To say you’re hoping for a hurricane to blow through South Louisiana just to make the fishing better would be a tad bit insensitive.
However, that doesn’t negate the fact that tropical storms and hurricanes can definitely improve saltwater fishing around impacted areas after the systems move on.
Take Hurricane Isaac, for example: As soon as anglers recovered from its wrath and made it back out on the water, they found some excellent fishing.
In fact, Capt. James Wilson believes it was that storm that got him started on 30 straight days of trout limits.
Needless to say, there was a definite lack of tropical activity in the Gulf of Mexico this year, and trout fishing was a little bit iffy around Lafitte.
“We get so much fresh water coming through Davis Pond that it impacts the trout fishing,” Capt. Lane Zimmer said. “But we got a little activity with Tropical Storm Karen that pushed in some good water, and we saw an immediate improvement in the fishing.
Before Karen, Zimmer said he was just starting to see a few trout coming in.
Just two days after Karen passed, Zimmer and his crew were limited out by 9 in the morning.
“Everybody had limits,” he said. “Just that little bit of a push of saltwater helped out tremendously. We saw birds everywhere. Shrimp were popping everywhere. It was just like it was last year after Isaac.”
Granted, Zimmer didn’t get on the fish around the Clovelly Oil Field, but he noted that it wouldn’t take but one more cold front pushing through the area to turn that spot on.
