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Riptide Terrova user here with no complaints. I also use the remote version, for the reasons you mentioned above, and love it. Just keep extra AAA batteries in your boat for the remote and you should never have any problems with that thing.

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Love this kind of stuff. I was just watching a Lost Louisiana documentary on Grand Isle. Will definitely check this out as well.

I’m sure it’s been talked about here already but I just bought the book Rising Tide to learn a little more about the Mississippi. Keep posting any other stuff you come across

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Well done, Ryan.

You certainly earned every single fish you caught last weekend. Great job on making things work and grinding it out in some tough conditions.

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Would it be possible to use one starlink for your home and fishing trips? Obviously you’d have to pick one or the other at any given time but that would be nice to have out there.

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Excellent job of having back to back successful trips to Venice! Not gonna lie, all of you Venice Conquistadors have inspired me to start learning Venice this upcoming fall. I’ll blame you guys if my wife starts complaining of longer trips lol.

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Nothing will drive you crazier than trying to get into the head of a trout but I think you can trust your intuition on this one. Those big trout know they have to feed before or after their brains click into spawning mode. Jon Miller did a seminar one time talking about how laws of conservation of energy apply to trout behavior. Any animal will die if they expend more energy than they intake. Spawning requires a lot of energy, both to produce the eggs and the spawning process, so fish need to load up around spawning periods.

That’s one reason I think we don’t see Texas or Florida sized speckled trout here. Our trout have to cover large areas and evade predators throughout the year where some of the best big trout fisheries in the world (Guana River, IRL, Mosquito Lagoon, Baffin, Rockport) have trout populations that spawn and feed year round in the same bays.

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I can’t contribute much due to never fishing that area but I do have a buddy who did well around four bayou this weekend.

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Great job of making something happen when things were cooling down everywhere else.

Also, the same could be said for you! Great guy and tons of knowledge on GI.

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I’ll be down this weekend as well and I don’t mind sharing intel. Look me up on Facebook and I’ll give you my number

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I always say that figuring trout out is like playing chess in a blender that’s in a tornado. There are certainly rules to this game but one of those rules is the trout will sometimes say frick all of the other rules and do whatever they want that day. No man on this planet will ever master trout, indefinitely, and especially in LA waters. That still won’t stop us from obsessing over every fraction of a percentage all the way up to 99.99% mastery.

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I would most likely only take it on trips where I’m going to Venice, Breton, or the Chandys, so maybe that would be doable.

How packable is the Mini? I don’t have a ton of room on my skiff. Is it pretty easy to set up on a boat?

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I’d be down. I dont really care for any non speckled trout fish but the trip wouldn’t have to be planned around my interest, obviously. I’m just slowly starting to concede that if I’m going to primarily target big trout in Louisiana then I gotta go where they are so it’s time to start learning all that I can about Venice.

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Well done. Gladiator is one of my favorites.

Also, when are we getting the LAFB Elite sponsored house boat in Venice? If we are gonna take over the place then let’s do it right

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I don’t have a VHF but we could start a group text to chat about what we are seeing.

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I think there were a few factors and the tide switch was definitely one of them. We were clearly out fishing the guys in boats, especially on Saturday, so the presentation certainly helped.