New Orleans Fishing Report March 2026

The fishing conditions have been stellar this early spring. Mild temps combined with persistent easterly winds kept high salinity water pushed up into the marsh for most of March. Trout fishing in the marsh turned hot with solid limits of 15 to 20 inch speckled trout being caught. The best action was on rising tides in deeper channels with oyster reef bottoms. Working live shrimp on half ounce carolina rig along these deeper reefs produced some really nice speck and black drum catches. As the morning progressed, moving up into the shallower reefs using live shrimp about 3-4 feet under popping cork and Marker 54 jerk shrimp continued to produce nice catches throughout the morning or while staying on the rising tides. During the falling tides, the trout bite slowed considerabily so we switched it up and headed deeper into the marsh to focus on redfish. Redfish were plentful, but it was sometimes difficult to find slot reds in the 18 inch to 27 inch range. We had several days where we were catching a bunch of 28 to 32 inch reds with just a few in the slot range. Everyone who fishes in south Louisiana knows the limit changes and the removal of keeping any reds over 27 inches occured several years ago. Now, most of the reds are falling above the 27 inch maximum legal size limit. Maybe it will be time to revisit that creel and size limit change soon if this trend continues. Only time will tell. Overall, the fishing has been extremely good for this time of year. The speckled trout spawn is not far and we expect the speckled trout fishing to get even better this April and May as the bigger spawning trout move to their normal staging areas. Call or email us to get on the books for this spring. We still have some great days available.

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