[Boyce]

Thank you everyone for the replies and feedback. I shall report back.

[Boyce]

I am so happy you posted this. I’ve been considering the same thing. I too have a useless handheld VHF, and a Garmin inReach, but I feel that it is not enough. I’ve considered an EPIRB to attach to my life vest and/or boat, but I really want to be able to make calls in the event something goes wrong. I’ve considered Starlink, so I’m excited to hear how it works for you. Looking forward to you reporting back.

I’ve also considered Starlink at my house, so maybe I’ll just bundle everything up eventually. If I’m not mistaken, they’re working on having Starlink cell coverage, so that may eliminate the need for a Garmin altogether.

[Boyce]

What are you plans for powering it? I assume a compact, high amp hour battery?

[Boyce]

Great report. I’ve been thinking about the long rocks too.

[Boyce]

This report is MONEY! Thank you man. Makes my planning a helluva lot easier.

[Boyce]

I think the ground could be your problem. Have you tried it plugged into a different outlet in a different room?

Or do what Devin said because that’s pretty smart. I’ll be doing that here shortly.

[Boyce]

So apparently Mississippi can stop the spillway from opening. They evidently filed and won a lawsuit against the Corps the last time it was opened, citing it had a negative impact on their shrimp and oyster industries. Since they won that, apparently they have to OK any spillway openings from now on.

Just thought this was interesting so I wanted to share.

[Boyce]

Side note @ShooterMcGrabbin : you seem to enjoy playing around with gifs and videos and whatnot, but have you tried making your own action figure??

[Boyce]

Great gif, great video. Crazy to see how much land has been lost.

[Boyce]

Fourchon! My little brother has connections down there and fished Fourchon last weekend. They went out to Timbalier and Casse Tete and caught a few trout and redfish. Nothing special, but they aren’t Spoonpluggers like you.

[Boyce]

Yes, it can run on 24V or 36V. It was already pulling a wake on 24V lol. That thing is a beast. I’m jacked about more power at lower speeds now running it on 36V.

[Boyce]

Thank you Neil. Good luck out there Saturday.

[Boyce]

Nice! I wish I could make it out for that. Apparently my wife thinks kids birthday parties are more important than catching 20” speckled trout. The nerve of her.

[Boyce]

Oh boy, I got you stirred up!

While that certainly wasn’t my intention, I did enjoy reading that tongue lashing you typed up and tend to agree with mostly everything you just said.

Admittedly when I saw that, I thought to myself “this is so f*cking stupid”. I hate politics more than just about anything so seeing any sort of government related or just court related stuff in general really turns me off. So it’s no surprise that the sue happy people of today’s society went and got politics and law involved in something like this.

I’m with you though— there’s no way that MS can actually veto an opening right? Like if push comes to shove, the corps is opening that damn spillway no matter what anyone says. At least that’s what a logical mind would say. But then again, this is government officials we are talking about here…..

Disclaimer: I’m definitely not looking to start a political thread

[Boyce]

@Devin another thing Buck Perry says is not to think about weather in terms of TEMPERATURE, but rather in terms of LIGHT. As in how much light will there be during the day based off the cloud cover, pre-frontal conditions, overcast, foggy, or on the opposite end: will it be bluebird skies or not? His theory as that light affects the fish behavior more than anything.

So to add to what @cliffhall and @ShooterMcGrabbin are saying, perhaps the light conditions associated with low barometric pressure (oftentimes overcast, cloud cover, rainy, foggy, etc) have the fish more active and migrating and feeding more. As opposed to a high barometric pressure day where its bluebird skies and sunny as all get out, Buck Perry says the fish migrate and feed less on those days.

I’ve seen that video Shooter posted about CA, and that definitely made me start looking at it more and just paying attention to it. But like anything with fishing, I don’t think it’s an end all be all metric to lose sleep over.

This is a great topic and thread by the way.