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Hey Devin,
Yes, I did do my homework and thought I had a pretty good plan but obviously I failed the test. I looked at the winds in Wind finder and I saw 10-15 gust to 20 which I didn’t think was all that bad…WRONG!
Okay, so you really did do your homework, here’s how I would categorize your spot:
Category #1: I would rather fight Mike Tyson than fish these spots:
“When I got to this area the wind really wasn’t blowing that bad maybe 5-10, so I decided to try these but as I got further into the pond it became really shallow really quick. I know logically with a south wind and rising tide there should have been enough to float my boat. It’s a 20 foot aluminum bass boat so its draft is shallow.”
Fish 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 13, 14, 11, 24 and 18.
Mike Tyson will mercifully knock me out much faster than the brutal ass whipping I would take over a period of hours fishing those spots. No and hell no.
Category #2: these spots are either “doable” or protected from the wind:
Fish 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, Structure, and 23.
“The water in the pond was less than a foot deep so I couldn’t get to these spots that’s why I said the water must have been falling out of the pond, maybe from the winds I don’t know.”
Your route getting there is the worst one you could have possibly picked. I am assuming the yellow route is how you’d arrive, then you’d boat from there. “Yes.” That whole way you are facing into that brutal 20 knot wind. I’m going to make another reply to your post showing what I would’ve done, routes, spots and all.
“As I was reading some of your articles you have one in there that shows two possible routes and the one I took was before finding this video. If I had known I would not have taken the one I took. When I got to the white poles in Lagoon Brady I went to the right luckily there was a boat right behind me and he went to the left around 50mph and the whole way through the route to the MRGO. Dude knew this route and he was in about a 26 foot CC. He never slowed down.”
“but the water was blowing out”
What do you mean when you say that? There’s no way the tide was falling yesterday while you were out there. It was definitely ripping in with the rising tide combined with the 20 knot SE wind.
“When I got to this area the wind really wasn’t blowing that bad maybe 5-10, so I decided to try these but as I got further into the pond it became really shallow really quick. I know logically with a south wind and rising tide there should have been enough to float my boat. It’s a 20 foot aluminum bass boat so its draft is shallow.”
“…and fish a few spots on the way back to the pass…”
What pass?
“Pass LA Loutre’. Sorry.”
There were shrimp jumping everywhere and baitfish popping birds diving the area looked perfect but no trout.” There were shrimp popping in the MRGO near the first set of spots.
WHAT PASS?!?!?!?! Arggghhhh lol jk but seriously
I’m assuming you mean the mouth of Bayou Pisana. That sounds really good. Whatever it is you’ve got going on there, be ready to fish it again and downstream of it as the brown shrimp make their way out of the marsh. FWIW, I’ve fished there a bunch over the years and never really found trout stacked up their. That could change. I could tell you more about this spot you found if I knew where it was. Email me if you need to.
“I don’t know where Bayou Pisana is and when I searched GED it shows on the west side of the MRGO.”
“since every time I plan a trip the spots look great on GED”
Doing that kind of planning is good, but the icing on the cake is sharing that plan here. If you did then every other swinging dick in this forum would’ve looked at that plan and said “hell no”. Your last post was something about launching from Bayou Lacombe, not a word about the south side of the Rock Dam.
No two different trips. Lacombe is in the nest couple weeks.
I know it’s kinda weird posting your route and fishing spots, but that really is a great way to learn picking out good fishing spots faster. I wouldn’t post that to Facebook, but here you’re good. Otherwise, I’m not 100% clear on where you went. I could offer further feedback if I did.
“I will from now on and I don’t have a problem with posting here since I believe in this community and know we all hold the same values. Great bunch of people you have here Devin.”
Thank you Devin and for the help to everyone who responded! I’m new to the area and steadily trying to learn how to fish it and catch fish.
