Tuna Archives - Shallow South

Offshore Fishing Venice Louisiana

Although the wind was blowing and the fish weren’t eating right, Capt Kyle Smith still got a pretty good haul. We started the day as usual trying to catch some live bait. After a couple throws with the cast net we got them. Menhaden. We dropped the live bait only to see nothing happen for the next 2 hrs. We decided to chunk. Almost immediately a reel started screaming. After that it was pretty consistent and we ended up with 6 Yellow fin from 60-90 lbs.

: Good start

: Great Finish

May 22, 2014/25 Comments/by Captain Miles LaRose

Bull Reds, Fall Fly fishing, Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing for Sheepshead, Offshore, Offshore Flyfishing, Popper Fly Fishing, Reports, Tuna

Early Fall Action

It is that time of the year when the shrimp boats are holding massive black fin and yellowfin tuna. We didn’t hook a yellowfin on the fly on this day, but a 20+ lb blackfin was certainly a battle on the 12wt.

The redfish have been schooling in certain areas. The schools mostly consist of males between 10-15lbs. Although there are a few 30+lb females around, the smaller males usually hit the fly first. It should be any day now that the majority of the big 25+lb fish will be transitioning to the interior marsh.

Obviously there has been some Black drum and Jacks around too…

October 5, 2013/33 Comments/by Captain Miles LaRose

Fly Fishing, Offshore, Offshore Flyfishing, Reports, Tuna

The Kerns Come fish Louisiana

After staying with Matt and Candace Kern in Rockport I told them they should come over and do one day Inshore fishing and we will do one day Offshore fishing. Well the Inshore fishing was less then great due to a front that pushed the fish down, we did manage to land this nice size gar on the fly. The Offshore fishing the next day more then made up for the slow inshore bite. This time of year brings in the shrimp boats that if you find the right one you can not only catch giant Blackfin Tuna on fly but if you have heavy enough stand up gear you can catch one of these MONSTER yellowfin tuna. This one went 165 lbs.

October 8, 2012/28 Comments/by Captain Miles LaRose