Just got back from the Loosiana gulf where the B-Fish-N paddletail–purple with chartreuse tail–whipped limits of speckled trout to 6 lbs and redfish to 9 lbs., pitching on a 1/4 oz jighead in canals and coastal waters–just a long days’s drive away from the Wis/Ill stateline
It’s a 16 hr. easy interstate drive to Leeville, Loosiana. All ya need is a bass or jon boat–and time on the water to get hooked up. Bigger boats okay, too. We fished out of my buddy Daryl Dispensire’s Champion. LImit is 25 specs/day…takes about 2 hrs once you find em. Scrappy redfish are mixed in with the bag. One Whale of a pull!
Stayed at Boudreaux motel 985-396-2215, email:[email protected]. Weather sometimes rainy, but with lows in the 50’s, highs in the 70’s much better than sitting on a bucket. Technique is not much different than fishing plastics for ‘eyes on the River, just pitch it out and reel it in just above the bottom. Best times to fish are high and low tides, targeting open spots in canals. Redfish pull like smallies on steroids. Having a 6lber stretch yer string will have ya sweatin’ all over yer t-shirt and shorts!
Ted,
I have been meaning to do something like this for quite some time. IS this time of year the best or are there fish going in the chanels all year long?
Ted Thanks for the report,sounds like a blast! Will be going down there next year,starting in Miss. and working our way to Florida. Stuart
Steve–June is the absolute best month to fish here, but its HOT…its always good, March is a little windy, April both the fish and the temperature are good. a super contact is Tommy Martin, the best guide down there. his website is martinproguide.com
When we lived in texas years ago i got into my first redfish and to say the least they do pull hard. You’d have to catch one to see it. I pulled up with my pickup gate down, baited up with fresh shrimp and threw out. I put my pole handle in the stake holes in the box sides and waited. I turned my head for a few seconds and turned back and looked and my rod was bent double and it stayed that way. I thought i had a huge fish because the rod never came up, it was a 6′ rod and solid fiberglass. When i got my first red in it was only 5 pounds and i could’nt believe a fish this size fought this hard, its one of the hardest fighting fish i’ve ever caught. Where i was at alot of guys used johnson silver and gold minnows for casting ability and a rubber tail called a (tout) tail in 4 to 6 inch lengths. Its hard to beat the surf fishing with small live 2″ blue crabs, 4″ mullet and fresh live shrimp. Make plans for a cooler full of ice as it is hotter then haties down there and the suns right overhead and intense. In texas the hottest months are july through sept. Its a real scorcher and very humid anywhere on the gulf coast in the summer months for sure. If you fish at night maybe a school of small jellyfish will float by, you can see this because they send out this little phosperescent blip of light that comes from thier body chemistery when they float by but you can’t actually see the body, thier almost clear and are see through. Couldn’t belive it, all these hundreds of little blips, when i first saw them and didn’t know what they were and later found out they were a school of small jellyfish.