Devin
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Well, with what you’ve provided on as short notice, I’d say go for it. But with the wind laying down I’d get out to Black Bay and fish the rigs there.
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I’d do Black Bay Saturday. I would not go there in the dead of the July heat and expect anything other than a boat ride.
I wouldn’t necessarily expect to find cleaner water nearer the river, but I would expect to see more grass mats, with dirty water on one side and clear water on the other.
The best kind you can find is the kind with a channel between the grass mat and the shoreline. Absolute jackpot for redfish.
Good luck!
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@Dodson already beat you to it, bud.
That and I’m not sure that I would use it. It looks like they mounted it in the lee of a building.
So imagine what chaos that would ensure.
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Also, FWIW, when I plan trips to places way out there like Central (especially when coming from the longest distance possible), I like to see that wind lay down. Not 5-10 knots. Less than 5 knots. I want to see purple on that Windfinder forecast and have it agree with what NOAA says.
Incidentally, tomorrow is (sort of) a better example. Attached is Windfinder at Grand Pass.
I still think that EBM is a sideshow to what’s going on in Breton and Chandy, especially Breton since there’s more rigs down there.
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Well, crap.
Yeah, I see that the wind forecast picked up for today. That probably changed after you launched. Attached is Grand Pass.
I think that you would have had a much different day had the wind laid down. If not, you’re just taking a whoopin’.
And man, if you think it’s bad in a 24′ capped boat, try it in the boats the rest of us run. LOL
But if I saw that wind I wouldn’t have tried for it, I probably woulda fished somewhere else on the coast that plays nicer with the wind, or Plan Redfish.
Either way, great report, thanks for posting!
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Here are pics of redfish on the powerlines in West Lake Pontchartrain. Those reef balls @ShooterMcGrabbin infinitely wise AI prompt said you can’t see because they get pushed down in the mud, California Point artificial reef (crushed concrete), cypress stumps at Comfort Island, bait balls on down imaging and a shell pad reinforcing a freshly built well head in Breton Sound.
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I AM NOT WORTHY!!
I about cried when I read “Big, Central, Little Central, Holy Cross, etc.”
About damn time!!!
Do not forget the big bank sinkers for that Breton deep water. I’d have some 2oz sinkers ready to go.
“My main question is pertaining to side scanning the rigs.”
I’ve done that a few times. 🙂
Yeah man, if you want to fight that current with your trolling motor, be my guest.
Maybe just idle on the big motor.
You’re looking for bait balls and any obvious shadows.
If it looks like a ghost town, then it’s probably just a ghost town.
“Are there any resourceful videos i can reference on how best to side scan a rig?”
No, not anything beyond the same word searches or prompts you could do.
But I do have YouTube videos of me scanning stuff. I don’t know why you guys don’t have this stuff bookmarked. LOL
If I had this forum in 2009 and YT videos like mine to watch, I would be blowing it up with posts and have every video chapter’d out and bookmarked with notes.
But since you’re being a f&%#ing Viking and punching out to big water as the inshore gods intended:
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I don’t know how this got past me. I’m so sorry, this is a great trip I would’ve loved to give some feedback on before hitting the water.
Maybe try tagging me with an @ in the future.
But, with all that said, it looks like you’ve got it figured out.
I like how you’re paying attention to the salinity. But, if it were me, I’d feel better if it were “salty enough” for awhile for fish to to establish themselves there.
With that said, I have caught summer specks in lower salinity water (12ppt) leading me to believe that they don’t all spawn at the same time, and may even spawn anyway in lower salinity water.
If it were me in a boat like yours, I’d be punching deep into Chandy Sound.
I hear you: launching from Mississippi is way easier than driving alllll the way down to Hopedale Marina (especially if Pat Turner is in a mood). I have made that run many times, launching from Pass Christian and going all the way to Gosier and Central Rig, and it was worth it every time.
Good luck out there!
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Man, awesome reporting.
I definitely appreciate the sonar pics. Those are very helpful to folks running a Lowrance who haven’t seen that before.
I’m interested to know what lays in deeper water to the east. My gut instinct tells me to go that way for bigger, less pressured speckled trout.
Great reports, thanks for posting!
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“queue Devin: ‘well duh – just like I tell y’all'”
Yep, no further comment needed here LOL
After that, what are the local guides doing? I guess they’re whacking them? At the same places you guys are fishing or are they disappearing to somewhere else?
I ask because I understand that Grand Isle/Coco/Port Fourchon had a good run of trout every summer in years past…..when the river was high.
The river has long since gone down and it seems the trout fishing isn’t the same. I could be wrong. Operating word there is “seems”.
Def saw the same thing for the MRGO. Lots of dudes got into inshore fishing during The Freshening, got comfortable with the MRGO and all the sudden they’re not catching fish there like they were in years past.
What changed?
The river went down.
And now the best places for speckled trout to spawn and feed aren’t Grand Isle (during summer) or MRGO (fall/winter/spring).
It’s places that were formerly off-limits because they were covered by a 14ft raging river. The river hasn’t even hit double digits this year. That’s very telling.
So if the guides are crushing it, then I think you’re good to keep chipping away at Grand Isle. But if not, I’d do what they can’t: go somewhere else.
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Dude, you are speaking my language.
This is the time of year to whale on big, fat, summer speckled trout. Not grind throwbacks. Not catch a bunch of fish that barely measure.
There’s no reason why one cannot get on drag-pulling, cast for cast, fat speckled trout action.
That wind just needs to cooperate!!! That’s all! The dang wind!!
I will say that sight fishing redfish is a second if the wind isn’t playing nice. I’d rather jig/topwater some hammer trout, though. Beat the heat!
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No, not at all. But I guess I’ll take a look and get a picture of it next time at Rigolets.
It sounds like they’ve been promoting it on social media, hence why folks are bringing it here.
Otherwise, stick with what works and is proven.
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Love it!
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1. Find grass. Grass cleans water.
I don’t know how many YouTube videos of this exact thing I have to post. Go look on my channel. It could not be more obvious.
So find grass. Grass cleans water. If you do find grass and there’s no clean water at all, then go somewhere else.
With that said, sometimes redfish are in the dirty stuff. I still pass it up anyway because, for me personally, I want to see them swim and eat.
2. I would go toward the outside.
But I have 1,000% caught them on the inside in August.
But, if I had to go sight fish redfish tomorrow, I’d be running toward the outside.
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Good luck!
