The Louisiana Fishing Guides at Hook Dat Fishing Charters have been finding good numbers of redfish and sheepshead stacked up in the marsh. The speckled trout bite has been mediocre this past week due to consistent high winds and intermittent thunderstorms keeping the water churned up. However we have been putting together some solid boxes of redfish, sheepshead and some speckled trout mixed in. Best luck has been on live shrimp with Four Horseman popping cork. Redfishing in the morning and afternoon has been strong in the interior marshes. Redfishing in southeast Louisiana near Shell Beach has been good and we're ready for some less windy weather to get those big speckled trout bites going again.

The Louisiana Fishing Guides at Hook Dat Fishing Charters have been hitting the speckled trout, redfish and snapper hard. The fishing has been excellent now that we have gotten past the recent tropical storm and cold front that passed through our region. We have been finding large speckled trout in and around some rigs. Drop shot live shrimp combined with 1/2 oz jig head and matrix shad have been producing the larger trout bite and hitting oyster reefs on a carolina rig with live shrimp and matrix shad have been producing some big numbers of trout. We have been catching over 100+ trout a day with about 1/2 of them just under the 12" size limit. But mixed in are some nice slabs allowing us to fill the coolers up with some nice specks. Redfishing during peak tidal movement from about 9 AM to 11 AM has been producing great slot limit reds to top of the morning catches. We had some really nice weather this past weekend allowing us to get out to the deeper water rigs and get on some great red snapper fishing. Catching limits of red snapper is pretty easy right now, just got to find the right rig and the right depth and the snapper fishing is fast and furious. Fishing in southeast Louisiana near Shell Beach has been excellent and we're ready for another great week of fishing! Come get you some!

The Louisiana Fishing Guides at Hook Dat Fishing Charters have been experiencing some pretty good fishing considering the late cold front that passed through following tropical strom cristobol. Tyipcally after a tropical storm or hurricane fishing is off the charts good, but the cold front that dropped in just after the tropical storm passed through threw us for a loop. We had to deal with strong winds that turned the water up into a dirty mess which makes it difficult to find and pattern fish. Combine that with cooler than normal temperatures, it made for some challenging fishing conditions. With that being said we spent a lot of time scouting and finding the cleanest water we could find. Once we found areas that were cleaning up pretty good we found good speckle trout fishing. If the speckle trout were not cooperating we went after redfish, sheepshead, black drum and even some bass. As soon as the wind switched out of the east, the water started cleaning up good and the speckled trout fishing got hot! By the end of the week, we were filling the coolers up with limits of speckled trout and adding some nice limits of redfish to go along with it. Get out and find that clean water and it will pay off!