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you talking about fishing mary bowers?

what days you going i may be there

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take the canal with the barge on grand and run south around the 3rd island into the pass that lead to diversion you should be good. (your last outlined route) …verified today

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Where are u trying to go from baptiste ?

I used to a lot hunt south of where you enter the bay and there a ton of sandbars in that area

I used to not even be able to run from that washout area south of baptiste into middle of buras bayou with a surface drive unless I took the cut in the river south of baptiste . If I came from one of the northern bayous I couldn’t get around the sandbars

I will admit on the map looks like you can but I think you will have a flat where the bayou off baptiste enters the bay

You can absolutely do 1.emiline to yaratich or 2.south of emiline one of those cuts idk name you can get to tessiers bend into north octave pass(which is part of main) not the real octave

Depending where you are trying to go the above mae more sense

When in doubt I pretty much look for crab traps and roll as long as I see em

I have been stuck really bad though over the years especially before g earth

Let me know if you go that way would be a sweet route

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Owe yall about 15 reports worn down scouting and duck hunting downriver

I made a similar run the other day in a duckboat Sunday that would have been a problem with outboard.

Similar to your first route but went north of first “island”

I dont trust your first route like the last one better, but the exit from grand into zin zin on that one can be shallow and has some sort of obstruction as you exit

I made it the other day using the cut with the facility which I usually use to go to 1st or second spillway

instead of heading to 1st spillway, I headed northeast of riverside and picked up a line of crab traps in williams pass that took me to diversion there was a sandbar south of the last island that isnt very wasy to see on earth. Overall this didnt save much time

there are many sandbars between those islands – look for crab bouys

you can defintely cross between those islands. I saw a bass boat do it using the channel north of the last island. I have done it with surface drive but dont feel too comfortable with outboard. this area is always evolving. I asked a guide buddy the best route and he comes from the river

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Hell yeah nice trip That metal thing basically in the river in like 25 feet of water is one of places I saw a bunch of snaps

Has almost a big structure under there and big bull sharks

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Fished the zin zin side and a couple cuts then went back into bay and crossed into second spillway via double bayou

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fish and ask forgiveness later

never had a problem

usually fishing the ledge/drop off close to south side so you not impeding traffic

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look at bottom contours and pipeline crossings for the snaps

literally contour lines that have like a 10 foot drop or make a nipple on the map

Almost any different relief on bottom holds em

i dont mess with rigs at all unless freediving and kids are with me and i see a ton

if you at the rigs and cant catch gotta go lighter longer flouro leaders and preferably live bait

generally the shallower you are the more you have to worry about leader size and length

we caught the other day at a rig but had live pogeys rigged like a drop shot 80 lb mono but with 2 hooks

when you fishing sunken rigs or wrecks, you have to usually drop pretty close to the X.

when on the pipeline crossing or bottom contours you can even drift and pick em up

those type of spots you can cut up any dead fish basically and use huge terminal gear bc there is way less pressure

I try random shit like that on map sometimes while running to a different waypoint and end up smashing

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if you sight fishing that looks pretty decent plan although highline sucked (sightfishing)the last time i went in julyish. could be totally different

If you just trying to catch a bunch of reds stick to the drainages off the main passes or drainages off the secondary canals

I tried like hell to jig the reds the other day and it was tough needed a little shrimp

caught limits of reds for years at the intersection of the camp canals where they meet grand pass. Used to have a camp there and would stop there often. worth checking and giving 5 mins

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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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yeah i have let my 13 year drive the boat everywhere we go and make him navigate home since he was like 8

he drops me off in front the rig and pics me up on the backside

I had another adult with me this time but he usually my DD either way

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didnt see any rolling and was pretty tumulous at pass

I bet they still there