Adam
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Listened to it yesterday… Great show! Really enjoy listening from Texas. When I’m not wading the middle TX coast for trout, I love hanging out and fishing over there in God’s country, lol. Actually headed to Venice tomorrow for the rest of the week. Keep up the great work!
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Nice write up. Sounds like a great time was had by all. You said it right, wading is a whole different experience with all the nuances that go with it. Fighting and landing fish is entirely different than doing it from a boat. I find keeping the rod tip down and keeping fish going in the direction they are swimming helps a lot. Even if it makes you walk in circles over and over til you get it wore down. I used to use a landing net, but a boga grip has turned out to be a better tool for me personally at landing fish.
I hope to make it down there again next week to give it a go myself!
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Looks like yall are gonna have some adverse conditions this weekend. But looking forward to your stories nonetheless. Good luck and be safe out there!
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Devin, I think all he was trying to say is it’s just another tool in the tool box which is what I believe it is. Not the be all, end all fix for running the marsh, but it does give you some clues.
To your point, if I see crab traps, big boats etc running an area, I can safely assume I can run it in my boat.
All of the depths on my depth shading are not exact, but they are relatively close. In other words if I’m running in 1-2 ft of water, my shading is not going to read 10 feet deep and vice versa.
So if im in an area where my map is colored red, im going to slow down and be more cautious. The same way if im in the very middle of a large deep canal and my map is showing im in a white or green area, i can safely assume I am relatively safe from running aground because i “should” be in approximately 10-30 ft of water. It’s really just using visual cues to help me navigate. One would be foolish to solely depend on a depth finder only. Again, just a tool in the tool box.
I totally agree you cannot just blindly trust a map. I use lots of tools to help me, depth shading being one of many. I’ve been running boats solo since I was 14 years old, 40 years ago, I’ve definitely made some mistakes along the way. All you can do is learn from them and try to not make the same mistake twice! Good discussion fellas.
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Devin, Can you also explain the wing dams? I am not familiar with them.
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Awesome info Devin. Thank you very much. I’m a TX Wade fisherman, so Breton Island is on my radar for sure. I just have to convince my wife to get out of the boat to do that with sharks etc. This will be my 3rd trip down there. But I have fished Delacroix/hopedale extensively with success the last 16 years, so I would consider myself adequately capable of navigating the marsh. (When in doubt idle in, and power out). I have a Garmin 106SV with navionics and LA1 card for navigation. I do need to dive a little deeper into GED for safe routes yet. No satellite communication but a cool thing I did last trip is put my Starlink on a ram mount and started carrying my iPad. Makes radar, Google earth usage at all times, as well as a solid cellular service in case of emergency. Sounds like I have some work to do locating those areas and making safe routes before I leave Tuesday morning.
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I live in the Dallas area, but I regularly fish Matagorda, POC, Seadrift, Rockport.
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The depth shading is pretty simple. I keep my navigation map as normal. I modify my fishing map. When on that screen, click menu then toggle over to depth shading. You can play around with different depths and colors. It’s totally customizable. I personally like red as the shallowest water as I along with most other I presume, equate red with stop. Or at least slow down and figure out what’s going on in super shallow areas. It’s not perfect on the depths, but a really good starting point.
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Maybe my best inshore trip ever… I will post a full report later today!
