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Okay, that clears things up. Thank you for that.
“I lost ZERO lures and was only snagged a handful of times.”
It sounds like you weren’t getting to the bottom as often as you could have. You’re gonna feed that bridge with lead. On a long day of fishing the Trestles I’ll probably get snagged a few dozen times and lose a half dozen to a dozen jigheads. That’s why I use the cheap jigheads from Gus’s Tackle and not the expensive Deathgrip jigheads. That cost adds up.
“Thing #7: Yeah, I’m confused then on the reason the water was moving WEST to EAST.”
I don’t recall what the wind did in the days leading up to your day of fishing, but it sounds like a case of uneven water levels.
Think of a 5 gallon bucket full of water sitting in shallow water that’s only a few inches deep. If you drilled two 1/4 inch holes in the bottom of it, water will leak out because it’s higher than the surrounding water. If that bucket were in water as deep as it is, it would not drain. Furthermore, if it were in water deeper than itself, it would fill and sink.
Lake Pontchartrain is that bucket, and those two holes are Chef and Rigolets Passes. I know that when you see them in person they are huge, but they are tiny compared to the rest of the Lake Pontchartrain. It’s like breathing through two straws.
So I am guessing that Lake Pontchartrain had more water in it than what was in Lake Borgne and beyond. As a result, it drained out, even when the tide was predicted to rise.
We see the same effect with flood walls like the Great Wall of Chalmette.
It wasn’t the wind moving that water, it was uneven water levels.
It’s kind of a mind fck, but that’s the best way I can describe it.
“And when I spotlocked, my kayak pointed into the wind in a northwest direction, toward the tracks.”
It’s possible to have the wind be the dominant force acting on your kayak, being stronger than the tide itself. So you can have your craft oriented against the tide if the wind is strong enough. But this does not affect the fish, which are underwater.
Conversely, it’s possible to have water moving so strongly that it orients the bow away from the wind. It just depends on which force is stronger. But the strongest force acting on your craft is not necessarily the strongest force acting on the fish/lure.
I hope that makes sense.
