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OR….what I would do is:
Greet everyone you’re fishing with at the dock with a 24oz Red Bull in each hand, smash them together, dump the fluid into your open mouth and give them this brief: STFU AND HANG ON
Literally their only job is not fly out the boat.
Then haul ass out of Doulut’s, if there are birds going crazy, great then fish them. If not, resist the urge and KEEP GOING. Then haul balls to Bayou Sue and go STRAIGHT to that 90 degree bend just before #8 and look at your sonar. If you see bait balls give it three casts. If you don’t see bait balls then LEAVE. If you do cast and don’t land three 15″ slobs in a row then LEAVE and make that outboard scream for it’s life for #10. Again, if there isn’t magic right away LEAVE THAT GARBAGE.
Help those kids get their rods put away fast.
Unless there is a friggin’ mermaid at spots 11-14 with a neon sign pointing at a limit of non-throwback hammer trout KEEP GOING to 15 before some troglodyte gets there or the tide peeters out on that end of the marsh.
If the world of inshore fishing is not absolutely on freakin fire at 15 then I’d reiterate (loudly) my “STFU AND HANG ON” policy and try to blow up my motor getting to 16. Like, if somebody was slow reeling in their cork the they would be reeling it in through the boat’s wake as we broke the sound barrier for 16.
Then I would work my way back down through Bayou Biloxi, Muscle Bay, Stump, down to St. Malo and fish those cuts into Magnolia Lagoon and try Jahncke’s Ditch, which will be protected from the wind.
Honestly, given the conditions, I think the day will be made at 15, 16 and maybe 21.
Don’t waste time dicking around with BS throwbacks, croakers, pinfish, “omg my bait flew off” or any of that other crap. Not on a day like that. I know that wind is gonna blow but a 2.3ft falling tide in MS Sound is gonna suck those shrimp out. I’ll be shocked if you don’t smash them.
So yeah, that’s what I would do.
