Devin
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“Sorry this is late.”
Better late than never! It’s still good to have this report in the archive. The best reports are past reports, and this will age like fine wine in the years to come. Thank you!
Oh dang, I just saw the posted date. What the heck, how did I miss this?!?
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Not bad for shooting from the hip on a half day. I can read this report, and know what to do. Thank you so much!
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I mean, if it were me, I’d rather sit home and do maintenance, GED homework, anything to support/prep the next trip. Or maybe fly a kite on the beach lol
But what if someone held a gun to my head and said I had to go fishing? In that case, I’d ask them to shoot me because it would be over faster and nowhere as brutal as finding trout in wind like that. LOL
If it were late fall or winter, it’d be a lot easier since the trout would be on the inside.
And WHY Grand Isle? What is this obsession with going there? Anywhere you go in a wind like that is gonna be a brutal butt-whoopin in a 17ft flat boat. Dude, no. What are you thinking?
Have you seen the latest reports in here out of Grand Isle? Yeah, they weren’t great. So the island isn’t exactly teeming with life, is it?
I would check the guides and see what they did. I’m sure they caught fish, but they’re also not in 17ft flat boats. That and the amount of time/effort/money you guys are gonna spend, you can buy everyone STEAK.
steak > fried fish….right???
Have you had porterhouse steak? Why do people do this?
***But if I really had to try this, this is what I would do:***
You didn’t specify that the fillets had to be speckled trout.
So forget speckled trout. Throw that out the window. I would launch out of Galliano behind the alligator farm. You launch out of the wind, don’t have to run in the wind, don’t have to fish in the wind.
Bring dead shrimp and Four Horseman popping corks and go cork the daylights out of every eastern shoreline in the ponds there.
There you will be more protected by the levee.
That and the reds are gonna push up the stairs with the higher water levels you are going to have with a screaming east wind like that lol. So those ponds are gonna be good to float in. We’ve put 22-25ft bay boats back there.
Up there by Pointe aux Chene you are gonna find clean water. I don’t know what the grass there is like right now, but there’s typically a lot and that will filter the water. That and you’ll be able to bomb cast spoons a mile away lol
Or be stubborn and take a brutal ass whoopin’ all the way from Grand Isle.
You could fish east shorelines in Bay Landry, Little Lake, etc. but I think it’s gonna be a wash. I’d go north to where the grass is.
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“Objective: Enough fish for a 12-man fish fry.”
Seems doable. Well, let’s see how bad that wind is and OH MY GOODNESS.
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That and why not fish at night?
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Past fishing reports are where it’s at, boys and girls.
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It’s also worth noting how sunny skies vs overcast skies affect the water. Here’s a couple pics to illustrate my point from the article I linked above.
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Yeah, I like this conversation and am interested to see what everyone else says. Very glad you posted this.
My stance is this: when it’s summer you kinda wanna be out there first thing, with exceptions.
Now, no offense, but I’m not retyping something I already produced on a topic I’ve already covered.
As I’m sure you’ve seen, I man this forum pretty closely on most days and I’d rather spend that time helping out with safe routes and planning posts, rather than reinventing the wheel.
The 6:00 – 6:30 span in this video. Watch longer if you want to hear me complain about sleepy kids and long lines at the marina. Maybe not. Those were the pre-teleprompter days.
And this video or this 1,387 word article (see why I don’t want to type that again? lol) about hard overcast weather extending the bite.
Which I still wouldn’t launch late if I saw that hard overcast weather was 100% predicted.
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Drunk teenagers take aluminum gator trax boats smaller than yours across the river to go shoot ducks.
Most of my Venice YouTube videos were shot in a 18.5ft bass boat. I fished extensively in Venice in a 15 flat boat with an F70 (pictured below).
It’s like anything: you need to plan.
I’ve gotten stuck in Lake Borgne in both boats. I’ve gotten an airboat stuck in Westwego. Getting stuck or having a navigational F up is not exclusive to Venice. Not to any place or boat.
You can 1,000% run that Prodigy. You just need to plan. You wouldn’t run the river in a 20 knot wind shooting down the middle of it in that Prodigy and, quite frankly, you wouldn’t do that in a 24ft glass boat, either.
But you can judge the conditions to know when it’s time to go. Whatever you think my tracks in that 15ft flat boat look like across Venice, yes that is what they look like. All over the place, across open water, inside tight ponds, straight down the river, etc.
Now, to be clear….
The reason I am such a cheerleader for Venice is not because Venice is some kind of magical place where fish just bite all the time. That’s not true. I’m all for Venice because of the risk vs reward you mentioned and mainly because the river is so low and has been so low. It hasn’t been low like this in eons.
And if you’re familiar with most water, least fish theory then you know that just because you find pretty water close to home does not mean the best fishing is going to be there. In 2026, there’s literally fewer fish than what there was 20 years ago and exponentially more water for them to be in.
This is why so many folks who grew accustomed to fishing the Wall/MRGO were left scratching their heads the last few years because trout hadn’t shown up like they did during the Freshening. They completely forgot/overlooked the part that during that time, there was no else for them to go.
Now they have tons of real estate to choose from. I fished the Wall in 2024 and it was a sad place. Very sad. Coudn’t wait to get back to Venice and Pointe a la Hache!
They will go to the best place for them to be, and that best place is Venice. More accurately put, that best place will be Breton Sound. They are outside for their spawn. It is summer. But saying “Venice” is still accurate seeing that Venice guides punch up into Breton out of Baptiste Collette.
So you can realistically fish the same spots by launching out of Hopedale. Mississippi Sound isn’t a bad choice, either. You can get there by launching from the public ramp at Pass Christian. Yes, I’ve been out there in the 15ft flat boat, too. lol
Whatever you do, you will want to plan around the conditions, not what you want.
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Help me help you.
What’s on that Carolina Skiff?
Do you throw casting tackle confidently? Can you jig?
After that, think: What would Captain Devin do if he were to fish this area?
That’s right, the exact same process I teach in 101. Why would I do anything different? What, because it’s *gasp* Florida?
Not at all. I haven’t fished Perdido, but I have fished completely outside of my element and every time I found fish, if I didn’t crush them.
So, let’s do the thing I teach: you’re gonna want to look at the conditions, pick out spots based on them then get your safe routes there and back.
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It just depends on the area, too. Areas that are wide open and shallow with a soft bottom tend to dirty up more easily. Barataria does this as well and, coincidentally, sets up in a similar way.
That’s why I fish the deeper water or water with a hard bottom.
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huge +1 on the white trout
These could save the day. I really like what LA_Fiddler has to say.
Also +1 on grinding out those rocks on the backside of the island for sheepshead and whatever could be there.
The upside is that there may not be a lot of boats there due to the weather. So that could possibly work in your favor. Or everyone else thirsty for fried fish will be there, too. lol
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When you find out, let me know!!
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If that doesn’t make you wanna eat some Raising Cane’s, I don’t know what does!
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And here’s the .kml
