Jason_B
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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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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?
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“I wonder where we will be in another 20 years?”
Woof. Insert pogey boat rant here. Dicey topic, sorry. I know the recent limit reg changes aren’t the most popular either but if throwing back every trout in my life would make just one day of a trout shellacking for my future grand kids then I’d be for it.
I liked your content on the freshening and saltening. Gives me hope at least.
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“I am curious to hear your thoughts on why you say spot lock is lame.”
I guess I view it as being lazy as compared to staying on the foot pedal. I used to fish with a foot pedal control alot bass fishing and it definitely makes for more agile angling. But there’s no way I could stay on a foot pedal with kids in the boat. I was probably wrong to call it lame. I guess I should just embrace it.
