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I am very pumped to see a Breton Sound report. I’ve been itching to hear from an Elite member as to what’s going on out there.
“The cut through or “Boogie’s Way” now has (or maybe always had, not sure) PVC poles on both sides of the deeper parts of the bayou (can be seen on GED), the depth ranges from 4 – 8 feet out to Lake Of Two Trees. So no issues running that as long as you stay between the PVC poles.”
Very good intel. Thank you for that.
“I did however, copy Captain Devin’s KML file he posted and pasted it on top of my plan because it had a few rigs I didn’t have, the names of the rigs, and the general location of the dope boat which I didn’t have.”
You’re welcome! Excellent, glad to know that’s being put to good use. That’s the whole point of this forum! I love it!
“First stop was the rig in Lake Fortuna with no luck.”
That’s not particularly surprising.
“From there we headed further out stopping at Five Wells, 32 Block, Compressor, and Hashtag with ZERO luck.”
My anxiety would have been full-throttle peaking at that point in time. I would’ve been a mess, that Mercury would be screaming and the throttle buried through the console. lol
Also, I just found on Navionics that someone called that the “Hashtag” rig. It may be called something else. I don’t remember. I wish I kept better reports from back in the day.
“On the way in I could tell my buddy was bummed that we didn’t catch anything so I decided to try one last place closer in that I knew he could at least fight a bull red or something big which was the Long Rocks.”
That’s it. Don’t give up. Especially if a spot like that is on the way. Why not try it?
Now, a few things:
First, that spot you fished is the exact same spot I fished and caught a limit of 75 speckled trout with customers back in 2013.
The same thing that happened to you happened to us: we ran all over Creation, fishing a lot of the same spots you did, and didn’t catch much. Then we tried that break in the rocks and it was on like Donkey Kong. I called over a few other charter captains in the area: Salty Dog, Fish With The King, and others and we all caught fish. It was amazing.
Now, I forget the tide on that day, but it was definitely moving. It was also overcast. I am guessing it was not overcast for you. But you still caught fish in deeper, moving water. Man, that’s where they’re gonna be if it’s gonna be a late bite.
So was it hard overcast? How hard was the tide moving? What bait did you see the fish eating if any at all?
After that, good call not going to Breton Island. It’s a community hole anyway.
Did you find the Dope Boat?
Did you try fishing a cork at the rigs at all?
Did you fish live shrimp at all?
Something else to consider is that this fishing trip kinda supports my “most water, least fish” theory that you can read about here on LAFB.
Basically, it’s the idea that now, here in the Saltening, there’s more water for fish to be in than there has been in years, and there’s fewer fish to occupy that water.
So it’s kinda like my badass Mandeville trips from October last year: you will have to cover water to find the Mother Lode.
And that’s what you did on this trip. Very neat.
It’s interesting because I thought of that 2013 trip the other day and figured I should post about it here in the Community. LOL Looks like you figured it out on your own.
All I can say is great report, thank you so much for posting, I hope you post more!
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