I'm an avid bass fisherman up in the Chicagoland area of Illinois. My little lady and I are taking a vacation down to the Cajun country and will be in New Orleans for a few days in early August. While down there I wouldn't mind hooking up on some monster backwater bass. Does anyone have recommendations on a charter or guide service to use in that area?

Thanks in advance!

Tight lines!

Be sure to hit Pat O'Brien's in the Quarter. Get the Hurricane glasses for both yourself and your girlfriend.

 

Watch those Hurricanes and Cyclones. They are rum and after two they will hit you upside the head as you walk on Bourbon Street.

 

Put your change in the glass each day and after six months you will have enough to go out for dinner.

 

And don't look through the open doors at the dancers on stage. Something you have not ever seen before and we don't want you to have a heart attack or go blind.

 

Have a strawberry Daiquiri for me. Sincerely appreciate it.

 

Have fun - leave wallets in hotel room and bring your important cards and cash in your front pants pocket - stay together - don't venture outside of the Quarter other than to go fishing - and if a punk asks you if he can tell you where you got your shoes don't fall for it - you got "dem shoes" on your feet in New Orleans - when in doubt as to what to say just say "Go Tigers" - and have a great time.

 

Remember, "Come to Louisiana As You Are - Leave Different!"

 

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler - Let The Good Times Roll!

My advice is to google:

 

plaquemines parish fishing guides

 

You may want to look for a back water guide who can put you on both bass and red fish!

 

Oh and WHO DAT!!!

Born in NOLA and didn't leave till I was 21. Let me drop the knowledge for you....

 

 

You will want to go salt water fishing. Do no concern yourself with bass fishing in New Orleans. Find a charter out of any of the following places: Venice, Port Sulphur, Dulac, or Cocodrie. All are a decent drive from New Orleans - maybe 2 hours at the most. A good option, and the closet of them, will probably be a little spot called Myrtle Grove Marina in Port Sulphur. 

 

If you haven't experienced it before, I am telling you, you MUST go fish for some speckled trout and redfish. Specks are the best eating around. Super clean fish. (Better than perch -or- crappie as the yankees call em'). Limit 25 per person. They school in HUGE numbers, so at any moment it can turn into every cast catching. You'll be able to keep 75 if you charter a boat and have cap't on board.

 

A 5 lb redfish will feel like a 20 lb donkey bass when it takes you on a run. I love my bass fishing, but nothing, I mean NOTHING compares to hooking into a red. Also DELICIOUS eating (so long as when you clean them, you cut the bloodline out of em')

 

I'm just going to go all in right here and tell you - don't waste your time on bass in New Orleans. Charter a trip for reds and specks. You will not regret it. This state isn't called "Sportsmans Paradise" for no reason. Any true Southern Louisianan will agree with what I'm saying. I stake my life on it.

 

If you are really interested in finding a good charter around NOLA (for bass or specks/reds) check out saltycajun.com forums. A ton of SELA folks on there that will be MORE than glad to give you better information than anyone can on here. Be sure to take pictures and tell us all about it.

Also, I'd like to mention - you might very well have a heart attack when you hook a 15lb redfish. Bass fishing, I hear people say "he hit it and almost ripped the rod from my hands!" When I hear that I think quietly to myself "You must have never hooked a red!" It's an all too common occurrence to have one LITERALLY rip a rod from anglers hands.

 

Here are some pictures from a trip we took the first weekend in June. Went out of cocodrie. 

 

Redfishing in Leeville (my son) 

Bass Fishing in LA?? whats you talking bout Willis??

Dang thats a sexy fish.