Fishing Reports by Capt. Shawn Lanier

May bull redfish fishing in Venice Louisiana - May 25, 2014 Report. The last couple of weeks here in the Venice area the Redfishing has been consistently good. The weather has settled down as far as the wind goes, so that gives us the opportunity to fish more places in case plan A does not w more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

May bull redfish fishing in Venice Louisiana - May 5, 2014 Report. I am happy to report that the weather has made it easier to find the Redfish and Speckled Trout here around the Venice area. The winds have settled down some, so we can move around and try to fish different areas. When the seas s more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

redfishing in muddy waters - April 27, 2014 Report. The last couple of weeks the big Redfish fishing has been better than the slot Redfish fishing here around the passes of the Mississippi River. Just seems like the big fish have been more reliable as far as a bite, but we ha more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

venice red fishing - April 15 2014 Report. One of my all time favorite movies is The Outlaw Jose Wells with Clint Eastwood. One scene had Jose telling a bounty hunter that dying ain't much of a living. Well, I am glad I am not out fishing today with gale force wind more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

venice red fishing - 24 March 2014 report. It has been a while since I took out some young kids fishing, but last week I fished with Patrick and Dominick (ages 8 and 10) with their father, Kevin Lee. They are from Missouri. These kids were really good for their age. more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

venice red fishing - 15 March 2014 Report The inshore fishing around the mouths of the passes of the Mississippi River has been holding some nice Redfish. If the weather conditions allow you to move around some, so much the better. Late last week and into the weekend more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

Bull redfish in Venice Louisiana - 26 February 2014, Report. I had the pleasure to take my brother, Tad Lanier, and his son, Christopher Lanier, out fishing for a couple of days this week. Christopher is in the U.S. Navy and just graduated from diving school over in Panama City Bea more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

Bull redfish in Venice Louisiana - 21 February 2014 Report. We had some good Redfishing this last week around Venice. The warmer weather really seemed to help out, along with calmer winds. That being said, the fog was an issue. The Mississippi River water temperature is around 42 more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

winter redfishing in venice louisiana - 13 February 2014 report February fishing is a month out of the year that can bring some great Redfish fishing, as well as some tougher days, where the Redfish bite is slow. It happens. This new year, with all the Arctic vortex's cold windy fronts bl more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice

venice red fishing - February, 6 2014 Report Due to the really rough Winter weather, I have a non-fishing fishing report to report. I had some trips scheduled over the last couple of weeks that I canceled, because of all the windy, lousy, frozen weather. We can alwa more...
Capt. Shawn Lanier - Venice