New Orleans Gulf of Mexico Fishing Report Today

Hey y'all, Artificial Lure here, your go-to guy for reelin' 'em in from the Louisiana Gulf coast and around New Orleans. It's a crisp winter mornin' out there today, with solunar charts from FishingReminder showin' prime bite windows—major from 7:32 to 9:32 a.m. and 7:44 to 9:44 p.m., minors at 12:36 a.m.-2:36 a.m. and 2:28-4:28 p.m. Sun's risin' 'round 7:06 a.m. and settin' at 6:23 p.m. per Tides4Fishing for New Canal Station.

Tides at New Canal USCG on Lake Pontchartrain are lookin' solid—high around 7:43 a.m. at 0.8 ft, droppin' to low at 8:01 p.m. at 0.5 ft, perfect for that fallin' tide action. Weather's cool with north winds keepin' water clear, just like them October reports holdin' steady into December.

Fish are fired up, cher! Recent catches includin' big speckled trout hidin' in Lake Pontchartrain canals, as seen in that December 16 YouTube vid from the area. Speckled trout stackin' on oyster reefs and pylons, redfish cruisin' marsh edges and drains, plus flounder in current-swept pockets, bull reds at jetties, all per FishingReminder's coastal update. Limits comin' steady on specks and reds, some hefty bulls pushin' 30+ pounds.

Best lures? Early topwaters for specks, then soft plastics under poppin' corks. Gold spoons or paddle tails for reds and flounder on the drop. Live shrimp, cut mullet, or crab for the big boys. Fish dawn and dusk with movin' water—marsh drains two hours before and after low tide for aggressive strikes.

Hit these hot spots: New Canal USCG station for easy access to Pontchartrain trout, and Grand Isle jetties for bull reds. Harbors and passes like Chef Menteur are gold for land-based action.

Get out there safe, wear your PFD, and tight lines!

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Name’s Artificial Lure checking in with your Gulf of Mexico / New Orleans fishing report.

We’re sliding into that winter pattern now. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of New Orleans, light to moderate north to northeast winds are holding across the sounds and outside to about 60 miles, with seas running 1 to 3 feet and a reinforcing cool, dry air mass behind the last front. That north breeze has the water pulling out of the marsh and clearing up just enough in the bays.

Tides around New Orleans are on the small side but moving. NOAA’s tide station at New Canal on Lake Pontchartrain shows a nighttime high followed by a late‑morning low with only about a foot of range, so the best bite will be right when that water’s dumping out the ditches and trenasses. Over toward Shell Beach, Tides4Fishing shows a similar pattern: early low, strong mid‑day rise, so plan to fish two hours around those changes.

Sunrise along the southeast Louisiana coast is right around 7 a.m., with sunset just after 5 p.m., giving you a tight dawn and dusk window. Solunar tables from FishingReminder put the major morning activity right after first light and then again near dark, so start early and stay late if you can.

Fish activity’s been solid for December. Louisiana Sportsman is still talking up winter speckled trout in the Myrtle Grove Canal and across the Barataria system, and that pattern reaches right over to our side: specks stacked on shell and along deeper dead‑end canals once the sun gets up a bit. In Lake Pontchartrain, look for school trout and white trout on the bridges and along the south shore reefs; in the MRGO and Lake Borgne, nicer specks are holding off points with good current.

Recent catches out of Shell Beach and Hopedale have been mixed boxes: 20–40 specks per boat when folks stay on the move, plus a half‑dozen keeper reds and the occasional flounder. Down Empire and Buras, crews sliding a little farther into the Gulf have been whacking bull reds and a few black drum on the rigs and rock piles. Nobody’s sinking limits every trip, but steady action if you work.

Best offerings right now:

- For trout: 3–4 inch soft plastics in glow, opening night, or watermelon on a 1/4‑ounce jighead, either tight‑lined or under a popping cork. A slow, twitch‑pause retrieve is key in this colder water.

- For reds: gold spoons, spinnerbaits with a gold blade, or a shrimp imitation under a cork along grass edges and drains on a falling tide.

