Devin
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This is great. You’re the friggin man. Good to go.
Way to break the mold and just do something new. Here’s what I think:
You got a toe hold. If I were in your shoes, I’d be happy with those results, especially given the storms (which I was tracking on radar, I figured they probably made life a little dicey down there). You now have an idea as where to begin fishing for speckled trout, not just in the near future, but also next summer (depending on the river, of course).
You’ve also gained an amount of confidence you may not have had before. Most people just fish the same ol’ spots, and make the same ol’ milk run and are scared to go somewhere new, even if it means better fishing. I know, I was that guy once upon a time. Fishing got boring quick when that happened. But being able to find them somewhere new, from scratch, that’s real fishing.
Everywhere you ran past is gonna get loaded with trout here in the near future. Me personally, I think some trout are already in the river.
Y’all are gonna have to go to know.
Just don’t forget what makes the river unique: the water temperature and clarity are more stable in the river than anywhere else on Louisiana’s coast. It does not matter what kind of cold front blows through, the river is gonna be clean and fish won’t get the temp drop that everywhere else will. That and there’s more bait in the river. The stuff that builds the food chain from the bottom up and supports all inshore life is concentrated most there minus the algae bloom crap.
Take your time to figure out the river and you’ll have way better fishing than anywhere else, with way fewer boats.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Duly noted.
Creation of BST forum is enroute.
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Your post is good. Looks like you’ve got nice stuff and you probably want to sell it to nice people, and Facebook can be trying. Believe me, I get it.
I hope it all gets sold!
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“spots trout 2 and trout 3 i can see the cut is super shallow so i would not fish inside of them”
Those canals are rocked off. They are not navigable. Reference this for more info. Do not go into them under any circumstance.
“but if i can find trout in those harsh conditions, i think it would only make me a better angler so i am trying to figure this thing out and make it happen.”
If trout aren’t there because they’re still in saltier water spawning, then that doesn’t make you a better angler. Casting at empty water is just an exercise in futility.
BUT, those spots are much closer to that saltier water (unlike East Lake P, Lake Catherine, etc.) and it could have some trout already moving in or taking a break from spawning.
“With a couple exceptions, most of the spots i would be fishing with heavy drop shots and i would also keep close eye on down scanning to find sign of life.”
Good choices.
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Here are those 3-26-25 tracks since you’re actually putting in the work on this one.
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Now we’re cookin’ with gas.
Okay, the best thing you can do is figure out safe routes, get them on your GPS and see with your Mk-1 Eyeball.
The first thing you want to figure out is going from the marina to Zin Zin to SW Pass.
You want to be able to run straight out of Cypress Cove or Venice Marina and jump into Tiger Pass, then take that down to the cut you see in the picture below to Grand Pass. Then take Grand Pass down to Zin Zin Bay and shoot straight across to First Spillway. Then you’re in SW Pass. That green track is an actual track I ran back in March.
I would fish the rocks on the shoreline of the river downstream of 1st Spillway, starting at the very mouth of it and going about a 1/4 mile down.
Then you can run down SW Pass. It won’t be perfectly calm, it could be a little choppy if that wind is coming out of the NE, but I think you’ll be good. You want to run down to where you see wing dams and fish those. Those sunk rocks at the very end of the river are good, too.
Again, I wouldn’t get wrapped around the axle over catching fish, but just getting those routes knocked out would be good.
As for feedback on your plan:
That green route on your map, I’d be super careful running that. I’m pretty sure it’s good, but that area has silted in very good and sometimes it’s hard to see a new sandbar. Like, you can see the new-ish one just inside the West Bay Cut on 9/5/21 imagery. I saw SeaTow pulling a guy off of it a couple years ago and I actually went over the top of it (very slowly). There’s not much clearance and it’s a hard bottom.
Trout 2 and Trout 3 could actually be redfish 2 and 3. If you do fish Trout 1, use an HDS for sure. If you see bait balls on the graph, definitely try anyway.
I wouldn’t bother with Trout Point and Beach unless there was something there to tell me otherwise.
I have fished the hell out of Trout 5 and never came away with anything substantial. You’re welcome to try. Just watch out for the rocks going through there.
–> I’m assuming you’ve looked at all this on the historical time slider. <–
Trout 5 is Joseph Bayou. I’d go to where it dumps out and fish that. It sets up like a scoop and is best fished with an HDS. It can be white trout heaven. But they will be hammer white trout, not little b*tch white trout like what you see in Bayou Bienvenue.
I would pass up Trout 6 and Trout 7 to get at the wing dams and jig those as well as the adjacent rocks. You will more likely than not catch slot redfish there.
Honestly, I’d pass up all that fishing just to figure out the most direct way across the top of East Bay and into South Pass.
Final note, ensure your trolling motor is good. It’s gotta be a STRAWNG BOI to keep up in the river current. You’re gonna find out. lol
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If people posted more BST, I’ll make it.
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
I have no idea what Cyclocane predicted, but it seems every year there’s someone blasting the Internet with doom and gloom, “it’s gonna be the worst ever”, blah blah blah and this year it’s been the most timid we’ve seen in years. Which I am totally fine with lol
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Talk about some serious report keeping. Light is shed on things you otherwise would never see. And it prevents fishing trips from becoming better with time.
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Squarely in October, I guess.
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Some of those actually look legit lmao
I wonder if anyone actually went to the Wall looking for fish because of these photos lol
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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I was about to tag you and @DrillNFill lol
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“iM gUnNa sKiP fAlL fIsHiNg”
Are you drunk.
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“but had a trip about a week ago where we caught 30 specks- 3 of us . on dropshot live shrimp at the mouth of sw pass.”
I KNYEW IT
What were you throwing a 3/8oz jighead at? Rocks in shallow water?
How heavy was your drop shot?
And man, if you have a report, let us know! Thank you so much!
