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The water in the Louisiana marsh is super clean

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:21:51 +0000

The weather had given us a bad run for a few weeks but things are starting to stabalize. We are getting consitent shots at big redfish and black drum over 20 pounds every day. The water in the Louisiana marsh is super clean right now making it great for sight fishing. We have landed a bunch of fish in the 20-40 pound range over the past couple weeks and more redfish and drum are showing up in the marsh in between cold fronts. Tight lines!

27 pound redfish on fly

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:40 +0000

Had another great day. 27 pounder on fly and many other shots before the scum sky covered us. Messed around with some 7-13 pound fish that were crawling in the creeks on low tide. We had one backing coming right at us, the whole Vantage skiff was blocking the fish from getting out, Will hooked the fish, when he came at the boat we heard nothing but a thud, then the fish threw himself up on the mud and slithered back into the water, pretty cool to see them do that especially when he ended up being 13 pounds. Great day fly fishing in Louisiana.

East Cape crew in Louisiana

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:09:41 +0000

Got Marc and Graham in Louisiana for four days. First day was pretty good fishing even thought the fog was thick. We landed four redfish over 20 pounds and had a number of other good shots on fly. Got rained out today but we are back at it tomorrow.

Big redfish in my new ECC Vantage

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:05:51 +0000

Today I got redemption. We landed an 18 & 25 pound redfish along with a few other smaller ones. We got a few more shots at some huge redfish along with some shots at black drum. The Fog was insane today. We couldn’t see 20yrds in front of the boat all day, thank god for the GPS. Fly casting in uptown new orleans on Claiborne ave. EPIC!

Cyberangler Jan on some nice redfish

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:10:05 +0000

I had Jan Maizler from cyberangler.com in the boat again today and we hammered the fish again. We fished till 12:45, landed 10 redfish up to 22 pounds and a nice black drum that weighed 26 pounds. We fished all spinning rods today and used purple and yellow paddle tail plastic jigs and a jig head. We sight fished everything we threw to which makes it a blast. We had a few shots at redfish backing down shorelines with their eyeballs out of the water they were so shallow. The fishing is on fire right now and will continue to get better as we get consistent cold fronts. Tight lines!

Manhattan charter with redfish on fly

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:27:17 +0000

Had Ron from Manhattan on the boat today. We had decent conditions and a ton of fish. We put a few 5-10 pound red drum in the boat and ended the day with a hog, 28 pound redfish on fly.

Pre Thanksgiving fishing

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:14:51 +0000

I had three generations of Dini’s on the boat the day before turkey day. We had a great time and caught a few nice redfish and trout.

Killer red fishing

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:37:33 +0000

The past two days were incredible on the Louisiana marsh. I had Travis from Atlanta the first day and Hunter the 2nd day. Travis wanted to go for some big guys so our plan was to fish big fish water. I can’t tell you how many 5-10 pound fish we didn’t even cast to becaue we didn’t want waste time fighting them and have a monster swim by the boat. We ended up landing 15 fish with the biggest being 19 pounds and we had our shots at 30 pounders.
Hunter and I went out today and got after it. We landed a 22 pound redfish and a 31 pounder on fly. We also had 4 double headers on smaller fish in the 8-10 pound range and had a few other shots at some giant redfish. The Louisiana fishing is on fire right now,Tight lines!

Incredible redfishing

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:02:25 +0000

What a great day to fish the Louisiana Marsh. Today I had the pleasure to guide Roger and his good friend John. We landed a 19, 22, 28, and 35 pound redfish and we topped it off by fishing a shallow pond that had crawlers all over it so we got out of the boat and laid the hammer down. It’s starting to go off here in the marsh and these are the kind of days we look forward to.

BoldWater and Saltyshores

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:53:41 +0000

We snuck a half day trip in before Derek Redwine from BoldWater and Sam Root from Saltyshores had to be at the airport.

After a big hearty breakfast at Penny’s and picking up our Po Boys for lunch we were off to the Louisiana Marsh. The wind was still honking pretty good but we persevered. Both Derek and Sam got some nice redfish on fly. Sam shot a lot of incredible video and pictures. I’m excited to see how it comes out.

Before it was time to pack it in and get these guys to the airport Derek said he would pole me up the next bay. It didn’t take long to find a victim, at first I thought it was a decent redfish siting on the point. As I fired off the fly a big tail hit the surface, and a couple strips and an enormous Black Drum face engulfed my fly. I think Sam got the bite on video. After that we took some pictures and headed for the barn.

Derek and Sam said the check in at the airport was quick and painless. The next few days it looks like I will have some good weather for my charters.

If you want to hit up some Big Louisiana redfish call me, the fishing will continue to get bigger and better for the next few months and I still have some openings.

Fishing the Louisiana Marsh

Started the day off catching a few reds on jig.

BoldWater gets a nice redfish on Fly.

Sam Root gets a good redfish on fly

Louisiana redfish

My 40 pound black drum on fly

A couple celebratory beers and we are off!