Field Notes
Tackle late winter specks and reds
Brent Taylor knows t’s a good time to start targeting speckled trout and redfish around Bayou Bienvenue, Shell Beach and Hopedale.[…]
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Fishing Reports
Shell Beach delivers
Brent Taylor, aka Big Nauti, was fishing Shell Beach with soft plastics recently and brought home a good catch.
Big Bass
Louisiana teen boats one of five Toledo Bend lunkers taken this past week
On March 25, Brendon Sonnier pulled in a 10.44-pound largemouth bass to his father’s boat on Toledo Bend Reservoir.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Houma angler lands ‘mutant’ redfish
When Brent Dupre set the hook on a fishing trip out of Cocodrie with his buddies a few days before Christmas, he figured he had caught another run of the mill redfish in deep water just minutes from Lake Pelto.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Slow trout fishing raises concerns, some anglers say
It’s been a strange year, with severe cold fronts rolling through the state through mid-May, winds howling every weekend and water copiously pouring from the skies.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Luling angler wins Venice Slam tournament
Luling’s Julie Hebert beat out 21 anglers from across the country to claim the top prize in the e International Women’s Fishing Association’s Venice Slam Tournament held in mid-June.[…]
News Breaker
23 billfish tagged, released in 39th New Orleans Invitational Billfish Tournament
The 39th New Orleans Invitational Billfish Tournament was held out of Venice last weekend (June 17-18), and a total of 23 billfish were caught, tagged and released by the 24 participating boat crews.
This tournament is regarded as the tournament that put Gulf of Mexico big-game fishing on the map and inspired the many offshore tournaments being held currently across the region.
The fleet found a beautiful rip-line about 54-miles southeast of South Pass and conditions that were conducive to great fishing.
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