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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
Camo Aluminum 24 with black top
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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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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
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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
