Devin
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I see 13.3v on your graph, so that’s good.
Do you get a similar anomaly in side vu mode or any other mode? Any issues on the chartplotter side?
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Did it work fine before?
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I was gonna ask what kind of catfish they were and now I see that they’re sailcats. Those are great eating, just a PITA to handle.
Honestly, I’m probably gonna meat haul those bad boys. They’re so easy to see on sonar with those big, hard heads. Really bright returns. They kinda spread out, too. So their schools are easy to differentiate.
I eat fish every day when I’ve got them, and it’s either that or buying chicken, so why not just keep the catfish? Because someone might think I’m some kinda loser? Well, I make a living doing this and wrote a book how to do it, so I’m way past that. lol
Let us know how those sail cat fillets are. Any worms in them?
If you give the “okay” then I’ll probably whack the daylights out of them on my next trip out. Just try to sink the boat in trash fish. LOL
Anyway, I think moving to the east side of Lake Borgne was a good idea. Good move on your part. I’m not sure where there’s a lot of trout holding over there, I guess somewhere closer to the MRGO.
Maybe @Boyce ran the tracks/spots I shared earlier in another post and he’ll have a good report for that. Hopefully.
Either way, great report, thanks for posting. The wind was tough, and that just makes things harder. You’ll have an easier time of it when the wind lays down.
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You did a great job given the circumstances. Now you know where not to go.
I hope to get out that way sometime soon. All the fish that were in Decade have got to push out to the outside somewhere around there.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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” I mentioned it in another post but LAFB members took 2nd and 3rd place against some pretty stiff competition.”
You’re too kind, but it’s the members who make this forum great. I just slapped together some WordPress magic and y’all took the ball and run it to the end zone every week. Thank you so much.
“Funny enough, I actually learned about RO20 through a video Devin posted a while fishing the trestles back in the day with Adam Shields. He deserves a lot of Credit for getting this movement started in LA.”
That’s all I ever wanted. Again, give the masses the ball and let them run it down the field. There’s a lotta good folks here in Louisiana, and some have found their way to RO20.
“Finished the day with about 22 keepers but the only big fish were that 22.5” and the 19”.”
That’s pretty friggin’ good. I’d go to those spots you caught the bigger fish and wait ’em out all day. Grind City. Which you did. lol
” We also heard a good report of the Long Rocks from someone staying next to my buddies camper. They supposedly caught numbers and some bigger fish.”
That sounds about right.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Great report, thanks for posting it.
Love the bass boat, too!
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Thanks for taking time to post a report. You didn’t have much time to figure something out, but it was worth the try.
I’d definitely look that motor over real hard. I’m assuming you only put non-ethanol in it? It sounds like water separation. Do you have a fuel/water separator? Anything in the bottom of it?
Get those carbs rebuilt in time to take advantage of the fishing being good.
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“we somehow managed to salvage a trout day even after we had moved on to plan redfish.”
I’d be happy with that.
“It felt like a very transitional day.”
That’s exactly the vibe I got reading your report.
“and I don’t expect the pattern to be the same.”
That’s smart. I do think the bird pattern is kicking off and that’s something you’re gonna wanna keep an eye out for.
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Great report! I love to see a plan coming together. Way to knock it out of the ball park. Also, great use of this forum to achieve your fishing success. That’s what I’m talking about.
Envisioning this forum working is one thing, seeing it happen in real life made my weekend. Thank you!
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“There were a few months in between finishing the re-wire and when I was able to get the boat in the water, so maybe this could be the problem as it never happened before the re-wire.”
We are onto something here. I dunno what size battery you’ve got, but that’s a lotta stuff to have on one battery. I know my electrical issues went away when I either got a larger battery or wired a separate one in parallel.
“The house battery does need to be replaced as its probably close to 4 years old…..maybe that could explain the reason why it somewhat works when slowing down to idle after a run?”
That’s your sign. We are getting warmer. Yeah, after the battery is charged after running the Garmin has the juice to act right, then when you reduce RPMs the battery strains under load. That’s my theory. I bet you’ve got a Group 24 battery in your boat.
You really ought to just have a separate battery ready to go. It’s good to have for testing/trouble shooting and for when your house battery eventually shits the bed.
