Marsh & Bayou’s
Fishing Forecast
The tricks in July for speckled trout will
be to fish the outer edges of all landmasses, i.e. the big points, the ends of
the passes, and sandbars, with popping
Capt. Ron Price
corks and soft plastics rigged 18 inches
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barrier islands will also produce great
trout fishing with quality fish, and these
As I sit here to write this, the river is dropping can be fished using 3/8 ounce jigs with
an eel or cocahoe minnow. The trout
quickly and getting green pockets as high as Fort
fishing on most days will be best early,
Jackson. Fishing went from almost impossible on
before it heats up. The end of Pass a
many days to incredible. I must admit I don't
Loutre is one of my favorite July places
think I've ever seen a high River affect fishing as
to fish. It holds a little of everything
much as it did this spring! This being said, look
there!
for Venice to start turning heads again with loads
The redfish in July will literally be everyof great catches. All of my boats have been hamwhere. They will be in ponds, bays,
mering the trout and redfish all week. We have
passes, outer edges of canes, you
been fishing the edge of the Gulf on shorelines
name it! For the really big redfish,
and scattered islands, and everywhere there is
you’ll want to fish big water. Schools of
green water and baitfish. Just two weeks ago we
bull redfish will be in the outer bays
struggled many days to get a limit of redfish!
and the ends of most
passes. They love popping corks as much as
anything with a 3/8 ounce
jig 18 inches under it. The
more noise you make, the
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better. Pop it hard then let
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it sit motionless for several
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then repeat. If I'm
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not using a cork, I love a
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for the bulls is a Whopper Plopper. They are very
expensive, but they also work! I would recommend putting better hooks on them however.
The low river means great fishing! This doesn't
mean let's all go plunder the fishery. Take what
you need and practice some catch and release. I
find way too many people looking at Venice as a
place to go and fill the freezer. Many of us need
to get past that mindset.