United StatesHopedale Marsh
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Location:
Hopedale, LA
United States
United StatesCoordinates:
29.8216, -89.5386
Description:
The Louisiana Gulf Coast has the best estuaries and marsh structure in the entire world. This is why the state's logo is called the Sportsman Paradise. Whether you are fishing large open bays that are covered in oyster reefs or fishing the back marsh or duck ponds there is no other place like the inshore fishing grounds of Louisiana.
Hopedale, Louisiana is the best sight fishing destination in the word for redfish in shallow marsh ponds for light tackle and fly fishing enthusiast.
Tips/Tactics:
The best months are from March until December.
Spot Access:
Boat Ramp, Parking (car/truck), Parking (boat/trailer), Power Boats Allowed, Fly Fishing, Floating
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Fishing Reports
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 07.23.12
indy Rainey Day Yesterday. Larry, Robbie,Josh,and Blaine and I left the dock at first light and was met with a huge storm . It blew 20to30 for awhile no getting outside after the trout. Plan B,so we worked around some ponds in the rain close to Black bay for redfish hoping the weather would break and we could get out. We put a few reds in the boat broke off a few and landed and released a huge bull drum. Then it happened the rain stopped wind calmed so we took our shot and ran out. First st...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 06.08.12
Saturday I had BROTHER MARTIN HIGH ALUMNI on board fishing the annual Brother Martin rodeo. Tony Lama Sr. and Tony Jr. , Jerry McCrory and Steve Elmer. As usual the wind was blowing and we knew it was going to bouncy in the sound but everyone was up for it so out we went. Bite was slow but nice trout we moved around a bit giving each rig plenty of time. It was around 10;30 when we finaly got on steady bite of trout but the mackerel and sharks were tearing up the tackle, went thru 50 hooks b...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 05.24.12
Had Skip and Alex on Board yesterday. Skip gave Alex a choice go to her Graduation ceremony or go fishing. No choice for Alex GO FISHING! 3 Stop shop. We got on some nice fish near the islands but not enough to stay with two stops later we got them turned on and that was all she wrote. Stopped on the way in picked up 4 reds and called it an early. What a Graduation day it was.
Capt Gene Dugas 985-640-0569
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Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 05.11.12
Glad we did not cancel because of the weather forecast because to turned out to be beautiful day and great fishing. I had Mike and Gary back again and Mike's helper Danny. This was the first time fishing for Danny and what first day it was. The winds were down and the tide coming in it did not take long for the corks to go down and trout coming in the boat. The bite was not crazy but steady and nice sized fish too. Danny caught after a little while after watching Mike and Gary just stea...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 04.12.12
SPRING FISHING STARTS UP IN HOPEDALE LA.
Yesterday Gary Stewart and Mike Naylor started off their fishing season off with a bang. The weather was beautiful all ,morning light breeze just enough to keep the bugs off. We started right off with some school trout under some birds to get us going. The bigger trout were on the shorelines and points with moving water. Chartreuse plastic and live minnows did the trick. The bite was not fast and you had to stay on the move but the guy’s h...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 04.05.12
Fished with a nice group from Kentucky that were in New Orleans for the Final Four Tournament on Sunday Chris, Frank, Bri , Francis and Ray Huntz who set up the trip. We started out with a foggy morning and slow start but it wasn,t long before the rods were bent and drag pulling redfish were on the line. We had a great day with beautiful weather and nice box of reds, drum and trout.
CAPT GENE DUGAS
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Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 03.28.12
Yesterday I fished with Aysha and Rodney from Little Rock Arkansas. They were in New Orleans and wanted to make a day fishing. Things started off slow but later in the morning we found some redfish eager to take our baits, dead shrimp under corks along the shorelines and points. The bite was not fast and we had to work at it but the limit of reds and some drum found their way into the box. Beautiful weather and great day fishing with some good people who will be coming back.
