Live water for the Sportsman's Paradise — the great rivers (Mississippi, Red, Ouachita & the Atchafalaya), Toledo Bend, Caddo & the north-Louisiana lakes. Louisiana is a river state: the big-river gauges run live, while most LDWF-managed lakes have no public feed and read as honest SNAPSHOT cards. Every tube shows the normal pool, the current level, the lake's two signature fish (hover for the species, click for 2026 tournaments), and a live bite gauge at left. Scroll down for the catfish rivers, the scenic float rivers & the Basin, and Louisiana's famous duck water.
Hover a fish for its species · click a fish to search that lake's 2026 tournaments
Louisiana is blue catfish heaven — the Mississippi at Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Red at Alexandria, the Ouachita at Monroe, and the Atchafalaya at Morgan City, plus flathead & channel cats. Live river stage (ft) from NOAA, with the action and flood stages marked. Rising, off-color water turns the cats on. Hover a cat for the species; tap it for a guide.
Louisiana's clear float water — the Bogue Chitto, Tangipahoa, Amite & Tchefuncte sand-bottom rivers — plus the Atchafalaya Basin at Butte La Rose, the largest river swamp in America and a bass & sac-a-lait factory. Live USGS gage height (ft); each tube marks FLOAT, EXPERT and FLOOD. Hover a fish; tap it for an outfitter.
The sand-bottom rivers float much of the year; the Basin rises and falls with the Atchafalaya — high water spreads the fish out, falling water pulls them to the bayous.
Louisiana is the #1 duck state in America. From the flooded bottomland of the Catahoula basin (Larto Lake) to the vast Pointe-a-la-Hache coastal marsh, this is the wintering ground of the Mississippi Flyway. Live river/marsh stage (ft) from NOAA & USGS where gauged. Hover a duck for the species; tap it for a guide.
The basin bottomlands flood as the rivers rise; the coastal marsh rides wind & tide. Duck season runs roughly November–January.