Devin
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Hey Mike, welcome to the forum. Glad to have you here!
If you look through the Fishing Trip Planning forum you’ll see plenty examples from many talented anglers who put in their time. And that has paid off for them. It can for you, too.
Make a good planning post and we can give you good feedback.
Port Sulphur is a great place to fish. That Skeeter you’ve got can fish a whole lot, all the way to Port Fourchon.
Thanks for posting an intro!
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Begin at 7:18 here.
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Hmmm. Did you fish that pass into Lake Pontchartrain with something heavy to contact the bottom? Or did you chunk and wind lures at the shoreline?
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“The trout were absolutely HAMMERING down the beetles though.”
It could’ve been anything, so long as it was tied under that cork.
This puts emphasis “find biting fish in the first place”.
Do that and trip takes care of itself. Or spend all day casting at empty water with live shrimp, umpteen lure colors, every rig imaginable, etc. and don’t catch crap. lol
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THANK YOU for taking a picture of what they spit up. That makes sense. That’s the best thing about this report. Excellent.
After that, I’m glad you caught ’em. Didn’t I say it’d be worth your time to run down from Shell Beach? Man, forget Shell Beach.
For years, even before the Freshening, I’d see Shell Beach guides run down to Delacroix and PLH. But never, not once, not ever in my life, have I seen a DLX or PLH guide in Shell Beach/Biloxi Marsh. Never.
Because they don’t need to. Places influenced by river water produce superior fishing spots, with rare exception.
I’m very happy you had an epic trip. Great report, thank you for posting!
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Have you ever had success with Whopper Ploppers for speckled trout?
I have not. Literally thrown them right on top of where I’m catching with traditional walking topwaters and they just don’t bother it. Then I zing a walker right back out and it gets blasted.
So I gave away an entire tray of Whopper Ploppers the other day. LOL
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Excellent report, thank you for posting, even though you’re clearly tired and need to simply rest.
Also, great dedication to the topwater bite and throwing wake baits. Not a lot of people do that.
I really like the Baby 1 Minues, but have some other discontinued wake bait (called a Timber Wolf IIRC) that is amazing. Much better around timber, however. lol
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You mean you don’t make your guests ride around with an oyster sack over their head?! lol jk
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Well, if you didn’t post here then we wouldn’t have known to tell you. So consider that.
This what a real fishing community looks like and is supposed to do. A Heavy Drop Shot will solve 99% of your deep water problems.
But, it’s totally possible that you could have fished there with an HDS (in about 27ft of water IIRC) and not come away with anything either.
So there’s the next fishing trip to consider.
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Whoops, my mistake. Yes, I did confuse you with Jon Fisher. I apologize.
You should definitely try South Pass, SW Pass, East Bay, etc. There has to be something down there.
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Oh for sure, the people who have liked it have LIKED IT, but I was hoping it would Standard Map/SeaTow notoriety and it has not. Oh well.
I do appreciate the fanfare it has received. For that, it shall remain.
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Very interesting.
Yeah, the H20 stuff is nice when its nice. Even better when they’re on sale for $2 apiece. LOL
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+1
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I’d also like to note the fish that flatboat has caught. Clearly the fishing was better then. There’s been a decline. Look at that boat and the tackle in it: not exactly KVD. I was fishing the same area, same spots with sh*t tackle and sh*t techniques and still caught the hell out of fish.
It was even better in Grigar’s day. Decline has been the constant.
Maybe more people should try putting fish back in the water.
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+1
