howsthebite · Louisiana
How's the bite in Louisiana today?
3waters tracked
85.2average °F
2at 7 or better
0without a gauge
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
3 tracked waters in LA. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Biting | Caddo Lake | — | 168.73 ft | 6:39 AM–8:39 AM |
| 7 Biting | Grand Isle | 84.9°F | 1.919 ft | 6:22 AM–8:22 AM |
| 6 Biting | Lake Pontchartrain | 85.5°F | 1.306 ft | 6:23 AM–8:23 AM |
Rebuilt 7:17 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A Louisiana fishing licence runs $17 a year for residents. LDWF sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a Louisiana fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish Louisiana without a licence →What you may keep
LDWF sets a size or bag limit for 52 species here — 51 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- Almaco jack
- Banded rudderfish
- Bigeye tuna
- Black bass (largemouth and spotted)
- Black drum
- Black grouper
- Blue catfish
- Blue marlin
- Bluefin tuna
- Bowfin (choupique)
- Buffalo fish (or hybrids)
- Channel catfish
- Cobia (ling, lemonfish)
- Crappie (sac-a-lait)
- Cubera snapper
- Flathead catfish
- Freshwater drum (gaspergou)
- Gag grouper
- Gray snapper (mangrove)
- Gray triggerfish
- Greater amberjack
- Hogfish
- King mackerel
- Lane snapper
- Lesser amberjack
- Mutton snapper
- Red drum (redfish)
- Red grouper
- Red snapper
- Roundscale spearfish
- Sailfish
- Scamp
- Shad
- Sharks (most species — see notes for exceptions)
- Southern flounder
- Spanish mackerel
- Spotted seatrout (speckled trout)
- Striped and hybrid striped bass
- Striped mullet
- Sturgeon closed today
- Sunfish (bream)
- Swordfish
- Tilefish (goldface and blueline)
- Tripletail (blackfish)
- Vermilion snapper
- Wahoo
- White bass
- White marlin
- Yellow bass
- Yellowfin grouper
- Yellowfin tuna
- Yellowtail snapper