Fishing Hotspots
Great Wall is great winter fishing spot
The Great Wall has helped the waters around MRGO fill back up with speckled trout and redfish, especially in winter.[…]
Bayou Bienvenue
Features
Trout on the rocks; try the Chalmette Wall
Anglers flock to the Wall near Chalmette for great winter action on speckled trout and redfish. Here’s how to fish there this month.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Body of missing boater recovered Friday in Bayou Bienvenue
Search and rescue crews late Friday afternoon recovered the body of a Zachary man who reportedly fell overboard while fishing in Bayou Bienvenue near Chalmette on Oct. 26.[…]
Big Bass
Teen catches 10-pound bass in Bayou Bienvenue
The father-son team of Brian and Brennan Silcio spends a lot of time together fishing the Bayou Bienvenue area out of Chalmette, so they’ve got the bass figured out.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bayou Bienvenue trout-fishing notes
Both suspending lures and soft plastics will produce fish.[…]
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Bayou Bienvenue is BACK!
Everybody wondered if the fishing action around Bayou Bienvenue could ever recover. Like so many other fishing areas in Southeast Louisiana, Bayou Bienvenue was adversely affected by the BP oil spill and the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Always Faithful: Bayou bienvenue never fails
St. Bernard’s Bayou Bienvenue has long provided access to a vast fishing area favored by many local anglers.[…]
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Bayou Welcome
The French named the wandering waterway “Bayou Bienvenue” (Bayou Welcome) probably because it was like a welcome mat, providing passage for ships entering from Lake Borgne almost to the very doorstep of New Orleans.[…]