It’s time to start talking fishing, and maybe using Lent to pray our major rivers will spare us from the looming floodwaters draining — and sure to come our way — when all that snow and ice drains ...

So, how hot is the Atchafalaya Spillway? Not hot under this summer’s swelter, but hot as in the sizzle on the business end of the line attached to a reel which is attached to a fishing rod. “The ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay have the best spillway catfishing of the year.

Louisiana authorities have condemned and will remove a section of a Louisiana bridge used for nearly two decades as a fishing pier, officials said Monday. Work at the Lake Bistineau spillway fishing ...

People older than 16 will soon need to register for a free daily permit to fish by a Barnett Reservoir spillway. The requirement starts Dec. 1, and the reservoir director said the goal is to cut down ...

Free permit system would require card display in vehicle. Overnight closures of the area possible. Single-use bait containers could be banned. Action expected this fall. Beer bottles, bait containers, ...

It wasn't Spiderman who saved 225 muskies from the spillway at Evergreen Lake last week. It was workers from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the McLean County Parks & Recreation ...

Community Heroes focuses on the heroes of our community. Each month, we will highlight a Community Hero or heroes in an article. The Clarion Ledger has partnered with Trustmark on this program. In ...

When the swollen Mississippi River threatened to jump its banks and inundate New Orleans in April 1927, an ad hoc group of business people, with the mayor’s blessing, dynamited the levee downriver at ...