Newbie Checkin In
 

Hey folks. New to the forum, and just wanted to check in and say hi. I'm originally from New Orleans and was lucky enough to just acquire an awesome house/ camp down in Lafitte. Looking forward to hearing any tips on fishing this area. Don't expect coordinates to your honey hole just yet, but anxious to pick the brains of some of the veterans out there.

Welcome to the SaltyCajun!

Lots of good people and information here.

Welcome


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Welcome to the site.... Fishing info is kind of slow right now as everyone is trying to finish up hunting season. But stick around, things will heat up soon.

The marsh around Lafitte should be good right now. During the summer the trout all move towards the beach in grand isle. Spring and fall barataria bay

Welcome this is by far the best forum in south LA. If not the web.
Good people and easy to navigate. Got a few on here that don't have much good to say about each other but it keeps it interesting.

haha. got to love a little banter every now and then I suppose. thanks for the welcome. Appreciate the advice on the specks. I have heard red fish are almost always on around that area?

Fish the banks of little lake

They love gold spoons and spinnerbaits on that end.


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Welcome to the site!!!

X2 on that. My favorite trip down there was when we just trolled all over through the marsh throwing Spoons. Couldn't believe we caught reds, trout and largemouth. Still my favorite fishing trip

Welcome!

I fish Lafitte often! It's nice to se another person on here that fishes the area!

x's 2 on this, if you are a half decent bass fisherman, you can kill the reds around LaFitte with the cast and retrieve method in the Marsh. Gold Spoons, Cocahoe Minnows with a Spinner, White Spinner Baits, Baby Minus..... jsut about anything for a bass outside of worms will work for Reds. I have caught a redfish on a worm in Dularge Before though.

Another good thing abut Lafitte is that you can run to North Side of Lake Salvador and catch catfish or run a little further to Lake Cataouche and fish Sac Aux Lait and Perch along with Bass. That's a relly good area to have camp.

What kind of boat will you be using?

Get popping corks, 1/8oz and 1/4oz jig heads, ghost minnows, h&h black and chartreuse cocahoe, spinner bait, and sometimes you may need some dead shrimp.

That's all I use when I fish in lafitte. If the grass is bad then I use a swim bait hook which allows me to hide the hook and not worry about the grass nearly as much.

Also I usually use an 1/8oz jig head when using a popping cork.

Get a Standard Mapping map also. I can't reeve what the NMR we is but Seaway marina will have it.

Edited because I didn't proof read.

really great advice everyone. really appreciate that. Also, great call on the maps. I was curious where a good place to get an updated map would be. Im literally right around the corner from seaway.

Maps
 

Seaway should have the maps you need. You're looking for #40 and #53. That will cover you for the east and west side of the ship channel.