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Restoring the Chandeleur Islands
The Chandeleur Islands are home to the northern Gulf of Mexico’s largest seagrass bed, and provide food and shelter for fish and birds.[…]
Chandeleur Islands
Fishing Hotspots
A run to the Chandeleur Islands pays with big trout
As the temperatures start heating up, so does the speckled trout fishing at the Chandeleur Islands. Cayce Causey knows this well.[…]
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The legendary Chandeleur Islands
Todd Masson, Capt. Justin Bowles and television show host Kevin Ford made a trip to the Chandeleur Islands to fish for speckled trout.[…]
Features
Louisiana’s barrier islands offer kayak-bound anglers great fishing
Louisiana’s barrier islands offer great opportunities for kayak-bound anglers. Make the arrangements for a trip of a lifetime.[…]
Features
Fishing Louisiana’s barrier islands
The barrier islands that separate Louisiana’s coastline from the Gulf of Mexico offer some great fishing opportunities, but they aren’t sitting still.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Wading vs. boat fishing the Chandeleur Islands
The Chandeleur Islands are roughly a 40- to 45-mile boat ride from Venice, Hopedale Marina or Mississippi ports, and can be a dynamic fishery.[…]
Speckled Trout
In search of speckled trout at the Chandeleur Islands
Spring is a great time to venture out to the Louisiana barrier islands in search of big speckled trout. None are as legendary as the Chandeleur Islands.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bull reds ganged up around Chandeleur Island chain
Spain’s Running of the Bulls has nothing over ours: Every year, usually beginning somewhere between late February to early March and extending into April, huge schools of bull reds show up at the barrier islands and maul everything in the water.[…]
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Island Invitation: Head to the Chandeleur Islands for great redfish, trout action
It was the eve of Feb. 1 in the year 1700 — a day long celebrated by Europeans as “Candlemas,” a day when their religious clergy blessed the candles that would be used in their religious services for the remainder of the year.
On the eve of that holy day, French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville dropped anchor alongside a long chain of uninhabited islands off the border of the Louisiana/Mississippi coast and christened them Les Iles de Chandeleur (Translated in English a “The Chandeleur Islands”) in honor of the event.[…]
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Chandeleurs in January?
Minutes after surveying Breton Island’s surprising paucity of fish and off-colored water, Gibby Andry, Lyle Panepinto and I were passing over the solemn remains of what is left of Grand Gosier Island. A small spit of land and a series of sandbars and shallow flats offer a grim reminder of what once was a land mass significant enough to put on most state maps.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Reader looks for Chandeleur remnants
Dear Capt. Paul:
What’s the location of Curlew Island, north of Breton Island?[…]