Fishing Reports by Capt. Gene Dugas

Bachelor Party In Hopedale LA - Dave Scott set up this 2 boat trip for his friends and bachelor party group. The weather forecast called for wind and rain but luckily the rain held off until 12:30 giving us enough time to catch some speckled trout and redfish. First stop nothing no more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Hopedale Louisiana Trout! - ANOTHER GREAT DAY! Von his daughter Cindy and her son Joey made the trip to Hopedale LA from just south of Hattiesburg MS Tuesday morning to catch some Speckled Trout and Redfish. Well the wind was back so the on to plan B. Things started out great more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Hopedale Louisiana Trout! - Fished yesterday with Ray Huntzicker HUNTSZICKER OUTDOORS and friends Brent and John. Friday was the first day after the all week cold blast and the weather was nice and warming up today. The water temps were around 46 degrees when we hit the water more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Super Bowl Redfish - Super Bowl Redfish With the super low water Sunday I decided to leave the Avenger in the slip and take the GD Surface drive out to do some skinny water fishing for reds. The water was a little stained but the reds were very visible up on the flats. more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Catch and Release Day! - Yesterday I had the pleasure of fishing with Randy and his son Rodney from Georgia. They were in New Orleans for a few days and wanted to sample the great fishing we have in Louisiana. We started out at 8 o'clock to let things warm up some and got ri more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Roll Tide! - Fished yesterday with the Perkins family from Birmingham Alabama Scott his 2 son Allen 12, Daniel 10 and Scott's dad Dick 81. Well the front was coming in but the weather was perfect. We started things off quick first stop the boys were catching tro more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Hopedale LA. Grand Slam! - Yesterday was beautiful weather again but not a lot of tidal movement but it was nota problem for this crew from the Mandeville LA area. Joel his daughter Lindsay and Kurt and Carol were non stop fishing crew. Things started off great first spot Lind more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Skip and the Gang! - Skip Marks his daughter Alex and son Phillip were ready for some RR and some fish catching. This crew is a regular and we always have good time and catch a bunch of fish and today was no different. Things started slow with the windy conditions pickin more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Table full of redfish - Hopedale Louisiana - Monday Bob, Manuel, David, and Gene made down to Hopedale they had not been in awhile with all the storms we had but today was the day and they were ready for action. First stop trout coming in but they got small quick. We had decided to go outside more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale

Hopedale LA. Report - Al Godwin from Shreveport La called to see if I was up for trip Monday after all these storms I was ready. We headed out around 7:30 first stop 4 nice trout then zip. Second stop the trout were biting good on live shrimp and Old bayside plastic Shrim more...
Capt. Gene Dugas - Hopedale