- Live bait: live shrimp are still king when you can find them; otherwise, dead shrimp on a Carolina rig for drum and sheepshead, or cut mullet and crab chunks for bull reds around the jetties and nearshore rigs.

Couple of hot spots to circle on your map:

- **Lake Borgne / MRGO rocks and Shell Beach area** – Work the rocks and nearby points with plastics under corks for trout, then slide into the marsh pockets behind Shell Beach for reds once the sun’s up.

- **Bayou Biloxi and the eastern Rigolet

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Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Gulf-side fishing report from around New Orleans.

We’re riding a good winter pattern now. New Canal Station tide tables from Tides4Fishing show a **high tidal coefficient and multiple small tide swings today**, with water moving best around mid‑morning and again late afternoon. That moving water window is when you wanna be posted up on drains and cuts; slack’s been dead slow.

Weather-wise, the latest NOAA marine forecast calls for **light to moderate north to northeast winds**, cool morning temps in the 50s warming into the 60s, and mostly stable barometer. That’s a classic speck and redfish setup in the inside marsh, especially where wind stacks bait on the leeward banks. Sunrise is right around **7:05 a.m.** and sunset just after **6:20 p.m.** over the lake and marsh, so your prime bites have been that first hour after daylight and the last hour before dark.

In the last few days, local captains out of Shell Beach, Hopedale, and Delacroix have been boxing **solid speckled trout with plenty of 12–16 inch fish**, plus good numbers of **slot reds** and a sprinkling of **sheepshead and black drum** off the rigs and rock structure. Most boats doing it right have been finishing with **20–40 trout** and **half a dozen reds**, depending on how hard they grind and how picky they’re being.

Best producers:

- **Speckled trout:**

- 3–4 inch **paddle-tail plastics** on 1/4 oz jigheads in opening night, matrix shad, and glow/chartreuse under popping corks.

- Free-lined **live shrimp** or shrimp on a dropper loop when the bite gets finicky.

- **Redfish and drum:**

- **Dead shrimp or market shrimp** on the bottom around pilings, rock, and shell.

- Gold **weedless spoons**, 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads with white or chartreuse paddle tails, and black/chartreuse soft plastics dragged slow.

- Around the bridges and lakefront, a few anglers are doing well slow-rolling **swim baits** and working **suspending jerkbaits** when the water’s clear enough.

Two hot spots to circle:

1. **Hospital Wall and the New Orleans Lakefront** – From West End down toward Seabrook, the rocks and breaks have held specks and a few reds on days with cleaner water. Work popping corks just off the rocks and jerkbaits or soft plastics along the edge when the tide’s swinging.

2. **Hopedale / MRGO and the outer bays toward Lake Borgne** – Drains coming out the marsh on the falling tide have been stacked with school trout and rat reds, with nicer fish mixed in. Anchor or spot lock just off the current seam and fish your corks or Carolina rigs right down the edge.

For the night‑owls, Jefferson Parish just added **green LED fishing lights at Bonnabel Boat Launch in Metairie**, and they’ve already been pulling in school specks and white trout on small plastics and shrimp-tipped jigs under the glow.

Water’s cool, so slow your presentation down. Let that cork sit, give it a pop, and don’t be afraid to fish tight to structure. If you’r

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Hey y'all, Artificial Lure here, your go-to Gulf Coast angler straight outta New Orleans. It's December 17th, 8:30 AM, and the bite's heatin' up around Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf edges. Sunrise hit at 7:03 AM, sunset 'round 6:27 PM per Tides4Fishing charts—perfect for dawn and dusk runs.

Tides today at New Canal USCG station show low at 3:10 AM (0.5 ft), high around 4:55 PM (0.8 ft), with solunar majors from 7:32-9:32 AM and 7:44-9:44 PM—prime windows when fish go stupid, says FishingReminder. Weather's mild, north winds clearin' the water post-front, expect partly cloudy highs near 65-70°F.

