Jason_B
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Good stuff. I’ll take a look at those links later tonight before I rig up. And when I do rig up it’ll be 2 corks, 1 jig, and a topwater for me. Leaning 2 corks for the skipper.
As for the time of day, my fishing partner flies back into MSY at 11:00 tonight. Letting him sleep in was part of the deal I negotiated to be able to go. I might accidentally be loud around the house in the morning though.
Adding spot 11 and moving the drift sock to the top of the storage compartment.
Many thanks.
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This is great. Been looking for more local media to consume. Speckled Truth just doesn’t have much in common with SE LA.
Can relate to the Ronnie hate. Glad I have something to call him now. Seems like every time I come off plane in the mrgo to take a leak he’s pulling up on my bow trying to spike a cajun anchor in 30′ of water and casting a popping cork into my piss stream.
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Sounds like a good day considering the change of plans. Curious on what the beef was with pintos? About the only problems I’ve had there is finding live bait and staying out of the way of people trying to fix junk cars. Limited parking maybe?
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I plan to head down the road tomorrow with one or two of the kids and fish the bayou between yscloskey and hopedale off the road. Will probably wait until it warms up around noon to go. If anyone has any intel on whether or not to not to push on or linger at the house it would be appreciated.
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I’m interested in this pen idea for Sunday morning. I agree with Devin’s idea of getting away from the community holes but I might stick to them with my busted trim. Can’t run too far on just the trolling motor.
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Tried about a half dozen places on the side of the road between Yscoskey and Hopedale this afternoon with no luck. Donated some dead shrimp and jig heads to the bayou as an offering. Man there’s a lot of trash in that thing! Polled the guys we ran into and they all got skunked too except for one guy who caught a few blue cats. Guessing it might take another day or two for them to make their way in from the marsh. Planing to try again Wednesday. Which means Tuesday will be the magic day!
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I’ve got jig heads rigged up and my bank fishing bucket ready to go if I can take off work early on 1/26. Would head to wherever we can find a parking spot between yacloskey and hopedale. My 7 year old would be my client. There are a few boat spots I’ve been wanting to try for a jubilee but its probably best to have a warm truck and a Nintendo switch nearby for the little guy.
Speaking of boat spots for a jubilee, I’ve been wanting to do this with the kiddo out of a boat without having to travel far enough to get up on plane and freeze his ears off. I just think the wind will be too bad tomorrow even once we get to where we’re going. A spot that I’ve had in mind, and I’ve never stopped in it to scan the depth, and I don’t know what the canal is called but I’m interested in the one that connects bayou B to the violet canal along the inside of the levee. Anyone know the depth and if you can run it all the way to the violet lock?
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“Yeah, I get that. Classic anthropomorphization of something that’s not warm-blooded. I just haven’t seen evidence to lend toward that. It’s been my observation that fish prefer stable water over water that’s warmer. Which is detailed in this article.”
It makes sense that I caught the hardiest of marsh fish in their most hardy sizes while trying this.
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Hey Devin, thanks for the replies. I’ll try to offer some clarity and responses to a few things here.
As for the Biloxi Marsh not being what it used to be. Yea, I’ve noticed. It’s where I grew up fishing too. I did have a “half limit” day out there where only a few had to be put on the ruler back in December. That predates my intro post here so did not include that day on any report. May have given me some hope that others don’t have.
The “yikes” on not planning. I’m assuming I’m not the only guy who might see a quick window to go. When I can’t plan I always check wind and stick to known routes I have run before and saved. I’ve been a GED nerd since before I learned the acronym in 101 and have followed a similar route planning process in the past, and re-verified mr routes with your process after 101. I’ll risk missing the bite but won’t risk safety. Just don’t want to be a negative influence on others by not clarifying that. I’ll verify the wind forecast once on the water and I have tidal predictions on my charts that I can make live decisions with. Not ideal, but safe, and it’s time on water.
New places: I’ve done Hopedale a few times, mostly in the summer at the long rocks. I like the idea of Delacroix, but as mentioned, I’m a GED nerd and have never fully committed based on the things I don’t like on the images. Need some study time on routes. But I need to commit to that and let it be my next frontier sometime this year.
The bath thing. Man, I’m just bad about using poetic speak. My bad. The idea in my head was that fish would be pushed deep from the cold front (ref the ~50 deg water temps). Meanwhile the shallow lagoons are warming from the few days of warm, calm, sunny weather. As that warm lagoon water drains out on a falling tide into those deeper bayous then those cold fish might want to seek it. Ever jumped into a pool that’s too cold but then hopped into the hot tub for relief? That’s what my mind saw the fish doing – again, too poetic. My bad.
I don’t think your being hard. Thanks for the feedback.
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Here I am sitting at a computer sending out a department staffing plan on this fine Saturday night… So, it’s a pretty bombable… i mean full schedule.
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I’ve been extremely limited on time and have only seemed to get out with a hard north wind, neap tide, and 90 minutes or less of available time.
I do want to use the forum more to get opinions on how I’m doing. But I’ll open up myself to the jury when I get skunked on a properly planned trip rather than not doing well when I have a quick moment to go get the hull wet at the neighborhood launch. Check that, I’ll post my plan next time I have the proper time to do it
Do you have a class on how to make life slow down so I can go more?
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Pretty sure it’s a seal based on where I can see it leaking. Parts on order and should be on the water again soon.
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Ehh.. it’s been a little miss or miss lately. My free time and the weather haven’t exactly aligned in the last month. Tried to go find birds on the lake a few times in December but wound up jigging up some monster hard heads under the causeway or staying relegated to scanning bottom inside bonnabel boat launch while the dog swam around because there was 2 foot waves on the lake and I only had an hour to spare. Time on water, am I right?
Finally got out of Jefferson parish last Saturday and started catching a few bass around bayou b but then noticed a huge oil slick behind the boat that was related to the trim. I wasn’t sure how many “up-downs” it had left in the reservoir so just fished my first spot until I could stand it anymore and headed in. The weather was rough that day but felt I could have hunted them down if I could have ran around a bit. Had about 10 “stairs” spots marked on the chartplotter. It was one of the about 4 times a year where my son decides to sleep in and I can hit it hard. Such is life.
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I grew up fishing LA waters from MS launches. I think the answer depends on where you get stopped and checked at. If checked on the water, you need to have a license for where you are. If checked at the dock on your return then you need to have a license that legalizes what’s in your box. If returning to Mississippi with 13” trout you need to show the MS law enforcement a Louisiana license. If returning to LA then it doesn’t matter because the MS limit sizes of 15” envelope the LA limit size.
I know that when we used to fish LA waters from MS launches, if we had fish in the box that were only LA legal then we wouldn’t come off plane in MS waters. Sometimes that led us to only keep MS legal trout to leave an opportunity for picking up triple tail on the way back in.
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How is it launching solo there? Only time I’ve launched there was summer with high water and someone backed me in. With low winter water and launching solo can you walk a bow rope from the truck over to the dock without wading?
