Anybody ever fish Vermilion Bay anymore?

WHILe you are waiting for the experts, can you learn me on hardheads?
DId you keep any?

Just as good as freshwater? Fry? Gumbo?

The water on the west side was clean about 5 days ago. I’m guessing the lack of rain has helped that. Might be decently salty but haven’t checked the gauges lately. Matter of fact, we were catching gaftop right off the the Intracoastal, so must’ve been salty. Not a single blue but about 25 gaftops.

Hardheads? You serious Clark?

I don’t fish there anymore but will tell you this. The west side vbay fisherman are extremely tight lipped

Watch the atchafalaya gauges. When it gets right Don’t ask just go

If you hear a report, you are already a week behind

Stay away from the community holes

If you hook into a fish with boats nearby, keep your pole down especially if that boat has a t-top and no trolling motor

If conditions are right and you put in at the west side and head straight to the Pass you are passing a lot of trout

Never give a report on a website ever, and if you do give a report say something like “last four trips pretty much zero in reds and specks - thank god for hard heads”!

If your neighbor asks where you caught say Big Lake by the weirs

Ive been getting great reports from Vermillion Bay for a few weeks now. Folks limiting every day on good fish. Even some catching from the shore at Cypremort Point. It’s early in the year for the water to be as good as it is right now.

Shane Johnson with Acadian Outdoor Charters is probably the best angler on vermilion bay and he catches routinely. he's also on the lake routinely which obviously helps. Shane is one of this nicest guys and guides you'll ever meet. i've had a couple of friends who wanted to learn more about that fishery and so hired Shane to basically help them figure out some of the secrets outside the bay south of marsh island and on the reefs inside the bay. From what they said Shane was more than helpful and truly enjoys teaching folks how to fish better. You may want to hire him a few times to learn the area and just be honest with him on why you're hiring him.

btw- he fishes mostly south of marsh island in the reefs about 1-2 miles out.

Are Hardhead catfish good to eat

I have never eaten them but this article says yes.

Watched a guy in a decent fishing boat with music blasting and wife painting her nails two weeks ago bust our positioning on a point only to head inside a rock jetty and when he realized it connected to land and he had no short cut back to bay he crossed the jetty at high tide and hit hard. I suspect his boat is in shop for several months and his wife has him in divorce court. This was after we were checked by game warden three trips in a row and yet that guy and boat is running. We didn’t catch anything worth keeping but fishing vermillion bay is always interesting.