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More Barataria reports! Awesome!
“He must have scared off the trout as that was the last game fish I caught the rest of the day”
He 1,000% did. When they run around in the water drumming as loud as they do, that spooks everything. It’d be like someone running through a restaurant screaming bloody murder. That will clear the place out pretty quick.
“I have a theory there is a new sub-species of trout in the Barataria Basin taking over. They are identical to normal trout in all ways except they are genetically limited to 12 7/8″. I have caught tons of 12-13″ trout this year.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!! That’s so funny. Yeah, I hear that 100% lol
It’s annoying, but guess where the 13″+ trout are going? Home in someone’s ice chest.
Notice how before the limit change we had all that 11.9″ speckled trout, now they’re all 12.9″.
On a positive note, that much extra trout get to spawn and make more. I just hope we actually see an increase in numbers and the fishing returns to where it was before The Freshening.
Also, if you read @WestbankJosh reports, he’s not really finding them ganged up in one spot so much as he is putting a limit together by catching a couple here, a couple there, and so on. He’s fishing birds in any number, doing anything at all.
Check out his reports. He’s identified a pattern that’s working, even if it’s something of a grind.
Anyway, great reports, Ryan! I appreciate you taking time to post them. Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much for posting an intro!
Yeah, it’s been HOT. Now is a good time to just get ready for fall. There’s been reports of lots of shrimp in the Barataria Basin, hopefully we see the same thing for Lake Pontchartrain.
The forum is pretty active with it being this hot, imagine what it’s gonna be like when things pop off on the white shrimp migration!
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Hey Aaron, thanks for introducing yourself. You’ve been around since the beginning, but “welcome” to the new site.
One of the things I’ve always wanted is a community people could come to and use, and ask questions and contribute and grow.
The early vBulletin boards of the Internet had the potential for this. I was part of a really good one in the early 2000s that was moderated, organized and had good resources. I never forgot that and have been chasing something like that for inshore fishing since 2014.
It’s been tough. The Facebook group LAFB Inshore was good at first, but FB really just uses groups as another source for user generated content to put in News Feed and serve ads on. Otherwise, the organization and search function of Groups sucks. It’s just so obvious that FB doesn’t care. lol
That and everyone realized the low barrier to creating a group and now the user base is splintered.
I tried a public-facing forum back in 2014 to 2017 called Louisiana Fishing Reports (LAFR), and it did well enough, but got axed for LAFB Inshore. Now I’m taking lessons learned from both experiences and applying them here.
It kinda sucks that it has to be in the form of a paid membership, but that’s where we are. You get what you pay for. A free BuddyPress forum is gonna be wonky, full of Google AdSense, etc. and something “sleeker” like Facebook Groups comes with a whole other litany of hot garbage. lol
I like this site as it is, it works great on a browser like Brave (or even Chrome) but the new app being developed is gonna kick ass.
The main ingredient is gonna be you guys. It’s gonna be you guys showing up, making posts, saying hi, helping eachother out, etc.
So I appreciate you making an intro post and hope you post a report in the future.
Thanks, Aaron!
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Dammit, Boyce, I hate to hear you made the effort and didn’t get what you wanted. Maybe Josh will comment here, but it seems to me he’s been grinding birds. Like, if there’s just a few sitting then they’re getting a lure tossed at them.
My buddy then hooked up with a massive bull red and all I could do was think about how much I hoped his line would break so he didn’t time vampire us in this one spot so he could reel in the 980th bull red of his life.
I laughed out loud when I read this because that’s exactly how I feel. Like, F that redfish. You can’t even keep them anymore. Just straighten out the hook and let’s roll. lol Man, that’s exactly what goes through my head: “nOt aNoThEr bUlL rEd!”
On the bright side, you have tracks and know where not to go. I’m curious to know if you ran anywhere near the fish Josh has been fishing or got nowhere near them.
The shrimp report is interesting, too. I am thinking Little Lake and Myrtle Grove are gonna have a banger fall.
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GED recognizes pretty much anything you put into it, even MGRS (what the military uses, Military Grid Reference System).
Yeah, if you flip the two elements of the lat/long, that’s like flipping a phone number backwards.
I think where you’re going wrong is not delineating *which* 89 degree longitudinal line you’re referring to when asking GED (or any mapping program) where it is.
Because there’s more than one, since the Earth is round. I can text it out here, but a good way to wrap your head around this (if you’re like me anyway) is to just SEE it in person. So I recommend booting up GED, going to the menu, click on View, then click on Grid and you’ll get all the lines like you see in the screenshot below.
So the reason you’re going to Tibet or Timbuktu or wherever when you punch in the coordinates given by SeaTow is because you’re not telling GED if that 89 degree line is east or west of the Prime Meridian (the line going north to south).
Using a longitudinal coordinate that’s devoid of E or W (or a minus) is assumed to be east. If you put a minus in front of 89 you’d fly to the correct position.
Also, once you understand this relationship of lat/long, you can tell where coordinates are in Louisiana without seeing them on a map. Maybe not an exact position, but you’ll know if they were in the Lake P Basin, Grand Isle, etc.
The “crosshairs” of 30/90 is a trash heap off the ICW by Boh Bros in New Orleans East. So anything NE of that will be 30/89, SE of there 29/89, NW of there 30/90 and SW 29/90.
That encompasses most anywhere you would fish.
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I dropped my trolling motor in and the prop wouldn’t turn! It had power but wouldn’t turn for nothing. By this time it’s about 7am. I spot a current line and decide to get close and drift east with the wind to fish it. We pick up 10 more keepers and prob 15 12.75″ trout by 8am.
What a way to adapt. Sorry to hear about the trolling motor, though!
(Does anyone eat sailcats?) I’ve always wanted to know.
Yes, and they’re great to eat. They’re just a PITA to put up with. Marsh Man Masson did a video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yoKRONAh5M
I’m not sure we’re but I would bet it’s near the islands that separate Bayou Rigolets and Bayou Perot.
I 100% would put money on that.
On the north west side of Beauregard we noticed a couple birds sitting in the water. The wind was blowing straight south at this point and we were at the end of the incoming tide. First cast toward the birds yielded 2 keepers! We picked up out last 4 in the next 15 min and got out of there beating the rain!
You are really good at putting together a box by going off small groups of birds. These are opportunities I would normally pass up while looking for the Mother Lode.
This is why posting reports in a community like this is so damn important!
You are revealing a style of fishing that succeeds where others fail, and that is what is key, not “wHerE R tHe fIsH”.
So it’s not just this report, but all of your reports that really back this up and indicate what to do in that area and, just as important, a strategy to try in other areas.
This is cool. I would pretty much never stop for a couple sitting birds. I would stop for a slam-a-thon of diving birds numbering in the dozens or even hundreds.
But doing so could lead to more running than what’s necessary. I would literally be driving past a limit of speckled trout looking for something that may not be there.
You’re kicking ass, Josh. Thank you so much for posting this report!
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I am very pumped to see a Breton Sound report. I’ve been itching to hear from an Elite member as to what’s going on out there.
“The cut through or “Boogie’s Way” now has (or maybe always had, not sure) PVC poles on both sides of the deeper parts of the bayou (can be seen on GED), the depth ranges from 4 – 8 feet out to Lake Of Two Trees. So no issues running that as long as you stay between the PVC poles.”
Very good intel. Thank you for that.
“I did however, copy Captain Devin’s KML file he posted and pasted it on top of my plan because it had a few rigs I didn’t have, the names of the rigs, and the general location of the dope boat which I didn’t have.”
You’re welcome! Excellent, glad to know that’s being put to good use. That’s the whole point of this forum! I love it!
“First stop was the rig in Lake Fortuna with no luck.”
That’s not particularly surprising.
“From there we headed further out stopping at Five Wells, 32 Block, Compressor, and Hashtag with ZERO luck.”
