle Marina, Grand Isle. Offshore & Inshore categories. Weigh-in 4:30-6:30 p.m. daily. Benefits Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital & others. Email: swollfest@cox.net. Registration website: swollfest.com.
THURSDAY
LA. WILDLIFE & FISHERIES COMMISSION MEETING: 3 p.m., Joe Herring Room, state Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters, Quail Drive, Baton Rouge.
JUNIOR SOUTHWEST BASSMASTERS MEETING: 7 p.m., Seminar Room, Bass Pro Shops, Denham Springs. Boys & girls age-group bass tournaments for ages 7-10, 11-14 & 15-18 anglers. Also June 14-16, Lake Concordia. Call Jim Breaux (225) 772-3026.
ONGOING
STATEWIDE TOURNAMENT & ANGLERS’ RODEO: Opening day of CCA summer-long fishing contest through Sept. 2. Multiple species categories. CCA membership required. Website: ccalouisiana.com
AROUND THE CORNER
JUNE 9—B.A.S.S. HIGH SCHOOL/JUNIOR NORTHERN OPEN: Saginaw Bay, Bay City, Michigan. Website: bassmaster.com.
JUNE 10—RED STICK FLY FISHERS MEETING: 7 p.m., Joe Herring Room, state Wildlife & Fisheries headquarters, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge. Website: rsff.org.
JUNE 12—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: ajrosenbohm@gmail.com. Website: neworleansflyfishers.com
JUNE 13-16—LOUISIANA SPORTING CLAYS CHAMPIONSHIP: Covey Rise, Husser. HOA, Masters through E classes & 50-bird competitions. Call (985) 747-0310. Website: coveyriselodge.com
JUNE 13-16—BASSMASTER ELITE SERIES: Wheeler Lake, Decatur, Alabama. Website: bassmaster.com
JUNE 14-15—BROTHER DARDIS FISHING RODEO: Begins sunrise June 14, weigh-in 2-4 p.m., June 15, Jesuit High School, Banks Street at Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans. Freshwater, Inshore & Offshore categories in Adult & Student divisions. Website: jesuitnola.org. Call Mike McMahon (504) 650-1700.
JUNE 14-16—VFW FISHING TOURNAMENT: Key West/Lower keys, Florida. Categories for active-duty military, veterans, first responders, women, pee-wee (10-under), junior (11-15) and seniors (65-older) for 5 inshore/offshore species. $65,000 total cash/prizes. VFW Post 3911, 2200 N. Roosevelt Boulevard, Key West. Entry fee $400. Benefit needy veterans/active-duty personnel. Website: vfw3911.org
JUNE 16—FATHER’S DAY
ALLIGATOR LOTTERY
APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 23, state Wildlife and Fisheries lottery take on 22 wildlife management areas, 28 public lakes & a Corp of Engineers property Aug. 28-Nov. 2, 2024. LDWF website: louisianaoutdoors.com/lottery-applications. Application fee $8.50. One application per hunter 16 and older.
FISHING/SHRIMPING
SHRIMP: All state inshore and offshore waters open.
SPECKLED TROUT: New regulations in effect, 15 per day measuring 13-20 inches with 2 trout more than 20 inches allowed in daily catch.
OPEN RECREATIONAL SEASONS: Recreational & state for-hire red snapper; Southern flounder; lane, blackfin, queen and silk snappers & wenchmen among other snapper species; all groupers except closed for gag, red, goliath & Nassau groupers in state/federal waters; and, federal for-hire permitted vessels for red snapper season through Aug. 27.
CLOSED SEASONS: Greater amberjack; gray triggerfish; gag, red, goliath & Nassau grouper in state/federal waters. Federal for-hire, red snapper permit holders.
LDWF UPDATES
-Closed: Catfish Bayou, Blount, Goose Lake & Dobbs Bay roads, Blackhawk boat launch, Blackhawk & Lincecum roads & trails and all roads east of the Mississippi River levee (Richard Yancey WMA, flooding); Cas-Cas Road (Grassy Lake WMA, flooding); main road at Ruby Road station (Russell Sage WMA, flooding); Rice Field & Signo roads (Thistlethwaite WMA); Island Road fishing pier (Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA, parking lot repairs), Tram ATV Trail (Tunica Hills WMA, repairs), & Hope Canal Road/boat launch (Maurepas Swamp WMA, levee construction).
-Saline Lake drawdown set to begin June 17 to 8 feet below pool stage through Oct. 1.
Email: jmacaluso@theadvocate.com