Summer Slam: Hot Bite for Trout, Reds, and Offshore Monsters in the Louisiana Gulf

Artificial Lure here with your June 13, 2025, Gulf of Mexico Louisiana fishing report. We’re rolling deep into summer, and the bite is red hot from the marshes out to blue water.

Sunrise kicked off the day at 6:01am, with sunset set for 8:03pm, so there’s plenty of daylight for long drifts and deep drops. Today’s weather sees partly cloudy skies, highs peaking near 88°F, and a steady southern breeze—a classic summer day for the Sportsman’s Paradise. Tides are moderate, with a high around mid-morning and another push just before dusk. No major flood tides expected, but keep an eye on the radar; NOAA still warns of occasional pop-up storms, so don’t get caught off guard.

Inshore, the speckled trout are still stacked up and smashing topwaters early—think bone-colored Zara Spooks or MirrOlure She Dogs over oyster reefs from Shell Beach to Hopedale. Soft plastics like Matrix Shad in “shrimp creole” or “holy joely” colors on quarter-ounce jigheads are also pulling numbers when the sun gets high. According to Louisiana Sportsman, anglers are regularly landing full stringers out of Delacroix, Hopedale, and all the way to Grand Isle. Reds are cruising the banks in the marsh—live shrimp under a popping cork is unbeatable, but gold spoons and Gulp! Swimming Mullet in “new penny” are both sure bets. Expect a good mix of keeper slot reds with some bruiser bulls thrown in.

Offshore, it’s the heart of red snapper season and Grand Isle, Venice, and Port Fourchon are the launchpads for limits. The bite is thick around oil rigs and artificial reefs in 80–200 feet. Drop down cut pogies, squid, or a big bucktail jig tipped with soft plastic. Along with snapper, anglers are boating lane and vermillion snapper, grouper, and even the occasional cobia and shark. Reports out of Boothville-Venice mention yellowfin tuna and wahoo showing up closer in, with live hardtails or trolling diving plugs doing the trick.

A couple of hot spots to focus on: Shell Beach for sunrise trout and marsh reds, and the mid-shelf rigs out of Venice for red snapper and bigger pelagics. Don’t forget the floating platforms southwest of Grand Isle—they’re holding some nice snapper and the odd mahi-mahi this week.

To round it off, get your gear ready the night before, carry live shrimp and a spread of plastics, and watch that afternoon squall line. Thanks for tuning in to today’s report—don’t forget to subscribe for daily updates and more tips. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.