Tchefuncte River
The rule for this water, with the receipt.
Special regulations for Tchefuncte River, as the state words them
St. Tammany County · River · LA
The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text
Straight from LA's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.
- All fishGear crab traps are prohibited
- All fishGear seines, nets or webbingApplies to this river or its tributaries, from its origin in Washington Parish to where it empties into Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish.
- All fishGear trapsApplies in this river or its tributaries, from its origin in Washington Parish to where it empties into Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish.
Statewide base layerParsed
These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.
- Season
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Gear
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Bait
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Poles
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.
| Species | Daily limit | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
blue crab | 12 dozen per person, daily and in possession | min. no minimum recreational size limit | Statewide |
stone crab | See size | min. no minimum recreational size limit | Statewide |
Crawfish | limit of 35 per licensed angler | - | Statewide |
Black Bass Varies by water: no minimum size (All state waters EXCEPT as follows) | 10 daily | - | Statewide |
White Bass | 50 daily | min. None | Statewide |
Yellow Bass | 50 daily | min. None | Statewide |
Bluegill | None | min. None | Statewide |
Redear Sunfish | None | min. None | Statewide |
Crappie | 50 daily; 100 fish possession limit | min. None | Statewide |
Blue Catfish | 100 daily in the aggregate. An angler may possess up to 25 undersized catfish of the three species combined. | min. 12” MLL | Statewide |
Channel Catfish | 100 daily in the aggregate. An angler may possess up to 25 undersized catfish of the three species combined. | min. 11” MLL | Statewide |
Flathead Catfish | 100 daily in the aggregate. An angler may possess up to 25 undersized catfish of the three species combined. | min. 14” MLL | Statewide |
freshwater fish | more than twice the daily bag limit | - | Statewide |
finfish | no more than 2 pounds of filleted finfish per person on board | - | Statewide |
oyster | two sacks per person per day | - | Statewide |
oysters | See size | min. 3 inches or greater in length from hinge to mouth | Statewide |
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) | No recreational take; must be released unharmed immediately if incidentally caught | - | Statewide |
Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) | No recreational take; must be released unharmed immediately if incidentally caught | - | Statewide |
Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) | No recreational take; must be released unharmed immediately if incidentally caught | - | Statewide |
Alligator snapping turtle | One snapping turtle per day, per person, per vehicle/vessel | min. No size limit | Statewide |
Diamondback terrapin | See size | min. 6 inches or more carapace length | Statewide |
Box turtle | Two box turtles per day; possession limited to four box turtles of the genus Terrapene at any time | - | Statewide |
Red eared slider | No turtle eggs may be taken except for those of the red eared slider | - | Statewide |
Bullfrog | See size | min. 5 inches or larger (measured from tip of the muzzle to the posterior end of the body between the hind legs) | Statewide |
Pig frog | See size | min. 3 inches or larger (measured from tip of the muzzle to the posterior end of the body between the hind legs) | Statewide |
shrimp Varies by water: limit not to take at any time more than 50 pounds of shrimp per day during closed shrimp season and 100 pounds of shrimp per day during the open season, in the aggregate, per boat or vehicle, regardless of the number of persons thereon (recreational fisher using dip nets, bait seines, and cast nets not to exceed 8.5 feet in radius); limit no more than 250 pounds of (heads-on) shrimp per day per boat (Recreational shrimpers using trawls 25 feet in length or less) | See size | min. No size limit | Statewide |
brown shrimp or seabobs | See size | min. No size limit | Statewide |
white shrimp | See size | min. no possession count on white shrimp taken or possessed from Oct. 15 through the third Monday in December; when more than 50 percent by weight of the shrimp taken or possessed is seabobs or brown shrimp, the maximum allowable amount of undersized white shrimp taken or possessed shall not exceed 10 percent by weight of the total shrimp taken or possessed | Statewide |
How this answer was assembled
- StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
- This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
- Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.
Where this stretch begins and ends
The drawn shape is the named water, matched from the official list against OpenStreetMap and accepted only because the name resolved to a single feature in this water's county.
Different sections of this water can have different rules. The exact section boundaries are not marked on the map yet; each rule above describes in plain words where it starts and ends, and that written description is the authoritative boundary. Map boundaries come water by water, never as a guess.
At the water nowContext
Streamflow: 62.2 cfs at tchefuncte river near folsom, la (2026-07-29 04:00)
Forecast: National Weather Service. Flow: nearest active USGS gauge in this water's area, which may sit on a different reach. Conditions are context, not rules.
What are you fishing for here?Advice
Pick from the species named in Tchefuncte River's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.
Receipts
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