Best time of year for redfish or speckled trout fishing? Bonus: Charter recommendation?

November. Or calm weekday in may.

Reds, Fall is best, but winter is not bad. They heat up in September.

Specs, you can catch a quick limit in the summer but a good guide can put you on them year round. Not EVERY day, wind, water clarity, tides, current, etc all can hurt or help your chances, but in the fall and winter you will catch bigger trout. Getting 15 in December might yield what getting 25 in July gets you.

Ditch pickles, green trout.. marsh bass are always a solid option when trout or Reds let you down, they are stacked deep in the Marsh and taste just as good as trout IMO.

Sheepshead are another standby, more reliable in the fall and winter, but again caught year round. I don't know if I would go after a mess on my own, but if a guide is cleaning them or trying to get someone new on some fish that is a solid eating fish too that is fun to catch.

I like fall/winter fishing. You can sleep in some, mid day fishing is good, it isn't 110 degrees, and well, it isn't 110 degrees and I like sleeping...

Anybody know a good charter captain out of Grand Isle?

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I’m thinking of arranging a fishing trip as a gift to my dad, probably out of Grand Isle

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June is the best for big beach trout. Mays usually too windy unless you get lucky.

I’d book with Herk given the chance
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