Steady Breezes, Mellow Tides, and Hot Fishing Action in Southeast Louisiana

Artificial Lure here with your Sunday morning Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishing report. Fires are just waking, shrimp boats are drifting, and looks like we’ve got a ripper of a day on tap thanks to steady clear skies and gentle breezes. Right now along the southeast Louisiana coast, sunrise cracked at 6:41 a.m. and you’ve got daylight until about 7:21 p.m. Tides in Cocodrie are running a bit low today, with the big incoming peak happening around 7:54 a.m. and a fall-off toward a moderate evening low close to 7:53 p.m. According to tides4fishing.com, the tidal coefficient’s running in the 47–62 zone this Sunday, which means the water movement will be mellow, not raging, and currents are light—good news for those working the bayous and marsh edges. Marine forecast’s calling for southeast winds at 5 to 10 knots, seas at a foot or less this morning. That’ll make it easy to push back into the grass or get out to the nearshore rigs. Keep an eye on the horizon, though—a frontal system’s set to roll through late today into Monday, and could bump those winds up to 15–20 knots and seas to 4–7 feet by tomorrow, making inshore marshes the smarter bet for late-day and Monday outings per National Weather Service New Orleans. Fishing activity’s been hot all week. Redfish are going wild in the Louisiana marshes, and the action’s been absolutely nuts if you’re tossing popping corks. Just this week, video reports show big bulls smashing live shrimp and cut mullet below corks, particularly in the Duck Lake area, Pointe-aux-Chenes, and down around Hopedale. Early risers have landed limits in under two hours, most fish in the 24–34 inch range. Slot reds are everywhere—if you want eating-size, hit the grass at first light, use a glow-chartreuse soft plastic or the classic gold spoon. Speckled trout are cruising deeper drop-offs and shell flats near Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and Bayou Biloxi. Trout are biting best at the change of tide on live shrimp, but also hammering pearl-white and avocado paddle tails rigged on 1/4 oz jigs. Sheepshead showed up thick near the nearshore rigs and bridge pilings around Chauvin and Grand Isle, with mixed catches on fiddler crabs and fresh shrimp. Anglers working popping corks and flats have plucked flounder off shell beds, mostly on mud minnow and Berkley Gulp swimming mullet, especially at high slack tide. Don’t sleep on black drum near the deeper holes—a fresh crab half on a circle hook is catching the big boys. Best lures of the week have been: - **Popping corks rigged with live shrimp** - **Soft plastics** in glow, electric chicken, and avocado - **Gold spoons** for reds - **1/4 oz jig heads** for trout - **Mud minnow or Gulp swimming mullet** for flounder Natural bait choice remains live shrimp, but if it’s hard to find, cut mullet, menhaden, and even pieces of blue crab are getting hammered by reds and drum. Ultralight gear’s been helping folks land plenty of reds and trout, but go heavier if you’re working the oyster be This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.