Since I can not catch a fish to save my life

If you are in Mandeville, go to the old Coast Guard Station in Madisonville. Use nets from the pier. During the week is best, crowded on weekends. You should catch a couple dozen from the pier w/i 90 min or so. Gumbo size mostly.

i know nothing about crabbing. have you fished off of that new pier at sunset point? looks pretty nice.

Where are you fishing that you can't catch em? I've been hard pressed to not put 30 in the boat the past month or so. Granted the majority are too small to keep.

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Where are you fishing that you can't catch em?

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I purchased a canoe a few months ago...so i have been going out off of lake road to the mouth of Bayou Lacombe and then fishing along the grass to the west of lake road trying to hit all of the little cuts. tried dead shrimp under a cork, artificial, top water...no luck whatsoever

Go the morning after a full moon. Early morning, walk through the grass flats. Hard shell crabs will run, soft shells just lay there (TWHS) LOL. I have also caught them in a seine pulled through the grass, but it takes 2 people.

Good luck. Hope you get some.

I don't know. We used to go all the time when I was a kid in Louisiana (long time ago). Here in Florida, you must have a saltwater license.