Devin
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Yeah, conditions are gonna be about perfect. Yeah, I think you should do it. I like the spots you mentioned. Launch out of Pass Christian (great public launch there) and roll out for Plan Trout then Plan Topwater Drum on the way back in. I’d note crab traps on the way out and drop waypoints where they are aligned so I know where to start on my way back in.
Good luck!
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Slidell Marine for Mercury and Boat Stuf or Cypress Cove Marine for Yamaha.
Sounds like a day of rolling with the punches, and sometimes that’s the challenge of inshore fishing. And you still came home with fillets. Get your outboard squared away before fall fully kicks in!
Great report, thanks for posting!
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About ten years ago I accidentally started a giant sh*tstorm on FaceCrap by running ads claiming that I could teach you everything a guide knows for a fraction of the cost.
Which, I do. That and a lot more. A lot of what’s in IF101 alone guides have no idea about. Very few of them can actually find fish on their own or from scratch.
Take away their phone/radio and Standard Mapping E-card and they’re lost and risking the skunk (you know, like the rest of us).
Just because someone scratched through to get their TWIC and 6-pack doesn’t mean they can teach what they know. Part of being a good teacher is discerning the context the student doesn’t know. Most guides are just operating a bus on a milk run. If you had them fish a new area they’d be lost.
If I were wrong, there would be a dozen LAFB Elites out there but there are not. There is only one.
Yeah, those ads made a lot of butt hurt guides. Many of them I apologized to because they were cordial about it. I didn’t mean to attack them, I just wanted to showcase my product. Some I did not apologize to because they were awful about it. It was like dealing with children.
I stopped running ads because they stopped being profitable, but if they were I’d 100% do it again and let the few immature ones cry about it.
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“This weekend is monumental.”
YES
“Hire a Guide! Hire a Guide! Hire a Guide!”
Well, I feel they’re not wrong here. If you took your generic, half-illiterate Slidellian and unleashed him on Venice in his old tri-hull, then you can expect bad results. That’s reasonable.
But to assume that anyone is completely out of the game just because they’re not booking with a guide is asinine. I didn’t, and look at me.
I’ve always believed that with doing your navigational homework, picking out spots based on the conditions, etc. that you can go pretty much anywhere, avoid hazards and catch fish (if not limit out). That’s what I’ve done. I don’t know how many YouTube videos of that exact thing I have to do to get people to pull their head out of their ass.
As you all know, that process is painfully outlined in IF101 and this forum is here to fill in any gaps. Nobody else is doing this.
So, LAFB Elite members are really gonna prove what’s “elite” and what’s not. And for whatever reason, LAFB Elite has attracted a lot of top notch talent. Lots of self-starters, self-appliers and willing to get help.
To be honest, I did not put a lot of effort into the name. I was just like, “F it, it’s ‘Elite'”.
But now I have the feeling it’s legitimately gonna be Elite. We got pipe hitters headed down there during good predicted conditions and the river is under 5 foot.
“Our goal is to fill the dock with so many Speckled Trout it would sink BOTH of the Carter Brother’s boats.”
Good. This is the way.
I love the team names.
It looks like you got all the routes you need.
Go direct if you need anything.
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“I’m an alpha male Venice guide!”
*golden*
I can only imagine legit combat vets probably think these guys are giant f****ts.
Because they are.
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A good bandaid in lieu of a marine GPS is Garmin’s Boating app. Used to be called Navionics. It can track breadcrumbs for you and you can load .gpx files to it.
Later when I get a chance I’ll provide more feedback on this excellent report. Thank you.
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I see a bass angler. Legit bass anglers tend to be the best at fishing in general. At least, that’s been my experience guiding and doing this LAFB thing.
Like, I used to go bass fishing at Toledo, Conroe, Guntersville, Orlando, Chick, etc. just to get better at inshore fishing.
It’s good to have you here!
What Shooter said: real good fishing is kicking off, but don’t be frustrated if the first few trips aren’t epic.
Really, the best thing you can do is leverage this forum. At risk of sounding like a broken record, if you make a good, complete planning post here, then you will be set up for success that much more. That’s because if you tell us what you’re going to do, where you’re gonna do it and what you’re gonna use to do it, we can spot a chink in the armor and tell you.
It has happened many times on this forum where someone goes fishing after failing to plan (and share that plan) and their fishing trip fails due to some easily preventable thing, or some easily informed detail we could have told them had we known.
Leveraging this forum is where most members drop the ball because it amounts to extra work. It’s really not that much extra work. That extra work is not worse than a tough day on the water. But most people are trained-consumers led to believe that everything is a push-button fix (or should be) and if it’s not then it’s not worth their time. That mindset could not be further from the truth.
This is fishing, not golf.
Good luck, and thank you for posting an intro.
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I’ve been under there in my Tracker 195 TXW dozens of times throughout the seasons. A bass boat fits easy. If you have Power Poles, you will need to drop them halfway to get through.
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Yep, that’s more or less the same boat I’m in (no pun intended). Got tired of dealing with aluminum and just wanted to get out of while she was still running good and watertight. I’ll do the same with the flat boat since it just sits there and doesn’t do anything.
Just go all the way and get a forever-hull like a Privateer Renegade or Blazer 2400. No frills, no BS, just a battleship fishing machine.
If you look through the latest posts, @ShooterMcGrabbin has organized a Venice get together this coming weekend. I think there’s a slot open if you’re available. I’d go, but already have pre-existing commitments. Later in the fall would be better.
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How did the river itself look? Is she clean and green at all?
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I would do exactly that. I’d fish exactly where we did last year, then get to the sunk rocks at the mouth of SW Pass like I did in that video, and even fish the outside of it on the SE side.
Some trout will move in ahead of others, especially if there’s food there.
“Also, SW Pass vs South Pass: which do you prefer?”
I don’t really have a preference, not yet. My answer would be “both” if conditions allow, then whichever one the wind plays nicest with.
Those sunk rocks at the end of SW Pass just downstream from the pilot house are definitely worth looking at.
So I guess my answer is “SW Pass”
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*plays Taps*
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He done floated to Cuba.
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Yeah, I’m hoping for a good fall season!!
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If anything, that hard bottom is still there, maybe even a shelf. I would definitely still graph and fish it if I were out there.
