Louisiana turkey hunters had another successful season in 2025, harvesting 3,576 birds, the second-highest total since harvest reporting began in 2009, just behind 2024’s 3,695. LDWF Small Game and Wild Turkey Program Manager Cody Cedotal says the past four years have seen the highest reported harvests.
“We made a little bit of a season adjustment that we made in 2018 to try to help some areas out, and we feel like that’s helped the last four years as our harvest numbers have jumped up pretty good.”{
Cedotal says the 2018 decision to delay the season’s start appears to be supporting turkey population growth. Adult male harvest in 2025 exceeded 2024 by 204.
That indicates that hunters are having good success, which usually translates to good populations in various areas of the state.”
Survey data and hunter feedback will help assess the season, and Cedotal says will help prepare for next year’s spring season.
“Which is where you harvest and hunt males only during the breeding period, where they are very vocal, and there’s a lot of interaction and can be a lot of excitement to the hunt.”
Next year, wild turkey season will open on Good Friday, April 3, and run through May 3, 2026
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