October 8, 2009 Louisiana Sportsman October 2009
Chas Champagne is one of the hottest young anglers on Lake Pontchartrain, and I was fortunate to share the boat with him and his cousin Carl a while back. We fished the mouth of the Pearl River and slammed the redfish with a few lagniappe trout. And as you will see in my offshore story, I’m not much four bouncing around in those big boats, but when the tuna are so close to the shoreline, it makes it easy for everybody to catch them.
- .400 Hitter – Chas Champagne explains why Pontchartrain anglers should head east toward the Pearl River during October rather than west toward the Causeway. The fish won’t be nearly as big, but there will be a lot more of them.
. - Mullet Munch – If offshore fishing isn’t your thing, you’ll be happy to know that anybody can catch big tuna during October as close as five miles from the mouth of Mississippi River. They come in to munch on giant schools of mullet that pour out of the river to spawn.
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