Devin
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Man, I love small motors and I love that you have that 25 Yammie.
And the simplicity of the boat.
The fewer fancy things there are, the fewer fancy things that can break.
Everyone, and I mean everybody, should have an ol’ reliable, simple boat.
Also, great work on the fish at Seabrook. It seems that night bite is definitely on.
Was the water dumping into Lake Pontchartrain or was it coming in to the Industrial Canal?
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Just switch the L and A around on your Alabama tags, I’m sure LDWF won’t notice lol
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Texas Custom Lures DD and DD XL
Color: whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy. Slot trout are idiot fish. I got Gringo, Blue Northern and Harvey for the XLs.
The Truth was not available, and that color makes me warm and fuzzy.
The DDs I got in The Truth and Night Stalker. A light and a dark.
I throw the DD on a Seth Feider Jerkbait Rod (6’9″ ML R) on a Tatula SV 8.1:1 with either mono or FC (12-15lb), depending on what presentation I want, and what I am fishing.
I also use a Saltist 6’6″ and that’s a lot easier to work with. It’s advertised as a fast action. It is not. lol Definitely not. It’s more of a mod-fast and much better suited for treble hooks.
The DD XL goes on the topwater rod: a 7’4″ MH R w/ Tatula 150 7.1:1 and 15lb mono. It is strictly meant for bomb casting.
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I literally don’t have any reports or intel from that area.
It’s just worth trying, as it’s about to be November.
I’m not thinking of any highway theory or anything that deep or complex.
It’s just as simple as: “those places tend to turn on during fall, they are worth checking”.
That’s it.
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I want to know more about that feeling “unnatural”.
So you’re telling me that navigating on a screen that is north-up is unnatural?
Especially if your heading is say, to the southeast, it would feel weird discerning if you turn left or right?
Is that correct?
And that is why you use heading-up? To more easily discern what’s to your actual left and right, as you are perceiving the world?
But what if you had to look at a general area to discern where are other locations are in relation to you?
Do you go north-up?
Are you using cardinal directions at all?
I know that’s a lot, but I’m trying to understand how other people navigate inside their heads, in order to make better content.
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Go to those places and try fishing them.
Sorry, but I don’t have more details than that.
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“Why do you say you want the tidal highways vs streets and sidewalks?”
Because it’s going to concentrate the most bait which will concentrate the most fish.
Those are the spots where you can sit on a falling tide and crush the fish.
“Is it something related to the conditions today or just a general rule of thumb?”
Both.
But, in all fairness, the tide one the day you fished wasn’t that strong.
Spots like Thomas and Martello are still generally worth checking.
“I wanted to explore and find some new locations on my own.”
That’s cool. Good on you for doing that. But nobody here will give you any guff for going to a community hole to secure a win.
“We did catch fish at ft 1-3 cp. 23 caught 5 keeper trout and 1 red. Only had 3 hours to fish total.”
Not bad. I’m sure the fishing has improved since the cold front.
“Spots 1-3 all had west wind pushing water towards the shore line but if you went into the marsh drain you could see the water coming out of it.”
The water wasn’t being pushed against the shoreline so much as it appeared to be by the waves.
If, anything that west wind was helping the water fall out.
But if it was blowing only ~5mph then I doubt it had much of an impact.
Sure, the waves appeared to be pushing in the opposite direction, but I promise you that the water was still falling.
It was definitely falling hardest at the drains, and slowed down once it got into the lake, and still kept moving out, southeast down that shoreline to Lake Borgne, until the tide turned around.
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I’m very glad you bumped this.
Let me get to a stopping point in my writing and I’ll get back to you on this.
Thank you so much!
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Speckled trout reliably run into monofilament gill nets (set, not strike) equivalent to a 60-80lb diameter.
They can’t be that line shy.
With that said, I always wondered how bass did around set nets, if they did at all.
That could be worth researching when I get time.
But I primarily use FC to change how the lure moves through the water.
If I’m casting at a foot of water over a rock pile or grass, I can’t have FC sinking into those snags. So I use mono.
Actually, the majority of the 35 trout caught on Monday came on 15lb mono.
You can always tie on an FC leader if it makes you feel better, or if you see the fish do something that warrants it.
I have.
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Those are the guys I default to.
Guys who have won more money fishing than we’ve collectively looked at.
When it comes to fishing with any of the hard baits we’ve mentioned here, guys like KVD, Jacob Wheeler, BMP, etc. would absolutely, effortlessly skull-drag our best inshore guy.
It wouldn’t even be close.
It’d be like Mike Tyson vs Rex Kwon Do.
I remember some years ago, a local inshore personality posted a FB video of catching bass on jerkbaits.
He was retrieving the thing like a Rat-L-Trap.
Obviously the bass were biting anything that day.
And obviously he just didn’t know any better.
It’s very easy to assume you know, right before displaying what you don’t know for everyone who does know to see.
After that, if you want to make leaps and bounds in inshore fishing, then study bass.
No fish has had more documentation. Canadians, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, they all study bass because they all have bass. Like, actual white papers.
Bass are on every continent but Antartica.
And what they’ve learned about hearing, sight, dissolved oxygen, etc. more or less translates to speckled trout.
Then, go bass fishing. Actual bass fishing.
The time I spent in Lake Conroe, Chickamauga, Toledo Bend, Guntersville, etc. made me a phenomenally better inshore angler than grinding in Lake Catherine ever did.
Okay, rant complete. lol
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Take your kiddo and enjoy catching some fish! I hope y’all get time for it!
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808 is indeed a great color.
Not over the top, but still bright enough to be set apart.
Without letting myself get sucked into that black hole, I do enjoy me some 808 lol
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Very cool.
Good feedback.
Something that could be interesting for you:
If you run a compass for your GPS (which is totally unnecessary), you can see where your boat is pointed even if you’re sitting still.
So, on your graph, display a heading line for your compass, then a heading line for your actual direction (which is calculated from the GPS), and as you drive across the water, you can see where the current changes the direction of your boat.
Not necessary, just a cool thing.
I had that setup on my Tracker and could see when and where water current picked up without stopping.
Or you could just look at a crab trap. lol
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Interdasting.
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“I am not a fan of losing $15+ baits to redfish”
Dude, no kidding. lol Nothing worse than watching a $20 Japanese bait lost to a redfish, or gar.
That’s never happened to me. lol
Also, are you trying to keep me here posting comments all day?!
Because I’m about to.
You and @m2mannina must be plotting to distract me as much as possible this week. lol
