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New Orleans Fishing at its Best!

Capt Scott Poche

Welcome to “The Sportsman’s Paradise,” better known as Louisiana. Step aboard with Capt. Scott Poche` of Crescent City Fishing Charters Inc. and prepare for the fishing experience of a lifetime!

Located only 35 minutes from downtown New Orleans, Capt. Scott will take you to Lafitte’s Barataria Basin with world class fishing opportunities for redfish, speckled trout, flounder, black drum and bass. In addition to being a prime spot for fishing, the waters of Lafitte are well known for their beautiful marshes and spectacular wildlife habitat.

As a native of the New Orleans area, Capt. Scott has fished and hunted these waters for more than thirty years, and has owned and operated Crescent City Fishing Charters Inc. since 1996. Whether it’s your first time casting a line, or angling is your passion, Capt. Scott’s immense knowledge and experience along with his friendly, personable attitude will insure that you have a great day on the water and guarantee that you will catch fish.

Capt. Scott has been featured on several television channels dedicated to fishing and the outdoors, such as Louisiana Sportsman TV, The Outdoors Network and The Sportsman’s Channel. He was also featured in several fishing articles published in Outdoor Life, Louisiana Sportsman Magazine and Field and Stream Magazine.

Let U.S. Coast Guard licensed Capt. Scott Poche’ or one of his well trained, talented guides take you on the trip of a lifetime. Whether it’s a trip for two, a family or a corporate fishing trip, we can customize our services to your needs. We also coordinate company fishing rodeos for groups of 50 or more. A wide variety of single or multiple day trips can be planned to include food and lodging, seafood boils, casino trips and much, much more!

Come enjoy the best of what Louisiana has to offer and book your fishing trip with Capt. Scott Poche` of Crescent City Fishing Charters Inc. today for an unforgettable fishing adventure!

Redfish Courtboullion with Seafood Dirty Rice

Chef John Currence won the 2008 Great American Seafood Cookoff with this recipe.

Mississippi Redfish

1 Lb. Redfish, cut into two inch cubes
Courtboullion
½ cup raw bacon, chopped
1 cup yellow onion, diced
1 tablespoon garlic, minced
¾ cup red bell pepper, diced
½ cup green bell pepper, diced
3 cups okra, chopped
6 cups fresh tomatoes, chopped
1 lemon, zest and juiced
¾ cup white wine
1 cup fish stock
1 cup Shock Top beer
½ pound crabmeat
½ pound fresh shrimp, chopped
1 cup peanuts
3 cups + 3 tablespoons flour
1 ½ tablespoons Creole seasoning
2 teaspoons Tabasco sauce
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
salt and black pepper, to taste
Seafood Dirty Rice (recipe below)

To make the courtboullion: render the bacon. Add butter and 3 tablespoons flour and make a light brown roux. Stir in and saute the onions and garlic until tender. Add and saute the bell peppers. Stir in the okra and season with salt and black pepper. Add tomatoes and Creole seasoning and bring to a simmer. Stir in wine, lemon, and fish stock, and then bring to a boil.

Chop peanuts in food processor and blend with flour. Dust shrimp with peanut flour. In a separate saute pan, saute redfish and shrimp in butter, in batches until lightly browned. Add seafood to the courtboullion and cover. Add the crab after the seafood has been sauteed and added to the courtboullion. Simmer for 20 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, Tabasco, and Creole seasoning to taste. Serve over Seafood Dirty Rice.

Seafood Dirty Rice

½ cup bacon, chopped
½ cup chicken livers
½ cup shrimp, chopped
3 ½ cups fish stock
1 cup Shock Top beer
¼ cup onions, minced
1 tablespoon garlic
3 cups rice
2 tablespoons butter
¼ cup parsley, chopped
salt and black pepper, to taste

Cook off bacon. Add chicken livers and cook through. Remove, chop, and return to pan. Add shrimp and season with salt and pepper. Add onions and garlic and saute. Stir in rice, butter, and fish stock. Then pour the beer into the fish stock. Bring to a simmer. Cover and finish in 400º oven for 20 minutes. Season with parsley, salt, and pepper.

Brett’s Bachelor Party

This weekend we headed to Lafitte, LA to fish with Capt Scott Poche for Brett’s Bachelor Party. The weather was a question mark all week but the cold front stayed away long enough for us to get out Saturday morning to go catch 9 limits of redfish. The biggest was 30 inches and 10lbs. We left the Marina at 6:45 a.m. and we were back at the dock by 11:30 a.m. We had a very good day! Capt Scott put us on the redfish and we caught all our fish in one spot. What a blast. New Orleans Fishing at its Best!

The Huckestein trip

Yesterday I had the pleasure to fish with a great father and son group from Birmingham.

It was a beautiful day to be out on the water that morning, nice cool breeze and no rain in sight. We started the day out from Lafitte Harbour Marina in search of Redfish. I went in the direction of Bay Round to find some nice reds I saw a few days before. But the water was very dirty from the windy days before, and the rain and high winds we had the night before. So we decided to go to a few of my favorite duck ponds, and see what the shallow water looked like. But the duck ponds were dirty from the bad weather the night before also.

We saw many redfish waking down the banks, and across the shallow ponds that we threw baits at, but were not very successful at getting many to bite in the dirty water. The first area we stopped did not do us any good, as we did not get a bite from the fish we saw. But one of my favorite ponds had some redfish helped us out. we caught 9 redfish and 1 lonely Speckled Trout, after casting baits at somewhere near 50 or so redfish. It was frustrating watching these redfish swim by the baits and turn their nose to a lure. So we moved on to other areas that did not help us with the catch either. After exhausting our efforts and run out of places to try and find clean water,with the wind blowing at 15 to 20mph by now, we called it a day and returned to the marina with 9 redfish and our 1 lonely trout.

I enjoyed fishing with Bob and Joseph, and look forward to fishing with them in the future.

If you would like to book a trip for some redfish and speckled trout action, you can call myself Capt. Scott Poche at 504-915-0392 or find us on the web at www.lafittefishing.com and just remember your only a phone call away from” FISHING WITH THE BEST” New Orleans Fishing at its Best!

Good Luck and Good Fishing!

Capt. Scott Poche`

Brett’s Bachelor Party Pictures

New Orleans Fishing at its Best!