Whiskey Bayou Charters offers full-day private inshore fishing charters in Delacroix, Louisiana, led by Captain Joe Ezell, who fishes the legendary Delacroix marshes where guests often catch more fish before 9am than most anglers do all day. Joe grew up fishing farm ponds in Southeast Mississippi, but it was a 2008 inshore charter his wife Brenda booked him that changed everything — by 2012 he had his first bay boat, and by 2015 his USCG captain’s license and a piece of Delacroix property he built into today’s operation from the ground up.
Inshore Fishing (from $900, 1-4 anglers, 6-7 hours) is the core trip, targeting redfish, speckled trout, black drum, sheepshead, and flounder in the shallow marsh around Delacroix, suited to any experience level. Fly Fishing (from $1,000, 1-2 anglers, 8 hours, 2-day minimum) offers sight-casting for redfish on the flats with TFO rods and Cortland lines, catch and release, requiring some prior casting experience. Bull Redfish (from $1,000, 1-3 anglers, 8 hours, 2-day minimum) targets 20-40 lb trophy bull reds on artificial lures when they show up in Venice, late July through September and again October through December, also catch and release.
Every trip runs aboard a 2022 Majek 25+Xtreme bay boat powered by a Mercury Pro XS 300 4-stroke engine, using Diawa 3000 series BackBay reels and Tatula XT Spinning rods with Seaguar TACTX 20lb braided line — top-notch gear with no exceptions. Every charter includes rods and reels, live and/or artificial bait, and all fish cleaned and bagged. Weather cancellations are handled at the captain’s discretion, with a reschedule or refund offered for genuinely unsafe conditions.
Whiskey Bayou Charters has been featured on Louisiana Outdoor Adventures TV, Headin’ South, LA Sportsman, and Marsh & Bayou. Guest testimonials are consistently glowing, with reviewers describing limiting out on reds by 9am and Captain Joe’s calm, professional instruction helping land a personal-best 42-inch bull red.
For anglers of any experience level near New Orleans looking for a well-established, highly reviewed inshore, fly fishing, or trophy bull redfish charter, Whiskey Bayou Charters offers an outstanding operation with Captain Joe Ezell in Delacroix.
