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Very good to see there are fish to be caught away from crowds in the Pontchartrain basin. Great job!

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I’m sure it’s been done before and it may end up being a dumb idea but this is a rig I’m going to start trying in the lake for those fish that seem to be really good at shaking hooks. It’s just a 3/8 oz bullet weight with a peg about 2” from the knot. Hoping this gives them less leverage to throw the hook. We shall see.

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Did you try anything on top when you made it to New Harbor?

Great job with that big girl!

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Great trip and excellent job at putting a pattern together

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Did they fix the other backdown? I can only imagine what kind of circus that was this morning if not lol

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Go get em boys!

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Would get a good run of fish on the east side as the fresh water consolidates things and then you can write off the lake once it hits. Obviously that’s dependent on how long it’s open and how much river water gets through. SE part of the lake could still hold some fish. All that’s coming from my buddy Ty who knows the lake really well.

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https://youtu.be/P7fBsJ-DCrw?si=EKVEgm9tmttVozVJ<div&gt;
</div><div>Exactly! This is how I imagine trout are acting around the bridges. They dart around but are expending as little energy as possible. Much much different than them doing back flips out of the water on big topwaters when they are fired up. My big one from this weekend threw a redfish type wake before exploding on my spook jr. </div>

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Exactly what Devin said. I also believe it helps them suck down the bait a bit further because there is no weight on plastic when they go to inhale it. I could be wrong about that but I also don’t believe there are too many 3/8oz minnows out there lol

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One of my big ones came from that grass line just to the left of that red line and the other came from that red dot on the point. The one on the point was in water just below my knees. That’s the cove directly south of the Pelican Lodge.

Our early bites with the smaller fish seemed to come from the edges of those floating grass lines where bait was congregating.

I’ve only fished it 3 times but all of those times we did well right on the edges of depth changes. Not a huge sample size but bait, troughs, and grass seem to be the ticket so far. The navionics app is helpful to find those troughs and I think they offer a free trial if you wanna use it to make all of them in your gps.

I fricking love that island so much but it’s hard to come up with patterns when you can’t fish it consistently. Let me know next time you go out and I may try to bring my boat so we can double the intel.

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I’m very curious how it falls through the water. One thing I worried about is it not getting down fast enough in stronger currents with it potentially having more drag. I was hoping the peg may help with that but I’ll keep experimenting with pegs at various distances from the hook to see. Losing these rigs would suck too lol.

I may try to attach a stinger hook to this thing and we can call it the “never fricking getting off again” rig.

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I stayed with topwater for all but about 10 casts. I have some kind of disease when it comes to that. There was a decent amount of floating grass midway up where we were fishing so that kept me away from hard baits with trebles. You have me curious now on what some hard baits would have done.

How deep were your bigger fish?

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I had the same problem last Tuesday. There is just something about Lake P trout when the water warms up that makes them magicians when it comes to staying buttoned up.

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That was by far the most I’ve seen. Only my 3rd trip so not the biggest sample size, though. I’ll still take that over the mass hysteria at the trestles or bievenue lol

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What’s the over/under on boats at the tracks on Saturday?