Devin
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I’ve been waiting for a Salvador report! I think there’s just a bunch of redfish out there this time of year (as there usually is). You’ve got all kinds of cool bottoms out there, as well as rigs, cypress stumps, grass, etc.
There’s just so much to do out there for redfish.
For sure, if you had more time I think you would’ve crushed them.
Just don’t forget those rigs and the grass/stumps on the south side of Couba.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“Took the advice from Devin’s email about comfort island as I’ve never fished it.”
Well, thanks for reading my emails. But please keep in mind that:
1.) those are scheduled weeks in advance and
2.) they’re really just ads
If you wanted to experience Comfort Island, then good on you. Experience is good. Otherwise, I would leverage this forum first.
And, if it were me, I would have seen that recent reports for Comfort are not great and instead would have fished the places that have been (and are not far from Comfort Island).
I think you were close to the Mother Lode. If it were me, I’d be happy with this trip and then build on that to find ’em and whack 45-60 trout next time I was out.
Great report, thanks for posting.
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On that side of the lake the tide is gonna do what it does. The day someone figures out exactly what it does is the same day people can explain why women act the way they do.
The sky is blue, fires burn, mullet jump and the west Lake Pontchartrain tide rises and falls when it rises and falls.
Next, I drop waypoints on fish I do see.
They’re probably not going anywhere.
Then I go back and collect them if the Mother Lode doesn’t present itself.
Excellent work putting your kid on some fish.
Great report, thanks for posting.
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A Lakemaster Louisiana Delta card will work, but will never replace what you learned in 101. Nothing does.
In an effort to not repeat myself.
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Did you get a camera yet?
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“The funny part is we passed them in the sound at around 1:15…they were heading towards curlew and we were heading back towardsr breton from curlew.”
Oh man! I’ve definitely been there before. Sorry to hear that.
“I know they were throwing live”
That had squat to do with it.
“They caught them all at one spot on curlew that we apparently didnt try.”
I think that was it.
That and I’ve fished all over Louisiana’s coast and have a pretty good memory of most fishing spots.
But sometimes that memory can be a little wonky. It’s been awhile.
But, IIRC, there are some sunk barges by Curlew. If so, they could’ve fished those and not the island itself.
Just something to consider.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“The first few stops produced a pile of throwbacks”
I haven’t fished those rigs as much as I have other rigs in other bays, but I have fished them and that has more or less been my experience.
“once again the popping cork paired with a sparkle beetle completely outperformed everything else”
If that’s what they want, then that’s what they want. The sparkle beetle is KING! LOL
“sometimes knowing when to head to the dock is part of a successful trip.”
Wise words. Yes, indeed.
Man, overall great fishing trip and excellent reporting.
Good to know about the Sulphur Mine, I just hope the new reef is as good or better.
I don’t know if you’ve been on the water a lot or not, but if I had this trip I would feel much better about where to go and where not to go. I’d feel more confident that I could go straight to good, biting fish. Sounds like you caught the tail end of a good bite there.
Thank you for posting!
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“and I looked behind me to check on where they were and there was a freaking water spout”
That is so epic!! Man, I wish I could’ve been there for that!! That picture is SICK!!!!
Thank you for taking it. When I’m fishing (especially running to my first spot) I’m not stopping for anything. But a chance to be Reed Timmer for a minute would’ve been hard to pass up. LOL
A water spot in the dark is fkn nightmare fuel!!! LOL
“I tried a one ounce jig and just didn’t feel like I had a lot of feel getting to the bottom.”
Yeah, you can slaughter them on a 1oz jig there, but if you can’t tell where the lure is, then that’s a problem.
12lb FC is awesome. Great choice.
Next time, bring a medium-heavy or heavy spinning rod with a 2oz heavy drop shot to solve your problems.
“one of them being 20″ so I released her”
Thank you. That’s the end-goal I’m trying to get with anglers and it seems all anyone is interested in is their fish fry. lol So, thank you.
“I fished two but to my dismay the tide/current was screaming in (pilot station tied showed it should have been falling?)”
You mean in the river? I’m pretty sure water there is going to rise/fall differently. Was the water level affected by wind in the days prior? You don’t have to answer that, just something to think about.
I know you probably wanted the trout fishing to be better. They are somewhere out there, and I think the rigs are worth looking at. You never know what you can get into out there.
When I get fishing regularly again I’ll go take a look. It will be a minute. I’ve got 47 terabytes of video to organize, backup, and make a system, build hardware to that end.
Lots of bottlenecks in the LAFB creative process that are getting fixed, but it takes time. The fish aren’t going anywhere.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Have you fished Lake Cataouatche for bass? Whiskey Canal?
Man, that can be good. Isn’t there a lot of grass in there?
I solely focused on bass there once and had a hoot. No 15lb bag or anything like that, but I caught a bunch of ditch pickles on a frog way back in the Tank Ponds. It was beautiful water and grass, some of the best I’ve ever seen.
I’d go to think that a red/bass day back there and in Salvador would absolutely put the Lake Pontchartrain basin to shame.
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It’s also worth mentioning that I get the whole “I have a camp there” thing.
But dude, I have been doing this for a long time, and I never once nailed a video or won money in a tournament by sticking with my “stomping grounds”.
A lot of guys miss out because they’re geographically restrict themselves. Do you want to pal around at a camp or do you want to catch fish?
I personally think that if you went to Delacroix solely just to get a feel for it and figure out some safe routes that that would be a win.
I wouldn’t worry about catching fish when you go. I’d worry about setting up the next 3-5 trips down there for success. That is a lot easier to do if you take time to do your homework: figure out those safe routes and get to know the area. Find where the grass mats are. Find the pretty water.
This is the best advice I have to give. I’ve been so successful inshore fishing that guiding is a downgrade for me.
But despite that, when I tell people the above advice, they don’t want to listen, they just want to focus on that singular fishing trip, bro out at their camp, have a fish fry or whatever. Well, I’d give up all those just to have the safe routes and familiarity of the area I want to excel in.
So take it or leave it.
But I know that if I went to Delacroix tomorrow I would probably crush them. All the above homework I did years ago.
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+1
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“Hey guys, I’m new to LAFB Elite.”
Welcome to the forum, it’s great to have you here!
“It turned out to be the fuel sending unit gasket.”
Sounds like rainwater and/or condensation was pooling on top of the tank and leaking in?
I hear you that non-ethanol gas can sit longer because it’s not used as much, but that’s not the case in Louisiana. We run boats here and lots of boats here (as you well know). Maybe West Virginia has lower demand, but not us.
A brand new mower going down in your front yard is one thing, but an outboard going down in Breton Sound is another.
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+1
It’s a recurring “buy once, cry once”. lol
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Good job.
Send it. FULL SEND
Also, I had just racked out by the time you posted this. I stayed up waiting to see if you’d do it or not.
And you fkn did!!!
Thank you for doing the thing, so you can get out there and do the thing.
Good luck.
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Yes, Sweetwater is a great place to launch.
But, I do like Beshel’s because it is less frequented.
There’s no amenities there. Just a toilet, a dude to collect $10 and a shoddy launch. But it’s in the heart of redfish country. You can run north from there to fish all the same stuff the Delacroix guides do.
A lot of the area has been silted in for the last 15 years. It’s easy to run aground there. I have several times. It’s a textbook area to do GED homework.
So maybe launch at Sweetwater. Look at the recent planning posts for ideas on where to fish around there.
Yes, you can get on trout, but you are making a super early run out to Black Bay and beyond. I’m not sure if you’re up for that right now.
