The Saturday Letter · Vol. 1 · No. 34
August 17 – August 23, 2026 · August fundamentals · Louisiana · 1 of 1 desk · this week’s desks
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This week on your coast
Same heat. Venice tarpon thinning. Reds on the first moving water. Flounder are an October story here.
This edition is Louisiana only — Louisiana. Coasts you did not elect stay off this letter. Scores are 1–10. They are not bite guarantees. Read this month’s seasonal fundamentals.
Louisiana
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River is the tide
Today
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Redfish should be the day — flood the west-bank ponds, then the south passes if the bulls are in.
Same heat. Venice tarpon thinning. Reds on the first moving water. Flounder are an October story here.
— Tide is incoming from NOAA.
— On this coast the wind often outruns the printed tide. Observed water is -0.66 ft versus the prediction.
Open the Venice briefBox score · August
Mangrove / gray snapper
Louisiana
The snapper that will live in a Texas jetty and a Keys creek. Schoolies on structure. Bigger fish on the wrecks. Not a yellowtail.
Tripletail
Louisiana
Summer Gulf. Traps, weed, and channel markers. Texas and Louisiana live on this fish. Not a wreck grouper.
King mackerel
Louisiana
Texas and Florida summer kings. The beach and the first wrecks. Not a trout. Not a wahoo.
Noise, not the headline: Jack crevalle.
Rules
No coast-wide harvest closure is on the board this week. Still verify before you keep a fish.
August by region, type, and speciesRegs citedLDWF recreational saltwater · current LDWF coastal finfish · rolls in 8 days. Louisiana flounder is typically closed Oct 15–Nov 30. Verify LDWF the week you keep one.