CAPT GENE D...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 02.02.12
Guys,
With unseasonably warm temperatures we are taking advantage of large schools of redfish. Look for these fish to hold in their normal patterns throughout mid March. We are seeing on average 30-75 fish a day with shots at 5-20 fish in the 10-30lb range. This fishing has been done on the Gulf fringe in 6" -2' of water with a variety of flies and lures. Also with these warm temps our springtime grass bloom will be happening earlier than normal that will kick off th...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.27.11
Today the Herman boys were onboard, Don, Chris, and their dad Don. After a stop by Campos for bait we headed over to the Hopedale marsh where we stopped by the mouth of a bayou with the tide falling out of it. Fishing with Campos live shrimp under a cork the guys started to put some pretty Trout in the boat.
The bite was not fast and would start and stop, but the fish were very nice. With 50 or so on ice we made a couple of moves picking up a few Trout at each. We got on a co...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.26.11
Saturday in Hopedale was fantastic fishing I helped out Capt Britt with a multi boat trip. The weather was perfect nice and cool and light breeze. All the boats went in different directions and all came back with boxes loaded up with trout reds and drum. Great trip and goods bunch of guy's. DINNER TABLE LOADED UP! Live shrimp and plastic under corks did the damage.
THE FALL FISHING IS ON!
CAPT GENE DUGAS
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Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.26.11
Brady, Scott, Kevin, Tommy, and Cain had jam up day Sunday catching trout and reds in Hopedale. It was supposed to be two boat trip with8 people but some dropped out so we did the five in my boat and everything worked out perfect. We got right on the trout early and put a bunch on ice then they quit. A couple of moves later we found them in a shallow cove eager take live shrimp and plastic under corks. We worked this area until the limit was full then had to try for some reds to pull the drag....
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.24.11
Bob, Rinaldo, Dave and son David whupped up on the trout Tuesday right before that cold front blew in. We started out on some white and specks mixed getting the box going. Made a bunch of move nothing. Finally found the trout up in a shallow lagoon out of the wind. Steaday action on all keeper trout. With the box full of trout we wanted David to get on a redfish so hit some points and before long the drag was running reds and drum to finish out the day.
Great day with some...
Ratherbe-Fishing Adventures Captain Gene Dugas
over 2 years ago
(12/08/2010)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 12.08.10
Having Fun!
My son Jacob wanted to go catch some fish and brought along his friend Robbie to show him how we roll. We hit the marsh around lake Amedee and got right on the trout Jake and I were slinging'em in and Robbie was get the hang of it and before long trout were jumping in the boat from all three poles. The boy's were having fun but I was having a blast watching them catch those trout. They grow up fast and I am trying to get in all I can with them before...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.16.10
Great Fall Fishing this past week in Hopedale LA. The speckled trout have been on fire every time I have been out. Plastics and live bait under corks. Where ever the tide is moving and pulling the bait shrimp with it. The birds have been active the last few days also if you see them they will put you in the area where the trout are. Anyway Great trips this past week LIMITE D OUT ON SPECKLED TROUT EVERY TIME. Redfish have been scattered along the shore lines and...
Ratherbe-Fishing Adventures CAPT GENE DUGAS
over 2 years ago
(11/09/2010)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.09.10
Day before Halloween Trip turned out to be a treat Things started out a little slow but by mid morning we were 0on the trout over an oyster reef near lake Clabasse steady action until the limit was full of nice speckle trout. At first they would hit nothing but live shrimp but about half way thru started to take plastic along with the shrimp. We made a short run to a protected cove and finished off the box with some nice redfish and a huge flounder. Great day for Trick or Treating on Halloween...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 09.24.10
Great Fishing in Hopedale LA
Britt, Josh, Jeremy , and Mike made the trip to Hopedale ready for some spreckled trout and redfish action. These guys have been with me a lot over the years and they always have a good catch and good time this day was no different. The windy conditions had things starting out slow but when we got on the speckled trout they were coming the boat steady with both plastic,s and live shrimp. Well the wind finally got to strong and shut...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 07.02.10
CATCHING FISH IN HOPEDALE LA!
Our waters are still open to fishing and are not affected by the oil spill. The fishing for speckled trout ,red fish and drum is great right now. If you would RATHER BE FISHING Then just give me a call and we will do the rest. GAURANTEED FISH and a GOOD TIME! EVERYTIME.
