Devin
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“But, where are these dang specks!?”
Water temp still has not stabilized around 74. The trout just haven’t found those shrimp yet. We are seeing something similar in Lake Pontchartrain: lots of shrimp, not so many trout.
“my 10 year old son and I, I let him play hooky from school because he hasn’t been able to make a trip with me on the boat in a couple months because of school and scheduling. Getting those DAD OF THE YEAR points, lol!”
Great call. School’s overrated anyway. Who cares who won the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D.? Where the trout at?
Great report, thanks for posting!
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The king has returned.
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“Fished both rigs in Muscle Bays both drop shot and corks but nothing.”
Did you fish the oyster reef in between them?
“in those deep 90 degree turns all on HDS”
I’ve also tried them this early in years past and never really got anything out of it. It needs to cool off a lot more for those deep holes to turn on.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Next time you go, hit up the mouth of Crooked Bayou at Lake Eugene, Muscle Bay and the bottom of the Lakes of Bayou Marron, where that bayou dumps out. All that has got to be turning on soon. Or the mouth of any of the bayous dumping into Robin/Coquille.
Great report, and glad you got the boat fixed!
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Welcome to the forum! Well, lucky for you, there’s a lot of shrimp in the lake right now. It’s possible that we can have another bad-to-the-bone bird bite in the lake once it cools off.
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You know, looking at Windfinder now, it’s evident that it will be blowing considerably less in Delacroix. The mouth of Bayou Lingo, mouth of Bayou Robin, etc. could be good. It’s a strong SE wind, but you do have a 2ft falling tide!
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The knowledge/know-how you see for bass fishing translates to inshore fishing. Just understand that bass are harder and bigger and tend to suspend, whereas the trout we are catching are much shorter, softer and tend to stay glued to the bottom. This makes detecting them much harder.
If you think you’re going to use sidescan to just zero in on trout like some kind of metal detector then you are mistaken. It’s really best used to judge what’s going on in the water. I generally use it to know the depth, bottom composition and to see if there are any baitballs in the area.
Time on water and experience is your friend here. There are no real shortcuts to become savvy with sonar. Just keep it on and pay attention to it as you fish. Watch that screen and the marsh will surprise you with what it has to show.
Generally, if it looks like a ghost town then that’s all there is: nothing.
I can comment on this more when I get time, right now I’m kinda slammed. lol
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It sounds like you were on the shoreline in the lee of the land? And I am assuming you mean this report is for yesterday?
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I think you are correct. Get back out there when the tide is falling, or first thing in the morning when shrimp are up in the water column anyway and birds can see them.
Man, we are *this close* to whacking the daylights out of the trout.
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Hard wind like that just makes fishing hard. That’s all there is to it.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Just to clarify, you can see trout, they just tend to be harder to see, so much I wouldn’t rely on it. When I am spotlocked and catching fish, I tend to see their faint shadows as they swim through the beam.
That sonar works wonders on redfish. You will never look at a pile of redfish on sidescan and wonder if they’re there or not.
I’ve got some good pictures of redfish on sonar in this article.
“I also enjoy snapper fishing out of Venice so plan on trying to see if I can tell which side of a rig the fish are holding on.”
You are going to have so much fun doing that. I think that’s an excellent application. Very jealous over here! lol
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+1 on this!
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This is correct. Going across Zin Zin will be a little spicy, but doable.
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+1 on this
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With your boat I’d look hard at The Jump, Baptiste Collette, Red Pass, West Bay cut, Head of Passes and maybe Pass a Loutre.
