cliffhall
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The Pearl River is worth a look as well 😏
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Fishing with 3 generations is awesome! Also, great job of having success with plan b.
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For the last few years September has been the month I’ll start looking for school trout in the fall pattern. I’ve found the bigger fish start showing up in October. This is for the east side of the river and obviously is dependent on many variables.
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I got him to build what I call a “bridges” rod on a scvII blank and it was incredible. Super light and sensitive. Admittedly, I broke it in an accident that was 100% my fault but that thing was great when it was in one piece.
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Having a successful day without a trolling motor deserves major props. Great job on adjusting to the conditions and making something happen.
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Barrier island ✅
Wade Fishing ✅
Topwater ✅
Big Trout ✅
That’s about as good of a trip as you can ask for in my book. Very well done!
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I’m no Jack expert but my fly fishing buddies seem to think you need the water in the lake to be warm-hot. I’ve seen the blowing up everywhere from the east side poles south of the hospital wall to the beaches east and west of goose point. My buddies will drive around, look for them blowing up, and then park a couple hundred yards upwards of the direction they are headed. They wait for the jacks to come to them. No clue why that’s the preferred SOP but they do it enough to trust that it makes sense.
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Sorry to hear about your buddy. Things like that really put stuff into perspective. Everyone on this board is clearly and appropriately obsessed with getting better at fishing but sometimes what’s important is just having a good time out there.
Having said that, I will more than happily come chase some big trout on the Texas coast with you. I’ve fished around Matagorda and Rockport but I want to give south of corpus a try. One of my good fly fishing buddies may be moving to Houston this year as well. In my opinion he’s quietly one of the best fly fishing/sight fishing redfish guys in the state so he will most definitely be finding ways to fish and duck hunt over there. I can put you in contact with him if he ends up moving that way.
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+1 on trying that section, especially rock lines, multiple times in different conditions. There’s a stretch of rocks that I love in the MRGO that’s a few miles long but consistently produces fish in 2 spots that make up less than 5% of the entire rock line. It took lots of casting to find that out and some low tides confirmed those are the two spots that rocks just out anywhere from 10-30 feet from the shore. I may have never found those spots after only fishing it a couple times.
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You are right…..photoperiod and water temps is what you are looking for. I also think salinity levels can have something to do with it as well. A couple years ago it was salty very DEEP inside Bayou B and I found some bigger fish in early September. Like others have said, you can also run into some September trout in bayous and grass flats off of Lake P and Catherine.
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I definitely need to be better with trailer maintenance. I drive anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours and I dunk my hubs every time I launch/pick up.
That is how tohatsu recommends oil/oil filter changes but I think I’ve done both at the same time up until now.
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Do you use salt away to flush your motor as well? It also works for soaking baits after wading trips but you probably knew that already.
Good idea on the voltage meter. We can eventually do a gear list as well.
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I’ve fished Matagorda and East Matty before. What you will learn in here will apply to that area for sure.
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I’ll be rooting for you to smoke that tarpon. It will certainly be deserved whenever it happens. I had some tarpon divert my fly fishing buddies attention on a trip to the Chandys one time. We left a decent bite to unsuccessfully chase what I thought were big tarpon on the fly for about 4 hours. I can see why you would be obsessed with them.
I want to catch a big one here. I caught a 28” 7.25lb fish outside of Jacksonville so that kind of wet my Willy for out of state big trout. I’ve been to Matagorda bay half a dozen times and fished Rockport Tx as well. I’d 100% be down for an out of state diy big trout trip, though.
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“The sad irony that you’ve done this during the worst time in Louisiana’s inshore history to do find/catch big trout.”
I am all too well aware of this sad irony. Stories of the “good ole’ days” are big part of my inspiration to get involved with conservation efforts.
“If I find where legitimate hammer trout are holding, well, I’m not putting that in the baby spoon.”
Let me be clear, I didn’t make this post with the intention for myself or others to posts big trout spots. I’m interested to see if there ideas or patterns that could make the collective effort more fruitful. The most rewarding feeling in all of fishing for me is when an educated guess of where and how a big trout could be caught comes out right. That and I am convinced I’ve done something to the trout gods to not let them ever allow me to catch someone else’s fish. That literally never works out for me.
“I totally understand the whole altruistic, willing to help and participate in a two-way street mentality, but my overall experience in inshore fishing is that you have to prove yourself first.”
This is a FACT. I really think a big part of why I’ve been able to establish relationships with some big trout guys is their respect for my willingness to fail lol. I’ve been able to provide lots of insight into what not to do, along with some good intel, to help them know I was serious.
“I will say that getting out to the rigs in Breton Sound/Venice are worth your time.
That and it’s not just ideal fishing spots you’re looking for, but ideal fishing areas. I’m totally willing to accept that I could be wrong, I’m alright with that. But I think that an area has to set up to be good for big trout and has to have had consistently done so for years. These fish are creatures of habit and would have grown up returning to the same spots.”
I’m slowly coming to terms with this. There’s a part of me that’s ok with accepting the fact that what defines a fish as “big” is relative to what area you are fishing. There is another part of me that knows if I want to consistently catch a certain size of fish then I’m going to have to go to the fringes of LA. I fully agree that big trout are creatures of habit and the reality is that the type of fish I’m looking for are more likely to be caught in those areas you mentioned.
