Rusty Tardo, Author at Louisiana Sportsman

Once you get to the rocks, fish both towards them and out into the channel.

7 tips for May success at the MRGO rocks

In the experience of Capt. Jacques “Jakamo” Laboureur, speckled trout season always starts up at the Rocks at the end of the MRGO. […]

East Timbalier – Hazards and Hotspots

Rusty Tardo

In most places you’ll fish, the desirable fishing hotspots and the underwater hazards you may have to traverse to get to them are two entirely separate things. But in Louisiana’s inshore and nearshore waters, the two are often one and the same. […]

Brian Epstein with a nice Delacroix speck.

Ten minute trout: Delacroix

Rusty Tardo

Three Delacroix lakes, all a mere 10 minutes from the dock, that you should focus on for February speckled trout. […]

Ten minute trout: Chalmette

Rusty Tardo

A 10-minute run from the dock to find speckled trout is a definite possibility this month at Chalmette. […]

Sonny Brignac caught this speckled trout fishing a very foggy February day with Lacoste. Shrimp Creole Matrix Shad under a cork was the top producer on that day.

Guide reveals fishing was brutal on Lake Mechant in February — brutal for the fish that is!

Rusty Tardo

Here are 4 rules Capt. Marty Lacoste with Absolute Fishing Charters follows to put his customers on huge schools of speckled trout in March and April. […]

Capt. Mike Gallo likes to switch to fluorocarbon line on colder days when he’s targeting wintertime speckled trout.

Make Chalmette your New year’s speck resolution

Rusty Tardo

Capt. Mike Gallo offered a couple extra free tips to help you catch more fish on these colder days of winter. […]

Capt. Chad Dufrene expects the redfish bite to remain consistent out of Delacroix - if Mother Nature cooperates.

Targeting reds and specks in Delacroix

Rusty Tardo

Capt. Chad Dufrene of Dufrene’s Guide Service in Delacroix Island expects the redfish bite to be phenomenal this winter. […]

Capt. Nick Rando (right), owner of Fishaholic Fishing Charters, with Allen Buckley and a 45-pound black drum caught on shrimp under a Four-Horsemen popping cork in the Lost Lake area.

Make it a Delacroix December

Rusty Tardo

The fishing is fantastic and there’s action to be found all over the inside waters of Delacroix Island. […]

Joey Jeanfreau shows off a nice speckled trout, and said Chalmette locations typically get hot from October through about April.

Chalmette fishing action picks up in December

Rusty Tardo

Some truly prime winter fishing waters are accessed by three Chalmette area launches. […]

Gordon Matherne said keeper specks should be plentiful this month near the Sulfur Mine.

Speckled trout slam in the Sulfur Mine

Rusty Tardo

Birds are a dead giveaway to solid action My old friend and former charter guide Gordon Matherne said November is the best month of the year to fish the Sulfur Mine. “There are several inland […]

Frank Roberts said the trout transition was delayed this fall, but fish have finally moved inside.

Marsh speckled trout action on fire

Rusty Tardo

Specks show up hungry — in numbers The long summer trout drought is finally, mercifully over. Specks have reappeared all over the lakes and marshes — and they’re hungry, nicely-sized and plentiful. Local fisherman and […]

Don’t forget topwater for trout

Rusty Tardo

I love catching fish any way at all: under corks, tight-lined, live bait, plastics, whatever.

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