Devin
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“what is this” is called Second Spillway
When you fish Baptiste Collette, push up to that canal that runs to the NW and fish the platform there.
You’re not fishing rocks so much as you’re fishing ledges. When you are in The Jump you are fishing in 27ft of water, more or less.
Rocks 8 could be good.
The rocks across from Rocks 4 are good.
The rocks immediately downstream of First Spillway (which is upstream of your “what is this”) are good.
To be clear, the two canals north and the two canals south of the West Bay Diversion are laden with rocks. You will wreck if you try to run them. Do not go in them. Approach them carefully if you’re going to fish them at all. I wouldn’t bother, I’ve fished them the last couple years and never really had much to show it for aside from a bass and a rat red.
Hopefully you’re doing good things out there. Again, I wish I saw this sooner.
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Do you have a trolling motor at all?
You really don’t need to anchor. You probably shouldn’t. I fished the Trestles for years without spot lock. Chas Champagne doesn’t use spot lock, either. If anything, you want to keep moving. The fish are more likely than not gonna be spread out. Using an anchor at the Trestles is like dumping out the contents of a burrito into a hotdog bun.
But if you absolutely just had to anchor at the Trestles you can make a wedge of wood to stick into the crevice above each piling. It was either Kreeger or Vandeborre I learned that from. You can also use a Danforth anchor, just be sure to have a tripping line on it, or modify it like this: https://www.lafishblog.com/pimp-my-anchor/
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I will say this: do not go fish that stupid thing. I wouldn’t. Not when the fishing is 10x better in a dozen other places with a fraction of obnoxious boaters.
Yes, I filmed it, but only to add variety to the Dularge/Venice videos I have coming down the pipe. If I just wanted to catch fish I would go to Venice, Delacroix or Dularge, perhaps Lafitte (but I think you already went there).
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Go here: Natural Fishing Spots
Then start at 1:59
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That’s not the only flat you can fish in the area. But if you learn how that flat was made, you will be able to find them and fish the others, too.
I also have a video fishing that flat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoMssO4II
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Just do it! That fog is good. Trout bite better in it, I swear.
I wish I woulda seen this post before this morning, but there really isn’t anything I could say beyond what I’ve already posted in my reports.
Hopefully you whack ’em.
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Yeah, more on that here: https://www.lafishblog.com/go-to-this-spot-in-venice-if-you-hate-your-lower-unit/
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Wow. That’s some customer service. That makes me want to consider Avid for the “next boat”. I really like the Xpress X21, but Avid may be where it’s at if they’re that cool about it. Thanks for the update.
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Hopefully you get it back soon. Any word on a timeline?
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Well, hopefully you’re down there right now, but there’s pretty much unlimited rocks to jig in the Mississippi. Lots of great fish to be had in there.
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DO IT!! DO IT NOW!!!!
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Okay, that works just fine. A Danforth could work well for you, and you should probably have one in the boat anyway.
The west side of the Trestles has the most junk/snags. That’s where the junk and wooden pilings landed when they put in the concrete pilings in the 90s.
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Likewise. Good times.
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I did not go all the way to the rocks. I have no idea what flat you’re talking about.
Look at BC on Navionics and you’ll see a ledge in about 20ft of water on the northwest side. It is by that canal that runs to the northwest and the ledge runs all the way to the dredge pipe they have staged there. This is closer to the river than it is to the rocks at the end of BC. There may be birds spread across an area to give it away. We did fish the birds and we caught fish, but it was not like fishing birds diving on shrimp. I think they were just eating dead bait that floated to the surface. I never got a good look.
You can fish it with a half ounce jig, but an HDS worked better. Even if you don’t see bait balls, they are probably there glued to the bottom. You will need to cast to be sure.
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f&%k that party!! Go to Venice! Attend artificial human constructs on some other day the river isn’t below 5ft!! The party is in the river!!!
