Devin
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“My 38 year old knees are feeling it, jumping from the boat to the ground and such.”
I humbly recommend 2000mg of fish oil a day and stretch out regularly. It goes a long way. I’m about the same age and have some wear and tear ruck marching, jumping, etc. and those two things have gone a long way to avoid surgery and remain active. YMMV
“falling from 4-5’ in the air, landing my torso/rips on the tongue of the trailer.”
Ouch. Man, I felt that. Ugh.
Well, I’d say get the cheap ones and see if you even like it, use it, etc. Yeah, it’s steel, but at least it’s easy to maintenance because you can remove it to sand and repaint. Steel rusts, but not that bad (my trailer is steel).
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A Jubilee could happen with the predicted conditions. If it doesn’t happen on the side of the road, it will certainly happen in the marsh. Good luck!
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What kind of seats? Seats on a pedestal? Or seats that bolt to a bench?
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“Like a toxic relationship, it’s hard to give up a hole thats producing”
Yeah, that’s gotten me into trouble more times than I care to admit. lol
“Devin, I know you don’t believe this is entirely the case, but just throwing it out there”
I don’t! lol The 3rd the pressure was over 30″ and I whacked the daylights out of them in 2-4ft of water. Same thing the day before, and all of them didn’t need to be measured. One was well over 20″. Then yesterday my guide friend and one of his buddies nearly caught an 8 man limit of trout, all on corks on the same pattern.
I’ll resort to Occam’s Razor to explain why the fish are where you caught ’em: that’s where the food is.
A good book on this is Spoonplugging by Buck Perry.
Either way, great report, thanks for posting!
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Tell me that overcast morning was not drop-dead gorgeous. If only it stayed like that all day. Just being there for when the sun was peeking out underneath the clouds made the early wake up and drive worth it.
Great report with your son. Thank you for posting it!
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Well, bummer. Sounds like the wind was tough today.
I had another friend fish today and I know he caught a handful of fish, but he didn’t disclose how many. Whenever he does that, then that means he didn’t crush them. When he does crush them there’s a dock shot involved. Not today. I saw the wind blowing while editing video and it would definitely have been tough to fish.
Either way, great report, and thank you for posting it.
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I caught up with him and he said that between him and a couple other guides they nearly caught an 8 man limit of trout. Like, they had 8 customers spread between the three of them. As far as location: not Fienne, and shallow. They corked ’em. I’m not sure what to tell you. They undoubtedly had an easier time boat positioning with all the wind. Wind makes everything tougher. Better luck next time.
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To be clear, I’ll pay top dollar for a reel made by some guy living in Kyoto, but I will hesitate for a re-branded, mass produced reel from China. I’m sure that makes sense.
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Those Shimano reels then were made in Japan. Today they’re mostly made elsewhere. The JDM stuff really is better and you can find on eBay. The Indonesia/Thailand/China stuff is hit and miss in terms of living up to the JDM reels.
I could be biased, but the Japanese have an ethos that seeps through their work into the product they put their hands on, or at least oversee the manufacturing of. There could be information I’m missing, but how does an Curado E-series reel hold up 15 years later of saltwater use?
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Here: https://www.lafbelite.com/lesson/modis-daily-imagery/
And here: https://www.lafbelite.com/lesson/cssp-geosphere/
I would not put that much stock into these resources. They’re good for getting a good idea on a large general area. For example, is the west side of Lake P clean to fish redfish on the powerlines there? That’s the kind of question the two resources above are good to answer.
Outside of that, you risk going on a wild goose chase. I think we inshore anglers put way too much weight on finding “clean water”. Well, if that’s all I did this year then there are several trips I would not have caught any trout.
This is what I told @leviwalters a few days ago, do you want to find clear water or do you want to catch trout? The trout I caught on the 3rd were in garbage water tainted by the river. But they were there.
The Biloxi Marsh has way better looking water than Pointe a la Hache, but a fraction of the fish.
Some people think they can look at this imagery and unlock where the trout are biting. That’s not realistic because, at best, the resolution is still 250m meters per pixel. That’s larger than a fishing spot. So a great fishing spot can have clear water and you’d never discern it with that imagery.
That’s why I put weight on using GED to find where clear water is historically: https://www.lafbelite.com/lesson/if101-5-4/ Follow the trend, because that’s what the fish know.
That’s how I ferreted out the spot I caught ’em at on the 3rd and the day before that. The above resources are only tools, not shortcuts.
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ha ha ha ha ha well said
Yeah, it makes sense that if they had empty stomachs then they were hungry and that’s why they were biting. LOL I mean, I guess. That’s when I eat. lol I’ll die an old man before I ever learn it all.
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This is why I hate centralized platforms on the Internet. Yeah, don’t buy off Amazon first.
Buck Perry has long been dead, but his brand has a website. Find his book for $24.95 here: https://www.bucksspoonplugs.com/Spoonplugging–your-Guide-to-Lunker-Catches–Soft-Cover-Edition_p_88.html
People resell on Amazon for an easy profit and it’s gross.
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Have you been fishing at all?
I’m asking because this is something I’m highly opinionated about. The kind of culture within inshore fishing I promote and support is “you gotta give to take”. Where I’m from, you 1,000% cannot tell anyone how to post a report, good or bad, if you don’t post them yourself, whether you’re catching or not. You just can’t.
I think Shooter’s report is excellent, and I think every other report here is excellent. I’m appreciative of anyone taking time to post a report.
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Yeah, thank you. I know I was affiliated with Daiwa for a little while, and the manufacturer rep I worked with was awesome, but it was tiring just having to fish with Daiwa stuff. Daiwa does make good stuff, but so does Shimano and others. What matters is looking at how the tackle is made and its specs. I hate seeing people getting strung along just to make the purchase. lol Absolutely gets under my skin. lol
Thank you for seeing that.
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$400 is a tough price point, even for a higher end reel. Sorry, I’m never paying $400 for a reel made in China. I’ll just find a Curado 50e on eBay instead.
