Devin
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On the bright side, if they do, we’ll have a…uhm…I forget what year it was…I think 2011….a 2011-style event: all the fish that got used to a clean lake and spread across it will become amassed on the east side. We still caught during a Spillway opening and we caught well. Ask Chas Champagne if you ever get the chance. Good times.
It’s the same thing as always I guess: fish the conditions.
On the bright side, it will push more fish toward the Long Rocks (last year kinda sucked) and will give the opportunity for more grass to grow back, since so much died during the Freeze.
Pros and cons.
I’d rather the river stayed low, however. I enjoy watching Plaquemines Parish panic over saltwater. lol
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Why Hopedale?
I’m sure that there will be clear water somewhere in there, but why not somewhere a little fresher with more grass? Like Pointe aux Chenes, Pointe a la Hache or Venice?
I’d also avoid Hopedale because it absolutely gets raked over by bowfishing guides these days. If you love spooky fish that run from the best presentations and steathiest approaches, then you should definitely fish Hopedale.
I’m not certain if bow guides are in PAC or not, but I have not seen them in PLH and certainly not the further reaches of Venice (but count on them being closer to the dock).
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I would do that. I think it’s a good move. You’d have some north wind to clear out any river water. Go for it!
But keep Lake Athanasio in your back pocket as well as the rocks further inside the MRGO, any points with tidelines around them as well as the south side of the Rock Dam. I’d also run out going around the Rock Dam and keep an eyeball out for diving birds. It’s sort of early-ish for that, but you never know.
You’re more likely to see diving birds going that way out the MRGO than the Spoil Canal.
Good luck!
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Not bad at all, that’s an acceptable grind and a lot of fish to eat.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I’ve caught limits of speckled trout deep and shallow in every air pressure that Louisiana experiences.
In my humble opinion, it’s correlation, not causation.
The only angler I found that efficiently explains this to my simpleton mind is Buck Perry in his book Spoonplugging. Essentially what he says is that air pressure happens at the same time far more important things happen (i.e. high wind and temp drops) during a cold front. Or overcast weather, such as when the air pressure is low.
Going off air pressure to determine when and where to go fishing is, in my opinion, right there with getting your palm read. Same for solunar feed periods. Might as well be astrology.
I’m open to any and all new information and will change my mind if presented with a good argument.
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Yeah, and the fishing will only get better. The conditions, name the wind, are going to be the deciding factor. Given all the wind that’s predicted, I’d just stay home and do maintenance.
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Keith, great idea and thanks for making this post.
Yes, I can do that, let me get a bunch ordered and get that knocked out.
Also, I have a horrible signature, kinda should be expected from a guy that spends most of his time on a computer, even back before it was a common thing. My hand writing is chicken scratch LOL
I’ll get this knocked out and will let y’all know.
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“I usually fish Hopedale because it’s where I have the most experience, and since I come from out of state, only so much time on the water I like familiar water for safety and probability of producing some fish.”
Fair enough. But if that’s all you ever do then that’s all you’ll be stuck with.
“Venice I’ve always avoided this time of year because of the river been too nervous to find clean water. I have typically just fished the fall & winter there”
No, sir. There’s always clean water, and areas near the river tend to have more milfoil in concentrated mats that filter the water very well. And what makes the river water great is that it clearly shows you where NOT to go.
I think you can go into Hopedale and catch a few and have fun and it will be a success, but if you really want to stomp their balls you’ll have to get away from where the bow fishermen and dead-shrimp guides keep their boats.
With that said, you could probably get away with hitting the MRGO south of the Rock Dam. The points, coves and rocks will give up some fish. You won’t find much grass, though.
If you want help with routes for Delacroix, PLH, etc. then show us which routes you want us to look at to get a second, third and fourth pair of eyeballs to confirm they’re good.
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Yeah, that’s why you see light conditions mentioned in my reports. The best days of trout fishing were almost always when it’s hard overcast. I think that’s another reason they prefer rigs and bridges so much. It’s shade.
Plus, the way the water is lit up sunny vs overcast is a big difference. It’s much easier to see when it’s not a disco ball underwater.
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I do love this idea of putting the data together to see what picture is really being painted, but I’d go to think that you’d need way more catch data from multiple anglers. That’s tough to get. But now that I’m thinking about it I wonder if AI can pillage Facebook pages of prominent captains and put together their catches and automagically correlate that with conditions.
I’ll leave that to someone else. I already have a lot on my plate (and getting stuff off of it every week lol). I need more fishing time. lol
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Bucky Perry is such an OG. He literally traveled the country and applied his process wherever he went and caught fish.
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I do know Chris at Speckled Truth is big on solunar feeding periods, and one day I’ll get to talk to him in person at length as to why.
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Never give up on the kid. They won’t forget it.
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It seems like that kind of attention to detail isn’t a big deal, but it really is.
Get. In. The. Water.
Makes all the difference in the world.
