New Orleans Fishing Report: Redfish, Trout, and Offshore Tuna Biting Strong

Artificial Lure here with your Monday, April 21, 2025 Gulf of Mexico New Orleans area fishing report. We are starting the week with prime spring conditions out on the water. Today’s weather is just about perfect for fishing with highs around 75 degrees. Expect a light southeast breeze running 5 to 10 miles an hour, making it comfortable whether you are inshore or heading offshore. Sunrise was at 6:32 AM, while sunset is at 7:28 PM, giving plenty of daylight to work those lines. Tide-wise, low tide hit at 9:19 this morning, and we are looking at high tide around 8:59 tonight, so plan your trips around moving water for best results[1]. Fish are biting well right now, especially inshore. Redfish are thick in the Biloxi Marsh, from slots to bull reds pushing 10 pounds. They are stacking up along grass lines and in the shallow ponds. Speckled trout action is hot too—nice fish in the 2 to 4 pound class have been reported in Lake Borgne and out closer to Lake Pontchartrain. If you like a mixed bag, black drum and flounder have been steady by the bayous and deeper marsh cuts. The marsh water has cleaned up recently, and more baitfish and shrimp are moving through, which means things will only keep heating up[1][2]. Offshore anglers running out to the rigs report good numbers of mahi-mahi, blackfin, and yellowfin tuna, especially around the Midnight Lump. The big spring push of bait is bringing in those pelagic species, so now is the time to go long if you have the boat and gear for it[1]. As for bait and lures, live shrimp and market bait are always solid choices for inshore redfish and trout. Soft plastics on a jighead, like Matrix Shad or Vudu Shrimp in chartreuse or glow, have been doing damage on trout. For redfish, gold spoons and weedless swimbaits are getting the job done along grass edges. Offshore, trolling skirted ballyhoo or chunking with cut bait is working for those tuna and mahi[1][2]. A couple of hot spots to put on your list: Biloxi Marsh for big bull reds, and the east side of Lake Borgne for speckled trout runs. If you’re headed offshore, Midnight Lump is producing the most consistent tuna action right now[1]. That’s the scoop for today. With the tides and weather lining up, now’s a great time to wet a line. Good luck out there, and I’ll see you on the water. This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.