Lake Charles shore fishing....

[MathGeek]

LC can be a lot trickier than GI for shore fishing, depending on what your preferred catch is and the time of year. "The beach" (Holly Beach) muddies up much easier, and we need a north wind for a few days to clear it out and turn the fishing on. The Calcasieu River delivers a lot of freshwater and mud and we're now waiting on the freshwater to exit the system and the muddy water (chocolate milk to clear up).

On Sunday, we watched a couple of guys land two bull red drum from the pier at Calcasieu Point, but the more common catches at the pier (and most piers/banks in the system) are black drum and gafftop catfish, with some croaker and smaller redfish mixed in. The most common location for bull reds is probably the Cameron Jetty Fishing Pier, and you can also walk our and fish the rocks (be careful) or fish the ship channel along the rocks from points just inside the Gulf of Mexico.

There are some spots to shore fish Prien Lake and lots of bayous and channels higher in the system, but with the fresh, muddy water right now, it's hard to say which spot might be better than the others or whether there is much promise at all. I really like to fish south of the fresh water and mud under these conditions. Also, PM me, I have a boat and I'm in town for a couple of weeks if chasing bulls is your thing, it is what I like and I'm kinda good at it. I don't run all over the lake and marsh chasing specks and smaller reds.