Fishing in New Orleans
Louisiana · Gulf Coast & Mississippi Lowlands · hardiness zone 9b
Now
27°C · Showers
Today
35° / 25°
Sun
06:44 – 19:06
Moon
Waxing Crescent · solunar good
Run-off colours the water and brings food in. Fish the inflows and the seams.
- Largemouth bassbest now — Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
- Black crappiebest now — Suspended over brush and around lit docks after dark, looking upward for anything silhouetted.
In the water now · September
What's biting
The sport fish active near New Orleans, Louisiana in September — where they hold, how to know one on the line, and the tactic that usually works. Check your licence and the current limits before you go.
FishSep–JunBlack crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Silvery with irregular black speckling, a deep flat body and seven or eight dorsal spines.
Where and how to catch it →
FishMay–OctChannel catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
Deeply forked tail, scattered dark spots on young fish, and long whiskers.
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Overhead · New Orleans, Louisiana
The sky over the water
The two clocks nothing on the ground can argue with: the length of the day, and the phase of the moon.
The sun
12h 21m of light
Sunrise
06:44
Solar noon
12:55
Sunset
19:06
A month from now the day will be 0h 53m shorter. Enough light for steady growth.
Right now · New Orleans, Louisiana
Forces at work
Nothing here is a guess. Each of these is read from this week's forecast and this location's climate record, and each one is pushing the season one way or the other.
- Worth watching
The moon
Waxing Crescent · 11%
Waxing, 3 days old. Full moon in 11 days. Fishing outlook: good.
It moves water — in the sea, in a lake's edge, and, by long tradition, in the sap of a plant. Fish feed hardest on the days around new and full.
- Working for you
Wind
24 km/h now · 26 peak
A working breeze: it ripples the surface, drifts a boat at a fishable speed, and stacks bait on the windward shore. Anglers call it a walleye chop.
It pollinates corn and grasses, dries soil, breaks stems — and it decides where the bait, and therefore the fish, end up.
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