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I talked to a buddy who fished hopedale this Monday and said many of the places he checked were dirty. Ended up getting most of his fish on the long rocks.

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Just had a little girl myself and I can’t wait for moments like this. I just don’t think it gets any better. Great job, pops!

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Way more productive way to have a post finals celebration than what I was getting myself into back in the day lol. Great job smashing them and congrats on finishing up!

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I’m with ya. I’m doing everything I can outside of renting a hang glider to get out to the Chandys again.

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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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Your comments are usually golden but this just takes it to another level. Well done!

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I usually just pack it in for the summer when it becomes what I call Popping Cork Season. Too much heat, small trout, and running for my little boat. I also use that break for negotiation when I am trying to stay married through duck season lol

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Not the fastest but I like that it’s light, easy to work on, and supposedly very reliable. Now I just gotta save up for an offshore boat to beat these winds

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60hp tohatsu

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Hell yeah. Find a way to fit a few rods in there and I’m game.

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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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