Devin
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You’re really gonna wanna go over Advanced Inshore Navigation, which I see you haven’t completed. That’s gonna answer 99% of questions/unknowns figuring out a trip like that.
I’m telling you right now, when I fished the Saltwater Series I had zero issues running long-distance routes on game day because I planned it out on GED first then ran them prior. We had the breadcrumb tracks to follow at full throttle and full confidence.
You’re going to want to do that, and that knowledge inside AIN is gonna get you there. That is your fastest, most efficient way to nail down a run from Delacroix to Venice, because there’s a lot of silted in land between those locations to turn you into a SeaTow commercial.
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Wow. Helluva first post. Dude, way to swing for the fence. lol
Okay, well first of all welcome to the forum. Are you from Louisiana? How much experience do you have fishing these areas? Did you look at a map first? Does your boat fly? lol jk but seriously, Houma is a haul from Delacroix.
Also, I fixed the spelling from “Homua” to “Houma” so it shows up in search results and people know what you’re talking about.
That and it sounds like you’re fishing a redfish tournament out of Sweetwater and have an A-spot in Houma.
I’ve made a lot of crazy 150+ mile runs but even for me I have to admit that running from Delacroix to Houma is a helluva trip and probably not a great idea. That’s gonna be at least 230+ miles round-trip if you can fit under bridges. I hope you’re in a propped-out Allison, the water is flat calm, and that the fuel dock/locks don’t take their sweet time. lol Otherwise you’re looking at ~3 hours to fish if you plan on making weigh-in on time.
Delacroix to Venice is pretty easy, and it really depends on the wind, that will dictate how much open water you can run, or if you need to run protected.
And what boat are you running this is in? A 12ft tin boat or a bigass Majek Extreme? Can it fit under a low bridge or is a tower boat? That information goes a long way (I checked your profile, didn’t see anything there). We can’t read your mind. The more info we have, the more we can help you.
Surely there are heavy slots somewhere east of the river. I don’t know what format you’re fishing, but when I fished the Saltwater Series I did a pretty good job of finding 16lb bags and landing in the money, and I was able to do that without the 230+ mile Mad Max Gumball 3000. BUT, the fishing was a lot better then, too.
Surely there’s something down toward Venice you can get into.
If you were to head from Delacroix to Venice, then you can run down Terre aux Beouf, shoot across Black Bay, Breton Sound then pop into Baptiste Collette or Main Pass and go from there. If you had to run protected, then you could run down the Pencil Canal to American Bay, hop into Bay Cox and take the back levee canals down to Ostrica, then hop in the river and make your way to Venice there.
It really depends on the wind and your boat, which I don’t know. That and please put some skin in the game and show me a route you plan on taking. That will really help decipher what’s going to work best for you. Thank you.
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Welcome to the forum, and thanks for introducing yourself.
All those areas are good to fish and have their strengths and weaknesses, but what they all have in common as that they’re plagued by that evil horde, The Greater NOLA Flotilla.
There is one place that’s not, and the place is to that horde like what a kitchen light is to cockroaches: it scatters them.
This place is the Super Bowl of testing what you learn in IF101. If you can get away with navigating there, then you’ve done good. If you really apply yourself and the fishing gods smile on your boat, you will come away with the most epic fishing you’ve ever done in your life. It makes those other places look dumb.
This place is called “Venice”.
It is the home of The Spear Tip whose human name is @Boyce and the playground of @DrillNFill and many other Elite members who have tested their mettle there.
It is the bane of spoon-feeders and the great rewarder of self-appliers. We will peer pressure you into fishing down there, especially when the river starts dropping and falls below 5 feet at the Carrollton Gauge. You’ll know when you see our reports, or view the past ones posted last year like this one.
Or this one posted earlier this month.
You have been warned.
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Hmmmm.
Did you fish any oyster reefs? Like the ones I marked in that .kml file I posted?
