Louisiana Fishing Report June 2024

The speckled trout fishing continued to be excellent during the first half of June. Big trout could be found in deeper water over oyster reefs and around rigs in 14 to 18 foot of water. Live shrimp and croakers are producing the biggest trout with DOA and Vudu plastics catching nice slot sized trout. Towards the end of June we were dealing with a lot of high winds and high water due to persistent easterly winds. That made the trout fishing tough but the redfishing caught fire during the second half of June. We had a lot of days of limiting out on reds in less than 1 hour with very few short sized throw backs. The ticket was finding a decent tide, falling or rising, along 2-3 foot marsh banks and points near oyster reefs. Live shrimp did the trick and working a spook and golden spoon produced some crazy early morning surface action.

Something we noticed this year is that the normally active shallow water, 2-4 feet deep, oyster reefs did not produce many keeper trout this year. You had to go out in to deeper water to find decent numbers of trout. Even with the size limit change in trout this year, it was difficult to find any trout over 11" in the shallow water reefs. But luckily weather allowed us to go out into deeper water in the sound to find nice 16"-24" trout.

Red Snapper season has been very good through out the month of June. Every snapper trip resulted in full limits with ample time to come back near shore to chase trout and other species. The biggest snapper thus far have been found in 90 - 120 foot of water. Some nice cobia and a lot of mangrove snapper were caught in June also. The biggest problem we had was the TAX man! Sharks are plentiful and taking up to 50% of your catch on multiple occasions.

With the hot weather of July just around the corner we anticipate finding trout in deeper water and the redfishing to remaining very good. We are hoping for the snapper bite to stay strong and look forward to having the ability to catch snapper 7 days a week.