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Spring redfishing in Venice Louisiana
Capt. Shawn Lanier
March 27, 2016
Venice - Saltwater Fishing Report
Venice Louisiana Fishing Report.
March 21, 2016
Last week I took out Ray and Mark from Montana out fishing for some big Redfish action. Ray fly fishes back at home, so I told him fishing with me for Redfish weighing between 15 to 40lbs. on artificial lures would be way different than what he was used to. "That's why we are here" he told me. We headed down the Mississippi River to an area that was fishable with no big waves coming in on us. As always, we needed to try to find the first fish to bite. About twenty minutes of casting Mark hooked a big Red. Eight or ten minutes later we boated a twenty-six lb. "BULL" Redfish. Mark never caught a Redfish, so he was really charged up. We fished for another hour in that area without a bite. You don't want to give up on an area too soon, because even though we have a big area to fish, it shrinks a bunch when the wind is up. If the fish don't give away that they are around (which is most of the time ), then you just have to keep casting until you stumble on them. I decided to run a few miles to the other side of the bay to see what the conditions were like there. I had not fished this area in six months. We got to the point of the bay where it met the gulf and big rolling waves were crashing the outside beach, so we turned back into the bay and started drift fishing just off the cane lined bank. A few casts later I hooked something that was pulling out line and I handed my rod to Ray. Ray fought the fish around the boat. This Red showed how fast a Red could swim. We boated his 22lb. Red. Ray had recently had a shoulder replacement, so he said he was done for the day. I anchored down and Mark started hooking big and medium size Redfish on every cast, boating about half of them. We kept three Redfish that were smaller but just over slot, and headed back in. They had had enough, but they also had a schedule to keep. I told them a good way to grill the Reds as we were cleaning them. They text me the next day telling me the fish were great on the grill and that they wanted to come back down. I was busy the first half of March, but I don't have much going on until April. I have many days on the water in April, and I hope the weather is not too bad. Weather is always something we have to consider when we choose an area to fish, no matter how well we did yesterday.
Target Species:
Redfish, bullred
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