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Did you fish the Dope Boat itself?
I hate to hear that the trip didn’t work out because I know guides have been catching somewhere out that way. At the bare minimum, you simply found “where they ain’t”.
Stone Island is a community hole meaning that people will go there and sit and not catch anything and just chalk it up to a day of fishing.
I’d be tempted to go again and just fish where I didn’t fish before, but if you trailer west of the river, I don’t blame you.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Tasty indeed!
I love the route you have picked out. Same for spots, and you should use what’s in this .kml file.
Gosier Island is basically a sandbar now, or at least it was when I last fished it, whenever that was, a few years ago I think.
Those jighead weights you should have, but you should also have 3/4oz and 1oz. Honestly when you’re that heavy you want to separate the weight from the hook by using a Heavy Drop Shot. I’d have at least a dozen of them ready to go in ziploc bags. Two dozen is better.
If it’s flat calm, shoot straight for the islands. If it’s not, stop to fish the end of the Long Rocks and the gap. Also consider the flat on the southwest side of the Long Rocks on the southeast side of the gap.
Then move out to fish rigs from there. I’d definitely look hard at the rigs listed in the above linked .kml file.
Good luck!
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That’s a badass trip, because that area is ridiculously beautiful. I was actually over there a couple weeks ago, just to enjoy a roadtrip/beach day combo, no fishing. But I did see the grass beds and ledges on GED, and free dove the ledge. I could see how fish would stack up on it. Other than that, the only fish action I got was a baby jack smacking my watch. Scared the hell out of me. lol
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Honestly, I’m probably either not going to have a boat or will be camping at Pass a Loutre to whack ’em multiple days in a row. Fishing reports will come via Starlink Mini.
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Some people celebrate Christmas. We celebrate when the river drops below 5ft at the Carrollton Gauge.
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That river exists to test my emotions every single day. It’s friggin’ June, just fall already! I want to jig fish in the river, dammit!
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Yeah, I feel confident you really hit hard and effectively.
All I can say is: you should ditch EBM for the time being and fish somewhere it’s either deeper or on the bleeding of receding river water. Head out into bigger water, like Chandeleur and Breton Sounds, or head south toward Black Bay.
If I were planning to go fishing anytime soon, based off the cumulative reports from EBM, I would definitely go somewhere else.
It’s not you, it’s EBM. Apply that effort somewhere there are more quality fish, and you’ll come away with a limit.
That’s what I think.
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Something I learned is that you never know who someone might be. Pat never got that lesson. He has treated me like garbage over the most menial things. In the years before he took over that marina I never once, not once, saw him fish there. Never saw him at the cleaning tables, Glenn Sanchez had no idea who he was, etc.
If I prepped my boat at the top of the boat ramp, I could understand a snarky tongue-lashing but I’ve literally never done that. The times he’s gotten into my ass were always over something absurd, like he wanted me parked three feet more to the left, or whatever. He’s introduced himself to me like six times and each time doesn’t remember. lol Which I can understand that, but the way he’s approached me with his finger sticking out, “Hey man, first time here?!” well I can do without that.
So now we shall perpetually make fun of him. lol
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“I once ran my old Go-Devil with a max speed of like 25mph from Eddie Pinto’s all the way down the back-levee canal to Martello Castle just to throw a gold spoon at the rocks on the right side”
Yeah, that’s an exercise in futility.
It’s always interesting to learn how people find LAFB, it’s usually through a Google search. Which is why I’m more inclined to make content that solves problems rather than entertains. That and I also think people watch my fishing trip videos in a (lame) effort to geolocate where I’m fishing, or as a dinner bell to be spoonfed when/where to fish. Which I’m so not into. Just…no.
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I want to say that file format is .gpx, IIRC.
Or it’s .gdb
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Yeah, I definitely pulled that .kml from on here. I am still looking for 2021 tracks from Cocodrie, but they are eluding me at the moment.
