FISHING REPORT by Bob Marshall
Friday, August 01, 2008
Bob Marshall— Inshore saltwater —
Outlook:Dog days of summer are here. Best fishing will be in the early morning on days with good tidal movement. Trout fishing remains best in the outer bays; reds thick inside.
(Good) Delacroix Isle
Trout outside, reds and bass inside. Best spots: Dope Boat, Black Tank, The Wreck, Battledore Reef, Breton Sound; redfish in Little Lake, Grand Lake, Four Horse Lake, Oak River, Little Crevasse, Oak River Bay, Lake Campo. Best baits: live shrimp, live croakers, live cockahoes, market bait, plastic cockahoes, gold spoons.
(Good) Hopedale
Specks and reds. Best spots: Bay Eloi, long and short rocks, Central, Gardiner Island, Lake Fortuna, Lake Machias, Central Rig, wellheads, Breton Sound at Central, The Compressor, Little Central, Five Wells, Dope Boat, MR-GO from Hopedale to short and long rocks, Lake of the Trees. Best baits: Hybrids (avocado, seafood), Berkley Gulp! (glo, new penny), live shrimp or croakers.
Reggio
Reds and specks. Best spots: Reds in duck ponds off Bayou Juanita, Schooner Canal, Reggio Canal, Tanasia’s, Lake Amadee, Bayou Batolo, Bayou Robin, Petain. Best baits: gold spoon, plastic cockahoe with gold spinner blades.
(Good) Shell Beach
Specks, reds. Best spots: south side of the channel at the new rocks and cement pads, between Shell Beach and Bayou La Loutre, long and short rocks, Black Bay at Stone Island and Lonesome Islands, Breton Sound on calmer days. Best baits: live shrimp, live croakers, sparkle beetles (clear, chartreuse), plastic cockahoes.
(Fair) Bayou Bienvenue
Specks and reds. Best spots: The Castle. Violet Locks, mouth
of the bayou at the lake, and the MR-GO rocks between Bayou
Bienvenue and Violet, Boh Brothers, Bulk Plant. Best baits:
live shrimp, live croakers 2 feet below a sliding cork.(Fair) The Chef
Scattered trout, reds. Best spots: New rocks in Lake
Pontchartrain, Alligator Point, Star Bayou, Shell Point,
Third Island, gas wells in Lake Borgne. Best baits: live
shrimp, fresh shrimp, gold spoons, sparkle beetles, Gulp!
(lo), Deadly Dudley Terror Tail (Blue Moon).(Good) The Rigolets
Trout and reds. Best spots: The railroad and car bridges,
Unknown Pass, Alligator Point, Rigolets shorelines. Best
baits: Live shrimp, live croakers, Deadly Dudley Bay Chovie
(Opening Night) Terror Tail (Blue Moon), DOA, Gulp!(Fair) Myrtle Grove
Scattered reds and specks. Best spots: Manilla Village; Bay
Laurier, Bay Round, Bay Cray, Manilla Village, St.
Mary’s Point, reds in the ponds along Bayou Dupont.
Best baits: plastics on the bottom, and drifting with cork.(Fair) North shore
Sheepshead, drum, croakers, white trout and flounders. Best
spots: Specks along the trestles between mid-and south
shore, and along the shoreline between Liberty and Lacombe.
Otherwise bottom fish along all the bridges and rigs. Best
baits: any plastic with a chartreuse tail, including, Deadly
Dudley Baychovie (Opening Night), DOA shrimp (glo,
clear/chartreuse tail); market bait.(Good) Lafitte
Plenty reds, trout scattered. Best spots: on calmer days
trout in the bay from Manilla Village south, and on the
beaches; some specks in Hackberry Bay; reds everywhere from
Bayou Perot, The Pen, Lake Salvador east and south
shorelines, Bay Round, Airplane Bay, Little Lake, Hackberry
Bay, Bay L’ours. Best baits: live shrimp, live
cockahoes on the bottom, plastic cockahoe (glo/chartreuse
tail, black).(Fair) Happy Jack-Port Sulphur
Trout and reds. Best spots: As tidal range improves this
weekend, action should improve at Four Bayous, the Mining
area, Lake Washington, Bay Sansbois, Grand Bayou. Best
baits: live shrimp, live minnows, sparkle beetles (avocado,
gold spoons).(Fair) Pointe a la Hache
Trout outside, reds inside. Hoist is now working at Beshel.
Best spots: Trout under the birds California Bay, Iron
Banks, Stone Island, Battledore area; reds are thick inside
between Pointe a la Hache and Delacroix. Best baits: sparkle
beetles, plastic cockahoes, topwater baits, fresh shrimp.(Good) Empire-Buras
Trout and reds. Best spots: when the wind is not from the
west, trout are on the beaches from Empire to Four Bayous;
east side, California Point, Battledore Reef, Black Tank.
Best baits: on calmer days use topwater baits (Zarra, Jr.,
She Dog), otherwise, Deadly Dudley Terror Tail (Blue Moon),
live minnows and shrimp.(Good) Venice
Trout and reds. Best spots: Main Pass Block 69, Flatboat
Pass, Pass a Loutre, Breton Island, Deepwater Point,
Kelly’s Gap, South and Southwest Pass rocks and lumps,
Scofield, Sandy Point; reds everywhere on west side. Best
baits: live shrimp, plastic cockahoes (black/chartreuse) on
the bottom; fresh shrimp; gold spoons.(Good) Grand Isle-Fourchon
Specks, reds, white trout, sheepshead. Best spots: Timbalier
Islands Lake Raccourci reefs, reefs behind Grand Isle, Queen
Bess, Coupa Bel, Government Reef; reds in the marsh off the
canals; some trout along the beaches from Elmer’s
Island to Four Bayous. Best baits: live shrimp, live
cockahoes, live croakers, live pogies, Berkeley Gulp!
(shrimp) Saltwater Assassin (chartreuse, smoke).— Offshore —
Outlook:Tuna in West Delta 58, plenty of West Delta 117,
edge of the Grand Isle block and up into the canyon, big red
snapper; grouper; cobia, amberjack; plenty of tuna at Quest
Medusa, Innovator. Bay Marchand rigs and Grand Isle 20s and
40s have snapper, cobia and some grouper.— Freshwater —
Outlook:Bass and bream steady.
(Good) Lafitte
Bass and bream. Best spots: the trees on the north side of
The Pen, and the grass bed on the east side, Tank Pond, Blue
Point, Service Canal, Delta Farms, Salvador Management Area,
Bayou Dupont. Best baits: buzz baits early and late; plastic
worms, (red shad), live worms, Gulp! Niblets.(Fair) North shore
Bass, sac-a-lait, bream. Best spots: West Pearl below
Interstate 10, Bayou Liberty, Bayou Lacombe, Geohagen’s
Canal. Best baits: spinner baits (yellow/chartreuse),
plastic worms (Tequila); live shiner, crickets and worms for
bream.(Good) St. Bernard
Bass. Best spots: Grand Lake, Bayou Terre aux Beoufs, Oak
River, Spanish Lake, Lake Lery, Reggio Canal, Lake Amadee,
Caernarvon Canal, Howard’s Ditch, Schooner Canal, Bayou
Le Mer Canal. Best baits: DOA (clear), live shrimp beetle
spins (green/black stripe), plastic lizards (watermelon),
plastic worms (purple, Tequila, pumpkin seed), DOA (glo).