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Were yall fishing the northside of the sandbar on the west side of south pass?

I used to wadefish there pretty often on the way out or back in from spearfishing

I need to catchup the forum on reports, but had a trip about a week ago where we caught 30 specks- 3 of us . on dropshot live shrimp at the mouth of sw pass. nothing crazy but solid fish

dropshot hornet wasnt working but I threw tightlined 3/8 hornet and caught less than the live shrimp guys mainly due to ladyfish

Then hit some contours we had outlined on gps in 120 ft for every drop snap action

Around east bay, the rigs get so much pressure for snapper. Look for natural bottom structure (contours holes etc) and pipeline crossings and several wrecks that are easy to find on gps or navionics… usually will get that every bite drop type bite after a couple stops.

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glad you back at it

out of curiosity what antibiotic was the mycobacterium susceptible to.

i have had many wounds to many hands over the years in my veterinary career and have had a bunch from snapper and catfish

a relative who is a dermatologist actually recommended not going to ER for a bad one 10 years ago. My thumb was 5x normal size a day after getting stuck by a snapper and had a red line up my arm extending up to the arm pit. He was worried the ER would lance a nearby joint and potentially over react and do more harm . Told me to take some ciprofloxacin and luckily within 24 hours the red line regressed. Since then my go to is cipro before i see a human doc and it has always worked.

Seems like it has been a bad year for brackish water bacteria related illness

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I have had 3 really big trout caught on my boats.

a 30 inch fish in 2005 at seabrook on a black and chart saltwater assassin

the other 2 were 7 pounds and both at the mouth of the river.

first one with a black and chart saltwater assassin behind a wingdam in sw pass

the third might have been the my luckiest fish of all time. It was the middle of the summer and i was tied up to a wingdam drinking with college buddies using 1/2 ounce jigheads tipped with shrimp on the way in from an offshore overnight trip. Back then a boatfulof tuna and snapper wasnt enough. We were pounding puppy drum, reds, and sheephead. Somehow a 7lb hawg picked up the dead shrimp and suprised the shit out of us when it appeared at the surface.

Common denominator in all 3 cases were heavy current with a current break and a lot of luck. If i had to target a big fish it would be the mouth of south or southwest pass when the river is below 5 ft. Target current breaks in main stem of river within a few hundred yards of the gulf. I have caught a bunch of really solid fish on that pattern over the years with large live pogeys under a sliding cork or carolina rigged with a long flouro leader

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for what its worth they have caught some fish out there in the last few weeks. Capt was on the sonar and trolling so i didnt see any images

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nothing is out of the water at all

there was a serious upwelling at the coodinates

according to my buddies who fished there daily for years significant chunks are missing

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Dead shrimp under a cork is exactly what most of the guides in Venice are doing