Devin
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There’s storms in the morning, too. It just depends.
I think you can find a good morning bite, you just need to try elsewhere.
Honestly, the more reports I see come out of that area, the more I’m inclined to try somewhere else.
I’d get to the bleeding edge of river water and fish there, that would be somewhere like American Bay, or north of there.
It shouldn’t be this hard to find fish, but they are definitely somewhere. You should’ve crushed them at the rigs in Bay Eloi. They really haven’t been as awesome as they were historically before the Freshening.
Also, you should definitely have 1/2 oz jigheads. Get a dozen 3/4 and 1 oz, too. You’ll eventually use them, whether that’s Breton Sound or somewhere close like Seabrook. For sure in Venice.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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What makes you think that a limit was doable? You think that the fish were chewing, just somewhere else?
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I don’t know how this slipped past me.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Good question.
That’s the section of jetty that was removed to create the Rock Dam. That opening has been there since 2009. Either end can be good to fish, just treat it like a point. The middle can be good to fish, too. Sometimes it acts like a pass and funnels water.
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Not bad at all! Great work.
I assume you’re still fishing today. If so, good luck out there!
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“Today was a struggle. I arrived at Hopedale marina for 430 and was heading down bayou la loutre at 448.”
Hell yes.
“Then lady fish came in”
Were they the big ones that are like 20″ long, or the little annoying ones?
“The current was screaming toward the east, would that be impacted from Neptune pass?”
No, that’s just normal tide for that area, though Neptune certainly pushes water if you’re just outside of it.
In years past at places like Central Rig we will use 3/4oz or 1oz jigheads to get to the bottom. It looks goofy, but it works. Or just separate the lead/hook with an HDS.
Also, rig hooks go a long way out there.
“I need to call the company that owns the wellhead because it was leaking lpg.”
Sadly, that’s more common than what most people realize. If you can make the call, then you should.
“I fished at least 2 dozen wellheads including the Central rig”
That is a solid effort of the ages.
“It was a pretty rough day and I feel whipped, still good to get out and learn.”
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I actually wrote a 5,537 word article with 30 pictures on this very thing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t publish until the 15th.
The short of it is this: mapping cards suck. Do not spend a lot of money on them, or any at all.
This is coming from the guy who’s owned four of them, made one of his own and currently run two on his boat.
The worst thing about them is that they lead you to believe certain waters are safe to run when they are categorically not.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the very best thing you can use to safely navigate the marsh is what I teach inside 101. There’s a reason I spent years developing that course: because it’s the real deal, based upon actual experience, and structured in the most simple-stupid way possible to be communicated to any inshore angler willing to apply himself, which is the key ingredient most are missing.
People are trained consumers looking for something to buy to solve their problems. That works in video games, it does not work in inshore fishing.
After navigating from Pascagoula to Slidell to Chandeleur to the Amite River down through Venice across Barataria Basin all the friggin way to Vermilion Bay, in two different boats, using trhee of the same GPS model you have (a 7, 10 and 12), I can tell you that the Humminbird base map is “good enough”. Make your safe routes on GED, upload them and you’ll have the best thing you can have, especially after you accumulate proven tracks, save them and organize them.
With that said, I do have a Lakemaster Louisiana Delta card. However much it costs now, if that amount of money can be spent on something more valuable (like a Garmin inReach or VHF radio) then spend it on that.
Often I switch back to the base map because it has the information I’m looking for, like aids to navigation or use in low-light. So I have the card and don’t even use it. Consider that.
Every time I’ve ripped off a lower unit or gotten “stuck like chuck” is when I trusted the card and began free-navigating areas I had not scoped out on GED.
And no, the solution is not getting a card with “newer” imagery. Any card with the freshest rasterized imagery is already out of date thanks to the CPRA, Mississippi River, subsidence, erosion and a multitude of other factors. Use what’s taught in 101 and you’ll learn a lot more about the area you’re fishing or miss all that valuable information and risk doing something way more expensive than any mapping card money can buy.
Mapping cards are, at best, a tool. Otherwise they suck.
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Copies are at Gus’s Tackle in Slidell. Thanks, everyone.
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And a floating flipper for catfish/ trash fish goes a long way.
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I’m glad to hear about the inReach. It could save your ass one day. It works best with the functionality of the Garmin Messenger app for iOS or Android.
The private map website is good so your lifeline knows where you were at last.
Also, you may be able to find a used Lakemaster card on eBay, save even more money.
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Thanks for pitching in!
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There are radar mounts for center consoles that don’t feature a T-top.
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Just single engine, I don’t want to do that much maintenance. lol
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Interesting. I’ll check that out.
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I’m not sure yet. Garmin makes a Bluetooth foot pedal that supposedly has a similar amount of responsiveness/control as cable steer. I can operate that from the console or deck.
I have to accept that style of fishing is probably going to be undoable, but the tradeoff will be other capabilities a bass boat can’t deliver on as efficiently, like running big water, radar, hauling more people.
My family’s kids are growing up, and I can’t take all of them in a bass boat.