Fish activity's solid: Speckled trout stackin' oyster reefs and pylons, redfish cruisin' marsh edges on the fallin' tide, flounder in current pockets, and reports of red snapper offshore now season's back per WVUE FOX 8. Captain Experiences notes reds, specks, kings, and flounder top catches lately—limits comin' easy inshore.

Best lures? Gold spoons and soft plastics under poppin' corks for reds and specks early, paddle tails slow-rolled for flounder. Live shrimp or cut mullet seals the deal on points and jetties. Artificials like topwaters at dawn kill it.

Hit these hot spots: Lake Pontchartrain's oyster bars near the Causeway for trout, or Grand Isle jetties for bull reds. Work drains two hours before fallin' tide—bait sweeps natural, strikes aggressive.

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Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in from the southeast Louisiana salt and the edge of the Gulf.

Over on Lake Pontchartrain at the New Canal Station, tides4fishing shows a classic winter pattern: modest range, with a mid‑morning high and evening low, just enough current to stack bait along bridges and shell.[Tides4fishing – New Canal Station] Shell Beach shows a rising tide through the morning pushing toward a mid‑day high, good for redfish and trout around the outer marsh.[Tides4fishing – Shell Beach] Down toward Grand Isle, tides4fishing reports a longer falling cycle, which is lining up nicely with the inlet drains and bayou mouths for daytime action.[Tides4fishing – Grand Isle]

Sunrise around the lake is just after 6:45 a.m. and sunset a little after 6:15 p.m. according to Tideschart for the New Canal USCG station, giving you a tight winter light window and a strong dawn and dusk bite.[Tideschart – New Canal USCG]

Fishingreminder’s Louisiana outlook has today pegged as an average bite overall, but with prime windows at dawn and again at dark when that tide is moving and the solunar periods line up.[Fishingreminder Louisiana forecast] That matches what locals have been seeing this week: slower mid‑day, then it’s like somebody flips a switch when the light gets low.

Inshore around New Orleans, Louisiana Sportsman’s December coverage says trout, reds, and drum are still chewing in the cold, with Chalmette and surrounding marsh staying hot even on chilly days.[Louisiana Sportsman, “Chalmette gets hot when it’s cold”] Reports out of the MRGO and Violet canals have boxes of school specks with some three‑pounders mixed in, plus slot reds on the edges. Folks working the bridges on Pontchartrain have been picking off speckled trout on calmer days, especially around the Causeway and Trestles, with the better numbers right on the tide changes.

Typical winter mix in the boxes lately: 20–40 specks for a three‑man crew when the weather behaves, half‑dozen slot reds, a drum or two, and the odd flounder pulled off current‑swept pockets, which tracks with Fishingreminder’s October coastal pattern still holding into early winter—trout on reefs and pilings, reds on marsh drains, flounder tight to the bottom.[Fishingreminder Louisiana October report]

Best offerings right now are all about subtlety. Soft plastics under a popping cork—matrix‑style shad tails in glow/chartreuse or opening night—are still the bread and butter for Lake Pontchartrain trout, especially worked along bridge pilings on that mid‑morning high. In the marsh and along the edge of the Gulf, a 1/4‑ounce jighead with a paddle‑tail bounced slow on bottom is taking both reds and flounder. For artificial‑only folks, a subsurface swimbait like the 6th Sense Judo swimbait, which Academy notes is designed to mimic baitfish for trout and redfish, will shine around clean banks and submerged shells.[Academy – 6th Sense Judo Swimbait]

If you’re soaking meat, live shrimp is still king under a cork ar

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Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Gulf-side New Orleans fishing report.

We’re sitting on a cool, stable winter pattern now, and that’s got the marsh fish settled in and feeding. NOAA’s New Canal Station tide prediction for Lake Pontchartrain shows a weak morning low followed by a modest afternoon rise, so the best water movement lines up late morning into mid‑afternoon. Marine Weather from the New Orleans/Baton Rouge office has light northerly winds, seas 1–2 feet inside, and a dry high-pressure dome—great for small boats and kayaks, but the clear water means you’ll want to downsize leaders.

