Devin
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Now we’re cookin’ with gas.
Inset 1 is fine. Yeah, it can be skinny on days the water is very low, but otherwise you’re fine.
Inset 2 I have some more feedback on I will get to you later regarding Wreck Bay. Otherwise, looks great.
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I’ll tell you the same thing I tell everyone: what you put into this forum is what you’ll get out of it.
If you don’t let us know about your bad trips, if you don’t get help planning, then you cannot possibly expect to benefit from this site as much as you otherwise would.
A lot of guys come in here, post an intro, then we never hear from them again (for one reason or another). The area you’re in is a good one. Lots of great fishing to be done there, as I am sure you already know.
But if you leverage this group you will discover more fishing spots and even take on the final boss of Louisiana inshore fishing: Venice.
The great Achilles heel of LAFB Elite is self-application. I simply cannot make you do what’s required to succeed. You got here, the ball is in your court.
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Hey Thomas, it’s great to have you here. Thanks for posting an intro!
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I think you should camp out at the Rock Dam. Can you drag your kayak over to the south side?
The tide I’d look at is more toward the Bay Gardene tide table, since the MRGO is drawn on by the big bays and sounds out that way.
Reading your post, I am getting the feeling that your biggest challenge is going to be getting presentations with the right lures.
The Rock Dam is one of those places where a jig really shines. In the deeper stuff you want a 3/8oz jighead. Most people get that part. But where most people don’t try is a 1/8oz jighead cast up against the rocks, as if you are trying to get snagged.
This technique works well across Louisiana’s coast. It’s certainly worked for me. Bring extra jigheads. If you’re not sure if you have enough, bring more. You will lose jigheads, it will be a part of the process, but not so many that it makes the reward not worth the loss.
A color like Matrix Shad in Ultraviolet is good, but if the water is really clean a clear color like Holy Joley is good to consider as well.
You can also do well with jerkbaits and suspending baits at the Rock Dam. But a day with less wind than what’s predicted is a better day to practice that.
You can try a cork, and it could work, but I cannot tell you how many times I sat there and crushed the fish while corkers could only watch.
I’d also bring some scent in the event you see trout that follow the bait but do not commit to it. It’s clear the fish are eating finfish and there’s a plethora of those at the Rock Dam.
Good luck.
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Nice trout in that net, btw. lol
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Dude, I feel that you got warm. You found where they were biting and ultimately missed the bite with your late start, especially with a water temp at 74.
@Aspiring_Angler this should answer your question as when to get a line in the water. That alone makes this fishing report valuable.
That is indeed a finger mullet. Thank you for taking time to check their stomachs. When we see them with potbelly minnows and bay ‘chovies in their stomach, that will be a sign.
Anyway, I think that in your previous reports you were just pissing in the wind. Now you’re actually gathering a starting point. Get back out there first thing in the morning and I think you’ll make better progress.
I know that if I went back on the water tomorrow I would also be starting from scratch and would probably struggle to find them at first. I can cover water pretty fast by myself or with a capable partner. But I would definitely be looking and covering water like the Tasmanian Devil.
I would take this planning file you now have and recock it for better conditions in the near future. I’d hit 1 then go straight to 11 then work from there. Maybe add some stuff on the other side of Terre aux Beouf in Pointe Fienne, Skippy and Baker’s Bay, maybe even Wreck Bay if you’re cool going that far.
I would.
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Hoping all went well.
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Yeah, and not to mention that sacalait are 1,000% better eating than most anything you’d catch inshore!
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Man, it could be worth looking at those canals at the very top of the marsh above Lake Boudreaux. I haven’t heard any recent reports from there, and I don’t know if fish would still be there with the recent warming spell, but I do know it’s very protected and that folks catch some trout back there during early spring.
Great report, thank you for posting!
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@LA_Fiddler went out and confirmed in this report.
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You’re overthinking it.
The water is not going to be moving so fast at the Rock Dam that you need to consider how the lure will flow or sink in it like you would at The Trestles. You cast to the rocks and work the lure down the face of them. That’s it.
Yes, the tide can be coming in from both sides at once. On a falling tide you can see water pushing across and through the rocks. You can see it happen in the opposite direction during a rising tide.
It really depends on water levels on either side of the rocks have played out in preceding days and how the wind/tide are influencing the water on the day of your fishing trip.
Regardless of what the water is doing, you just need to be there in the morning casting a line, and hit both sides of the dam. That’s what I would do.
I prefer the south side because there’s fewer boats there and I’ve just had more luck there over the years.
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Yes. You will see the bow in your line suddenly droop when the lure hits the bottom. That’s how you know. Letting the 1/8oz jighead fall down the rocks is the same. It will hit a rock right away, pop it off, let it fall, it lands on another rock, pop it off, let it fall, and so on.
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Thank you so much!
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Not too warm. Didn’t say anything about it being too warm. Just get out there first thing in the morning and fish as long as you can. Don’t get out there at lunch time.
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Arrrr me matey, many a golden nugget abound in past fishin’ reports if only ye go lookin’ for ’em.
Yeargh!
