Devin
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“I thought sure you would find them in all the areas you fished initially. I figured I just suck at fishing and you would catch them for me. lol.”
Nope, you fished them well, they’re just not productive. Or we both suck.
“It is wild about the weather and how warm it is. When I was there last, I saw tons of boats running down Joseph Bayou into East Bay. It was bay boats and flats boats. It made me wonder if there may be a bite down there.”
Probably. But I wasn’t going in there with that nasty south wind. If the wind weren’t being such a PITA I would have tried South Pass and sneaking into East Bay.
“I know the Carter brothers with ReelShot Guide Service have been hammering the trout down there,”
LOL Of course they are. When I checked that FB page I didn’t see a post more recent than November 5th, when the conditions were better (consistent wind, no rain and lower river). I’m sure the trout are somewhere, I just need more TOW to figure it out.
“Crazy you had to go find the trout all the way north at Bay Denesse. Still glad you found them though to make it worth your grind! Great report.”
Thank you!
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Oh, and overall ran 101 miles. That’s a lotta work for grinding 15 specks, but I haven’t been down there since January and don’t have anyone telling me where to go or what to do. So it’s a good base for the next fishing trip. I’ll take it.
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Great report, thanks for sharing. I’m sure the fishing will get even better once it cools off. This November has just been weird!
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It took some work and poking around, but I caught a limit of speckled trout. It was a long day. I’ll post a report tomorrow. Right now I have to put everything away and get some much needed rest.
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Last minute change: I’ll launch out of Venice instead of PLH. There will be some stuff I won’t get to see as a result, but will give me more of Venice to fish. I’ll let y’all know how I make out late tonight or sometime tomorrow.
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Okay, F it, I’m going. Someone’s gotta follow up on the tip of the spear aka @Boyce
I keep hearing horror stories about the LNG Plant traffic and how bad it is in Belle Chasse, etc. Well, that’s time I can spend covering water and fishing, so I’m gonna launch at Beshel’s and make that run down the river. The problem is the wind, but if you look at Windfinder right now you’ll see that the predicted 20mph NE wind will be cutting across the river, rather than down it, giving me lee water to ride in. I’ve made this run in these conditions before and made out okay and I think I can make good speed down the river. There’s a couple bends that will get sporty, but what I have now that I did not have then are protected routes in the marsh paralleling the river from PLH to Ostrica and even under Bay Denesse. This is LTS at work. I ran those routes when the water was much lower during the summer, so I can run them fine in my Tracker tomorrow.
I really don’t know how far south I will get. Last year I was catching trout and redfish in the river well above Venice as far north as Buras, but the river was also below 3ft and stable. Tomorrow she’s coming up above 4ft. She looked clean on Geosphere and numbers clean on a turbidity monitor at Belle Chasse.
Gotta go to know!
Last year I made a few runs like this and they were easy 100 mile days. One day was 121 miles. But I’d rather be covering that water and graphing it and putting a bait in it that sitting in LNG traffic trying to pay attention to a podcast.
Better wind is coming up and I do think the river will go down, so tomorrow will be good scouting for that. I will build upon what Boyce scouted if I make it that far south and, if I don’t, I’ll let y’all know what I find that far north.
I’m also leaving a float plan with a friend and taking a satellite communicator that will be clipped to my PFD in case SHTF.
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Yeah! Do you know where The Jump is? Look at my attached pic. Fish there, not far from the shoreline, you want to be in about 25-30ft of water and just hang a Heavy Drop Shot off the back of the boat. It’s as easy as it gets. Just make sure you’re at least 1oz or heavier on that HDS. After that, you can do the same thing in the river against rock shorelines and find success.
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If you don’t mind me asking, when did you plan on going?
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Ok, I see. Well, it looks like the wind is gonna lay down, I would definitely suggest fishing more spots than just the Rock Dam. If I were you, I’d head south of there and fish the rocks on the east side of the MRGO and even hit the Long Rocks and Lake Anathasio, as warm as the water has been! That and a great report came out of there a little while ago. Tight lines!
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Well, this is good intel. I’ll reconsider launching from PLH then. You guys didn’t fish the Jump by any chance?
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I’ll have to get back to you on this, there’s a lot of work I must to do to get ready for tomorrow.
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I’m 99% positive that I’ll be going tomorrow to do God’s work.
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Perhaps I’ll go Tuesday. I can make Venice happen with a stiff NE wind. The tide sucks, but the river keeps moving, right? I’ll have all day Tuesday. So maybe Tuesday. lol
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+1 on this
Have a towel, or use your shirt, or you are getting pecked. lol
Also, if you get enough practice, you can get an arm around a pelican’s wings around to his head and hold his bill shut. Then it’s picture time.
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I didn’t have anywhere else to go besides Plan Redfish. I had fished other spots and they sucked. The only other spot I would have been comfortable duking it out was the Rock Dam, and that was a couple dozen miles away. That and the tide looked like it was going to turn, so just waiting seemed like the best option. It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was better to do than running 25 miles back to where I came from. lol
