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really not tough to navigate it. read the water go slow when in doubt

the bayside more or less shoaled in …. dont try to zip across it

the southeast corner stay wide.. shallow bars good area to fish

gosier and the underwater gosiers …procede with a lot more caution

the northside stay a couple hundred yards off the shore and you will be good

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Fished many of those areas in past but just the sound and lake this spring So don’t have any good reports to help

Breton sound a sure thing though

When I have fished that pattern in pal in past,

Can be hard to Throw jig if close to shore dt cane stubble snags

Key is Survey/ find the pockets of clean water or just cleaner

start fishing way off the points

Good thing is you have options if wind switches you can pivot To other bays in pal

Haven’t heard any reports lately but inside of southpass should be pretty damn good too

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awesome fish congrats brutha

what were you throwing?

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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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bay side

gulf side was too windy but i agree

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<div>Most fun way to fish; you feel more connected to the gulf. I grew up wade fishing with my dad so very nostalgic to me. </div>

when im not with my kids, wade +/- freedive pretty much all i want to do

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leaving tommorow at 11 from the office in metairie

come on

supposed to be overcast wind blowing pretty good out of SE

high tide 130

planning to be out there around then

gonna hit breton /gosier til dark thirty

or possibly wade south pass better for the wind but a little worried the river jump may have the water muddled up

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these should have the actual dates on pic

forgot I had to replace lower unit and was taking the jet ski out lmao

I had another video where we had 45 by 645 mid june but it gives away location too much-cant betray my buddy like that . I always give him shit bc he talks too much so this would be ultimate hypocrisy

I never thought they would stick around mid lake that long but we just kept going because they never left.

The fish got smaller but we literally were kind of tired of fishing trout in the lake 3-4 days a week for months. i do not like fishing live bait and was pretty stubborn, but around late may early june thats the only thing they would eat

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I shit you not… limits

I need to find pics to verify date

I though it would have ended in may

The last trout I caught in the lake was east of seabrook July 4th

The kids and I caught 28

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David; I’ll wade fish anywhere

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Last year we had a bunch of really good trips into june in the lake

my buddy a longtime live bait guide swore they were still there and he started picking up shrimp and as much shit as i gave him he was right