Actually, it’s just gonna be too cold, wet, and nasty to fish T hursday, December 11.  But. . .once the rain, sleet, and maybe a little snow gets out of here by the afternoon, and once the winds die down enough for the suspended solids in the water (that’s mud for all you non-fishing Louisiana natives!) drop out and clarity is restored (Carl and Jonathan and Dawn and Laura are telling me that that’s gonna happen Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). . .then the trout, redfish, and flounder action along the Southeast Louisiana coastline is gonna flare up again like gasoline on a brush fire!

So that’s the report—or should I call it a prognostication?—in a thimble for the next, say 24 hours.  I’m not saying that there won’t be any fish biting if you get out in the weather (because there are some lunatic fish, too!), but I am saying that you’ll probably be a heckuva lot more comfortable if you hunker down in your living room in front of the crackling fireplace and read your copy of my latest fishing book (The Fisherman’s Tackle Box Bible) or watch the Outdoor Channel until all the fronts pass us bye.

Having said that, here’s my fishing forecast:

Once the skies and the weather starts clearing tomorrow afternoon (this Thursday), then you can call your bud or your brud-in-law, tell ‘em to come over to your house, and the lot of y’all begin rigging the flatboat for a sunrise trip come Friday morning.

Cuz by Friday, and especially come Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be right back into that great wintertime fishing we just adapted to over the past couple of weeks—trout under the diving birds, redfish running the banks pushing torpedo wakes ahead of them, flounders skulking over the oyster reefs grazing on whatever niblets they can find, sheepshead and drum defying you to drop a chunk of market shrimp down into that deep hole where two intersecting bayous criss-cross.  In other words, my sincere recommendation is that you curl up in front of the Dura Flames until it turns pretty outside again.

Then you go get ‘em, Tiger!

Frank Davis

P.S.  BTW, this is the perfect time of year to book a fishing guide— Captain Ahab, Captain Phil, Captain Hawkeye, Captain Ryan, Captain Hook, Captain Mike, or Captain Kenny—because whenever it turns moist and nippy outside some folks give up fishing until about the same time that the

Rocky Mountain grizzlies reappear in Spring.  Louisiana sportsmen, however, should never do that!  We got good fishing here all year ‘round.  All you need is to invest in a really good coat!  And, too, since as they say about that window and siding installer you see on TV that “fishing guides don’t work much this time of year,” this is the right time of year to charter one up and learn all the fishing tricks that only a piscatorial pro can teach you. 

So don’t say I didn’t tell you!  But hey…don’t you go catching all MY FISH, ya’ hear! --FD