Fishing Reports

This beautiful 37-inch red was caught in the Bayou Bienvenue marsh. Thanks to the light tackle, 10-pound mono, I was using, she put up a 10 minute fight and I took this picture before returning

Eight-year-old Elson Stevens lands his first of many redfish out of Buras on Aug. 10, 2021

Seven-year-old Shae Pitre caught his first Lake Boeuf sac-a-lait on Dec. 4, 2021 during a weekend at his family’s camp on Halpin Canal with his dad, Kris, and Travis “Uncle T” Benoit.

Michael Word, Sam Shirley and John Kyle Schwab hold up a stringer of sac-a-lait caught using ultra light spinning reels and black and white tube jigs 18 inches under a weighted cork on Nov. 26,

On Nov. 26, these bass were caught by John Kyle Schwab and Hunter Schwab using Texas-rigged tequila sunrise plastic worms on private property in Marksville.

Chris Turner caught this bass at his grandparent’s pond in Youngsville on a watermelon colored wacky worm. His family held their first annual family fishing tournament on Thanksgiving Day and this was the first fish

Ambrose Barwick, 12, caught his biggest largemouth on Thanksgiving Day using a rigged artificial crawfish on the Tchefuncte River near Highway 21 in Covington.

Donald Griffin caught this 28-pound redfish with a live shrimp under a cork in Adams Bay out of Empire.

On the morning of Dec. 3, 2021, Tanner and his dad launched at the Rigolets Marina and set their course to the east side of the Biloxi Marsh. They were greeted with clean water and

Ethan and Whitney Defelice up and at it early chasing redfish.

Draden Bascle with a nice redfish caught in Lake Decade on Nov. 21, 2021.

Mimi Thomas, 14, of Abbeville holds up her 42-inch, 43-pound bull red caught in Vermilion Bay in September. We call this the “Cajun Power fishy!”