[Devin]

Ahhhh, I remember now! You like redfish more than trout.

That’s important information. Just be sure to always mention that in the future. There’s no way I can memorize the preferences of all the various members inside Elite.

I also remember that you have that badass bass boat. And it looks like the wind is gonna come out of the south and be light for the next few days.

Dude, you are crazy if you don’t make the effort to replicate what I do in this video right here.

Look up Kenner on GED (it’s a town on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain) and go fish the power line pilings and rigs you see out there.

I’d also try night fishing the dock lights on the east side of Lake Pontchartrain and the lights at the Hwy 11 bridge.

Use your sonar.

[Devin]

Ryan, I really got hand it to you for having giant balls and just sending it when the conditions were tough. Your determination and hard work is noticed and appreciated.

Also, I like the way you linked up the planning post.

At the end of the day, fishing in 20-30mph wind is hard. Everything just gets screwed up, not to mention it’s a bear to fish in.

I’m hoping the conditions are better next time you roll out.

Great report, thanks for posting!

[Devin]

What Boyce said.

Good ol’ fashioned 101 GED homework easily solves this problem and reveals a lot more information than that chart you’re referencing.

This is why I hammer home finishing 101 first. Otherwise, how can you possibly know the resources that are out there?

So hopefully you got it figured out and you’re out there having a good time!

In the future, please give us more of a heads up and we can get you squared away. Thank you!

[Devin]

Good call on the weather.

Yeah, you can fish Lake Borgne. I’m not sure what you’re targeting?

[Devin]

Interesting.

I’m curious, what were you throwing to catch the fish you did catch? What all tackle did you throw all day?

[Devin]

I’ve run back to Breton Island after being chased off by a thunder storm and crushed them there.

Also caught speckled trout around lightning with no problem that I could attribute to the lightning.

I mean, if I am catching speckled trout and lightning blasts the exact spot I am casting to catch them…yes, I can see that ruining the bite.

But if lightning is just in the general area? No, I don’t think that’s going to shut them down.

[Devin]

I’m not trying to encourage you to do anything unsafe.

But I am gonna say this: if you pull off a good box of fish, you will be the man.

[Devin]

Did you throw an 1/8oz only up against the rocks?

Did you throw 3/8oz or heavier in the deeper stuff? Like where the break in the rocks is or a casting distance off of the rocks?

[Devin]

Because it is. I’ve fished Big Lake.

You are widely exposed to wind, just like Lake Pontchartrain. If the wind is screaming from the south, you are not fishing the northern shoreline and vice versa. You can’t even get across the lake in some cases and have to trailer to the other side.

But if I am in Venice and the wind is screaming from the south, I need only to fish the NE side of the river and I’m out of the wind.

Same for Hopedale. It’s easier to stay out of the wind. I’ve caught speckled trout by the dock of Breton Sound Marina in 50+ mph winds. You’re not doing that on Big Lake unless you’re dead nuts in the lee of the land.

And there’s far more real estate to fish in places like Venice, Cocodrie, Myrtle Grove, etc.

You don’t know what you don’t know, and I bet Big Lake doesn’t have sight fishing ponds like the east side of the state does.

Of course, our standards of fishing are probably different. I still expect to catch at least 15 speckled trout, but preferably 25+ speckled trout on an outing. If I don’t, then I can usually chalk that up to me not cutting the mustard, but in the last ten years that’s certainly changed due to the trout fishing having taken a dip. It’s better than what it was a few years ago, but still a shadow of what it was 15 years ago.

If people go out and catch a few and are stoked, then more power to it. But if that happened to me, I would leave the water being mighty mad at the fish and would be chomping at the bit for next time.

So like I said, I feel you did a good job. Keep up the good work.

[Devin]

Okay, so you do have a camp that you paid for in Grand Isle? I was figuring that.

Dude, trailering back up to Galliano and launching for reds could be the ticket.

[Devin]

Water is gonna push in but you can still get in and out of Delacroix with a truck. No problem there.

I assume “Plan Mississippi” is “hide in the garage and do tackle” lol

[Devin]

Yeah, no kidding! Especially with the price of gas.

I didn’t even consider that.

Good call.

Well, maybe next time.

I was going to say that it’d be cool to take a crack at Perdido.

[Devin]

If you do go up there, do not forget about this hazard. Don’t rip off a lower unit. Share it with your buddies, too.

[Devin]

@Danny don’t forget that you can look up past conditions on NOAA and USGS weather stations.

[Devin]

Don’t forget river water. A south wind can blow it up to the Long Rocks, not that there has been that much river water, but it’s still possible.

That and dredging/dragging. A bunch of oyster leases are right there, and it’s shrimp season.