Devin
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Kicking this to the top because it’s relevant.
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A little Dope Boat history for those of you who are interested.
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Also, if you do go into those islands, watch out for this hazard.
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Please see the attached screenshot. I know you’ll actually go and will report back, so I’m happy to provide.
A few notes here:
In your satellite imagery you will see that there is brown marsh and green marsh. The green stuff is more fresh-ish and you will see more submerged grass there. The brown stuff looks like the Biloxi Marsh.
It’s just different and I guess that is a holdover from pre-MGP/Neptune.
Never really saw a lot of redfish there.
Next, I have fished that area a lot in the last few years, and last year and 2024 it just didn’t put out like it had in years past.
Couldn’t tell you why. I found lots of gorgeous ponds with everything in them but redfish.
Next, I fished all of this area in a bass boat, which drafts just as much as your bay boat, maybe more because it’s so stern-squatty.
With that said, I really prefer my flatboat if I’m gonna go exploring.
Next, I never really found anything amazing in Bay Auguste. But, in all fairness, that was only after I smashed them somewhere else and the hours of power were over.
But every pond is different every year. What was great last year could be dirty and devoid of grass, and the opposite for unproductive ponds in years’ past. You gotta go to know.
Finally, those islands can be really good. Don’t overlook them! Remember that when you’re using that satellite imagery the best ponds can be in the tiniest dark dots surrounded by river water.
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Buddy, I have so much experience out there that when I broke down outside Neptune last year, I had to give SeaTow directions to come get me. LOL
Love this post! Give me a moment and I will pull up some tracks to get you squared away.
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Jude, you are quickly becoming an LAFB Elite heavy hitter.
That and you’re driving in from Alabama. That’s pretty badass!
Great report, thanks for posting!
It looks like we are collectively figuring out the puzzle that is East Biloxi Marsh.
Excellent work!
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Actually, in hindsight, that may not be what I’m thinking of.
It might be a chairwell off of Central.
If I find the weird anomalous thing I found, I will share it here and let one of y’all go fish it.
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GO DO IT NOW!!!
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Okay, so for the big reveal:
This screenshot was taken on a July day in 2018 in Lake Tibet.
I had towed my boat with me to Orlando and, after growing ill of the highschool popularity contest known as “iCast”, said “screw this” and went fishing instead.
The water was crystal clear. Where I took this screenshot you could see the grass and bottom.
In some places there was grass growing in 15ft of water!!
I caught bass by marking the edge of that grass and fishing it. It was really cool!
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I’ve always wondered how those jetties performed. There’s a lot of real estate out there.
Sounds like there’s some quality trout out there when the conditions are right.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Looks like a great reel for the techniques you listed.
Anyone looking to get something for flipping cane in Venice this fall, well this is a great reel to pair with a good flipping stick.
Could probably be good for casting light lures to dock lights for speckled trout, too.
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I might have it somewhere. I’ve since consolidated three different computers into one, as well as many terabytes of data and it might be in there somewhere. If I come across it, I’ll post it here.
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Most boats do. It’s the anglers that don’t.
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“It’s gotten out of hand lol.”
No, it’s good. We need it.
It means more shrimp, more crab, more everything.
It can definitely bring back the bass fishing in a way nobody has seen in a long time.
You will forget all about 20″ trout when you have 3-5lb bass blowing up frogs.
Cataouatche was it’s peak in 2011 when we had all that grass, and the Classic there that year proved it.
Same for Lery. When Lery was chock full of grass it was epic.
The open hook and popping cork fishermen will complain about it, but that’s why they’re fishermen and not anglers.
There’s a difference.
I will get out there ASAP and begin figuring it out.
HERE’S ANOTHER REASON TO BEGIN PICKING IT APART:
I can see fall trout moving in there. And, if they do, you would already know when they arrive because you would’ve already have been there fishing it.
Areas go through cycles, some turning on more than others, and I am betting that Salvador/Cataouatche will be one of those this fall/winter.
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That grass mat is probably even better now.
“Where there’s ‘heads, there’s reds”
“Where there’s rays, we stays”