I’ve got a lot of extra/spare parts I keep for this purpose and it all takes up enough space in my house/garage that I literally write off the square footage in my taxes.
So be careful going down that rabbit hole. I don’t have a wife telling me what I can/can’t have, either. LOL
“I know the installation manuals say not to run transducer cables alongside power wire to avoid signal interference, but it was already ran like that before and it worked.”
I don’t think that’s the issue. Those cables should have built-in shielding anyway. If they don’t, custom shielding is cheap: tin foil.
“I guess disconnecting and pulling the transducer cable all the way back out from under the deck and plugging it back into the unit would be worth a shot.”
That’s smart and would work, but I’m not sure that’s absolutely important to do otherwise you would have had issues to begin with.
Two final notes: you’re currently offshore and can’t access your boat, correct?
You will want to test your alternator just to be sure. I mean, if you’re getting 14v on plane, you’re good, but if that voltage is every wonky at all, then that may be something you want to replace.
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“When I got to this area the wind really wasn’t blowing that bad maybe 5-10, so I decided to try these but as I got further into the pond it became really shallow really quick. I know logically with a south wind and rising tide there should have been enough to float my boat. It’s a 20 foot aluminum bass boat so its draft is shallow.”
Next time that happens, stop and fish further out.
“As I was reading some of your articles you have one in there that shows two possible routes and the one I took was before finding this video. If I had known I would not have taken the one I took. When I got to the white poles in Lagoon Brady I went to the right luckily there was a boat right behind me and he went to the left around 50mph and the whole way through the route to the MRGO. Dude knew this route and he was in about a 26 foot CC. He never slowed down.”
In the future post your route, or describe it.
“Pass LA Loutre’. Sorry.”
I’m still not following you. Pass a Loutre is in Venice. You mean Bayou La Loutre? I’m guessing you saw popping shrimp at that four-way intersection with Bayou St. Malo, Baker’s Canal and Bayou La Loutre?
If so, that’s pretty common when the shrimp are running and sometimes fish can be there, sometimes not.
“I don’t know where Bayou Pisana is and when I searched GED it shows on the west side of the MRGO.”
Bayou Pisana used to run across the marsh where the MRGO is today. The spot I have marked as “Trout 1” is the “new” mouth of it after the MRGO was dug. So today you have Bayou Pisana on the east and west side of MRGO.
“I will from now on and I don’t have a problem with posting here since I believe in this community and know we all hold the same values. Great bunch of people you have here Devin. Thank you Devin and for the help to everyone who responded! I’m new to the area and steadily trying to learn how to fish it and catch fish.”
You’re welcome and thanks for the vote of confidence. I just want you to catch fish and have fun and be successful. If we can get that done then LAFB Elite will be that much better. I have everyone here to thank for making this standalone forum, far from the familiarity of Facebook Groups, as good as it is. Thanks, guys.
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Okay, so then it’s not your install. We can cross that off the list.
The next thing to do is check components while we wait on Garmin to see what they have to say. Hopefully their customer service is as good as Humminbird.
Do you have spare cables you can swap out? Do you have a unit you can swap out?
Next thing: I’d check those connections for the tiniest amount of corrosion.
Thing after that: is your unit getting good voltage? Some of these units will act wonky if they’re not getting good voltage and *clean* electricity, which I do not know how to measure/detect.
I know my units started behaving better after I put them on their own battery separate from the house/cranking battery.
You can test this by swapping out batteries. Check the battery the units are currently using for full cells. Pop that plastic cap off the top and if the cells look dry then fill them with distilled water. Do not use tap water. Wear protective wear when you do, a drop of batter acid flying in your eye will ruin your day. You do not want that smoke.
In the past I’ve had a Humminbird unit that was by itself defective and had to be sent in to get fixed. It came back a couple weeks later working like new. I backed up all my data and wiped the unit before sending it. You never know, there could be an LAFB-fan at Humminbird and he ain’t getting my spots/tracks. LOL
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You just signed the death warrant of a lot of sail cats.
If the water looks lower next time you go out it’s because umpteen-zillion of them have been removed to make space for far more loveable fish.
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You won’t be fishing the same spots, but it’d be the same area and you’d be out of the wind. I think you could make it happen doing that. I’d also look hard at Redfish 1 and the pond at the top of it.
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Maybe just try this instead…
