Devin
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It looks like you knocked out Advanced Inshore Navigation back in December. And, as you know, I cover white poles and their madness in-depth.
But your questions are a little more exacting, so without risking repeating myself I’ll add what I can here:
You really don’t know what side of the white poles you should be on. There is no uniform method for this. Ultimately experience will tell, but usually you’re good if you just stay near them. Obviously if a boat is coming down one side you should probably pass on the other.
But remember my Shell Beach example of white poles that are lined up not to mark a safe route but an underwater row of rocks. Imagine if you tried following close to those poles!
What you really need is context. Doing your homework on GED will provide that context. Take it from a guy who has a collection of ruined lower units: that advice about GED is the best you’re going to get.
After that, yes, sometimes white poles are used to mark oyster leases. You can compare these against the LDWF Oyster Lease Mapper to see if that’s really the case or not.
Sometimes they can be arranged in a similar pattern to mark an area you want to stay out of, like a pile of rocks. If you’re not sure, slow down to an idle and look.
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Gotta agree with Timbo.
The ligher jighead will move more on each pop of the cork. It’s just better form to go lighter. I use an 1/8 ounce Death Grip or an 1/16th oz flutter hook.
You shouldn’t throw a jig on spinning tackle anyway. You’ll have way faster and accurate presentations using casting tackle. Yes, it takes more skill and will be a skill to acquire if you don’t have it. You’ll be better off once you do.
That and a 1/4 oz or a 3/8 oz jighead by itself isn’t going to work everywhere you fish. You’d have to retie anyway if you need to go lighter or heavier. For example, you’d throw an 1/8oz jighead against the rocks at a place like the Long Rocks and use a 1/2 oz or 3/4oz or even 1 ounce jighead in a place like Seabrook or The Jump.
Failing to do that is leaving a lot of fish in the water. This is why mentioning tackle used in fishing reports is good because at least myself can notice that and say something. If you’re throwing a 3/8oz jighead in The Jump or Seabrook, or when the tide is really ripping at the Hwy 11 bridge, you may as well be flying a kite.
Whenever someone doesn’t mention tackle in their report, and they had a tough day, I wonder if the issue was really them not finding fish so much as the issue is they weren’t getting good presentations because they were throwing the wrong tackle.
You really want to go light as possible on a jighead because that weight at the eye is basically a lever the fish can unwittingly use to throw the hook. It’s a single hook. On something like the SB150 (topwater lure) that weighs 1.5oz: yes, it’s heavy as all get out, but it also has three giant treble hooks, so exerting leverage on one to pull it out will bury another (or two or three) into flesh.
A further note: use cheap jigheads where you will get snagged and have to break off, i.e. Trestles, rigs, Long Rocks, etc.
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“the facebook group decommissioning”
Which brought me great pleasure. Zuckerberg can kiss my ass.
“I particularly wanted to check out this darker water on the north shore of Lake P with theory being that it was river water rather than good, clean salt water.”
That dark water is from Bayou Bonfouca and the surrounding marsh. It comes out when the water gets low.
“5 minutes in – BOOM – 21″ slab trout – “it’s going to be a great day!” – successfully released and on the ReleaseOver20 board.”
Hell yes.
Good report! You’ve got giant balls fishing Lake P when she looks like that. My hat’s off to you. The fishing will only get better, and this weekend is looking pretty good.
Thanks for posting!
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Boat flip or die!
lol jk
The key is to use the fish’s momentum against him. When he runs toward the kayak, lift him out of the water and use that forward motion to help him land in your lap. Obviously in a boat like mine there’s a cockpit they can fall down into and that makes boat flipping a lot easier.
After that, I’d only flip the fish into the kayak if I was absolutely on them. But if I had been grinding for awhile and that was the only fish I had, then I’d take more care.
I’m also looking for how well he’s hooked. If he’s not hooked well at all, then I take it easy. If it’s obvious that he’s never coming off without my help, then I’m more adventurous.
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Thanks for uploading! Gave it a thumbs up.
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Good luck out there! Now is certainly a great time to catch a biggen. Water and motrin, your jigging hand will thank you. lol
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I’d hate to be wearing that hat when a 27″ Speckled Truth Citation trout makes color at the side of the boat. LOL
BOAT FLIP OR DIE
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Nailed it.
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That’s a great day on the water. Maybe I’ll get out there this weekend.
Thanks for the report.
Yeah, I drove across the Twin Span this morning and saw it was slick calm, but had a dental appointment for 10:20am! So no fishing. Had to get tooth work done that I’ve been putting off for 20 years lol
How did the water look out there? I assume it was stained?
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I’ve got them, I just need to sign them and get them to Gus’s Tackle.
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I wasn’t warm and fuzzy with something that big, but after that trip I definitely am. That bait casts better, doesn’t somersault in the air, therefore tangles less and doesn’t fly out the water as easily when trout swipe at it. I also threw a Super Spook from the 1990s and it didn’t cast as well and tended to fly out the water when trout hit it. It’s a great lure, don’t get me wrong, but that SB 150 is better, I think. Where the SB fails is choppy water, it tends to plow rather ride the ripples. Otherwise, it casts a country mile.
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Racoon Island is at 29° 43.277’N 89° 26.106’W
It’s right next to the Long Rocks.
Trash Rig is at 29° 46.177’N 89° 22.701’W
It appears to be the northern-most rig you’ve got marked in Bay Eloi.
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Okay good to go. Let us know what you find and we can get this resolved, then this thread will be here for when the same thing happens to someone else.
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I’ve fished topwater and shallow spots suited for it in that area for years. This is part of my “long term success”. I’ve kept fishing reports to reference and have a good memory of what works, what doesn’t and when and where. I can apply that template to similar spots/conditions and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
No, that isn’t something you can get right this minute. It just comes with time and is part of the reward applying the process of LTS and seeing your fishing trips not as individual events but as being a journey in becoming a better, more experienced angler.
For example, in my Delacroix/Pointe a la Hache reports from last month and January they were hitting a cork better than anything else. I tried a topwater and they just weren’t having it. Yesterday was opposite. Even both areas set up the same, the fish just behaved different. Same thing for Dularge in December.
But sometimes applying the template elsewhere does work.
This is one reason I punch out to new-to-me areas, rather than fish my alma mater over and over (Hopedale).
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Experience.