CAPT. GENE DUGAS
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Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 06.15.10
Great fishing in Hopedale LA in early June
This past week the fishing in Hopedale has been really good for speckled trout, Redfish, black Drum and Flounder. I have been fishing just about every day with and doing well. On the windy days where I cannot get out in the open water the redfish and drums have been making up most of the catch. On the days with light wind the speckled trout have been fil...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 06.02.10
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Another Great day Fishing in Hopedale La
Fished two boats yesterday with different groups. The bite was little off from the last few days with lots of small trout. The trout were scattered . No slam dunk limits to day but a great day on the hipedale waters and happy fisherman with nice catches of trout and redfish.
Jimmy and Denise fished with me and we did decent with trout putting 25 in the box and a lot m...
Ratherbe-Fishing Adventures Capt. Gene Dugas
about 3 years ago
(04/20/2010)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 04.20.10
John Bindewald and 11 yr old son Blake on board today for some red fishing action in Hopedale LA.
A cold front blew in last night and had it kind of coola and windy this morning but that would not be problem. First stop two redfish on ein the box the other too small back overboard. A couple more stops not a bite but we kept at it. Found some reds feeding off a point out of the wind Blake was first to hook up then John and the reds were hitting every cast for awh...
CAPT GENE DUGAS RATHERBE FISHING ADVENTURES
over 3 years ago
(02/08/2010)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 02.08.10
Went to Hopedale yesterday to go try the fish with my friend Bruce. The conditions were perfect wind Screaming out the NW and low tide. I don’t know why I take Bruce the wind howls every time he gets in my boat but we always catch fish and this time was no different.
The trout were not happening low dirty cold water so we turned to redfish. Fishing plastics, Gulps and ,live cocahoe under corks at the drains we put our limit of reds in the boat and released a bunch more.
Had the in la...
CAPT. GENE DUGAS / RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES
over 3 years ago
(11/23/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.23.09
Hopedale LA Report
Yesterday I fished with Stan Easly his son Chad who is off to Iraq in Jan and Jeremy. It was my honor to put one of our brave service men on a bunch of fish today. The guys told me at the dock they wanted some speckled trout but really wanted to catch some redfish. So I set my sights on redfish and catch a few trout along the way too.
Things started out great and stayed that way all day. We caught redfish just about everywhere but a most were under sixteen inches, But so...
RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES/ CAPT GENE DUGAS
over 3 years ago
(11/18/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.18.09
Hopedale LA Report
I had Skip and Alex Marks today and with the cold front moving in most people would rather cancel out, but not Skip he never cancels a trip just because the weather is a little off he likes the challenge.
Man it was cold this morning so we bundled up for the ride and took off in search of speckled trout and redfish.
First stop and we were catching Alex put a trout in the boat before you could blink and Skip was right behind with another one. 20 on ice and the bite stop...
CAPT GENE DUGAS RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES
over 3 years ago
(11/13/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.13.09
Thursday was my first trip out since Hurricane Ida blew thru. The water was back to normal levels and the tide falling but the wind was still blowing pretty stiff out the NW about 15-20.
Charlie Hamilton John Batson and Harry Blair said they were coming down no matter what so fishing we went. I was not sure of how the fishing would be so I just started checking some of my good spots looking around. It took about a half dozen stops before we found them but the speckled trout redfi...
RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES / CAPT. GENE DUGAS
over 3 years ago
(11/12/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.12.09
Saturday with Larry Romero and Crew turned out to be an AWESOME day after getting wind burn yesterday this morning the winds were down a bit 10-15 a lot better conditions.
Things started off with a bang first stop nice trout coming in the boat But the bite faded. On the move a few here and there the tide had stopped coming in. Headed further out looking for some tide and found it falling in major bayou of Lake Robin. They had some birds hanging out in a curve so we gave it look corks down, p...
RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES / CAPT. GENE DUGAS
over 3 years ago
(11/12/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 11.12.09
Hopedale LA Report
Friday I had Connie and Bobby Depew from Gonzales LA down for their first fishing trip in Hopedale LA. The wind was blowing pretty good but that would not stop Connie and Bobby from catching box full of fish. We had to find some protected water to fish and it was not long and the trout were coming.
Catch a few and move was the pattern until we found steady bite where the water was draining out of a pond. Live shrimp and bayside plastics under a cork and they had th...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.23.09
Gary Stewart and Mike Naylor are a couple of regular’s and needed a day off from work to get something tugging on the line. It was little cold this Monday morning so started close and waited for the sun to get up and warm things a bit.
We started off right on the trout early with live shrimp and DOA”s under corks nice fish with a few small ones to throw back but they are fun to catch too. The wind was blowing pretty good about 15 mph so we would drift until we caught a few the...
CAPT. GENE DUGAS RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES
over 3 years ago
(10/23/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.23.09
Hopedale Trout!
Teusday was just as good I had Dave Barecker and his friend GW Television actor from the TV show "The Closer' and the "Police Academy" Movies in town for some RR and a little fishing action in Hopedale LA.
We got right on the trout but the bite faded and went dead for awhile so I made a move to another area and hit the jackpot speckled trout on just about every cast, AWESOME. We tried fishing for redfish for awhile catching and releasing some under size fi...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.23.09
Wednesday Ray Hunzicker was back and had the camera along to get some footage for an upcoming Show of "Ray Huntzicker Outdoors".
Well what a difference a day makes I was a little worried when I stepped out of my truck and felt the 20 to 25 mph wind at the dock, Just FISH is what I told myself and it will all work out. Well Ray was little late due to traffic no problem. I went to some proctected area's trying to stay out of the wind and we put some trout in the...
CAPT GENE DUGAS RATHER BE FISHING ADVENTURES
over 3 years ago
(10/16/2009)
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.16.09
Fished yesterday with my good friend Alan Luc and boy did we have a good time. Al and I had not done anything together in a while so to say we enjoyed the day is in understatement. The weather was beautiful too.
To the fishing, We started off right into the trout under the birds with some throwbacks but nice trout in the box but they would not stay on. Headed further out looking for the better bite you know greener grass thing. Well we got a few but returned to the area we...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.07.09
Hopedale is as good as fishing can get right now, October is definately Rocktober month as the fish are all but jumping in the boat.
Saturday and Sunday I had Donnie, John, George and Morgan on board for some redfishing action.
Sunday it was on the the first place we stopped at. Casting on to a shallow water reef in about a foot of water these four men had all the action they could handle. We could watch the big reds crash thier bait and strip some line all morning. They wanted some bull r...
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 10.06.09
Trey Jackson set up this trip for his mom Brenda and his dad Gene.
Things started off kind of slow the first few spots only a couple. We found a few trout in Lake Amadee but they would not stay on. So I made a big move toward the outside and started picking up some nice trout working the points along with a few reds but still slow and no tide moving. It was looking like a build a box day one at time. Made another run further out to the edges near Black bay which proved to be the right move....
Hopedale Marsh Fishing Report 09.22.09
Hopedale Marsh Report
Redfishing is totally awesome right now.
Yesterday Bambi and Bubbles, two of Pent Houses prettyest ladies from France came down for some line stripping action. Well they got stripped alright, right down to the bottom of there spools. Jay, a regular client of mine brought them and everyone had a great time filling the box up with trout, redfish and one big flounder.
Bambi hooked one big bull that she fought for over 30 mintues until he got wrapped around a crab trap...
Fish
Drum, Red (Saltwater) (Sciaenops ocellatus)
Flounder, Starry (Platichthys stellatus)
Flounder, Summer (Paralichthys dentatus)
Trout, Speckled (Cynoscion nebulosus)
Guides
Higher Education Guide Service
Fish with a native Louisiana fly guide. This is not a season to us. Here at Higher Education Guide Service fly fishing Louisiana redfish is a lifestyle. Lets us pole you across pristine flats in sea...
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Rates
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3 or more people $150 per person
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