The first week in December is a wrap! The weather
has still been tough and Venice has been muddy , so we moved up the road to Empire to fish. The fishing has been good there in the shallow bays and creeks. I have been able to guide my clients to some nice upper slots and bull red fish. The fishing should get better as winter settles in.

The wind has been relentless to say the least in south east Louisiana . The whole coastline from Hopedale down to Venice has been hammered  with strong south east winds. The winds are making a lot of the areas we fish really muddy. With that being said we are still able to catch some great fish in the shallow grass areas and on wind blown flats that have clean water on them. I have dates open from Jan-April.

The weather has finally calmed down for 7 days now. The fishing from Hopedale , Port Sulphur and Venice have been on fire . We have been catching Jack's and big red fish. Ive been on tailing reds and big floaters in current where there are passes dumping out. When you can get the sun and wind to line up guiding clients to big fish gets real easy. If you come to New Orleans get a guided  fishing  trip to the mashes of South East Louisiana!

The fishing today in Venice was tough. The post frontal winds were cranking and that really made the water dirty. My clients that I'm guiding are new to the sport so we were using spin gear to today. We were able to catch several nice Bull Reds. Sometimes when the weather gets bad in South East Louisiana you have to change the way you play the game .

The Tarpon fishing out of Apalachicola ,Carrabelle, St George Island  and Cape Sand Blas was great this season. We had our trying weather pattern days but that's what you get when you fish in the salt water. We always try to site fish with Fly but I did have a few clients that choose spin gear for their day on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. We used Hogy soft plastics while spin fishing for the big Tarpon . They go nuts when they see the pink with green eel pattern swimming by them . I had trouble keeping the fish hooked up so I started using circle hooks to stay connected to the fish longer. Guiding in the Florida Panhandle can be challenging due to the way we have to fish in basically more open waters but they do like to bite up here.