Some good redfish stuff from the hometown rag.

[coachlaw]

Thought my fellow redfish lovers might appreciate some stuff from the someTimes Picayune. - Sandy

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/05/do_this_to_the_redfish_you_cat.html#incart_river

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/05/what_dat_metairie_angler_disco.html#incart_story_package

[Root Canal]

Very nice Sandy....Thanks!!!

[grown in Tx]

I'm gonna get me a couple of those, I need all the help I can get

[Curmudgeon]

I'll bite. Where can I find a few of those Who Dats?

[coachlaw]

They're not cheap. I had an amazon order I had to make for stuff for the camp, so I added one on there for $8.99. I got the same one in the article. It should get here sometime next week I hope. I've never spent that much on a lure. I know I'll be trying it out back home for sure. All the places I fish are just like in the article.

[Curmudgeon]

I'll bite. Where can I find a few of those Who Dats?

Of course, after I wrote this post I did some research and found some. Best deal I saw was $13.99 a pair. I might have to try some out.

[mgstei1]

Them coonusses can show all us a thang or 2 for sure!! I always liked a gold spoon and that is a great spinoff!!
Now, as far as the bleed out, its still Redfish and my taster says throw em back.

[Oleander Kayaker]

FTU has the no blade ones for $8. Cool post Sandy!

[coachlaw]

Well, I wanted to give an update on the who dat spoon. Unfortunately here is the scoreboard from the last trip:

Shad rig under cork with dead shrimp: 43 redfish, 1 drum, 1 flounder, 7 croaker, 9 sting rays, about 20 hardheads.
Cocahoe minnow tandem rig: 1 trout.
DOA shrimp under cork: 1 bull red at 46 inches, 5 hardheads, 2 gafftop.
Weedless gold spoon: 2 redfish.
Who Dat spoon: Zero, Nada, Nothing.

I kept a Who Dat rigged on a pole at all times. I would start with it, move to something else and catch a fish, then try the who dat again for nada. Switch back to something else and whammo, fish. Perhaps I'm not holding my mouth right, but here in the Louisiana marshes, in places the lure was made for, where fish were hungry and feeding, I had absolutely zero luck. I tried every retrieve possible too.

[kenny]

You can catch redfish in the Empire/Hopedale area on a shotgun shell. A gold weedless Johnson spoon is hard to beat.

[coachlaw]

I caught 2 nice ones on gold spoons, but the real killer is the same thing I've been using since I really started to seriously fish in 1978. Shad Rig (Now called Spec Rig since the Boone company stopped making them) under a cork tipped with dead scrimps. I had a buddy with me for some of the trip who is new to fishing. He limited out on the same thing 2 days in a row.

I think you meant Empire/Buras. Hopedale is a fur piece across the river.