Fishing near New Orleans, LA

Set in Orleans Parish at the edge of a sprawling coastal ecosystem, New Orleans puts marshes, bayous, and tidal estuaries within minutes of downtown. The marquee water is Lake Pontchartrain, a 630-square-mile brackish estuary that ranks as the largest inland water body in Louisiana. Inshore redfish and speckled trout run alongside freshwater bass and crappie on the Pearl and Tchefuncte Rivers, while the lower Mississippi River turns tidal in summer.