Devin
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So it sounds like you had a decent day given all the other reports.
It was great briefly running into you! I would have stayed to chat, but I had my kids in the truck and still had to clean fish and get them home. They were whupped after getting drug across a 60 mile wild goose chase. lol
Hope to see you again out there!
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I know people run them on rivers where that’s a common need, but so much in the marsh. It’s certainly a lot more forgiving in the marsh. Yeah, there are some things you can hit, and I’ve hit them all, but I don’t think it warrants a kick back plate.
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Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am.
I love seeing this.
Yeah, I think the same thing: how often do I pass up fish looking for better conditions? Especially water clarity.
That’s why I overhauled that section of 101 and basically ended with: don’t go after the wild goose chase of looking for perfect water clarity when there isn’t any in a given area. It’s a really tough concept to mete out, so this forum helps clear up specific scenarios, like what’s going on in Delacroix right now.
Very good report. Thanks for posting it!
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That FS9 is pretty sweet. That’s a really good image. Looks like you’re getting the hang of it.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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How did it go?
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“Got up and got my son dressed while he was asleep.”
That is dedication. You should get an award for that.
“As soon as I put him in his seat he started crying for mom.”
Man, I get it. It happens. It is what it is. You tried. lol That’s all there is to it.
“Coming out of Spanish bayou I must have bumped a ghost crab trap.”
Or any number of things. I know my lower unit got bumped about a dozen times in the last week.
Great report, thanks for posting it.
I’m not sure when I am going next, but I am thinking it’s time to strike out from the usual stuff and try something very different.
I know in another posted I mentioned PAC. Grand Isle and Lafitte will be turning on soon if not already.
With the river in single digits I am aching to get back out there and learn the cane stubble game.
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“Well my daughter woke me up at Midnight because her ankle was hurting :/”
LOL What are kids for? What would we do without them? lol
“The water was so low that I had to help the boat off the trailer.”
If you ever do drop your trailer wheels over the edge, floating your boat over the top and pulling up on it with an anchor is a way to get it off. I’ve done that once or twice at that exact ramp.
“I wonder if there just wasn’t enough light for them to really pick off my lure”
Yeah, sounds about right. I’ve had that happen before. You were early. Which, by the way, great job on that.
Excellent report. Thanks for posting.
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Well, I hate hearing that mixed report. I wonder if your guide friend missed the morning bite there?
In another post I said MRGO/Long Rocks are Jahncke’s Ditch.
But I do have an itch for Golden Meadow and PAC. Specifically the Sulfur Mine and Catfish Lake.
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“I got my ass kicked today.”
Nooooooooo
“I even ran all the way over to the West side of Terre Aux Bouefs around Pionte Fienne and Oak River.”
Well, I was wondering about that and now I know. So, thank you.
“Don’t go West.”
I do wonder about Lake John, though.
“We did have a nice little LAFB armada out there today.”
Yeah, and that provides some interesting resolution that I’ve never been able to see before. This otherwise “small” forum punches way above its weight.
“it was still good to get out there and fish Delacroix for the first time this year.”
To be fair, it is IMO the toughest time of year to fish it.
Either way, thanks for reporting back. I’m not sure what you could have different. I think you did everything right, you just didn’t end up on the same shoreline I did. It definitely seemed that the bite was scarcer and shorter today, especially compared to Tuesday. I have no idea what the difference could be. Maybe I’ll discover something or think of something profound. If I do, I will share it here to solve the mystery.
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“I have got to say I am blown away that this guy had two kids out there and ready to go at six in the morning.”
Thank you. They know what’s up because I’ve been making them do it since they were in diapers. Plus they know they’ll get a tongue-lashing if they do anything stupid on the boat. lol So they’ve had training. As for the early wakeup: I get them to bed earlier and they’re pretty good about getting up. Even if I have to physically drag them out and put them in the truck, the early morning bite will be worth it for them and for me, when I see them reel in fish. That and I will (metaphorically speaking) put foot-to-ass on a kid. I’m the adult, this is my show and I’m here to indoctrinate them. No whining.
