Louisiana Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Specks, Reds, and Offshore Tuna Bite

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Gulf Coast fishing report for south Louisiana. Along the Louisiana side of the Gulf this morning we’ve got a light north to northeast breeze, cool and dry behind the last front, with seas generally 1 to 3 feet nearshore, according to the latest coastal marine forecast from NOAA. Skies are mostly clear, and that’s helping water clean up in the inside marshes and lower bays. Sunrise is right around 7 a.m. with sunset a little after 5:20 p.m. along the southeast coast. Tides are rolling pretty good. Tides4Fishing’s charts for Grand Isle and Calcasieu Pass show a strong morning high and a solid evening push, with roughly 2-foot swings today. That means moving water at the bay and pass mouths, perfect for specks and reds. Best bite windows line up with the solunar majors from Fishingreminder: early to mid‑morning and again right before dark. Inshore, Louisiana Sportsman reports speckled trout action staying consistent in dead‑end canals and winter holes like Myrtle Grove Canal, Empire area canals, and similar deep bends across the coast. Fish are stacked 8–15 feet, tight to the bottom. The pattern has been 15–40 keeper trout per boat on good days, with a few reds mixed in. Under birds in open bays you’ll still find small trout and white trout, but the better fish are in the deeper, slower water. Best inshore lures right now: - **Soft plastics** on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads, shrimp or glow/chartreuse, tight‑lined slow on bottom. - **Plastics under a popping cork** along bayou mouths on the falling tide. - **Live shrimp** or cocahoe minnows if you can get them – still the top ticket for finicky trout. Redfish are working marsh edges, shell points, and drains on that dropping tide. Gold spoons, 3–4 inch paddle tails in natural or dark colors, and live or dead shrimp on a Carolina rig around cuts are producing solid slot fish, with bull reds hanging near the passes and jetties. Offshore out of Venice, Louisiana Sportsman notes the January bite for **yellowfin tuna and wahoo** is hot when conditions allow. Boats working the rigs and floaters are seeing multiple‑fish days, with tuna in the 60–100‑pound class and wahoo pushing 40–60. Cedar plugs, diving plugs, and high‑speed wahoo lures, plus chunking pogies or hardtails around platforms, are the go‑to offshore baits. Couple of hot spots to circle: - **Grand Isle / Caminada Pass**: trout in the deeper passes and around the bridge, reds along the beaches and back marsh. - **Venice area – Jump and Main Pass mouths**: reds on the edges and bars, and when the Gulf lays down, that world‑class tuna and wahoo just a run south of the river rigs. If you’re sliding out today, fish slow, stay near deep bends and current seams, and let that moving tide do the work. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.