Devin
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Hey Geremy, I apologize for not seeing this sooner. I was on the road travelling and didn’t have as much time as I normally do to see planning posts.
“Main goal will be to explore and get safe routes for my unit.”
I love seeing that. Yes, this is a good reason to go anywhere. Spring fishing will be heating up soon. I think it’s already trickling in. You will want those routes for when you do.
That red route is good all the way through. In fact, all your routes look good.
If it were me, I’d look hard at Baker’s Bay and Wreck Bay.
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What Ryan said.
However, if you are on Facebook, there are a ton of reports from the last 8.5 years or so in Louisiana Inshore, as well as other groups. The search function on Facebook is hot garbage, so good look finding them, but it is possible.
Tiger Droppings can have some valuable nuggets of information as well.
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Great reports, thanks for posting!
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It says a lot about your character to take time to post the tough days.
Some people only post when they have good trips. I think this is for one reason or another.
First, they want to be perceived as being great anglers, and that’s it. So they’re radio silent on the tough days, then posting on the good days. I think guys like that mostly post on social media.
Second, some people have been led to believe that a good report is only one where a lot of fish are caught. I disagree. A good report is one that provides enough information to tell anglers where to go (or not).
But there’s more. A tough-day report can get an angler help to avoid future tough-days. Maybe there’s something they could do better, or something they’re not doing at all, or maybe another entire area they can fish.
Either way, thank you for taking time to post a report!
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You guys are doing great things.
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Yeah, I really have not had great success in PLH for sight fishing. It’s just been a dud. It seems like down in Venice is where members have had the most luck this past fall and this winter.
Either way, thank you for taking time to post a report!
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I’d be very interested to see what’s up with that canal at the grocery store. I’ve seen shrimp migrate through there. Not saying shrimp are there now, but saying that fish and bait use the canal. Otherwise, I think this planning for this fishing trip is great. You’ve clearly done your homework. Good luck out there!
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Man, I just saw this. I’ve been on the road the last few days and unable to check LAFB. All I can say is that your route out of Fucich is good, maybe just swing a little wide making that right hand turn.
I’ve caught bass back in Canals 1, 2 and 3.
That route going down through the canals west of Cox is good, just watch out for pilings and oilfield trash.
There are multiple blind turns in that long, straight skinny canal. Be careful. If the water is low parts of it may not be doable, but during summer I have no problem running that in Gnartooth.
Where you pop out of that skinny canal into Bay Allen, I’d continue to that canal and avoid that skinny, squiggly bayou. It’s been choked out by hyacinth during warmer months anyway in past years.
If you want more feedback on your .kml, I can provide it when I get back to my office and can sit down with my laptop to look at it.
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Still low for the foreseeable future. This is nuts!!!
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No you cannot. That is a weir/dam and you have to go around it. There’s another one to the north. I advise exiting out of Bayou Gentilly through Little Lake (Lake Petit) then hopping back into that canal at Little Lake Batola to the east.
What else you got?
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“Do you guys think the low water sucked them out of the inside Bayou B marsh?”
Most likely.
“This also leads me to believe a lot of the bait that was in that area got sucked out with the super low water as well.”
Also most likely. But this begs the question: what kind of bait? I imagine potbelly minnows.
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That sounds about right. That’s a typical spring spot and it seems they are turning on over there.
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The other ones that are closer to the dock I imagine you are already familiar with.
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That’s the one I’m talking about. Had many good days back there for winter trout.
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If I could guess, I would say that’s because the fish now have more places to go. Before, most everywhere else was blown out by river water. Bayou B really sets up as a great place for fish to overwinter, but now other places fit that bill, too.
It probably begins with the spawn: trout are able to end up in places they couldn’t/wouldn’t go (due to the Freshening), like the far reaches of Breton Sound. And, once they’re already over there, what’s a good place to go for fall? Not the MRGO or Lake Borgne. Venice becomes a much better place with the lower river. And that’s where they go/stay for winter. Once the river comes up, they push into PLH and Delacroix.
Those are my guesses.
