Fish without a Louisiana license in June
Published 3:00 pm Tuesday, May 10, 2016
- In a Wednesday, April 13, 2016 photo provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, a male whooping crane, left, offers food to chicks as the female stands by. The endangered whooping cranes that hatched Louisiana's first chick in the wild since 1939 now have a second. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the second chick hatched Wednesday, two days after the first. State and federal wildlife officials have been working since 2011 to create a wild flock of whooping cranes in the general area where Louisiana's last wild flock once lived. (Sara Zimorski /Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries via AP)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Those who love to fish will be able to do so without a license on any of the state’s public waters in June.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it’s holding free recreational fishing days on June 11-12 for residents and non-residents. The department hopes the weekend will introduce newcomers, visitors and people who haven’t fished in a while to one of Louisiana’s most popular sports.
Louisiana offers miles of shoreline and a myriad of freshwater lakes, marsh and bayous to take opportunity of during this annual event.
Anglers are allowed to fish on all public bodies of waters without a license, but all fishing regulations still apply.
