Devin
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Where are you getting your gage height for Atchafalaya from? Do you have a link? I’m not seeing a 3.5ft rise in the river.
I’m seeing a 1ft rise at Butte La Rose on USGS here: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/07381515/#period=P30D&dataTypeId=continuous-00065-0&showMedian=false
Local rainfall isn’t going to move the needle very much on a river that big.
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“My buddy is already asking to go back.”
That’s awesome!
“We would catch 2-3 trout in 20 minutes then move again. Ended up catching around 20 trout and one more flounder. Didn’t measure any trout but they were definitely small.”
Yeah, they’ve been shallow and corkable. Go straight to that next time and you’ll catch more keepers. It sounds like you caught the tail end of the morning bite.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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+1 on what everyone else here has said. Took the words right out of my mouth!
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Something I’d like to note here is your willingness/capability fishing different areas. Very remarkable.
Last year on April 15th I crushed the trout under birds in open water NE of the island IIRC. I’ll have to ferret out that report.
I’m sure GI is turning on and will be ready here in a bit.
Great report, thanks for posting.
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“I need to start by saying I’ve tried to fish the Pontchartrain basin several times in March and have been frustrated by incredibly muddy water each time.”
You are fishing one of the more difficult areas after a significant period of decline in our fishery (Freshening) during the most difficult time of year to catch them. If the wind is constantly cork screwing from every direction at 25 knots, you are going to have a tough time. It doesn’t matter how good you are or what you tie on, it’s gonna be a grind. lol
I give you credit for trying anyway. That will put you ahead of everyone else who doesn’t have that TOW.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I’ll give you props for fishing one of the more difficult places to fish during the most difficult time of year. Otherwise I’d trailer to somewhere more protected from wind and more productive (i.e. Delacroix, Venice)
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I would count on it rising more as snow in the north melts. I just don’t know how much snow melt there will be. Every year is different. I like to think that we’ll get a break since the snow was plopped on us this year. lol
Hopefully the Mississippi stays in the single digits and drops below 5ft soon, like she did a couple years ago. What the MS does, the Atchafalaya will follow.
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Welcome to the Community and thank you for posting an intro!
It sounds like you’ve seen a lot over the years, but the old adage is true: one never stops learning. Inshore fishing is a continual game, like shooting a moving target.
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That’s pretty handy dandy. I’ll have to take a look. Usually I just read the entire article, they’re not long at all. BUT, to process all of them? That’s something else.
I’d be worried that the AI will miss nuance, but I guess you’d only learn that by actually trying it.
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More pictures:
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Oh yeah, about the book: it’s under review at Amazon right now.
It is BIG. There is nothing like it and I’ve read/own most of the good fishing books published over the years. It’s nearly 500 pages long. So, that’s a lot of complete information, but also expensive to print. So that sucks. But it’s still way cheaper than learning it all the hard way.
Hopefully the book gets approved. If enough people buy it and like it, I’ll write more.
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Thank you so much for sharing this.
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“I was thinking the outgoing tide just kept going because all the water that had been piling up in the lake from east and south winds just overpowered the incoming tide, helped along by west winds on that day”
You are thinking correctly.
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This is good advice, especially seeing how important it is to keep up with trends (if they are indeed relevant) in order to maintain relevancy. For example, RodnReel had great first-starter advantage, being the first fishing report forum in 1995, but lost that momentum in Mobilegeddon. Mike Lane was just too busy enjoying his success instead of thinking ahead.
I’d like to see AI put to work ferreting out reports from RodnReel in the Internet Archive. That would be interesting.
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Thank you so much for replying to me on this.
So, I ran it yesterday coming south from Port Eads and chickened out just short of 29° 5.925’N 89° 6.054’W, where you can see the exposed sandbar on 9/17/23 imagery, what you posted above.
On my way across I’d periodically come off plane to get a depth reading. Well, just outside of the bayou coming out of South Pass it was 4ft deep. There was a little swell coming in from the Gulf of America, and that helped me detect the water getting shallower toward that sandbar. The waves were beginning to crest. Not break, they were just forming up like it was shallower. That and I could see mullet zig zagging from the boat instead of diving, which indicates it’s shallow. I came off plane in 2ft of water! Then I tried to keep going but things got worse and I chickened out. lol
Also, I saw like no crab traps that way, which is kind of telling.
Then I had to be in Mandeville for 4pm, otherwise I would’ve kept trying. So I turned around.
But looking at my tracks from yesterday it appears that I drifted too far to the east. Perhaps there’s a way to get around it by coming from the north via SE Pass and feeling that out. I think that last path you posted is probably a better route.
Whenever I can get back out there, I will try again.
