Erick Crew, a local veteran from Baton Rouge, was taken fishing for his first time by his life long friend Christopher Baumann. They went out chasing reds in the Rigolets. Erick’s first red was this exciting 30-inch bull. A handful of keeper reds followed.
Chas Champagne starts off in Lake Pontchartrain and ends up pushing way back in some flooded duck ponds on high tides catching fat slot reds.[…]
In the fall, this river gets low and slow, allowing speckled trout, redfish and flounder to move in and gobble a feast of baitfish and shrimp.[…]
Among the most fertile habitats in North America, river deltas and other coastal marshes can host untold numbers and varieties of fish.[…]