Devin
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Yeah, it sounds like its tough out there. Thanks for reporting back and letting us know how it went.
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Losing the trolling motor and anchor is rough.
If it makes you feel better, last year I tossed out a mushroom anchor (used only for shallow water) and guess what? It wasn’t tied to anything! It just kerplunked into the water and is gone forever. LOL
So, top that.
“As I was heading there I began to notice the heaps of dead fish on the banks.”
Ugh, I hate hearing that.
“Hypothesis: I think everything in 10 foot of water or less died during the blizzard”
I believe that.
Well, great report. Thank you for posting.
This time of year I take it easy anyway and focus on maintenance, but am with you: I’m definitely not gonna be on the water any time soon.
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Yeah, the tension adjustment knob is definitely missing. It appears that is the only part missing. Poor reel was probably packaged on a Friday. lol
Nice reel, though!
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BTW, you have two #13 spots. The one I referred to is just north of 12.
Your other 13 spot looks good for redfish.
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Man, it’s gonna be overcast and it’s warmed up, decent tide, too. You stand a good chance to whack the trout. Redfish ought to be cruising.
Water levels are back up. Water temp at Bay Gardene is 58, 62 at Grand Isle. Geez.
I bet that cork bite before it got cold is back. You can try a Corky, 17MR, light jig, whatever.
For whatever reason your route is displaying as polygon inside GED. Reducing opacity to 50% reveals the route much better.
Have you ran this route before? I assume you’re good running through No Man’s Land?
Have you ran from 14 to 15? Looks sketchy.
Spots like 12 and 13 I like because there’s some shallow there for the fish to get onto. Spots like 22 I would give very little time (or skip) because I’m not sure fish will be there now that it’s warmed up significantly.
#3 is interesting. I wonder how deep it is there. That could be a great bottom stairs spot. It could be good right now.
I would definitely pay #8 a visit.
I think you’d be crazy not to hit those stumps by Bayou Grande.
I would cork the daylights out of Bay Lanaux. F it, just see attached pic.
Those flats could have trout then I’d get on the shoreline to sight fish reds. Or just cork the reds, too. lol
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I wrote an article about the fish kill, find it here: https://www.lafishblog.com/snow-fish-kill/
In it I ask some hard questions about Louisiana’s guide fleet and CCA.
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I’ll consider it. There’s some more content/info I need to do it. My biggest concern is people subscribing for the rage bait and I’m just not into that. I’ve seen that happen with bass fishing content creators who get a following by complaining about tournaments and forward facing sonar and that’s just not my cup of tea. But you’re right. Who else is gonna say anything? Masson isn’t. Chas ain’t. They’re both good dudes but they don’t come out of their comfort zone, or what benefits their bottom line. I get it.
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LOL
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I dunno, I got some radical fish kill video from the islands off the MS Gulf Coast. It’s not looking good. I’ll have to get it published, just waiting on some things to come through.
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The atom bomb analogy is an accurate one. Redfish take 5 years to reach maturity. They grow way slower than speckled trout and I feel there’s been more pressure on them in the last 10 years.
It’s really hard for me to say if this one is “the worst” because I don’t have numbers to go off of from previous years. I’d definitely say it’s the worst based off the information I do have, and that we really won’t know for another few months or so. If the fishing sucks in May, then we know something is up, for sure. Otherwise my boat trailer is in the shop and I haven’t had the opportunity to take a tour. I am confident in my angler’s network and what they are reporting.
I definitely don’t feel good about it. Those fish over 20″ became a semi-protected class from the meat haulers, and now it seems they’re mostly wiped out. That’s tough.
The silver bullet we have is laying off the trout. They are incredibly fecund. Anytime we laid off them they bounced back big. For example, Katrina pretty much took out the #1 trout predator: us. She literally took people out (pour out some bubbly for our fellow inshore angler), displaced survivors to other stats, annihilated boats, boat ramps, roads to get there, etc. I remember the road to Breton Sound Marina was literally ripped away. It was gone. Like a giant ripped it up and threw it somewhere.
So, the fishing pressure on trout was pretty much gone after Katrina, especially in the Greater NOLA area. And the trout fishing after that was amazing. Same thing after the BP Oil Spill.
If the trout bounce back then people will lay off the redfish. That’s why so many people went to redfish (guides included) during the Freshening, because the trout became relatively scarce, but redfish were available.
You, me and anyone else reading this knows that there is not a single person in Louisiana who will starve to death if they can’t eat a f*cking trout between now and when their spawn is over. If we can lay off the trout during that time we would have done ourselves an incredible service. But enough Louisiana folk are stunted enough to throw a fit, bitch, moan and howl if they can’t keep a speckled trout. These same folk drive right past crappie, bass, sheepshead, blue cats and umpteen other species that are good (or even better) to eat just to struggle to fill the box with trout.
Ultimately, it is what it is and time will tell. People will make their bed and they will lay in it.
In the meantime, I am struggling to not make a bunch of content that will amount to rage bait (like for YouTube). lol
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Could you imagine being a trout zigging and zagging past Chas Champagne, all the Matrix Shad, live shrimp, sparkle beetles, HDS rigs and every swinging Dick, Tom, and Harry from Kenner to Slidell just to get killed by a snow storm?
Trout life is metal.
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Yeah, and freshwater fishing is so close anyway.
With that said, if people abused the sheepshead, blue cats and white trout, I’m alright with that. lol
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It blows my mind the number of people who still have CCA stickers on their truck, even after all the water access BS in 2018. I guess they just live under a rock and think they’re part of their “fishing tribe” by donning the sticker. Same for Salt Life stickers. Just….no.
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Go into the properties (right click on the polygon shape in the Places window, then reduce opacity to 50%. The outline of the polygon is the path.
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Just when the water rises too high, like during a strong east wind. This guide details more: https://www.lafishblog.com/bayou-bienvenue-locks/
