Duet
I had promised my cousin I would take him to catch his first Redfish two years ago I figured it was time to make good on that promise. While every other kayaker from the region was down in Grand Isle for the Ride the Bull the worlds largest kayak tournament. We decided to hit the marsh for slot reds but just as much fun. We woke up at 5am and headed down the road to get an early launch and beat the storms that would be rolling in around 11 or 12.
Daily Routine: Slime Slam
With all the rain we have had in our state this past few days Lake Pontchartrain is really fresh and the areas we had been fishing probably have more bass than speckled trout right now. We decided to head down highway 23 and combat launch to explore the marsh and catch a mix of fish. I downsized my lure and just planned to have fun. We pedaled about 5 miles round trip and at every major bayou intersection there was bait being harassed by something.Daily Routine: Eastside Canal Bass Fishing
The weather has been forecast to be rainy the past few days scaring us from taking the kayaks out for a real trip. We decided to do some city limits fishing just in case it decided to storm today. We did mostly scouting today searching for good canals to fish. We ended up on the outskirts of the city in New Orleans east before we found a canal that held good numbers of bass.
Its Hot in Herre: August Delacroix Kayak Redfishing
We Launched into the darkness at 5 am it was calm and there was a slight breeze enough to keep the mosquito's away. This was my second time fishing the area we were heading and the plan was to explore and catch a few more than the 1 I had caught a few weeks ago. We had met Cody and Gary at the launch and we started in the same pond but quickly separated to meet up at a spot deeper in the marsh. Collin and I kept moving and by the time the sun came up we were almost to the first area we wanted to fish.Flounder on Demand : Recap Slamboree Kayak Tournament2016
The Lafayette Kayak Fishing Club holds their largest tournament
Slamboree every year the same weekend as the Grand Isle tarpon rodeo.
This was my second time doing this event and my fourth tournament on La
1. I had yet to catch a fish to weigh in any tournament I had
participated in down there. My goal this time was to at least catch a
fish that I could weigh in to break my La 1 tournament curse. After
scouring the web and reading reports and articles and anything I could
find I came up with three possible plans. We had planned to use the
Friday before bouncing around checking the different areas out but we got a late start on the prefish day and
missed the early morning bite. When we finally got down there at 8:30 we
realized we weren't going to have time to hit everything. I had fished most of the six potential areas already so I decided to
just check out one of the areas I had not fished before. As we
launched the water seemed high and dirty and I knew that might
make red fishing tough later on.We put that on the back burner to
see if we could find some decent trout while it was still kinda early. We pedaled around a while just surveying the new area until we got to a spot that had lots of bait a couple of casts later we both had a jumbo gafftop boated. We kept working this area with more gafftops of various sizes but only one small trout. We kept moving towards the mouth of a large bayou water and bait was pouring out and dolphins were working the opposite side. I knew this would be a good fishing spot but Collin caught the only keeper trout from this spot. We gave up trout fishing to look for some reds we saw lots of mullet and sheepshead but no reds. We headed in at 4 the only thing we learned was that we could scratch that area off the list. We had a lot of decisions to make and not much solid info to base them on.
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