Conny Trahan
August 31, 2018
Contemporary Living
August 31, 2018
A mid-week cold front passed through the area this past week, giving us tans and tons of summer sun and picturesque, calm seas.
OK. we stretched the truth. It was a “cold front” in title, but It obviously didn’t affect the heat. It just made the air less humid,, while keeping clouds out of the sky.
But far anglers, that meant fish … lots and lots offish.— a continuation in a summer: pattern that’s been fruitful for anglers.
“The seasons will he changing soon, but if b still very much a summer pattern right now.” said Houma native Pete Reese “The water looked like glass. It was calm as can be. When it’s like that we can navigate and get anywhere we want to get—even well offshore. Inshore, offshore salt or fresh water you can catch the fish you’re looking for.”
On Grand Isle and in the extreme southern reaches of Lafourche Parish, weather is the master that rules the seas.
Two weekends ago and early last week, a rainy pattern significantly limited tie time that fishermen were able to get on the water.
“It was too wet” said Jake Bes-son, who fishes Grand Isle heavily. “The lightning the thunder —we couldn’t get out and fish.
But the front was a game changer. It brought sun and clear skies for the middle part of last week— into the weekend.
Humidity and rain showers returned late in the weekend and it will continue this week, as well.
But when dear; mangrove snapper, redfish and speckled trout are able to be caught.
The redfish, Besson said, are huge.
“Beautiful fish.” Besson said.
“They’re big and they’ll put a good fight on you, but you can catch them all day long. You can limit out and fill up the boat in no time.”
Away from the southern coast, boats are still able to get offshore, assuming the tides aren’t too high.
Red snapper season is now permanently closed, bit the other list of offshore offerings is reedily available.
In Lafourche Parish’s freshwater, bass are biting, but anglers say they’re having the most hick with freshwater catfish.
Cut Off man Thomas Reid took his son on the water last weekend and caught a slew of cats. At the time of his interview, he was frying the filets in grease in his outside kitchen, with white beans and rice also cooking in the kitchen.
“I like to go right as the sun is coming up or right as the sun is coming down “Reid said. ‘They say that they’re active at those times and I would agree because we’ve had plenty of hock with the catfish during those times.”
In southern Terrebonne, the weather pattern is the same as Lafourche with weather heavily dominating what can be caught and when it could be caught.
In Cocodrie the biggest catches in the past week were mostly inshore, due to the early-week weather, which limited boaters from going too far offshore.
That meant that speckled trout and a few redfish were the biggest treasures anglers were able to snag.
In the parish’s fresh water’s catches have teen plentiful. Toward Bayou Black and into Gibson, anglers have caught big, larger mouth bass. Others have reported sac-a-lait.
“The sac-a-lait were a little slow, but they’re here now.” Houma native Bill Toups said “”We are catching them throughout the day. The bass are good some days,, had other days. But right now. wears getting our most consistent catches with sac-a-lait.”
In the caning weeks, anglers say the weather pattern will change which will limit offshore fishing and will push every thing inshore. In the autumn and winter pattern, redfish and speckled trout take to the marshes and still able to he caught.
