[Jason_B]

Thanks for this. I’m sitting here drinking coffee watching the light show in the sky, too scared to trailer over to chef pass. Having options nearer the house is good for weather like this.

[Jason_B]

I fished lake b rigs for a few minutes today and had an ear to the ground on what you may have been up to. When that storm woke me up yesterday morning raining sideways I gave up on hearing a good report from you. Sometimes you just gotta bug out.

Today I was seeing an unequivocal amount of bait on the scanner as opposed to things that looked like or bit like trout. Had a bunch of short strikes on the reef and hooked some dinks. Maybe the keepers weren’t there this weekend. The porpoise’s were also patrolling pretty hard too though.

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Won’t bother doing a full report write up here. Found a keeper, some peter trout, and some porpoises before doing a really good job of making sure the lightning didn’t find us. That squall line coming from the north shore down the the rigolets was intense. Kind of glad it was obvious enough to make us want to get out when we did. Once back to the truck I wasn’t even comfortable enough to drive in that stuff.

[Jason_B]

Way to go sir. I have this area on my mind as a possibility for next weekend so the report is appreciated.

[Jason_B]

I’ll do a planning post next week. Just didnt want to hold out on Ldodson on places to poke around in this wind in case he found himself limited. Especially since you mentioned the exact spot where I’ve had GED zoomed in on for a few weeks now.

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I’ll be down that way on the 30th and have been looking at that peninsula/beach West of Bell Pass. I’m wondering if it can be approached from the North through the Havoline or Evans Canals to get to the West tip of it in protected waters given these SE winds. I’ve also wondered if you can anchor on the North side about mid-way and hike across to the beach side it if it’s too rough in Bell Pass. GED is a hodge podge of stitched images there that rapidly change on the time slider. I think Ida went right over it so maybe the geography has settled in by now – just not sure what it looks like now vs. the latest GED image over 3 years ago. The coloring of the bottom there has (had) a bit of a silty soft look to it too – might not be able to hop out to hike without losing your shoes.

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I’ve accidentally explored a few spincast reels for kids lately, so have a little to offer.

Zebco’s are the classic intro to fishing reels. Particularly the old Zebco 33. That’s pretty much all I fished with when I was little. I got a few “saltwater” versions of the Zebco 33’s off of amazon and put on some Bubba rods for my 7 year old about a year ago and have not been impressed. They have a lot of friction casting and retrieving, I’ve had to “re-engineer” the anti-reverse on one. I haven’t exactly tried every spincast available but have found that the Profishiency brand spincast combos they sell at academy to be much more smooth casting and smooth reeling as compared to the current run of Zebco’s.

[Jason_B]

“like bumping logs in a pirogue shallow.”

Might think about that for some bream fishing with the kids one day.

[Jason_B]

100% a proximity based question rather than going to put miles on the trailer to catch bass. Because I won’t do that for only bass. I love em though, hope that we’re always there for each other.

Thanks for all the replies gents.

I pushed about a 1/2 mile into Duncan today after seeing that the lake was just too muddy and stagnant for trout in West Lake P. #44 distribution tower returns some gnarliness on the graph and has some things to lose a jig on.

The western bank of Duncan was a little more gradual than I hoped and had a ton of aquatic grass to contend with. Not the kind you can punch through but the kind clogging where you’d want to fish top to bottom. Got up on the poling platform sighting. Only saw a gar. That stretch of bank just didn’t look bassy. Caught a rat red by the inlet. Might push further in looking for a differently structured bank next time.

There’s a line of crab traps down the thing so will toot down to at least the end of those next time I find myself that way with nothing better to do.

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I like your color selection more than what I’ve done. I also use red for 0-2 but been thinking about black or something that’s not so anger inducing while in the Biloxi marsh. Garmin thinks all of that is 2’.

Oh, btw, heck of a trip. Sucks about losing the fatty but at the same time that’s what keeps us going.

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Cool. Thanks. Yea I have that one on my mind too.

[Jason_B]

Good tip. Thanks. Will teleport out of there if we sense the same.

[Jason_B]

Good advice. Thanks.

Re: Lakeshore Bayou. I’ve done it a few times recently and have found navionics to be reliable there. Gotta come into it with a SSW heading and leave it going NNE swinging wide around the point that GED says used to be. I went slow the first time and have found it to be around 5′ deep at worst. You can’t hit it like your eyes want you to though. Use that platform on the shoreline as a reference point on when to 90 in and out of it. Edit: I think you’re talking about the portion of it closer to the point whereas I usually enter up around the point some. Recent tracks shown in the attached.

But lakeshore bayou is neither here nor there because I’ve changed my mind and Im dead set on heading north towards where you suggested instead of east into the wormhole of 11” trout if I need to find moving water. Not falling for it this time.

Re: 12. I’ve never fished it because it always looks like a Drive-In movie. Marked as a last ditch red place on the way back in, if and only if the flotilla has evacuated by our return leg. And if I just to putt around and scan then that’s ok. Might can do the @giomag thing and jig them up while everyone else pops corks and looks at us like we’re from another planet. Because maybe we are.

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Did you happen to notice how the construction of the metering station right by the “n” in Fourchon in this pic was going? Wondering if the horizontal bracing wound up being up off the water enough to let us cast up under the structure.

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It’s reading close, maybe 2.5 degrees low. I’ll look in to recalibrating it.

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