[dan h]

Not a great pic but not enough salt around here.

[dan h]

Water on the beach is very dark and short of something that makes a ton of racket or dipped in gulp juice you will just be practicing your cast. If you can make it to ship island on the head boat you would probably catch some seatrout, lady fish, reds. If have a boat or kayak then your luck increases exponentially. I don’t fish much this time of year as it is too damn hot and stresses the fish if intent is c&r.
Chartreuse works everywhere, black and purple in dirty water, and I have caught some nice trout on red and

[dan h]

2012 Tundra. Gets 12-17 mpg. Usually about 12. Just drove 1600 miles round trip to the Keys and not a single gas station was passed. Wife wanted it way more than I did because she thought we needed a full size truck and this one has approx 120-150 airbags.  Kept my 98 Tacoma 4cyl 4×4 as a daily driver. That truck I love.

[dan h]

If have a big boat available to you I would suggest pulling up tight to a shrimp boat that is dragging and casting into the chaos that follows.

[dan h]

I have always heard giant fluffy pink and white or orange and white.

[dan h]

This report is full of greatness.

[dan h]

Saltwater Camo. In for 2

[dan h]

If you live in a hurricane zone you quickly learn to appreciate a good cooler.

[dan h]

I may have missed it but are you going back with any foam?

[dan h]

Any 8-9wt with some backbone and I have been using a Sage Largemouth when throwing really heavy flies or into the wind.

[dan h]

I use litespeeds for reds and love them for that but 1 jack crevalle that went about 35lbs forever changed my 3.5.

[dan h]

There is a #4 size epoxy shrimp that I have used w/ success. Think it is as a Popovic’s pattern in some catalogs. Good luck.

[dan h]

Any decent saltwater setup 6-10wt will do.

[dan h]

You will really need to figure out what is most important to you to figure out the best boat for you. You have said you are a minimalist but need a comfortable boat with plenty of storage.

[dan h]

Hwy 1 in LA south of Golden Meadow according to a good friend of mine who fishes that area alot.

[dan h]

PM sent.

[dan h]

Ronnie,
It is great that you decided to still come. I don’t think you will regret it and the locals will certainly appreciate you visiting.

Couple of buddies that guide are pretty much out of the fishing business at this point though at least 1 has found a gig working for a contractor setting containment boom.

I fished the marsh on the MS/AL line inside the boom all day long last tuesday. Seemed weird to be stuck inside like that but could get to all the places I wanted to go anyway and we found plenty of redfish and blackdrum to sight cast to.  Still good for now.  Pray it stays that way.  

[dan h]

I doubt the guides will survive. The oil was at Chandeleur yest and the guy that owns the Pelican Lodge out their had 3 trips cancelled that day.
Guy I ran trips for to work my way through college had all his trips on the books cancelled by lunch today.
This is going to crush marine life and all industry in the area related to it. Oystermen, shrimpers, guides, restaraunts, drystacks, boat dealers, marine suppliers, etc,etc,etc.
Pretty damn scary.
Took my 8yr old son to the LA marsh for the first time a few weeks back.  Hope that is not the last time he catches redfish over there.

[dan h]

Was down there two weeks ago and the same story as yours. Fished in 20 kt wind first day then dogged off the remaining two days.

[dan h]

Would bet they will work well.

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