Devin
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Your post is good. Looks like you’ve got nice stuff and you probably want to sell it to nice people, and Facebook can be trying. Believe me, I get it.
I hope it all gets sold!
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“spots trout 2 and trout 3 i can see the cut is super shallow so i would not fish inside of them”
Those canals are rocked off. They are not navigable. Reference this for more info. Do not go into them under any circumstance.
“but if i can find trout in those harsh conditions, i think it would only make me a better angler so i am trying to figure this thing out and make it happen.”
If trout aren’t there because they’re still in saltier water spawning, then that doesn’t make you a better angler. Casting at empty water is just an exercise in futility.
BUT, those spots are much closer to that saltier water (unlike East Lake P, Lake Catherine, etc.) and it could have some trout already moving in or taking a break from spawning.
“With a couple exceptions, most of the spots i would be fishing with heavy drop shots and i would also keep close eye on down scanning to find sign of life.”
Good choices.
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Here are those 3-26-25 tracks since you’re actually putting in the work on this one.
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Now we’re cookin’ with gas.
Okay, the best thing you can do is figure out safe routes, get them on your GPS and see with your Mk-1 Eyeball.
The first thing you want to figure out is going from the marina to Zin Zin to SW Pass.
You want to be able to run straight out of Cypress Cove or Venice Marina and jump into Tiger Pass, then take that down to the cut you see in the picture below to Grand Pass. Then take Grand Pass down to Zin Zin Bay and shoot straight across to First Spillway. Then you’re in SW Pass. That green track is an actual track I ran back in March.
I would fish the rocks on the shoreline of the river downstream of 1st Spillway, starting at the very mouth of it and going about a 1/4 mile down.
Then you can run down SW Pass. It won’t be perfectly calm, it could be a little choppy if that wind is coming out of the NE, but I think you’ll be good. You want to run down to where you see wing dams and fish those. Those sunk rocks at the very end of the river are good, too.
Again, I wouldn’t get wrapped around the axle over catching fish, but just getting those routes knocked out would be good.
As for feedback on your plan:
That green route on your map, I’d be super careful running that. I’m pretty sure it’s good, but that area has silted in very good and sometimes it’s hard to see a new sandbar. Like, you can see the new-ish one just inside the West Bay Cut on 9/5/21 imagery. I saw SeaTow pulling a guy off of it a couple years ago and I actually went over the top of it (very slowly). There’s not much clearance and it’s a hard bottom.
Trout 2 and Trout 3 could actually be redfish 2 and 3. If you do fish Trout 1, use an HDS for sure. If you see bait balls on the graph, definitely try anyway.
I wouldn’t bother with Trout Point and Beach unless there was something there to tell me otherwise.
I have fished the hell out of Trout 5 and never came away with anything substantial. You’re welcome to try. Just watch out for the rocks going through there.
–> I’m assuming you’ve looked at all this on the historical time slider. <–
Trout 5 is Joseph Bayou. I’d go to where it dumps out and fish that. It sets up like a scoop and is best fished with an HDS. It can be white trout heaven. But they will be hammer white trout, not little b*tch white trout like what you see in Bayou Bienvenue.
I would pass up Trout 6 and Trout 7 to get at the wing dams and jig those as well as the adjacent rocks. You will more likely than not catch slot redfish there.
Honestly, I’d pass up all that fishing just to figure out the most direct way across the top of East Bay and into South Pass.
Final note, ensure your trolling motor is good. It’s gotta be a STRAWNG BOI to keep up in the river current. You’re gonna find out. lol
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Man, I’ve got some of those exact same maps. Just having a handy visual reference (non-electronic) is nice. Your garage is looking good.
Yeah, I was up at 0600 this morning, and opted for a hoodie to run in. This year is being a little more gracious to us. No swirly death from the Atlantic, river is finally down.
I’m getting the itch.
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Like I said in your other post, I think you’re fishing this area way too early for speckled trout. You will catch throwbacks and ladyfish. Maybe in deeper spots like you can catch a bunch of 10″ white trout.
This is made to be even tougher by the neap tide.
Furthermore, you’re planning around a .3 foot falling tide. Dude, that tide range is way too small to be of any significance. You really won’t know what the water is doing until you get out there.
Not accounting for the early timing, that’s why I would fish places where water moves first: mouth of Chef Pass at Lake P, Seabrook, L&N Bridge, south side of Trestles, big points and big constrictions.
The small train bridges you have marked technically count, but in my years of experience fishing those spots, I have not once whacked the daylights out of the trout this early in September. They need another week or two. Then I would only be fishing tidal highways for white shrimp trout.
For me, good trout action typically equates to a doable limit. Preferably whacking the daylights out of 25 at one spot with more trout at additional spots. That’s my standard. That’s what I’m giving you advice for. I am not giving anybody here advice to go diddle around with dinks all day. Let’s crush some fish.
Outside of that, your routes look good. If it were me, I’d stick with redfish and grind the hell out of whatever shoreline with a weedless gold spoon or even dead shrimp under a cork to catch my four. I would only take a ride into Mud Lake to see if any birds are diving, and try L&N bridge if the tide is ripping out of there. Otherwise I wouldn’t bother, and would go straight to fishing for redfish in the Pearl or Rigolets Pass itself. Chunk and wind, chunk and wind.
If I could fish somewhere else (besides Venice), I’d go to Hopedale and fish the south side of the Rock Dam, then all the coves and points all the way down to the Spoil Canal. Or I’d start at Comfort Island then work my way to the rigs in Bay Eloi and look for birds working in the area, as they tend to be this time of year.
That works because that area is further out to where speckled actually are this time of year.
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
I have no idea what Cyclocane predicted, but it seems every year there’s someone blasting the Internet with doom and gloom, “it’s gonna be the worst ever”, blah blah blah and this year it’s been the most timid we’ve seen in years. Which I am totally fine with lol
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Talk about some serious report keeping. Light is shed on things you otherwise would never see. And it prevents fishing trips from becoming better with time.
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Squarely in October, I guess.
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Some of those actually look legit lmao
I wonder if anyone actually went to the Wall looking for fish because of these photos lol
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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I was about to tag you and @DrillNFill lol
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“iM gUnNa sKiP fAlL fIsHiNg”
Are you drunk.
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“but had a trip about a week ago where we caught 30 specks- 3 of us . on dropshot live shrimp at the mouth of sw pass.”
I KNYEW IT
What were you throwing a 3/8oz jighead at? Rocks in shallow water?
How heavy was your drop shot?
And man, if you have a report, let us know! Thank you so much!
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Yup, same here LOL
