Published: Friday, April 29, 2011, 4:29 AM Inshore saltwater Rough weather all week basically shut down fishing until Thursday afternoon. Weekend guess calls for better weather Friday and Saturday. Today's reports feature best guesses for speckled trout when the weather calms. Bait-shrimp season opens Sunday, so next week should be better. Delacroix Isle: Fair Specks and redfish. Best spots: Stone Island, The Wreck, The Black Tank, Four Horse Lake, Lake John, Lake Campo, Bay Lafourche, Lake Batolo. Best baits: popping corks with plastics (chartreuse), live cockahoes, Hopedale: Fair Trout, reds. Best guesses: Bay Eloi, The Rocks, Little Central, Five Wells, Mozambique, eastern side of Black Bay, Lake Machias, The Dam, Lake Robin, Lake Amadee, Hopedale Lagoon. Best baits: Gulp! (shrimp); market shrimp, live cockahoes. Reggio: Fair Trout, reds, flounder. Best guesses: Reggio Canal, Lake Amadee, Grand Lagoon, Tanasia, Bayou Batolo, Bayou Robin. Best baits: sparkle beetles (purple/chartreuse tail), Saltwater Assassin (Electric Chicken), plastic cockahoes (purple). Shell Beach: Fair Scattered reds and trout. Best guesses: Breton Sound rigs, The Rocks, Lake Borgne rigs, shoreline from Shell Beach to Bayou St. Malo, Stump Lagoon, Musclini, The Dam. Best baits: topwater baits, live cockahoes, sparkle beetles (chartreuse), Deadly Dudley (chartreuse tail), market bait. Bayou Bienvenue: Fair Specks, reds. Best guesses: Lake Borgne side of The Wall, The Locks, The Castle, Boh Brothers, Lake Borgne shoreline to Proctor's Point. Best baits: Gulp! (shrimp), Deadly Dudley (Blue Moon), live croakers. The Chef: Fair Specks and reds. Best guesses: Gas Wells, Alligator Point, Star Bayou, Bayou Thomas rocks, new rocks in Lake Pontchartrain. Best baits: market shrimp, Deadly Dudley Terror Tail (Blue Moon), Gulp! (glo). The Rigolets: Fair Mixed trout, reds. Best guesses: The bridges on change of tides, rigs in Lake Borgne, Lake St. Catherine shorelines. Best baits: Deadly Dudley (Fool's Gold), Saltwater Assassins, curly tail (chartreuse), live cockahoes, market shrimp. Lake Pontchartrain: Fair Trout, reds, some flounder. Best guesses: lee side of The Trestles, Louisiana Hwy. 11 bridge, The Causeway; Seabrook area at South Shore Harbor and Casino, runway. Best baits: Deadly Dudley Slamming Sammy, live cockahoes. Lafitte: Fair Trout and reds. Best guesses: rigs in Barataria Bay, Bay Round, Bay Cray, Bayou Dupont, Bay L'ours, Hackberry Bay. Best baits: plastics (glo/chartreuse tail, black/chartreuse tail), market bait. Myrtle Grove: Fair Reds, some trout. Best guesses: Bay Round, Bayou Dupont, Bay Cray, Bay Five, Saturday Island, Shrug Rig, Lake Laurier, Bay Racquette. Best baits: plastics, market shrimp, live cockahoes, gold spoons. Pointe a la Hache: Fair Trout and reds. Best guesses: Iron Banks, Stone Island, American Bay, Bay Law islands, Whiskey Bay, Triple Pass, Bay Lafourche. Best baits: Saltwater Assassin (Acid Rain), sparkle beetles (clear, chartreuse) under a cork, some with market bait. Empire-Buras: Fair Trout on calmer days. Best guesses: English Bay, Bay Jacques, Scofield; east side from American Bay east to Iron Banks. Best baits: Deadly Dudley (Fool's Gold, Yellow Snow). Venice: Fair Trout, reds. Best guesses: River on another big jump, Iron Banks, Triple Pass, Stone Island, Deepwater Point. Best baits: live shrimp, market bait under cork, sparkle beetles, plastic cockahoes (black/chartreuse). Grand Isle-Fourchon: Fair Trout, reds. Best guesses: Independence Island, Queen Bess, Coupa Bel, Cat Islands, Palmetto Bayou, Bay Rambo, Bassa-Bassa, Louisiana 1 Canal. Best baits: live shrimp, live cockahoes, plastics (chartreuse), market bait. OFFSHORE Plenty of tuna around the floaters and some of the closer in rigs on calmer days. Freshwater Bream fishing hot everywhere; bass steady. St. Bernard: Good Bass. Best spots: Reggio Canal, Lake Lery, Bayou Juanita, Bayou Lachope, Bayou LeMere, Grand Lake, Spanish Lake area, Back Levee canal, Oak River, Caernarvon canals, Howard's Ditch. Best baits: beetle spins (black/yellow), plastic worms (purple, Tequila, pumpkin seed), DOA (glo). Lafitte: Good Bream, bass. Best spots: Blue Point, The Pen, Lake Cataouatche, Bayou Dupont. Best baits: spinner baits, buzz baits (black/yellow), plastic worms (red shad), spinner baits (white and chartreuse); sac-a-lait hitting spinners (black/chartreuse), micro jigs. North Shore: Good Bream, some bass. Best spots: West Pearl, The Turnaround, Bayou Liberty, Carr Drive, Bayou Lacombe, Geohagen's Canal. Best baits: spinner baits (yellow/chartreuse), plastic worms (Tequila), live shiners. http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/04/bob_marshalls_weekly_fishing_r_8.html ================================================ Fishing reduces stress and gives you a break from our modern world where everything is going a million miles per hour 73 Check & Clear 6 LOC: 38-54-14.60N / 097-14-09.07W |
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