Devin
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Whatever you get, make sure it can export/import a simple file like a .usr or .gpx
No hokey proprietary software requirement like HumminbirdPC.
Good luck!
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Okay, that’s not Sugar Lake Bayou, that’s The Jump (or beginnning of Tiger Pass, depending on who you talk to). I’m not aware of a Sugar Lake Bayou in Venice.
“Then it got dirty again with no grass so I kept paddling north, found grass again and clear water in a cut of the pond”
The clearest water you will find will be next to dirty river water, usually in or on the other side of a grass mat. Thank you for finding it. I keep telling people that and they keep getting hung up on the dirty water, like I haven’t been doing this for years. lol
“saw a bunch of bait and 4 redfish in the span of 2 minutes, didn’t catch any but thought of it as a good sign to come”
Yeah, that’s good. If I saw that I would be pumped.
1. Maybe.
2. The river isn’t super low, but it isn’t high, either. I’ve fished that pond and had the most epic days of sight fishing on a river higher than what we have now (10ft+).
3. Just take that train of thought and throw it in the trash. Eject it from your brain and never use it again. Slot redfish are freshwater fish. The best sight fishing I’ve had has been in places right next to bluegill and bass.
I will concede that anywhere I see actual lilly pads (not water hyacinth) I don’t see as many redfish, but to say that there wasn’t enough salt in that pond with a river that hasn’t seen double digits in nearly a year is unhinged.
I’ll tell you that pond gets pressured a good deal. It’s no secret. It’s within striking distance of a world-destination marina that has everything from kayaks to airboats to bass boats to skiffs to tower boats going back there and pillaging the fish.
That and it’s a big pond. It can be garbage on one side of it and then absolutely on fire on the other side. There can be a good grass mat/flat behind that rig on the west side but, to be frank, there can be one anywhere back there.
THAT and the bass fishing can be dynamite in that pond. But you will rarely see them or not at all. You’ve gotta blindcast a Texas rig or spinner bait.
Running a Strike King Rage Shad (see attached) over the top of grass can draw them out, too. Redfish will hit that, too. Think of it as a weedless buzzbait.
Great report, thank you so much for posting it. And thank you for being a thoughtful, hard working angler. You’re doing good things!
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You are a waterspout magnet LOL
Excellent fishing trip to the end-all, be-all of fishing destinations in Louisiana.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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That’s exactly it, you don’t know unless you go.
Excellent work, great report, thanks for posting!
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This trip was long in the making. It’s about time that fine-as-hell boat crushed some fish.
Excellent work.
We fished the same area. I had a feeling the fish were somewhere in there, but we somehow managed to evade them. LOL
I think EBM is making a comeback.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Well, it’s good to hear the Central report from Breton Sound because that is where I originally wanted to go. But it seems that we don’t actually have a solid report since your trolling motor wasn’t working. I’m guessing you didn’t have a rig hook handy. Most folks don’t these days, and those don’t fish as well as a spot lock TM anyway.
“We fought repositioning for a while and then moved after watching 4 boats around the rig pulling in lady fish.”
I would’ve done the same thing.
“Tide movement was much less than predicted. It was very weak throughout the morning.”
I saw the exact same thing in Chandy/EBM. I suppose a little investigation could reveal why, but I’ll leave that to someone else here.
Otherwise, thank you for making the run, thank you for going deep and – above all – thank you for reporting back.
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“I don’t have Facebook, so I was happy to see the community moved here.”
I love hearing that. Man, is Facebook hot garbage or what? I really enjoy this forum. No distractions, just straight to the point, point-blank, both barrels, inshore fishing discussion.
“So I’m looking to improve and get us on more fish consistently”
You’re in the right place! Here’s what I would do if I were you:
Enjoy a few summer fishing trips. But stop going fishing in the next few weeks. Then spend all of August going over your boat. Get everything fixed. Do the same for your truck and trailer.
This way when fall comes around there are no innocent f*ck-ups. This way when the best fishing of the year is going down your equipment is firing on all 8 cylinders and you’re not missing out.
Have some discipline, forego the gauntlet of August fishing. August can be one of the toughest times of the year to fish.
I’ve seen it time and again in this forum: fall fishing arrives and bearings fail, trolling motors don’t work, GPS units glitch out and <insert something that’s totally preventable with a little bit of discipline and preventative maintenance>.
So, get all your equipment spit polished and perfect and be a friggin inshore hero this fall….
…or, you can ignore my sage advice from years of doing this exact thing and:
1. Get your ass kicked by the hottest/toughest time of the year.
2. Your boat/trailer/truck will be overdue on basic maintenance items.
3. You’re on the side of LA-23 with a blown hub, or drifting down the Mississippi River trying to get a call out to SeaTow, or you can’t fish the spots you wanted to because your trolling motor circuit breaker looks like a piece of chicken that sat in the fryer all day, and so on and so on.
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Man, y’all are the reason I will never get married. Each time I hear something about some kinda white-picket-fence event getting in the way of fishing….well, I will retire on time and die in peace!!! lol just kidding
Back to the important stuff: the Mississippi Gulf Coast has a lot of cool structure and cover. I think there is a website somewhere that has all these marked, as they are right there on the beach and I wonder if they’re able to be waded or not.
They can definitely be boated.
I do know that you can see canals and reefs on some imagery on low/clear water days during winter. There’s gotta be something to it!!!!
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Go to where water moves first.
What do I teach inside 101?
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With a wind and tide like that, I’d look hard at fishing the ends of the Long Rocks. Water will move first/best there than most other places. It’s summer, and catching trout on a neap tide is gonna be rough.
Or, try the powerlines, reefs and rigs in West Lake P. Sonar goes a long way out there, tide doesn’t matter as much out there.
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That stuff south of Venice Marina is really good if you can get back there. Good luck!
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Yeah, the water didn’t move like it should have. That was a real bummer.
Just get back out there and build off of what you saw. Keep that momentum going.
Thanks for posting!
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“The MRGO gives the calmest path toward good water”
So long as the wind plays nice. What direction would make the MRGO really rough? Really calm? You tell me.
“the rocks provide better water movement on a neap incoming tide than other areas might”
Why do they?
“and the rocks also help protect from rougher water while fishing”
So long as the wind plays right. See above.
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It would be moving first out in the Sound. But you would still have the same or near the same range.
What you need is not tide range but water current.
What speeds up water current outside of wind or solar/lunar gravitational forces?
That’s where you want to look. That’s where you want to fish.
That second nature of being able to look at a map and immediately discern the answer to above question is what I am trying impart unto all of you.
What I am not trying to do is do the thinking for you. Otherwise, why I did spend two years writing, shooting, editing and producing 101?
How does shooting a spitball out of a straw work? Can you shoot one across the room with your mouth, or do you need a straw? What does the straw do for you?
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Sort of, not really.
For one the water will definitely move better out there than somewhere sitting behind a bottleneck.
But what I’m trying to get you think critically about is how structure affects water movement.
You don’t need to go deep into the Sound to find that.
I can see that you completed 101. You know what it is that I’m talking about (or you should). Where is water going to move first?
Show me a dozen spots that are gonna do that, then I will tell you are on the right path.