Sun’s creeping up a little before 7 and dropping right around 5:30 over the lake, so your real “golden hours” are first light until about 9 and then that last 90 minutes before dark. FishingReminder’s Louisiana solunar outlook pegs strong major feeding windows around daybreak and again just after sunset, and local catches the last few days have backed that up.

Inshore action around town has been classic December. Louisiana Sportsman’s recent Barataria and Chalmette pieces report solid boxes of speckled trout and slot reds coming from inside marsh ponds, trenasses, and deeper bayous when you find 3–6 feet of greenish water. Out of Shell Beach and Hopedale, boats have been putting 25–40 trout on ice with a half‑dozen reds and a couple of bonus sheepshead or drum when they slide to the rocks or rigs. Lake Pontchartrain bridges have coughed up fewer but bigger specks—2–3‑pound class—with occasional 5‑fish limits for folks patient‑jigging the pilings.

Best producers right now are **soft plastics and live shrimp**. Guides out of Delacroix and Lafitte have been leaning on 3–4 inch paddle tails like Bass Assassin Saltwater Assassin in opening night or chartreuse on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads under a popping cork over shell and points. When the bite gets picky in that clear high‑pressure water, a straight jig with no cork, slowly bounced near bottom, is outfishing everything. Live shrimp or cocaho minnows under a cork are still king for mixed trout/redfish boxes; cut shrimp on the bottom is tallying drum and sheepshead around rock banks and rigs.

If you’re chasing reds specifically, think shallow mid‑morning on a warming trend. Louisiana Sportsman’s Chalmette report notes reds stacked in man‑made ditches and along roseau cane where the sun warms the mud. A gold spoon, a Gulp shrimp on a 1/4 oz jig, or a weedless jerkbait like Strike King’s durable TPE baits will pull fish from less than two feet of water. Bulls have been roaming the outer passes off the MRGO and around Breton Sound rigs on cut mullet and crab for those running farther.

Couple of local hot spots to circle for today:

- **Paris Road / ICW and the MRGO rocks**: good mixed trout and reds on moving tide; work plastics along the drop‑offs and soak live shrimp near the rock corners.

- **The Rigolets and Lake Pontchartrain bridges**: focus on the up‑current sides of pilings with soft plastics slow

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Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your New Orleans–Gulf fishing report.

We’re in that classic early-winter pattern: cool mornings, light north to northeast breeze, and mostly fair skies. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of New Orleans, inshore winds are running around 5–10 knots with small chop, with the bigger Gulf seas in the 3–5 foot range offshore. That makes the inside marsh and nearshore bays the play today.

NOAA’s tide prediction for the New Canal Station on Lake Pontchartrain shows a modest morning high followed by a falling tide through the afternoon, so you’ll want to time your trips around moving water in the bayous and passes. That falling water is going to pull bait out of the ponds and stack fish at the mouths of drains and cuts. Sunrise is right around seven, sunset a little after five-thirty, giving you a tight dawn and dusk chew.

Fish activity lines up well with the solunar tables from FishingReminder, which flag a strong major feeding window mid‑morning and again around sunset. That matches what local captains have been seeing all week: slow first light, then a real pick‑up once the sun’s up a bit and the tide starts rolling.

According to Louisiana Sportsman’s recent December coverage, the coastal marsh from Lafitte over toward the Barataria and Empire area has been hot with speckled trout and slot reds, with some bruiser bull reds out toward the larger bays and near Gulf passes. Trout have been running solid keeper size with some two‑ to three‑pound fish mixed in on oyster reefs and along current‑swept shorelines. Reds are thick in the shallow ponds and along broken marsh edges, especially where clean water meets slightly off‑color water.

Best baits right now:

- **Speckled trout:** 3–4 inch soft plastics in opening night, glow, or chartreuse on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads under a popping cork. That new shrimp‑style plastics like the Vudu‑type shrimp Louisiana Sportsman highlighted are catching well over shell and in deeper bayous.

