
Timbalier bounty
The Terrebonne-Timbalier system between Cocodrie and Port Fourchon still produces some of the best speckled trout and redfish action anywhere.[…]
The Terrebonne-Timbalier system between Cocodrie and Port Fourchon still produces some of the best speckled trout and redfish action anywhere.[…]
Kip Plaisance with Plaisance’s Tidewater Charters gives some tips for fishing speckled trout while fishing in Timbalier Bay west of Fourchon.[…]
Capt. T-Man Cheramie said the fishing at Timbalier Bay and Lake Raccourci is red hot right now, just as hot as the August temperatures.[…]
Tommy Vidrine pulled in plenty of big redfish on the east side of the jetties at the Fourchon rocks on Feb. 26.[…]
Cole Thurman caught a giant black grouper with Down the Bayou Charters that weighed 106.3 pounds, nearly doubling the state record.[…]
On a September trip with Down the Bayou Charters, Lisa Schlitzkus hooked a 20-pound mutton snapper, the potential No. 2 in the state.[…]
After a 3-day absence, Sportsman field reporter Tommy Vidrine finds speckled trout have moved back to the Fourchon Barges in large numbers.[…]
Tommy Vidrine spanked some hungry specks in the Gulf on January 10![…]
Sportsman field reporter Tommy Vidrine says after a few months of bad fishing, the speckled trout are back feeding along the coasts of Grand Isle and Fourchon.[…]
Fish top water and flies for smashing results If you love seeing redfish smash topwater offerings, but aren’t that familiar with the waters around Grand Isle, now is the time to head down Highway 1[…]
They say it’s not how you start — but how you finish that matters.
That was the case last Friday, June 1, when Tyler Bourgeois headed out of Moran’s Marina in Fourchon around 6:30 a.m. for a red snapper trip during the Catholic High School (Baton Rouge) Alumni Fishing Rodeo.[…]
Like the old saying goes, timing is everything.
Less than 24 hours after registering for the Louisiana Coastal Conservation Association’s STAR Tournament, Raymond Champagne reeled in a tagged redfish Tuesday morning along the Fourchon barges to win the 2016 grand prize: a brand new $40,000 Chevy Silverado pickup truck. […]
It wasn’t quite Ahab pursuing Moby Dick, but Capt. Paul Guidroz was a man on a mission last weekend, intent on catching up with a giant Warsaw grouper that had escaped him only days earlier out of Fourchon.[…]
So it’s been a slow season for trout. The usual summer slam we expect every year never quite materialized, and anglers and guides alike have scratched their heads, wondering if this season is an ominous portend of things to come.[…]
Homeowners and camp owners are being allowed onto Grand Isle, but only in convoys led by local authorities because Louisiana Highway 1 east of Fourchon was heavily damaged by Hurricane Isaac, LouisianaSportsman.com has learned.
“The road is washed out the whole way, but they’re letting people come down in convoys,” Louisiana Sportsman’s Tony Taylor said this afternoon while driving to check on his family’s cap on Grand Isle. “They’re convoying people in if you have a camp or home on the island.”[…]
Capt. Steve Shook wasn’t even wanting to fish June 7. He honestly didn’t want to pick up the bent-over rod sitting securely in one of his rod holders.[…]