Devin
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There isn’t. A neap tide just makes your life harder, actual or false.
What matters the most is going to where water moves first, or target fish that don’t really rely on it because they don’t get it in the first place.
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Yup.
State record trout (the real one, anyway) was caught on a queen sparkle beetle.
I’ll throw 150mm topwaters for bigger trout.
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Just some pics I yoinked from my article above. You can see that the salinity just goes back to where it was once the storm passes.
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Get whatever card you can. It doesn’t have to be the latest and greatest. Get something that doesn’t break the bank and spend the remaining money on something like a satellite communicator or Starlink.
And that’s for all the reasons I list here.
Brother, I am telling you with every bit of sincerity in my heart that the fastest way to trash your boat, leave yourself stranded or worse is to rely on any mapping card on the market.
I’ve used several Standard Mapping cards and a card from Humminbird. They all do the same thing.
What really matters is doing your GED homework, especially for safe routes. If there were a better way, I’d teach it and endorse it. But there’s not.
Come up with your safe routes and lean on this forum for feedback. We all have a lot of experience across Louisiana’s coast.
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I’m not complaining, but I will be stoked when it goes down and stays down. Watch all the trout in Breton Sound shift further south when that happens!!
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Awesome report! It’s kind of crazy that you found them in Lake Borgne over EBM, but that is how it has been working.
Would you by any chance remember the general depth of the unproductive oyster reefs?
Yeah, I lost a rod in Venice doing the exact same thing. lol
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“in two months and it feels like two years”
Man, do I feel that.
Your plan looks good. If you get to Bayou Mandeville and it’s dirty, try it anyway. I really like the grass on the south/southwest shoreline of Lery, and Bayou Duhe on the west side could have some good grass mats. Ida took them out, but they could be back by now. If so, that will make for some good redfish and bass action.
Good luck!
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Oh, and I kept those three trout for the trout worms video I made and, naturally, none of them had worms. Go figure.
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Last five….
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LOL yeah I was waiting to see what you were going to say.
I also looked at Grand Isle vs Shell Beach and the water never got high. It was lower at Shell Beach and about normal at Grand Isle.
Probably because of the SW wind.
Even if it did rise, the salinity just goes right back out with the storm surge, as evidenced here and here.
I also watch the turbidity sensors, but mostly for the river. That helps me determine how green she is (or not).
Otherwise, I would only lightly factor those in for redfish, because wherever the sensor is could be dirty water, and redfish could be piled in the clear stuff on the other side of a grass mat, and the sensor would never read that because it’s not there.
“dont mind waking up early, in fact I like it.”
Hell yeah! Same here. I love it. The sunrise energizes me.
Good luck!
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If it were me, I would graph each rig or structure and look for the hammers. It cannot possibly be harder than graphing anything else.
If I didn’t have sonar then I would move with a purpose, cover water and leave each spot with a quickness if it’s only throwbacks.
That’s what I would do and I am confident it would work. These are red snapper.
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Either way, I’m rooting for you!!!!
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Absolutely.
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If you’re going strictly to sight fish, I would instead go to Delacroix and fish the interior lakes/ponds.
Lake Lery, Spanish Lake, Lake Batola, Petain, anywhere with grass.
The outside can be worth looking at, too: American Bay, Grand Point Bay, Bay Gardene, etc.
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Do you run normal grease bearings, or do you have one of those fancy axles the pro bass anglers use? I forget what it’s called, but it’s supposed to be sealed bearings with oil in them, or something like that.
They built it to reduce maintenance down time because they trailer so much across the U.S. on the bass tournament trail. Something like that.
