Devin
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Well, that’s disappointing.
The majority of guys out there have no idea what they’re doing, and manage to get by hammering a square peg into a round hole.
I have a lot of work to do. Thanks for reminding me. lol
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I have a lot of feedback on your Breton Sound report I’ll post in a bit. The short of it is that I think you did well. Don’t beat yourself up.
If the wind weren’t so bad, I’d say go for Plan Triple Tail.
But maybe not with that wind. But also maybe.
It looks like you could hug the Mississippi coast and sort of stay in the lee of the land, checking crab traps along the way.
Triple tail can get on crab traps just at the mouth of Bay St. Louis, too.
It looks like the wind can be calmer going west to Louisiana.
IIRC, there are some reefs along the way you can fish.
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I envy you guys, y’all are gonna have a blast.
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Good luck to y’all! The conditions ought to be good. Hope that young man has a good one out there! Thank you for taking him!
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Bumping this to the top.
Don’t forget to try night fishing. Treasure Isle and Lake Catherine.
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Hell yeah! Thank you for driving down and fishing Louisiana.
Definitely come down in October. Fall ought to be in full swing by then and we’ll have a thing or three figured out by then that you can take advantage of.
You may not have to go all the way to Venice, but I imagine all the fish will be down there anyway. The river is getting to 5ft next month (or it’s predicted to, anyway).
The fishing is only going to get better!!
Great report, thanks for sharing!
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Excellent reporting and thank you for sharing these!
These are still good to have to show up in search results.
The best reports are the older ones!
Congrats on the new kid!
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This is a great idea. I would find them the same way I do redfish in redfish ponds.
But if you can find them in deeper water, then that is better, as they won’t spook so easy.
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As for your speckled trout spots, I think those are worth trying. Stone Island (Island 1) and that rig by it (Rig 1) are certainly worth trying.
But I just don’t know that they’re super productive right now.
I do know folks are catching them just a little further inside around your redfish spots.
So here’s what I would do if I were you: I would run out first thing in the morning to your trout spots. Get an early start. Leave the dock no later than 0530 at the very latest. I’d be leaving at 0500 with whatever twilight is available to navigate with.
Follow another boat, or start out slow and pick up speed as it gets brighter.
Then I would set an alarm in my phone for 0730. If you are not ka-blammering the trout on every cast by then, move inside to your redfish spots and begin Plan Redfish BUT fish tidelines with green-ish water moving around them.
So you’re mixing your trout and redfish spots, but it’s doable. And you might smash both out there. It’s totally possible.
Also, I miss LAX. Haven’t been able to get out there. Maybe this fall I will get some time.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve got. Good luck!
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Okay, lots to unpack here.
First, pretend the storm didn’t happen. It was just some extra wind and rain. That’s all.
It didn’t flood. The water hardly came up. I was just down in Delacroix yesterday helping my buddy put his boat back and the docks were all dry as a bone.
After that, clear water isn’t gonna depend on storm surge, it’s going to depend on grass mats filtering that water.
Find that grass. This YouTube video was filmed in the exact area you are going to. Find stuff that looks like that.
And now that I’m looking at your redfish spots, it’s apparent you got that locked on.
I love R12 Grass Mat. R14, too. Those coves that are kinda out of the way of river water flowing out from Mardi Gras Pass (MGP).
Be super careful running from R12 Grass Mat southeast to R12. Lots of silted in land hiding just under the surface. You will want to run wide out into the bays. Don’t follow the shoreline. You will get stuck if you do.
Those islands north of R12 grass mat are worth checking, too. Look for any coves with grass mats.
Your redfish game here is pretty strong. Just get in and get out of those ponds. If they don’t look great, leave them. Go to the next one. Go. Go. Go. Go.
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@JonFisher coming through for the win! Thanks man.
I got a cold and was laid up trying to beat it before this weekend.
Still trying to. About to go to the sauna and sweat this thing out.
But you’re out there now on the water and we are all rooting for you.
Good luck!
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If you want to catch fish closer to the dock, then try night fishing. Fish the lights at Treasure Isle, Geoghegan, and Lakeshore Estates in Slidell. You can catch redfish, bass, and some errant speckled trout.
Otherwise, it’s still July.
Plan Redfish and Plan Triple Tail if you don’t want to get up early and run far.
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I don’t think so.
For one, there’s little to no storm surge. The storm is pretty far south of us.
Yes, water is higher at Shell Beach and Pilottown, but that’s an effect of the MS River land bridge and north wind.
The water is lower/normal at Grand Isle.
That and even if there were significant storm surge, salinity levels just return to their previous level anyway.
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It won’t be a rose garden in that wind.
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You can still catch fish. It’s not that bad of a storm.
