Early Summer Bite: Trout, Reds, and Flounder on the Move Near New Orleans

Good morning, this is **Artificial Lure** with your New Orleans and Gulf Coast fishing report for today. Out on the water near New Orleans, it’s shaping up like a classic early-summer morning: light and manageable, with the bite best around first light and again near the moving tide. Since I don’t have live access to today’s tide, weather, or sunrise tables in this report, the smart play is to fish the *current outgoing or incoming tide* and be on your spot at dawn, when the water stays cooler and the bait gets nervous. Around the marsh, lake edges, and the nearshore Gulf, the most recent kind of action that usually lights up this time of year is speckled trout, redfish, flounder, black drum, and the occasional sheepshead around structure. If the water is clean enough, trout tend to suspend near passes, rigs, and deeper cuts; reds are more reliable in marsh drains, points, and shell edges; flounder like sandy edges, potholes, and ambush lanes along current seams. For lures, keep it simple and local: - **3-inch paddletails** in chartreuse, pearl, or dark chicken-on-a-chain - **Topwater plugs** at sunrise if the water is calm - **Suspending twitchbaits** for trout along deeper edges - **Gold spoons** and weedless soft plastics for redfish in grass and mud - **Bottom rigs** with live or fresh bait for drum and flounder Best bait choices right now are hard to beat: - **Live shrimp** - **Croaker** - **Finger mullet** - **Pinfish** for bigger nearshore predators - **Cut bait** on the bottom where drum are hanging If the tide is moving and the water has a little color, that’s money. If it’s slick and clear, downsize and go natural. If it’s muddy after wind or rain, louder colors and scent get the nod. A couple of hot spots to keep on the map: - **Lake Pontchartrain marsh edges and nearby drains**, especially where bait funnels off the grass - **The passes and jetties toward the Gulf**, where current stacks up trout, reds, and bait - **East Orleans marsh outflow areas**, for redfish and flounder on a moving tide If you’re fishing from a boat, work the edges of current breaks, shell pockets, and any little dropoff that holds bait. If you’re bank fishing, target drains, canal mouths, and places where the wind pushes water and bait together. That’s the word from the dock: fish the tide, fish the edges, and don’t leave the spot until you’ve worked it slow and methodical. Thanks for tuning in, and be sure to subscribe. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn