Devin
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Uhmmmm, just looked and there’s no way I’m going to Breton Island or those rigs past the Long Rocks. lol
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“Also me: NOW I AM BECOME DEVIN, DESTROYER OF TROUT.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
This is a great report. I am very happy you were able to get out there and make it happen after being unable to get on the water for so long.
Excellent work, excellent report.
I’ll be fishing this weekend. Maybe I’ll beat up Lake P, maybe I’ll go somewhere else or back to Lake Borgne, don’t know yet.
Thanks for making time for us, we shall live vicariously through you!
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“Can you drift across it and fish it or should you stay on the outside of it and throw into the pole area and not piss off an oyster farmer?”
You can drift across it, spot lock or whatever and fish the oyster lease. That’s not a problem. What’s a problem is when someone drags their Danforth anchor across the oysters, killing them.
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It looks like you knocked out Advanced Inshore Navigation back in December. And, as you know, I cover white poles and their madness in-depth.
But your questions are a little more exacting, so without risking repeating myself I’ll add what I can here:
You really don’t know what side of the white poles you should be on. There is no uniform method for this. Ultimately experience will tell, but usually you’re good if you just stay near them. Obviously if a boat is coming down one side you should probably pass on the other.
But remember my Shell Beach example of white poles that are lined up not to mark a safe route but an underwater row of rocks. Imagine if you tried following close to those poles!
What you really need is context. Doing your homework on GED will provide that context. Take it from a guy who has a collection of ruined lower units: that advice about GED is the best you’re going to get.
After that, yes, sometimes white poles are used to mark oyster leases. You can compare these against the LDWF Oyster Lease Mapper to see if that’s really the case or not.
Sometimes they can be arranged in a similar pattern to mark an area you want to stay out of, like a pile of rocks. If you’re not sure, slow down to an idle and look.
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Gotta agree with Timbo.
The ligher jighead will move more on each pop of the cork. It’s just better form to go lighter. I use an 1/8 ounce Death Grip or an 1/16th oz flutter hook.
You shouldn’t throw a jig on spinning tackle anyway. You’ll have way faster and accurate presentations using casting tackle. Yes, it takes more skill and will be a skill to acquire if you don’t have it. You’ll be better off once you do.
That and a 1/4 oz or a 3/8 oz jighead by itself isn’t going to work everywhere you fish. You’d have to retie anyway if you need to go lighter or heavier. For example, you’d throw an 1/8oz jighead against the rocks at a place like the Long Rocks and use a 1/2 oz or 3/4oz or even 1 ounce jighead in a place like Seabrook or The Jump.
Failing to do that is leaving a lot of fish in the water. This is why mentioning tackle used in fishing reports is good because at least myself can notice that and say something. If you’re throwing a 3/8oz jighead in The Jump or Seabrook, or when the tide is really ripping at the Hwy 11 bridge, you may as well be flying a kite.
Whenever someone doesn’t mention tackle in their report, and they had a tough day, I wonder if the issue was really them not finding fish so much as the issue is they weren’t getting good presentations because they were throwing the wrong tackle.
You really want to go light as possible on a jighead because that weight at the eye is basically a lever the fish can unwittingly use to throw the hook. It’s a single hook. On something like the SB150 (topwater lure) that weighs 1.5oz: yes, it’s heavy as all get out, but it also has three giant treble hooks, so exerting leverage on one to pull it out will bury another (or two or three) into flesh.
A further note: use cheap jigheads where you will get snagged and have to break off, i.e. Trestles, rigs, Long Rocks, etc.
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We won’t let you down!
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It would be great if we could get you enough reports to know where to go and what to do on Monday.
FWIW, several times before in this forum I mentioned that on 4/15/24 I caught an easy limit of trout under birds at Independence Reef, but when I checked the report for that day I saw it was actually 4/30/24. It was definitely a morning bite.
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I love the Viking seafaring spirit. Don’t forget Curlew on your way there.
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Brilliant idea.
Back in the day that’s what we used to talk each other onto fish and share conditions. We used that channel and 74. Maybe the Shell Beach guides still do.
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“Since we have a decent SE wind from now til Friday night, perhaps the water will be pushed up against the west side of Borgne”
The wind hasn’t been blowing hard enough to do that. When it does push water into the area, it’s uniform across the area. Shell Beach Buoy confirms this. It sits in the southeast corner of Lake Borgne, and you’ll see plenty of water reading there.
I’d fish the east side of Lake Borgne since that’s the side that’s been sitting in the lee of the land. Cleanest water will be there.
Check Geosphere to confirm. You will see cleaner water there.
I’m not saying you can’t catch fish at all on the west side, but I personally wouldn’t bother with it. I’d hit the rigs/reefs sitting in the clean stuff and the east side of Lake Borgne.
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Furthermore, when I stop and flip to side scan, I’ll turn my boat sideways to see what’s ahead. Rocks are a dead giveaway. There’s no way you’ll ever be left wondering if rocks are there or not. Because rocks look like rocks on side scan.
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1,000% on this!
Yeah, when I was running the fog in Venice from Tiger Pass to South Pass, I slowed down to a stop and then idle because I was unsure of a turn. Then an offshore boat with radar (and probably a captain more experienced than myself) passed me, so I hopped on plane and followed at a safe distance. Turns out he was taking the same route as I. Since his boat drafts more and he can see better than me (radar) and probably had a gazillion tracks through the area (and just knew where he was going) I felt confident following him.
Now, if that were a bay boat with Alabama tags, no radar, with a guy at the helm wearing a Salt Life shirt and rod socks on rods in vertical rod holders…well…I still woulda followed him but just to let him “go first” and follow at an extra safe distance. lol He’ll find my flat/rocks/stump for me.
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That’s how I feel when the river is high and wind is blowing 25mph lol
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I’d hate to be wearing that hat when a 27″ Speckled Truth Citation trout makes color at the side of the boat. LOL
BOAT FLIP OR DIE
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Nailed it.
