Devin
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Ugh, I’m watching Geosphere now. Black Bay is black af. Parts of Breton Sound look good and I just know a handful of you are out there doing the dang thing. same thing for Timbalier, Grand Isle, East Bay, etc.
Can’t wait to see the reports roll in! My boat’s in the shop and I shall live vicariously through all of you! Make me proud!
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That is a brilliant idea.
Like seriously, so many people put so much weight on catching a limit of trout (myself included, guilty as charged) and drive right past a lot of fun fishing.
Yeah, so if you’re looking for jacks I would check the artificial reefs between the bridges in east Lake Pontchartrain. Then I’d fish the south shore right there. You can also try Jahncke’s Reef in the southeast corner of Lake Borgne. I’ve seen jacks piled up there.
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“Hit the Hwy 11 bridge and trestles.”
You were casting at empty water.
Shift fire at least 20 miles to the southeast. It’s way too late in the year for the Trestles and I wouldn’t touch it again until March. Yeah, you can fish it during fall/winter, but there will be far better places to try during that time (like the home of the Spear Tip aka @Boyce )
“to that rig a few miles out in Borgne….Caught 20 trout (15 keepers) in 30 minutes.”
Now we’re cookin’ with gas.
“They just wanted those shrimp on the bottom.”
I’ll go a step further and say they wanted a bottom presentation. They probably had no idea that cork was there. Whatever you used worked, so use that again. But, in the future, know a Heavy Drop Shot is probably the best way to get presentations on the bottom.
“you would think the heat would have shut the bite down”
It hasn’t been that hot and there’s been a good deal of cloud cover out (I check Geosphere like teen girls check Instagram). What was the water temp? If it’s in the low to mid 80s you ought to be good.
Pinky promise me next time you launch somewhere closer to Lake Borgne, like Chef Harbor Marina or South Shore Marina and scream straight for that rig in Lake Borgne, with a plan to fish the other rigs, too. And that artificial reef on the north end of Lake Borgne, which you can hit from Rigolets Marina if that’s closer to you.
Otherwise, great report! Way to catch some trout without running really far. Thanks for posting, I appreciate that!!
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You’re really gonna wanna go over Advanced Inshore Navigation, which I see you haven’t completed. That’s gonna answer 99% of questions/unknowns figuring out a trip like that.
I’m telling you right now, when I fished the Saltwater Series I had zero issues running long-distance routes on game day because I planned it out on GED first then ran them prior. We had the breadcrumb tracks to follow at full throttle and full confidence.
You’re going to want to do that, and that knowledge inside AIN is gonna get you there. That is your fastest, most efficient way to nail down a run from Delacroix to Venice, because there’s a lot of silted in land between those locations to turn you into a SeaTow commercial.
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Wow. Helluva first post. Dude, way to swing for the fence. lol
Okay, well first of all welcome to the forum. Are you from Louisiana? How much experience do you have fishing these areas? Did you look at a map first? Does your boat fly? lol jk but seriously, Houma is a haul from Delacroix.
Also, I fixed the spelling from “Homua” to “Houma” so it shows up in search results and people know what you’re talking about.
That and it sounds like you’re fishing a redfish tournament out of Sweetwater and have an A-spot in Houma.
I’ve made a lot of crazy 150+ mile runs but even for me I have to admit that running from Delacroix to Houma is a helluva trip and probably not a great idea. That’s gonna be at least 230+ miles round-trip if you can fit under bridges. I hope you’re in a propped-out Allison, the water is flat calm, and that the fuel dock/locks don’t take their sweet time. lol Otherwise you’re looking at ~3 hours to fish if you plan on making weigh-in on time.
Delacroix to Venice is pretty easy, and it really depends on the wind, that will dictate how much open water you can run, or if you need to run protected.
And what boat are you running this is in? A 12ft tin boat or a bigass Majek Extreme? Can it fit under a low bridge or is a tower boat? That information goes a long way (I checked your profile, didn’t see anything there). We can’t read your mind. The more info we have, the more we can help you.
Surely there are heavy slots somewhere east of the river. I don’t know what format you’re fishing, but when I fished the Saltwater Series I did a pretty good job of finding 16lb bags and landing in the money, and I was able to do that without the 230+ mile Mad Max Gumball 3000. BUT, the fishing was a lot better then, too.
Surely there’s something down toward Venice you can get into.
If you were to head from Delacroix to Venice, then you can run down Terre aux Beouf, shoot across Black Bay, Breton Sound then pop into Baptiste Collette or Main Pass and go from there. If you had to run protected, then you could run down the Pencil Canal to American Bay, hop into Bay Cox and take the back levee canals down to Ostrica, then hop in the river and make your way to Venice there.
