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  • Devin

    Administrator
    July 28, 2024 at 5:24 pm

    Yes! I literally just finished a post about some different rigs and a route down the Spoil for people to try. It’s like you’re reading my mind. In fact, everything in this report is like I went and fished that today. Unreal.

    “We left New Orleans at 3:30AM headed for shell beach.”

    BANG! I love the early morning wake up and the dedication.

    ” I wanted to launch from Venice but I hadn’t had time to do my homework on safe routes so I opted for the 40 mile run that I have done before.”

    Smart man. FWIW, that run out of Baptiste Collette is pretty straightforward: once you’re out of the rocks, keep going straight for awhile before turning, because the water has silted in on either side of the channel.

    I have not personally run that in awhile, but I have heard that’s the case and that’s what I see on GED.

    “They didn’t run through the rig so I don’t think they were the problem, there was LESS bait but still bait so a bit of a head scratcher.”

    When they drum real loud while fighting, that will spook the trout. I hate bull reds, too. But to hook into quality trout like that is classic Breton Sound. I love it!

    “There were 8 boats stacked on the east corner of the island, I only saw two fish caught and they were throw backs but I would have to expect they know more than me?”

    I haven’t been out there since the island was dredged, but I know I liked to fish the outside on the north side of the island, and the inside by where the Coast Guard station used to be (those pilings that are there).

    I’m not sure what’s going on there these days.

    “The tide was falling and they would consistently be on the north side instead of using the rig as a current break. Very bizarre.”

    That is kinda weird, but in bass fishing it is common to fish the upstream side of something when fishing in current. Sometimes the current breaks just in front of something like a rig or bridge pilings and fish will stack there.

    I think you did great and will only get better with it out there. There’s certainly a bunch of specks stacked somewhere out there.

    Breton Island is good, but everyone fishes it. It sounds like you know how to read sonar, so if I were you I would dedicate to more of those rigs.

    Check out this .KML I posted in the General Discussion forum.

    Great report, Levi! Thanks for posting it!

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