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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.

Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions 985-778-3752

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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 done. You boys ( @Geremy ) have me wanting to learn the Delacroix/PALH area for trout next year

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I saw you made the sweetwater’s hall of fame. Well done! I’m not mentally strong enough to fish without a trolling motor so good on you for making the most of it

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My buddy ran into a 23”

One 19” and the rest were around 15”

I feel pretty confident you could run into a big fish in there but the guys I was with weren’t interested in that type of grind. We drifted a couple areas and I have almost zero confidence drift fishing there but it wasn’t my boat.

Water wasn’t bad. Definitely some silt but you could see almost 4-5ft down. It seemed to be cleaner the farther north we went

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What would you say your “home base” is as far as fishing goes? You seem to hop around a lot like me lol

In other news, I fished the Chandys on Saturday with very little to show for it. I think we caught 6 trout total on two separate wades. Like you guys, we mostly just rode around making tracks for my buddy because it was his first time in his new boat. Thought you may be interested to hear they haven’t quite turned on yet out there.

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About half way through and I’m loving this one. Already changing the way I think about a couple of things.

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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.