It really depends on the wind and your boat, which I don’t know. That and please put some skin in the game and show me a route you plan on taking. That will really help decipher what’s going to work best for you. Thank you.
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Welcome to the forum, and thanks for introducing yourself.
All those areas are good to fish and have their strengths and weaknesses, but what they all have in common as that they’re plagued by that evil horde, The Greater NOLA Flotilla.
There is one place that’s not, and the place is to that horde like what a kitchen light is to cockroaches: it scatters them.
This place is the Super Bowl of testing what you learn in IF101. If you can get away with navigating there, then you’ve done good. If you really apply yourself and the fishing gods smile on your boat, you will come away with the most epic fishing you’ve ever done in your life. It makes those other places look dumb.
This place is called “Venice”.
It is the home of The Spear Tip whose human name is @Boyce and the playground of @DrillNFill and many other Elite members who have tested their mettle there.
It is the bane of spoon-feeders and the great rewarder of self-appliers. We will peer pressure you into fishing down there, especially when the river starts dropping and falls below 5 feet at the Carrollton Gauge. You’ll know when you see our reports, or view the past ones posted last year like this one.
Or this one posted earlier this month.
You have been warned.
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Hmmmm.
Did you fish any oyster reefs? Like the ones I marked in that .kml file I posted?
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You can definitely try those spots, but two other members just did and reported Throwback City. That and other members have been in and out of the area and don’t really have anything amazing to report. Just lots of gafftops and throwbacks with very few keepers.
But we have had much better reports from Lake Borgne. I’d stick with what you got and fish the rest of the rigs and reefs.
Or start ferreting out routes in Venice. That place is gonna harder than anywhere else.
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No problem. Those back levees canal are horizontally skinny but I’ve seen bay boats run them. I’ve run them in my bass boat, so your SCB should have no problems. Problem is, there are a couple blind turns and most of the canal is only wide enough for a single boat.
But with an SCB the wind would really have to be cranking for you to make that run. Hopping in the river at Mardi Gras Pass may be your best bet. Depending on the wind direction you’ll get beat up a little in some spots, but it’ll be better than running open water in front of Neptune Pass.
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“I’m running a Simmons Stingray”
Well, that’s the boat to make that run in. lol Hell yes! That thing has to scream. That boat is basically the Batmobile of inshore fishing lol
Yeah, if I were you I’d start looking as far inside as Lake Lery and the little marsh wrack ponds off of it, all the way down the coast to just east of Bay Denesse. It’s just that when you get into the outfall areas of Mardi Gras and Neptune Passes you are going to deal with hard sandbars that will ruin your day at 50-60mph+. Consider how I know. lol
I don’t know if you’re trying to sight fish these reds, but some of the clearest water you’ll find is down by the river, wherever grass is growing thick.
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Honestly, I’m probably either not going to have a boat or will be camping at Pass a Loutre to whack ’em multiple days in a row. Fishing reports will come via Starlink Mini.
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Some people celebrate Christmas. We celebrate when the river drops below 5ft at the Carrollton Gauge.
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That river exists to test my emotions every single day. It’s friggin’ June, just fall already! I want to jig fish in the river, dammit!
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Yeah, I feel confident you really hit hard and effectively.
All I can say is: you should ditch EBM for the time being and fish somewhere it’s either deeper or on the bleeding of receding river water. Head out into bigger water, like Chandeleur and Breton Sounds, or head south toward Black Bay.
If I were planning to go fishing anytime soon, based off the cumulative reports from EBM, I would definitely go somewhere else.
It’s not you, it’s EBM. Apply that effort somewhere there are more quality fish, and you’ll come away with a limit.
That’s what I think.
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Something I learned is that you never know who someone might be. Pat never got that lesson. He has treated me like garbage over the most menial things. In the years before he took over that marina I never once, not once, saw him fish there. Never saw him at the cleaning tables, Glenn Sanchez had no idea who he was, etc.
If I prepped my boat at the top of the boat ramp, I could understand a snarky tongue-lashing but I’ve literally never done that. The times he’s gotten into my ass were always over something absurd, like he wanted me parked three feet more to the left, or whatever. He’s introduced himself to me like six times and each time doesn’t remember. lol Which I can understand that, but the way he’s approached me with his finger sticking out, “Hey man, first time here?!” well I can do without that.
So now we shall perpetually make fun of him. lol
