[Devin]

Why Hopedale?

I’m sure that there will be clear water somewhere in there, but why not somewhere a little fresher with more grass? Like Pointe aux Chenes, Pointe a la Hache or Venice?

I’d also avoid Hopedale because it absolutely gets raked over by bowfishing guides these days. If you love spooky fish that run from the best presentations and steathiest approaches, then you should definitely fish Hopedale.

I’m not certain if bow guides are in PAC or not, but I have not seen them in PLH and certainly not the further reaches of Venice (but count on them being closer to the dock).

[Devin]

I would do that. I think it’s a good move. You’d have some north wind to clear out any river water. Go for it!

But keep Lake Athanasio in your back pocket as well as the rocks further inside the MRGO, any points with tidelines around them as well as the south side of the Rock Dam. I’d also run out going around the Rock Dam and keep an eyeball out for diving birds. It’s sort of early-ish for that, but you never know.

You’re more likely to see diving birds going that way out the MRGO than the Spoil Canal.

Good luck!

[Devin]

Not bad at all, that’s an acceptable grind and a lot of fish to eat.

Great report, thanks for posting!

[Devin]

I’ve caught limits of speckled trout deep and shallow in every air pressure that Louisiana experiences.

In my humble opinion, it’s correlation, not causation.

The only angler I found that efficiently explains this to my simpleton mind is Buck Perry in his book Spoonplugging. Essentially what he says is that air pressure happens at the same time far more important things happen (i.e. high wind and temp drops) during a cold front. Or overcast weather, such as when the air pressure is low.

Going off air pressure to determine when and where to go fishing is, in my opinion, right there with getting your palm read. Same for solunar feed periods. Might as well be astrology.

I’m open to any and all new information and will change my mind if presented with a good argument.

[Devin]

Yeah, and the fishing will only get better. The conditions, name the wind, are going to be the deciding factor. Given all the wind that’s predicted, I’d just stay home and do maintenance.

[Devin]

Keith, great idea and thanks for making this post.

Yes, I can do that, let me get a bunch ordered and get that knocked out.

Also, I have a horrible signature, kinda should be expected from a guy that spends most of his time on a computer, even back before it was a common thing. My hand writing is chicken scratch LOL

I’ll get this knocked out and will let y’all know.

[Devin]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

[Devin]

I do love this idea of putting the data together to see what picture is really being painted, but I’d go to think that you’d need way more catch data from multiple anglers. That’s tough to get. But now that I’m thinking about it I wonder if AI can pillage Facebook pages of prominent captains and put together their catches and automagically correlate that with conditions.

I’ll leave that to someone else. I already have a lot on my plate (and getting stuff off of it every week lol). I need more fishing time. lol

[Devin]

Bucky Perry is such an OG. He literally traveled the country and applied his process wherever he went and caught fish.

[Devin]

I do know Chris at Speckled Truth is big on solunar feeding periods, and one day I’ll get to talk to him in person at length as to why.

[Devin]

Never give up on the kid. They won’t forget it.

[Devin]

It seems like that kind of attention to detail isn’t a big deal, but it really is.

Get. In. The. Water.

Makes all the difference in the world.

[Devin]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

well, it’s actually a pop-up book

[Devin]

Ahhh, I misread your report. My dumbass brain just say “Atchafalaya” when it wasn’t there lol

Yeah, smaller rivers fill up quicker, but go down quicker, too. The Pearl by where I live is like that as well.

It just is what it is.

[Devin]

That sounds about right. The golden piece of intel to have is if those fish were caught when Breton Island was completely devoid of river water, stained or covered in it.

Then you can use Geosphere to make a judgment call based on that intel. If you know what day that report was made, you can compare imagery.