REDFISHING LOUISIANA'S VAST MARSHLANDS

Just a little over an hour’s drive southwest of New Orlean’s Louis Armstrong Airport is Dulac, Louisiana.  This tiny charming Cajun settlement is somewhat invisible among the many canals and marshy bayous created by the Mississippi’s endless flow into the Gulf of Mexico.  The veteran guides of Dulac Charters explore these mazes of canals and channels in shallow running skiffs and pole their anglers through small cuts and out onto some of the most incredible marsh flats imagineable.  As your guide stalks the flats hunting redfish, you are in position with line stripped out, ready to make an accurate cast to a cautiously feeding fish.  

These fish show up as tailers, crawlers, mudders and pushers. You have to put your fly in the feeding zone, an area about the size of a large pizza.  A proper presentation on the first cast is almost always answered by an agressive grab!  Most anglers who have fished the flats for other species find stalking the finicky redfish truly rewarding.  This is an experience that all anglers need to add to their list of “Must-Do’s”.