- **Redfish:** Gold spoons, spinnerbaits, and paddle‑tail plastics in dark colors. If you’re soaking bait, dead shrimp or cut mullet on the bottom in a little current is hard to beat.

- **Live bait:** Live shrimp and cocahoe minnows are still king if you can get them; free‑line or under a cork around points and drains.

Recent catches in the Grand Isle–Barataria–Empire corridor have shown mixed bags: limits of specks for boats that stick to moving water and work through schools, plus 4–10 reds a trip, with drum and sheepshead as bonus fish. Up toward Pontchartrain, anglers working the bridges and nearby reefs are picking up decent numbers of trout when the water cleans up after fronts.

Couple of local hot spots to zero in on:

- **Bayou Bienvenue and the MRGO rocks** on the east side of town: great for trout and reds when that tide starts pulling. Work plastics and shrimp under corks along the rocks and drains.

- **Barataria Bay and the marsh south of Lafitte:** hit th

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Hey y'all, Artificial Lure here, your go-to Gulf Coast angling ace out of New Orleans. It's Friday mornin', December 12th, and the Gulf's callin' with that waxin' gibbous moon pullin' strong—FishingReminder clocks major bites from 7:32 to 9:32 AM and 7:44 to 9:44 PM, minors at 12:36 AM-2:36 AM and 2:28-4:28 PM. Sun's up at 7:00 AM, down by 6:32 PM per Tides4Fishing at New Canal Station.

Tides at New Canal are easin' off a high around 11:50 AM at 1.0 ft, droppin' slow into the evenin'—perfect fallin' tide for marsh action, coefficient sittin' average at 50. Weather's holdin' post-front cool with north winds clearin' the water, light chop on the bays per National Weather Service marine forecast.

Speckled trout are stackin' on oyster reefs and bridge pilings in Lake Pontchartrain, hittin' early topwaters then soft plastics under poppin' corks, per FishingReminder's October trends carryin' strong. Redfish cruisin' marsh edges and drains, gold spoons or live shrimp near points pullin' limits, 'specially bull reds at jetties. Flounder giggin' current pockets with paddle tails dragged slow. Recent catches? Folks reportin' solid specks, reds, and cats off Chef Menteur and willow runs in the river.

Best lures: Topwaters at dawn, then paddle tails, spoons, and cut mullet or crab chunks. Live shrimp rules for reds on the drop.

Hit these hot spots: New Canal Lighthouse for trout on the troll, and Chef Menteur Pass for reds pushin' bait schools. Kayak it quiet from harbors if winds kick.

Get out there safe, measure 'em twice!

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This is Artificial Lure with your Gulf-side New Orleans fishing report.

We’ve got a mild December pattern sitting over the city this morning. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of New Orleans, winds on Lake Pontchartrain and the nearshore Gulf have been running mostly east around 5–10 knots with one-foot chop or less, building a bit with passing showers later in the day. That light onshore flow has the water pushed up just enough to dirty the banks and get the bait moving.

Sunrise around New Orleans is right at about 7 AM, with sunset near 5:05 PM. That first hour of light and the last hour before dark are your money windows today, especially when they line up with the moving tide along the bridges and marsh drains.

New Canal Station on Lake Pontchartrain is showing modest tidal swing today, typical winter pattern, but enough rise and fall to matter along the MRGO, Hopedale, Shell Beach, and the outer marsh toward Black Bay, where current in the cuts does more than the posted tide height suggests.

Inshore action east of town has stayed solid. Charter outfits like Cajun Outcast Inshore Charters out of Hopedale report steady boxes of redfish, speckled trout, sheepshead, and a few black drum coming off the marsh edges and rock-lined passes. Limits of keeper specks have been coming early on calmer days, with slot reds stacked in skinny ponds when the water’s up and in deeper bayous on falling water.

Fish activity today should bump up around the stronger moving-tide windows and again on that late-afternoon low-light bite. Colder nights have the trout holding deeper over shell and along ledges in Lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain, while reds are hugging wind-protected shorelines with any clean pockets of water and bait flickering.

