Great to hear you were just down that and had so much success. I wonder if we overlapped on any of the days or spots as a friend and I also fished NOLA last week with Doug Henson of Saltedflycharters and also had some epic fishing for a couple of those days, before weather rolled in. Though we did not get into any quantity of black drum we did get some shots at lots of reds and jacks, including this one and another that broke off on the hook set. As they say, always a good idea to check your leader after each fish caught... Overall just an incredible fishery that everyone should try. Nothing like watching 10 angry bull reds battling over a top-water fly or picking up the lone cruiser along a marsh edge. Highly recommend adding this trip on the bucket list and surprisingly convenient to pull off considering the quality of the fishery.
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 6:24:09 PM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:
I had a four day trip booked to stick some redfish in the marshes of Louisiana with Greg Moon of Louisiana Fly Fishing Charters. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate, and the wind picked up too hard to fish the last 3 of the 4 days. BUT, the one day I got on the water was nothing short of phenomenal. In fact, the best day of fishing I have ever had, period. We lost count of the redfish after the first couple, but I wound up with somewhere around 20 or 25 redfish plus two black drum. I caught one "baby" fish that was about 12 lbs, one fish in the upper teens, and all the rest were in the 20 lb range, with the average being about 25 lbs and a few creeping close to 30 lbs. This time of year, the fish school up like crazy. We got into a school of thousands upon thousands of black drum, with some redfish scattered in it. In the picture "7056" you can see all the white spots in the water - those are all fish. Acres of them. This was one of two schools we fished all day. You quikcly stopped bothering fishing the black drum because they aren't nearly as excited. The second school we fished had far more reds in it. Towards the end of the day, I stopped even casting to fish that I didn't think had a shot to break 30. Absolutely unreal fishing. With how bruised and tired I was from day 1, I can't imagine was it would've been like it the weather held for me.
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