“The Most Exciting Fishing on Gulf Coast” What is your favorite way to catch a fish? Is it popping a cork for schooling trout or topwater for big yellow mouths? Maybe it’s tossing spinner baits and big reds cruising a shoreline or even jigging deep water passes for whatever bites. Well if your answer isn’t sight…
What do you consider deep water? In costal Louisiana which is relatively shallow most would consider deep water anything over six feet. Here on the Pontchartrain basin we have multiple areas in our passes close to 100 feet deep. Migrations of shrimp and fish migrate through these huge passes in giant schools everyday and trout…
After another very fresh year in our estuary, a salt water surge has made its way back into Lake Pontchartrain after being at 1ppt for almost the entire year. At the end of July the salt ppt jumped all the way up to 17ppt and now sits around 5ppt. Look for summer trout spots to…
The dog days of summer are here and not going anywhere too soon. Looks like July is going to start off as a wet one to go along with scorching heat. This is definitely not one of my favorite times of year although we still go fishing and there is several things to do right…
Well what a wild spring we have jumped into. From the most swollen Pearl River I may have ever recalled, to a pandemic requiring a 30 day quarantine and why not throw another Bonnett Carre Spillway opening to boot. Well the saying “It can’t get any worse” I think holds pretty true for the beginning…
Tis the season for these tasty little rascals. Here in south Louisiana they are called sacalait for “sack of milk” due to their delicious table fair. Besides top water trout fishing and sight fishing reds this is a favorite fish to target for us here at DockSide TV as you can see in many of…
This winter has so far been non existent and the trout have been responding to these warm temperatures. Typically we loose our speckled trout bite around this time of year but this year the specks have been staying in a November style pattern all winter. We also usually find the bass and reds stacked up…
Although this winter has been as mild as one I can ever remember this front may be the one to consolidate the red fish in the deep holes of the marsh. Typically easy red fishing starts around the end of November but this winter the temperatures haven’t seemed to get cold enough and the water…
Trout fishing tends to slow down this time of year as far as numbers go but targeting trophy size specks can heat up this time of year. This is the time of year where patience is key. Look for a few bites not loading the boat. Across the entire Gulf Coast is known for yielding…
As I write this I am looking out my window at the biggest NW wind of the year so far and plummeting temperatures. What will this do to the fish? Well I personally love when the water drops out for marsh fishing as it consolidates the fish into the deeper bayous driving them out of…
