New Orlians Style

Well, everybody, here we are 3 months after the  Deepwater Horizen well exploded and started gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. I’m currently still working with a contractor with the oil prevention and clean up areas of our marshes. 80% of the waters that I like to fish haven’t been affected by the oil that has come into the Barataria Bay area.

The efforts of all the local charter fisherman, commercial shrimp, crab, and oyster fisherman that are helping clean up and prevent the oil from doing any more damage have been paying off greatly. The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries have opened up more waters that were recently closed to recreational fishing. This is a good sign that these waters aren’t tainted with oil and the fish are safe to catch.

Even though I’m not currently fishing, I do still have a couple of captains that would be more than happy to take anyone out for a fun day on the water fishing. They have been catching good redfish in numbers  and a few trout.  Feel free to call and book a trip.

If you would like to see the waters that are open to fishing go to www.wlf.louisiana.gov and click on the latest updates which is located at left hand side of the page.

UPDATE June 14, 2010 – My fishing area in the inner waterways around New Orleans have just about all been closed by the Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries.   We are now part of the BP prevention and clean up crew, and hope to have our waters clean again very soon, with a healthy marshland and good fishing.

I had some good friends come in from Arkansas to fish and go to an annual crawfish cook off. Mr. Johnny, Mr.Bill, Mr. John, Harvey, Dale, Travis and Steve arrived around 3pm Friday evening. With my boat and another friend of the group, Mr.Robert, and his boat, we loaded the crew up and went fishing. Got to the first spot and fish on. That’s the way I like it.

We fished with spinner baits with purple cocahoes with yellow tails. We fished till almost dark and ended up with 16 reds all around 18″-25″ perfect size for the grill. After cleaning the fish, they wanted to go eat at a local restaurant that we can get to by water. We loaded back in the boats and went have dinner. The next morning the guys wanted to ride out and try their luck at some of the big bull reds that Ive been catching. The ride was a little bumpy with the wind blowing 15-25mph, but we made it and caught all the big bull reds and drum that they wanted. After battling big fish and mother nature, we went to the crawfish cook-off and continued to enjoy the time that they are down.

Thanks guys! It’s always a fun time when y’all come down. And Thanks a bunch Mr.Robert for lending a hand and your boat. Fishing in Lafitte is picking up and will be good for quite some time.