Sportsman Paradise Can Be Found at Lake Charles, Louisiana

A falling tide was sucking water from the marsh through a small drain. Three anglers cast different enticements into it and were working them out with the current when a 10-pound redfish annihilated one, a topwater zigzagging on the surface. A moment later, a three-pound flounder slurped a second lure, this one a small swimbait retrieved along the bottom. Before either of said fish made it to the boat, the third angler landed a 2-pound largemouth bass that ate a live shrimp suspended under a popping cork.

When freshwater and the brine overlap in southwest Louisiana’s coastal marshes, it results...

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