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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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Absolutely awesome. I love that yalls success bewildered the googanville folks. That’s always special lol

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Not trying to hijack your thread, Neil, but does anyone know if the beaches in east bay are wadefishable? More specifically the beach just west of south pass.

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I’ve only fished fourchon once so I don’t have tons of intel but I can say you want to be mindful of the waves in that beach/pocket spot just west of belle pass. Those barges push some gnarly waves that nearly swamped me.

The barges may be worth a look as well. I’m gonna give Elmer’s a look tomorrow mid morning so I’ll let you know if it’s worth heading east.

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Great job as always on running into those big fish!

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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.

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I appreciate that, Levi. Putting that on the list of things to try for next year.

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Thanks for the intel. You going to be down there this weekend?