Fishing near Kenner, LA

Set on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Jefferson Parish, Kenner opens onto one of the Gulf South's most productive inshore fisheries — a 630-square-mile brackish estuary that has recorded 123 fish species. The Mississippi River runs along the city's southwestern edge, and the Louisiana Delta wetlands to the south rank 27th on Bassmaster's top-fishery list, with bass lakes like Cataouatche and Salvador a short run away.

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Alabama Shad

Alosa alabamae

Alligator Gar

Atractosteus spatula

American Eel

Anguilla rostrata

American Paddlefish

Polyodon spathula

Bighead Carp

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

Bigmouth Buffalo

Ictiobus cyprinellus

Black Buffalo

Ictiobus niger

Black Bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Black Carp

Mylopharyngodon piceus

Black Crappie

Pomoxis nigromaculatus

Blue Catfish

Ictalurus furcatus

Bluegill

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Blue Sucker

Cycleptus elongatus

Bowfin

Amia calva

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Fishing near Kenner, LA

Mississippi River

Lake Borgne

Pearl River

West Pearl River

Bonnet Carre Floodway