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Welcome to 2025-26 Louisiana Hunting

Cover of the Louisiana 2025–2026 Hunting & WMA Regulations guide showing three hunters posing with a harvested black bear in a grassy field.
The 2025–2026 Louisiana Hunting & WMA Regulations guide highlights updated rules for hunters and wildlife management areas. Pictured are hunters with a harvested black bear, reflecting Louisiana’s diverse hunting opportunities and commitment to conservation.

Major Changes for 2025-2026 Hunting Regulations

  1. New Non-Resident Lifetime Licenses were added.
  2. Deer Area 4 limit changed from 3 deer to 4 deer, not to exceed 2 antlered or 2 antlerless deer.
  3. Hunters 65 or older may hunt deer with any legal weapon during the Primitive Firearms Season in each deer hunting area.
  4. There is no longer a daily limit on Nutria.
  5. Change in Turkey Areas for portions of East Carroll Parish.
  6. The Daily Bag Limit for pintails changed from 1 pintail to 3 pintails (no more than 1 female).
  7. New WMA regulation: trail cameras are prohibited during turkey season.
  8. Only hunting dogs are allowed in WMA campgrounds.
  9. Changes to “airboats, aircraft, personal watercraft, mud crawling vessels and hovercraft” for Bussey Brake and Maurepas Swamp.
  10. Youth and General Waterfowl Lottery Hunts were removed from Bayou Pierre WMA.
  11. Establishes a 2 p.m. waterfowl hunting closure, prohibits mud boats and air-cooled vessels and nighttime activities and requires all fish to be taken by rod and reel only on Biloxi WMA.
  12. Magnet fishing prohibited on Fort Polk-Vernon WMA (formerly Fort Johnson-Vernon) and Fort Polk North (formerly Fort Johnson-North).
  13. Added a Small Game Emphasis Area on John Franks WMA.
  14. Change to Sport Fishing rules on Grassy Lake WMA.
  15. Benchmark Closure changes on Maurepas Swamp WMA.
  16. Removed road closure on Pearl River WMA.
  17. Changes were made to the Sherburne WMA South Farm hunting regulations.
  18. Removed the Turkey Youth Lottery on Pomme de Terre WMA and Spring Bayou WMA. Turkey hunting is now open to all qualified youth hunters.
  19. Clarifies the use of dogs for deer hunting on Kisatchie NF.
  20. Raccoons & Opossums, nighttime chase only on Kisatchie NF.
  21. Physically Challenged Hunting Permit (PCHP) WMA changes:
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