Devin
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I don’t have any experience catching red snapper out there, but I imagine a cursory look at sonar will make that effort a lot easier.
Good luck!
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What a great report. I’ll be out there tomorrow and will report back what I see. Lake Borgne is typically great this time of year, so we shall see. Thanks for posting!
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“wunderground was calling for 100% rain from 7AM to the afternoon”
I recall looking at the radar and seeing a window over Lake Borgne that was fishable. I’m glad to know you did it!!
“They were smashing the topwater first, ended up catching 7 on topwater before that bite shut off.”
My hero!
I may end up there tomorrow. I’ll post a report and let you guys know. Thank you so much.
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Whites and browns are your main movers and shakers, at least in regard to how speckled trout behave. White shrimp during fall, brown shrimp during spring (but not nearly as much as white shrimp during fall).
Sometimes you’ll get a last-minute squirt of white shrimp leaving the marsh after it warms up in spring.
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I’m guessing the wind was blowing pretty hard? That always makes things tougher.
Yeah, sounds like a last minute trip where Lady Luck was not on your side. If the wind was blowing I would’ve gone up toward Golden Meadow or even as far as PAC for Plan Redfish. Find some grass and sight fish them. That’s definitely worked for me before.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Mapping cards are deceptively not-accurate. Don’t rely on them. Ever. Please see my collection of busted lower units if you’re not sure. Anyone telling you otherwise is either lying or incredibly misinformed and don’t realize what they don’t know that they do not know.
Save yourself a few hundred bucks and just get an old, cheap mapping card and then lean heavily on your navigational homework using GED. Lakemaster, Standard Mapping, whatever, they’ll all equally fck you if you rely on them.
Have you priced lower units lately?
After that, I like Lowrance because it’s easy to load .usr files into them. HumminbirdPC is a giant PITA. It’s great if you’ve got the PC and got it working, but that’s too much BS for what you want. Lowrance/SIMRAD drag and drop .USR is the way to go.
My Garmin won’t display entire tracks and I’m tried of troubleshooting it. Just go Lowrance.
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You know I was thinking that I might blow my cover, but I also naively assumed nobody was paying that close attention to detail. Damn you. lol
Full disclosure: neither are girlfriend status (yet), that slot is still open. Fishing trips are a good job interview. Do they show up on time? Do they bring food? These things are important.
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Standby, typing up report now.
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I’m mentally prepared to run so many oyster poles that’s all I see when I close my eyes at night. lol
I ran into a guy I know last year in EBM who was also running for TT, and guess what he had in his boat in case they didn’t want to eat? A friggin’ spear gun.
Yeah, that’s why we don’t see TT that much in EBM.
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Yeah, they were graphable, too. I gotta get those pics off my Helix and uploaded here for you guys to see.
If I didn’t see fish, I didn’t catch, so I just got to the point where I’d run, gun and graph until I saw a school of them off the pilings. When they got fired up they came off the pilings into open water.
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Unstoppable meme game.
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+1
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Great choice!
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There’s no way you’ll be left wondering if you’re looking at striper on sonar. Spotted bass, maybe, they’re smaller, but not striper.
Speckled trout are very difficult to detect, especially the smaller keepers when they’re hugging the bottom.
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Good choice.
