Devin
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“trying for Redfish around the Irish bayou lagoon”
You could see a few, but it won’t be anywhere close to what you saw in Venice.
Venice is the kang.
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“immediately realized I didn’t have enough weight”
So fishing there just didn’t count. You may as well have never gone. Fish could have been there, they just never saw your lure.
What sinking weight were you using anyway?
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I would drift the flat by the Wall first thing in the morning, then move to Martello and Bayou Thomas once the tide is ripping.
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Yeah, if you number the spots it is a lot easier to identify which one is which. Then we could tell you “Hey don’t fish Spot 13” or “Spot 9 is where we caught them on Friday” or whatever.
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This report reads like my inner monologue after a tough day of grinding bridge pilings. LOL
“John Hammond “spared no expense””
HA HA HA HA HA HA
“[Que Devin reading this in a Colombian jungle wearing military blackface, “THIS FUQIN RETARD, I SWEAR!”]”
lololololol
The Causeway is a lot of fishing spot. Great report, thanks for posting!
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Welcome to the forum. You’re in the right place and it sounds like you have the aptitude to get through the courses (especially IF101) and apply what’s laid out there. That’s the best way to make the best use of this forum, chiefly for planning trips for success.
As you know: prior proper planning…
Thanks for posting an intro!
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I’d avoid the Lake because you really need the wind to cooperate to fish it. If I were you (and I know I say this all the time) I’d go to Venice with the intent to get exposed to it and begin learning it. I know, I know, I know: it’s a long drive, it’s scary, it’s outside your comfort zone or <insert reason not to go>.
But @Geremy and @david-fish heeded the above advice and came back with epic reports to show for it.
Even if you do crush the trout in Lake Pontchartrain (which I doubt is likely) you will still be beholden to the wind next time you go and won’t have that baseline experience that helps fishing some place new (i.e. Venice).
Good luck.
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Have you looked at Inshore Fishing 101 at all?
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Sounds about right, but maybe more of the big girls will move in and y’all can really thrash ’em. If anyone does, I know it’ll be you guys.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Someone ought to go try that bend by Fort Jackson. Fishing by the mile marker on the north side of the river.
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That’s very cool!!
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“extreme caution must be taken”
Right. Like what I teach here.
“Some of the reefs are not shown on GED due to our water clarity not being the greatest.”
That’s understood, but not the underlying point: when one operates solely on a mapping chip, they are doing so without having taken an appreciation of the area in which they will be navigating. But when one does their navigational homework, they are bound to learn more about an hour than showing up on step at cruising speed.
Finally, I doubt the creator of said mapping chip went out there and graphed the area. Not for $50 he didn’t. He probably used the same imagery that’s available in GED, and I bet it wasn’t rasterized to the same level of quality as GED’s 11/15/2019. Not without being a gigantic file that won’t fit on a 32GB card.
Anyway, I’m not picking on you. This isn’t a dick measuring contest. In fact, I greatly appreciate your input as V-Bay and surrounding area has historically been devoid of anglers who engage and help each other, at least compared to the Greater NOLA Area.
It’s just that I take safe navigation super seriously because I’ve had the best and worst happen (navigationally) across Louisiana’s coast. Not just places like Vermilion Bay, but everywhere from Slidell to Venice to Big Lake. The times I have ever had an issue are when I started trusting the mapping card and free-navigating away from my planned routes.
I used to say the exact same thing as you (except my card was $350) and had to learn the hard way with a collection of busted lower units in my garage to show for it. Those are expensive, but the incidents could have been much worse (bodily harm or death).
I will not risk that “worse” for anyone reading content in this forum.
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No, if all things are equal, that water will be ripping out with a half foot to go by the time you’re out there at first light.
Then you won’t see it begin to move in until as late as lunch time. It has to gain momentum to be noticeable. Of course, this depends on the structure of water you’re in, what the wind did the days before, etc. all that IF101 stuff.
USGS at Bay Gardene confirms this, and that’s probably 30 minutes to as much as an hour ahead of Bayou Lingeo.
Also, I’m interested to hear your actual observed conditions versus predicted. How was the wind?
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That’s a great suggestion, but without knowing the contents of this mapping chip, that is a great way to gain false confidence and end up ripping off a lower unit or worse.
Nothing beats doing GED homework, identifying safe routes and sticking to them. No expensive mapping chip required.
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I mean this video right here at 17:05.
