cliffhall
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That’s good to hear about grass and bait.
I have a duck lease around skippy and pointe fienne. The grass was really thick in there this year so that may be worth checking out as well.
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Think of the rocks as you would the trestles. Sometimes they are so close to the rocks that you want to throw something weedless right into them and sometimes they could be 50 yards off of them. I can remember a few trips where I caught fish by parking my duck boat right off the rocks and casted a jig behind the boat towards the MRGO.
As a general rule, temperature trends usually dictate whether they are closer or further away from the rocks. If the temps are trending up then I’d throw weedless stuff (slicks work well for this) or suspending jerkbaits ( shadow raps, vision 110, jackal rerrange, 17mr) right up against the rocks. If temps are trending down then maybe start by backing off the rocks 40-50 yards and throwing deeper diving jerkbaits (Berkeley cutter 110s, vision 90, heavy dines, Corkys).
As with most of trout fishing, there are no permanent rules for this and they could completely switch things up on your for no perceivable reason at all.
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17mr has been really productive on the flats. If the Chalmette flat gets too busy then it’s worth hopping around all of the grass flats from there to proctors.
Don’t discount throwing mid diving jerkbaits on the rocks: Shadowraps, xrap, megabass vision 110, 17mr
Berkeley cutter 90 is a really good fish finding jerk out there
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Exactly what Boyce said. Southern end moves first/hardest.
The east side poles (dock poles on the furthest eastern shore of Lake P) all the way up to the hospital wall can be worth a try with light tides.
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Incredible. It’s wild how quickly you’ve become a seriously competent Venice angler.
What was the depth of the water at the first spillway when things turned on?
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Never ever. I am a people pleaser in most areas of my life but I turn into an asshole when it comes to noise on my boat, especially when it comes to hunting bigger fish in shallow water or pressured areas. Having said that, I have a buddy who often smokes the fish while blaring everything from country to rap. To me, id rather err on the side of caution when it comes to looking for bigger fish.
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That’s good to know. I heard there were some trout deep deep in hopedale before the all time low water so I was wondering where to intercept them. Ameda makes sense. Love that area for late winter/early spring
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First split was great then it fell off a cliff. Low water kept a lot of people out the marsh for a few weekends in January.
Do you fish the hopedale side of terre aux boeufs at all?
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That makes a lot of sense to me. I guess there is good and bad to everything including a high river.
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You are not alone. Unfortunately the Bayou b area is a shell of what it was even 6-7 years ago but it’s still a worthy place to look for big fish.
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I still owe you a trip out to Bienvenue. Might finally break out the fishing boat this weekend so I will let you know if its worth meeting up down there in the next couple of weeks.
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I’ve played around quite a bit with what rules and area would make a proper BIG trout tournament. I think the best way to truly test each anglers skills would be to do a 3 day tournament in an area no one is familiar with. 3 days could help eliminate the luck factor and a new area would ensure no one could substitute time in an area/fishing network for big trout knowledge.
Having said that, we’ve probably prioritized convenience and having a good spot to do the post tournament stuff for the RO20 one. I’ve had a relatively decent amount of people ask me to do more tournaments so maybe I could do some just focused on big trout in the future.
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This will be us arguing until 2:30 at the next LAFB Venice trip
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I know this will be one of those debates that goes on for ages but it is always fun to try and hop in the brains of these ridiculous fish. I don’t doubt that there is a correlational but my best guess is that its not causal. Im assuming the other variables that are associated with a pressure drops have more of a direct impact (Wind, surface water disturbance, cloud cover, water turbidity). You hear a lot of the Lake P og’s saying that you have a better chance at catching bigger fish when the Lake is rough. They attribute that increase in feeding behavior to the wind but increasing wind speed is also correlated with pressure drops. The reality is with these fish is that so many things are up for debate because you cant control variables in nature. I think the unpredictability is one reason we love chasing these things.
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Was the wind picking up at that time as well?
I’ve gone back and forth with @ShooterMcGrabbin before and I’m still trying to understand the mechanism behind a fishes ability to “feel” atmospheric pressure change.
If I did the math right, a drop of 3mbar is equivalent to a pressure change of 1.2 inches of water depth. So if a fish moves 1.2 inches lower in the water column then it would feel that same pressure difference.
It doesn’t make sense to me that fish really notice atmospheric pressure changes but too many good fisherman over the years have seemed to correlate Atmospheric pressure drops with a good bite.
My best guess is there is an indirect correlation and the exact mechanism (maybe wind is one of them?) coincides with pressure drops.
It’s also possible I’m missing something with all of this. I immediately go to theory about pressure impacting the swim bladder/stomach.
