Devin
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I don’t know how it is by you guys, but everything in Pearl River is covered in snow. Really drives home the point I was making earlier. lol
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Welcome to the Community!
“I decided that I needed to start posting this year.”
Yeah, you should. It’s a great benefit to you. Definitely make planning posts and get help figuring out where to go and what to do. It doesn’t get much easier than that.
“I run a 16.5ft aluminum G3”
That’s all you need!
“but I have never been on a good trout bite so I’m looking to change that this year.”
Look at @will-grand reports for LA-1 and drive down there and give it a whack. No boat required. Now is the time to capitalize on that. Don’t dilly dally. When it warms up you may want to consider launching the boat to fish places like The Wall in Chalmette.
Thank you for posting an intro.
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Hey Keith, great question. Thanks for posting it. Yeah, speckled trout are definitely not the focus of this forum, they’re just more popular than redfish.
After that, I’m not really too sure what to tell you that I haven’t already published in detail. Like, Inshore Fishing 101, Predicting a Redfish Jubilee, and Sight Fishing Mastery School are all oriented toward redfish. Especially Redfish Jubilee, that’s about as easy as it’s going to get all year, if you can stand the cold.
Specifically, this part of Inshore Fishing 101 where I detail redfish ponds: https://www.lafbelite.com/lesson/if101-5-2/
After that, the south side of the Rock Dam, maybe the Pen in Chalmette, dead end canals, are all going to turn on with redfish.
I’m really looking for you to apply what I teach. You already interact in this forum, which I really appreciate and why I’m handing out “gimmes”. So what conditions are coming or happening? A buttload of northwest wind and cold temperature. Where would you want to fish based upon that? Not a northwest-facing shoreline in Lake Borgne. Hell no. Not at the top of the “stairs” because it’s dry land right now.
You want to go somewhere deep and protected from such a wind. So where are those spots? Look for those, find a few in an area and hit those.
Next you want to make sure your route there and back is navigable. That’s the process in a nutshell: go fishing based upon the conditions and make sure you can get there safely and back. I’d bring spare clothes as a safety precaution.
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“id see a little sheen on the surface of the water”
Yeah, the power trim is leaking. Or, at any rate, something is leaking.
It’s common, but not something to let go indefinitely.
Man, it being “cold” is no excuse. It’s not cold. Cold is when everything freezes indefinitely until spring. lol Cold is when you have to use engine block heaters or the oil pan freezes solid. That’s real cold.
On a side note, I think the relatively warm weather affects us southerners. It’s too easy to blow off something until tomorrow, whereas up north there is a definitive cutoff date: get that thing done before it’s covered in three feet of snow and frozen solid. lol
Think about it: how did so many Yankee bass anglers kick so much ass in the south, especially Louisiana? Their lakes are frozen over half the year. They can’t even fish! So one could say that, by southern standards, they have as much as half the fishing experience. So I wonder if the cold improves their ethic.
I mean, Kevin Van Dam (Michigan), Mike Iaconelli (New Jersey), Jacob Wheeler (Indiana) and more have absolutely dropped the hammer on Bassmaster win after Bassmaster win in southern waters. That says something.
Just saying!
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You guys are troopers. Way to stick it out and make it happen.
Above all, thank you for letting us know about it. A big shift in the fishing is about to happen. Great report and thank you for posting.
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Chas Champagne talks a lot about where to fish in his area with the coming weather in this recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mn6OLV9aEk
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Also, The Pen in Chalmette will probably load up with redfish. Just a heads up.
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holy schnikeys lol that is a lot of snow for Louisiana!!!
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That’s annoying lol
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I’m fully aware. That isn’t going to help them find the bass, though.
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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That is beauty to my eyes!
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You just got lucky in previous years, then. They 100% kick people out on the regular.
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Next time wait until that crappy “in-between” time in February/March to do maintenance. It’s then and August/September I try to get maintenance done since we have a year-round season.
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Yes, that’s definitely an opportunity!!!
