Devin
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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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that’s a wrap for 0733
fishing report to follow later
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Yeah, looking at Shell Beach Buoy the water is definitely down. It is higher than when I fished on the 18th.
Next time come off plane further out (yeah I know hindsight is 20/20, but I’ve also been to that cove a million times lol).
So did you guys not go further down to 11 thru 13? I see that I have another 13 and 14 further south, did you not make it down there?
I’m putting together a plan for tomorrow. I am definitely not hitting Hopedale Lagoon based off what you told me.
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“I wish I would have hit the Lakeshore because Todd Masson put out a video where he smashed some big trout on the Lakeshore and I think it might have been where I was thinking about going give a try”
1,000% do not do that. By the time he posts that video the bite is either done or about to be done. By the time you get to capitalize on that he has already moved on to the next bite and that Lakeshore bite is about to get pounded by the Armada if it isn’t already. You’re really better off getting ahead of the power curve and finding your “next fish” somewhere else.
I talk to the same people Todd does and that is absolutely what happens.
If you really want to use his channel properly, look at videos from this time last year and the years before that. That way you can get a handle on where to begin looking before the smooth-brain troglodytes do.
Do you want to be catching pressured fish around a bunch of knuckleheads and weed through throwbacks or do you want to catch keepers without the added aggravation of inconsiderate boaters, people running over the fish, etc.?
“I popped my good jerk bait off on a hook set”
Everyone stop what you’re doing and take a moment of silence for this lure. We lost a homie on this day.
“Total take home was 3 beautiful specks and 4 nice bass.”
That’s plenty to eat!
Great report, thanks for posting! Try to get out Saturday if you can, the conditions are going to be dang near perfect.
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good luck!
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my hero!
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Already loaded up in the driveway ready to rock and roll, I love it.
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I’ll probably go tomorow with the kiddos and may get to go Monday. I don’t know yet.
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You are a good man doing the right thing.
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Masson for sure down there on the right hand side of the screen, beating the daylights out of the rocks by The Wall one last time before those fish shove out for the spawn. lol
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Try the top of Lake Robin or the top of Ameda. Get up against shorelines protected from a NW wind.
After that, fish that dirty crap anyway. Pop that cork. They’re probably still there.
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Yes, I am targeting areas where I know grass mats traditionally grow. I’m not seeing grass because the freeze killed it off, but it’s still there on the bottom, kinda like a mowed lawn, or something like that.
I’m also targeting oyster reefs and where I see shells on the bank. Like lots of shells. The shells and grass are discernible on GED.
I’m not sure what forage the trout are eating. I’ve been unable to get a good look at them and didn’t see any inside the trout I cleaned.
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I wouldn’t bother with it. The water out there is garbage. Maybe Pointe Fienne is good, but based off what I’ve seen I wouldn’t bother with it. Stick with east of Terre aux Beouf and Lake Robin area.
