August 4, 2017 — Louisiana is definitely the Sportsman Paradise for anglers hoping to catch red snapper.
Latest estimates from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries show that the catch total is still thousands of pounds below the mark that would signal the end of the red snapper season.
The latest catch statistics recorded by LDWF’s LA Creel, the department’s near real-time data collecting program, is 736,159 pounds covering the period ending July 23. The last reported catch amount was 709,595 pounds, covering the period through July 16.
The state’s self-imposed cutoff number is 1.04 million pounds for 2017.