Best baits and lures right now:

- For speckled trout:

*Soft plastics* on 3/8-ounce jigheads in shrimp, opening night, and chartreuse/UV colors, bumped slow near the bottom. A popping cork with a 18–24 inch leader and a shrimp imitation will still do work over shell flats when the wind lets you.

- For redfish and drum:

Gold spoons, quarter-ounce spinnerbaits with white or glow paddletails, and live or dead shrimp on a Carolina rig around cuts, drains, and broken marsh points. Sheepshead are piling on the same shrimp tight to structure.

- For bridge trout on Pontchartrain:

Heavier jigheads with Matrix-style shad tails in green hornet or avocado, worked down the pilings, are still the locals’ go-to.

Hot spots to aim for today:

- **Hopedale / Shell Beach corridor** – Work the bayou mouths dumping into Lake Borgne, as well as the MRGO rocks. Trout early on plastics, then slide shallower for reds as the sun climbs.

- **The Rigolets and Highway 11 / Twin Span bridges** – Fish the down-current sides of the bridge pilings for specks and a mixed bag of drum and sheepshead, especially when that tide starts rolling.

Fish slow, keep your presentation near the bottom, and don’t be afraid

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This is Artificial Lure with your New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico fishing report.

We’ll start with the tides: the Intracoastal Waterway in Orleans Parish shows a classic winter swing today, with an early low, a mid‑morning flood, and another drop mid‑afternoon, according to Tideschart’s Intracoastal Waterway tables. That mid‑morning push has been lining up nicely with the best bite in the marsh and along the outer bays.

Weather-wise, local marine forecasts are calling for cool, dry air, light to moderate north to northeast breeze, and seas running low inshore with a little chop outside. Skies are mostly clear, with sunrise right around 6:45 a.m. and sunset close to 5 p.m., giving you a short but very fishy window if you can hit the moving water.

Inshore, speckled trout and redfish are still the main story. Recent charter and marina chatter out of Shell Beach, Hopedale, and Delacroix has most boats boxing 25–50 trout on good days, with a mixed grade from 13‑ to 18‑inch fish and a few bigger ones when the tide and water clarity line up. Reds have been steady in ones and twos off points and drains, with plenty of legal 18‑ to 24‑inch fish and the odd bull roaming the deeper bayous.

Best lures right now are **3–4 inch soft plastics** on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads in shrimp, opening night, and chartreuse variations, either tight‑lined or under a cork. MirrOlure‑style suspending baits and small jerkbaits shine when the water’s clean and the wind lays down, a pattern also echoed by inshore reports across the Gulf where anglers lean on jerkbaits and topwater plugs for trout and reds, according to Captain Experiences’ inshore write‑ups. Live shrimp, live cocahoe minnows, and market shrimp on a jig or Carolina rig are still hard to beat if you can get them.

Fish activity has been best on that incoming tide, especially when it coincides with the warmer part of the morning. Once the sun gets up a bit and the water bumps a couple degrees, trout slide onto shell and current edges, while reds tuck just off the grass and along the mouths of small drains. Slack tide has been predictably slow; most locals are hop‑scotching spots to stay on moving water.

A couple of hotspots to circle:

- **Lake Borgne / MRGO Rocks:** Working the rock walls and nearby rigs with soft plastics and live shrimp has been producing solid trout numbers with bonus reds and the occasional drum when the tide’s rolling.

- **Biloxi Marsh / Bayou La Loutre area:** Interior ponds and bayou mouths are holding reds on the grass edges and specks over deeper cuts; a popping cork with a 2–3 foot leader and a light jighead has been the ticket on cleaner water days.

Nearshore in the Gulf, when the wind allows, boats heading out of Venice and Empire have been finding mixed boxes of sheepshead, black drum, and keeper reds around platforms and rock piles, with some lingering mangrove snapper where the water’s still warm enough. Fresh shrimp, cut bait, and small jigheads tipped with plastic are doing the he

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