cliffhall
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You wade fish and you primarily throw topwaters? A man after my own heart lol
Love your reports!
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What an incredible fish and incredible overall memory. Welcome to the “big trout bug” and I am sorry that you will never be the same lol
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Catching that many fish was awesome but the conversations were even better. Had an absolute blast learning from you and picking your brain about trout. That one wont leave the memory books any time soon.
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What does your first name start with if you don’t mind me asking? I think I met you a month or so ago. Only so many people wading the Biloxi marsh area so I’m guessing it was you lol
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Absolutely love his videos and I reference/rely on them quite a bit when trying to figure out what’s going on in these damn fish brains.
Eastern current has a good drone shot of fishing a school of fish. Very interesting. I’ll try to find it and link it here
https://youtu.be/B-RVBw1WVSk?si=uVdRrx4e0pVpjPxt
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I’ve researched this quite extensively. While I haven’t tried single hooks, it seems as if most people say you do sacrifice a bit on your hookup ratio.
I’ve also tried soft split rings (with braid) and can’t say I notice a huge difference.
To me, by far the biggest upgrade you can make on your topwater baits is better treble hooks. I’ve been using the owner ST-X 38 zo wire hooks and love them. They are corrosion resistant, dangerously sticky, and lighter than standard hooks of the same size. I find lightening it up helps with working the bait and it sitting on top of waves better when it gets windy.
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On this same topic, I’ve learned that my energy is greatly impacted by what I eat. If I don’t eat then I can fish all day. As soon as I eat something, especially if it has carbs, I’m crashing.
Even my long days consist of coffee, gallon jug of water with electrolytes, and at most a couple beef sticks. I know everyone will be different when it comes to how food impacts them but that really works for me.
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Ameda has been making absolutely no sense to me. Plenty of bait and clean water but the fish have been absent. I had one good spree in there earlier in march and its been a ghost town since.
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Looking forward to trying these out!
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Just wanted to throw out my last reminder on here without clogging up the site with new posts. Sign up before tomorrow night (3/31 at 11:59) for a chance at the pre-registration prize. We usually give away a lot of stuff at this thing.
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The coquille to two trees area used to be great with that type of wind but it just hasn’t produced in the last few years. That’s a bummer because I’ve done a lot of damage from Bernard all the way to fortuna through the fall and into June a few years ago. I think the grass disappearing has really hurt that are.
It seems like the entire states population of trout is in Delacroix right now. I’ve tried to reach out to a few people across the fishery and it’s been the most consistent spot by far. I can’t remember hearing so many reports from so many different people of boat loads of trout coming out of there.
Could get some fish pushed up to the MRGO from the long rocks to south side of the dam with that river water pushing that way.
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Well said! You learn so much about the area you are fishing in an intimate way that can not be recreated in a boat. I also think it puts you at a significant advantage when it comes to catching big trout in shallower water.
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I use #2 for Skitterwalks/One Knockers and #4 for the skitterwalk jr/spook jr
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“I’d like to see this same action spread to the surrounding areas”
You and me both. I think I took for granted how consolidated the fish were during the freshening.
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Good point. Maybe it’s more in the forefront of my mind considering so many other areas that have produced year after year during this time are very inconsistent. Also, I think what surprises me is the type of anglers I am hearing from. I know guys who would consider that area their stomping grounds and they are on a spree as good as they can remember. There are people whacking them down there who are catching more fish down there than they ever have in their lives and I would not consider them to be the most competent fishermen. That tells me there are A LOT of fish down there right now.
