Louisiana Fishing - Your Guide to Fishing in Louisiana

While there are no guarantees in New Orleans East right now, Captain CT Williams with Big Fish Charters (504-610-6914) says the start of the squeeze play between the mud coming out of the mouth of the Mississippi to the south and the mud coming out of Pontchartrain to the north is pushing fish to Breton Sound.
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Important trailers are underappreciated

Every time you launch your boat you�re presented with an opportunity to check your trailer. Most of the checks take mere seconds, and they�ll save you many headaches later on.

I have written a lot about maintaining your boat and engine, but the trailer is quite possibly the most important component of your rig. It is also likely the most overlooked component of your rig.
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One size definitely does not fit all

One solution: The author recently ran across a line of waterproof, onboard smart chargers with three separate owner-selectable charging profiles for flooded, AGM or gel batteries.

Have you ever wondered why your trolling motor doesn�t run as long as you think it should between battery charges, or why your batteries don�t last as long as you expected?
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Post-spawn bite excellent at Toledo

Toledo Bend�s hydrilla holds the key to the mid-day bite. Fish the edges with spinnerbaits if it�s cloudy, and with jigs if it�s sunny.

May is a good month to fish many lakes in Louisiana, but I prefer Toledo Bend because the topwater bite early in the morning there is phenomenal. The bass have just completed the spawn a couple of weeks earlier, but the weather�s still moderate, and the bass are really feeding up after the spawn.
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What knot to wear on your leader

Using rattail cord, fly fishing instructors can have students visualize each step of the process of tying a knot. The surgeons knot, as shown, is important to learn because it�s an easy and effective knot for making leaders for marsh fishing.

There�s an epidemic going around: folks hooking into nice redfish only to lose the fish, and their flies, during the struggle.
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Are marsh bass really different?

The author caught this marsh bass incidentally while fishing a topwater plug for speckled trout near Delacroix.

It�s the end of spring, and the peak of marsh bass fishing is past. Marshes near the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers are still brown with river water, and everywhere else in the marshes, aquatic plants are going into their summer growth period.
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