Devin
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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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What revolver is that? Looks like an old single action a few models downstream from a Colt Navy. lol
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Great report, thanks for posting!
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Those are some nice fish and good pictures. All that you fished is probably gonna turn on more. There are definitely (or at least were) plenty of trout on the inside.
I was catching them at the power lines on the west side of Lake P a couple weekends ago. So more fish are gonna come out of the lake, or at least this is what I am assuming.
If it’s overcast out, or first thing in the morning/late in evening I would throw topwater on the shallow coves of east Lake Borgne, if wind permits. That def worked for me and should work through this month.
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What tackle exactly are you using to fish with at the Trestles?
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And how are you using it?
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Best topic title ever.
I hear ya. It is what it is. Just gotta adapt or use this time to do maintenance, something else.
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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.
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That’s why I’ll never get rid of my flatboat and Yamaha F70. Just too simple and easy. I hate big motors. They break easier and are expensive to maintain.
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This man is playing 3D chess.
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Furthermore, I put red Corrosion-X on all electrical contacts religiously.
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“One con is once you plug the camera in, you lose some waterproofing because the ports aren’t sealed”
Swimmer’s wax greatly solves this problem. Stay on top of it and plan accordingly and your stuff will do fine in moderate rain and sea spray.
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What model GoPro is that?
I’ve seen an Osmo used in pro-production before and it looked great, but couldn’t tell you what model it was. Whatever was current in 2022, I suppose.
I’m using Hero 9’s and Hero 10’s. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen your video before and it looked like a Hero 3 or 4.
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Okay, this makes sense. Thank you for sharing that, I think we are making headway here.
You are pissing in the wind with that jerkbait. Might as well as throw a marshmallow glued to a kite.
Yes, you can catch them on a jerkbait at the Trestles and I have, but nowhere as well as a jig will. You’d need something that suspends/sinks and has a larger bill than that one. Otherwise the fish aren’t seeing it.
An 1/8oz is way too light unless the current is non-existent. Even then, I don’t go that light, not even on the south side of the tracks where it’s shallower.
It sounds like you were getting to the bottom, but I’d be throwing at least a 1/4oz on the shallower south side of the tracks, and a 3/8oz if the tide is ripping. It’ll get to the bottom faster and I will get more casts to get more presentations, which equals more bites over the long run.
In the deeper stuff (12-13ft) if the tide is ripping I’ll go up to a 1/2oz. Especially at the Hwy 11 bridge.
Baits like that Slam Shady are really buoyant compared to the material that Matrix Shad is made out of. Plus it’s more mass, so it won’t sink as well. That’s not a bad thing, it just means it performs differently. It’s a tool, just like a screwdriver vs a hammer. A screwdriver is a good tool, but it doesn’t drive nails very well.
Final note, you’re throwing spinning tackle. A jig really is implemented best on casting tackle. The best analogy I can think of is driving a stick vs automatic transmission. The stick requires more skill/experience but it’s ultimately a faster/better way of getting max performance out of a car. This analogy holds up better when comparing the stick vs auto of yesteryear. Auto transmissions have come a long way, but spinning reels have largely remained the same. You’re bringing a knife to a gunfight.
So, I am guessing that for every 1-2 presentations you get, someone like myself or Chas are getting 3-5. That adds up over a few dozen pilings.
To see for yourself, consider these videos of me fishing the Trestles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexJ3vKiQmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcXypBM9sTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpodDXyBQlo
After that, I understand the Trestles are close. It’s not a bad spot to fish and there are fish there right now, but it is also very pressured. Most of the dumb fish have been caught and taken home in an ice chest. I would look hard at the Rock Dam, Elmer’s Isle, Grand Isle, Pointe aux Chene, Bay Lanaux in Port Sulphur, Graveyard in Delacroix or even the powerlines right there at the boat launch in Kenner by the casino. There’s way less pressure and more options at those places. Just keep those areas in your back pocket for when the Trestles eventually fizzles out in the next 30 days.
“Oh, also, at first when I was using the heavier jig head I was getting all kinds of algae on my lure,”
That’s weird. Was it green? Sounds like snot grass, which doesn’t grow in water that deep. So my guess is that it drifted in from somewhere else, which I have seen before. Your lure was probably snagging it in the middle of the water column on the way down.
Lastly, some days are just harder than others. I wasn’t out there so I ultimately don’t know, but if you saw people catching then that’s your yardstick.
