[will-grand]

Fourchon and Grand isle should be firing on all cylinders here soon. I work the swollfest fishing tournament every year. On June 4th last year, it was insane off elmers island. I mean it was watching 5-15 trout as each swell would come up and break on the beach. Think I caught my limit in less than 15 minutes in ankle deep water. The funny thing is on June 3rd I was out there and didnt see even a sign of life. It seems like when they show up at the beach it is in full force.

I have talked in depth with Terry St. Cyr on this and he was saying that it is always right around the first week in June is the best beach bite of the whole summer. He told me that it always seems to be 0 to 100 when they show up. Just something to keep in mind for the upcoming weeks.

Great report!!!!!

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I had hit that thing about year and a half ago. It is mean, yall be careful running that area! There is an old pipe down there that they didn’t pick up from dredging.

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Great report, very valuable intel for future trips. I am looking forward to the book as well. For anyone looking to try Venice in the near future, if weather permits I would consider taking a look at Breton island. Got a very good report from there today. A bunch of fish over 20 inches.

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No indeed, I was catching limits off the road til May last year. Last much longer than most people think.

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Have to talk a lot of guides and very experienced louisiana trout fishermen. Article seems to be spot on from what I am hearing across the state. Talked to Mr. Terry St. Cyr and he was telling me this one is bad but doesn’t even touch what it looked like in Grand isle in 89. Hopefully all this is true and we can get back to giving these fish hell.

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This is a great time of year to target sac a lait in the tchefuncte river. They are just now starting to spawn and that will go til end of march for the most part. I would recommend launching at Menetre park and work any cove off the river with docks heading north. I normally throw a cork with a little jig under it.

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I have been waiting to make any comments on this situation until I felt like I got a better grasp on the situation. I am very nervous for what this freeze has done to our population of trout and redfish. We have all seen the pictures, straight up horrible… Our fish definitely took a beating from this one. Decided to make a phone calls to someone I know very high up in LDWF. Now I don’t necessarily agree with this to the fullest. I will have to see some data to back this up, but what I was told is that this fish kill was not as bad as we might think. Hopefully they are right and maybe thats why we haven’t seen a limit change. Only time will tell…. On a little bit of a better note, I have had some friends smash the trout the past few days even in areas that reported fish kills. Maybe we have a chance. I am still giving the trout a break until I feel like we know the full extent of this situation.

[will-grand]

I use Navionics all the time and love it. I believe they have a 14 day free trial. It shows all kinds of stuff on it. Reefs, rigs, pipelines, tides, hazards, depth, bottom contours, and much more. Highly recommended it personally.

[will-grand]

I have faith we will be alright. Definitely going to see the worst of it the next couple days. I think most of these fish were already staging up near or in deep water. I’m hoping for the best but definitely a little concerning.

[will-grand]

I have done most of my red fishing out in the delacroix area normally around Feb-March. I normally strictly target trout but I love the springtime red bite. One area that always seems to produce for me is around the Lake John area. I will normally start in lake john hitting any wind blown points with a popping cork. If I don’t catch any in Lake John I normally work north up pipeline canal that runs thru Lake John and fish all the points in the different bays and lagoons until it ends. Just watch the water level when going back there. If you have a crazy low tide it can get pretty shallow back there but normally it’s just fine.

As for targeting reds fishing now, I can not say for certain where they are. I have not been targeting them. We can probably expect to see some sort of redfish jubilee this week. This normally happens best in that area off the road in three places. Joe’s ditch right next to the bridge in hopedale, the canal in reggio, and just 1 or 2 miles up from Hopedale Marina at the open stretch of Bayou la Loutre. Whenever the water does warm back up a tad and the water comes back up I have done well hitting the marsh area not too far from these places and found them stacked up before.

[will-grand]

Mr. Terry is a wealth of inshore knowledge. Would love to introduce you to him if you do not know him already. He understands our fishery incredibly well. I think you would find a lot of things he thinks about our fishery very interesting!

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Just a little heads up I would take a look at the fouchon barge’s.Talk to a friend who tore them up there this week. Casse-tete island should be holding some fishing in the cut of the island. Just be careful if the tide is low. Ton of reefs over there, but they should be crushing some topwater over there. Good luck if you head that way.

[will-grand]

The trout are starting to show themselves down there. It is still a bit of a grind right now to find them, but four bayous could possibly be a look for this weekend.

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Normally everyone calls it quits this time of year on the road fishing, but March-May can still be very productive. Instead of focusing on deeper holes focus on the bridges. Free lined live shrimp with maybe a split or so depending on how hard the tide is running is the ticket when it warms up. You can still catch some on plastic, but the live shrimp definitely makes a difference.

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I believe that we are at an interesting point in Louisiana fishing. I think that the world class trout fishing Louisiana in the early 2000’s got a lot of people into it, which is a great thing, but I think we are feeling the after effects of it. I think though we will see a swing in this at some point. I know we have a ton of fishing pressure now but it won’t last forever. I am a student at LSU and I can count on one hand the amount of college guys I know that enjoy inshore fishing. It is just not what the younger generations are into. I think the combination of lower limits, tougher fishing, price of this hobby, and younger people not being into fishing as much will eventually help let off on the amount of pressure on these fish. I could be totally off on all this but just might thought on all of it. We have to do what we can now to help those fish make it to this point, but I really believe at some point the popularity of inshore will decline on its own.