“I made my way to my first stop where I did well the other day and had six in the boat almost immediately. The bite started to slow and Several other boats started to show up in the area.”
Yeah, it seems like when the sun got up the bite slowed down. I failed to mention that in my report. But this flies in the face of Tuesday, when we were still catching at 10am with bright skies. I dunno.
“We ended the day with 38 keepers”
That’s pretty frikkin good given how slow things turned out. Be happy with that. You did great.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“started the morning in Lake Amedee made a couple quick stops on the south and north end.”
That’s where I started and caught 15 before leaving. Not sure if you saw me or not. Man, you were *this close*. Ugh. Kills me. I’m so sorry.
“Moved on to Lake Robin”
Lots of better looking stuff there and I didn’t catch much to reflect it.
“Water was very low.”
Yeah, gonna bring a jacked up 4×4 next time instead of a boat. It was low low. Lots of mud and new shiny dings on the prop.
“thought I could find the reds stacked up in Lery”
Was the water garbage in there? I’m still waiting on the grass to grow back. When it does that will make things easier.
I’m sorry today was tough after I pumped it so much. I apologize. I’m just gonna stop making suggestions. lol
Great report, thanks for posting it.
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I’m not sure why I caught 22 and other anglers didn’t. My guess is that:
1.) I got lucky and was in the right spot. That east shoreline of Tanasia/Amedee is where I caught them in previous trips, though I did catch them elsewhere in Petain, south side of Robin and more on previous trips. But today, that’s the only spot they were in. Good luck I got FOMO because I didn’t plan to fish it. I was that confident in everything else.
2.) And that’s really all I can say because I’m not simultaneously observing the rest of you. I do put out those YouTube videos (by the way, I’m probably Louisiana’s most transparent angler…at least at times…ever in the history of inshore fishing lol), and in them you are able to see how I fish. I can imagine that my style/method is probably more aggressive and faster than what most anglers do. In the past I’ve seen that for every cast X angler makes I am making two to five. That’s a giant difference in terms of presentations and covering water. After that, my tackle is usually more squared away i.e. untwisted line, full spools, fresh ties (well, usually), everything lubed up and ready to go, etc. My cork is pretty much constantly moving. It doesn’t really stay still. Those things make a bunch of small differences that add up to one big difference.
But I’ve seen @Boyce fish, mostly during that trip to Venice and I know he’s no slouch. My guess it that he just wasn’t on the fish.
3.) I think I might have misinterpreted the areas I caught fish in the last week. I was thinking “bottom cover” for non-shrimp spots, but now I wonder if it’s non-shrimp spots with a drained shoreline. Tanasia/Amedee has a lot of shallow, broken marsh on its periphery that was completely drained out. I’d go to guess that the minnows/bait/whatever in that shallow water drained out to where they were more easily accessible by trout. But equally mystifying is the lack of redfish in that exact same body of water. It should be loaded with redfish a la Stairs Theory but it’s not. Who knows?
4.) I have no idea why other spots I fished that were previously productive no longer were when conditions (even the coming and going of fronts) was identical. I did graph some deeper water and saw zilch. This mysterious mystery is what keeps me coming back to the marsh and will until the day I die. I will die having these questions without answers.
5.) I was also rocking a double or triple decker of Tucker Carlson’s 3mg Alp pouch at any given time. That has to make a difference, right?
6.) If I go Monday then there’s no way I’m fishing that pattern. If I fish that side of Louisiana at all it will either be the MRGO south of the Rock Dam to the Long Rocks or Jahncke’s Ditch. I really thought today would be a slam dunk and that I would catch 50 by myself with the boys, and that you guys would do something similar, but after today I’m hesitant to tell anyone to go fishing when there’s a remote possibility of rain. lol
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Also, these are spots and conditions from my “planning post”.
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I love this idea and have thought it would be neat to rent a camp and do what we are already doing in this forum, but at scale in person.
However, I have a giant non-LAFB poker in the fire that would keep me busy enough that I can’t commit to something like that. If I am able to, I won’t know until the summer time itself.
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“he was back cleaning his boat while I was running around like a lunatic.”
Actually, I took an ass whipping for next 50+ miles. LOL