My anxiety would have been full-throttle peaking at that point in time. I would’ve been a mess, that Mercury would be screaming and the throttle buried through the console. lol
Also, I just found on Navionics that someone called that the “Hashtag” rig. It may be called something else. I don’t remember. I wish I kept better reports from back in the day.
“On the way in I could tell my buddy was bummed that we didn’t catch anything so I decided to try one last place closer in that I knew he could at least fight a bull red or something big which was the Long Rocks.”
That’s it. Don’t give up. Especially if a spot like that is on the way. Why not try it?
Now, a few things:
First, that spot you fished is the exact same spot I fished and caught a limit of 75 speckled trout with customers back in 2013.
The same thing that happened to you happened to us: we ran all over Creation, fishing a lot of the same spots you did, and didn’t catch much. Then we tried that break in the rocks and it was on like Donkey Kong. I called over a few other charter captains in the area: Salty Dog, Fish With The King, and others and we all caught fish. It was amazing.
Now, I forget the tide on that day, but it was definitely moving. It was also overcast. I am guessing it was not overcast for you. But you still caught fish in deeper, moving water. Man, that’s where they’re gonna be if it’s gonna be a late bite.
So was it hard overcast? How hard was the tide moving? What bait did you see the fish eating if any at all?
After that, good call not going to Breton Island. It’s a community hole anyway.
Did you find the Dope Boat?
Did you try fishing a cork at the rigs at all?
Did you fish live shrimp at all?
Something else to consider is that this fishing trip kinda supports my “most water, least fish” theory that you can read about here on LAFB.
Basically, it’s the idea that now, here in the Saltening, there’s more water for fish to be in than there has been in years, and there’s fewer fish to occupy that water.
So it’s kinda like my badass Mandeville trips from October last year: you will have to cover water to find the Mother Lode.
And that’s what you did on this trip. Very neat.
It’s interesting because I thought of that 2013 trip the other day and figured I should post about it here in the Community. LOL Looks like you figured it out on your own.
All I can say is great report, thank you so much for posting, I hope you post more!
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The "Most Water, Least Fish" Scenario of 2024 & How To Adapt To It
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Hell yeah it will, just make it tougher and heavier. Use stronger line and I’d have some bank sinker as heavy as 4oz just to be on the safe side.
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That is exactly what I said to @WestbankJosh in one of his recent reports: That I don’t think I would have caught the same fish he did (if any at all) because I would be running and gunning for the Mother Lode rather than picking up some here and there and eventually making it happen (if I had fished that same day).
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I did some reading about this in general, and it was just accepted back in the early and even mid-20th century that the marsh was just wasteland. People had the mindset then (left over from the 19th century) that Nature could only hurt us, and that we could not permanently and definitively hurt Nature. Now we know that’s not the case.
What’s mind-blowing to me is that that 19th century mindset is still found in the minds of some people today on Louisiana’s coast.
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I’m going to post this as a separate report so it’s not hidden in the comments. Thanks for sharing this!
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This look pretty cool! I will definitely check this out. Looks a lot better than switching back and forth from the site to GED. Thank you for sharing this!
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We fished the shrimp on a Carolina rig at the rigs as a last resort after trying the drop shot and jig and did not even get a bite!
Yeah, that’s kind of it. I think that if the fish are there, then they are there. That’s why I stressed this so much in the new 101. Some people lose confidence if there’s no live shrimp and that’s just not reasonable. You just need a sparkle beetle. LOL
You posted some great reports last year and this is another good one. Thank you for posting it.
I’m busy setting up an app for LAFB Elite, making content, etc. so I have no idea when I’ll get on the water again. So, for now, I must live vicariously through all of you. lol
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That’s what I love about Breton Sound!! It’s legit out there!
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No problem. I appreciate you participating in the forum.
If I were you, I’d hit that reef, but there are more to the east that are worth looking at.
There’s also one at the top of Lake Borgne that can be good. When it’s on fire, it’s on fire.
I shot a YouTube video out there a couple years ago.
