Devin
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After that, it just sounds like the fishing is hard right now. The fish are scattered. It makes me want to get out there and find them. But I will leave that up to you guys. I’m better off at home writing.
If I were going to launch the boat, I would not go back to Shell Beach or Delacroix. I’d hit Pointe a la Hache. If the wind calms down, I’d go to the rigs in Bay Eloi, Comfort Island and Long Rocks and the two rigs past the Long Rocks.
I’d also try rigs and reefs in Lake Borgne.
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How heavy was the jighead you were throwing at Doulut’s and the deep stuff in Pointe Fienne? Were you contacting the bottom?
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Thank you for reporting on the concrete piling.
Yeah, I like using guides (those that are established and have proven themselves…everyone is a guide these days lol) as a comparison to see how well I did. If they got crushed, then chances are everyone did.
But, if they slammed the fish and I didn’t, then that means I’ve got something to learn.
So sounds like you did well given the completely crappy conditions. Wind makes everything tougher.
Thank you for taking time to post a report and let us know!
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Man, that’s a tough day on the water. These are inevitable.
I wonder if the fish pushed back south with the falling river?
I gotta get my flatboat fixed and get out there and look. Y’all’s reports are bringing back the itch.
Thank you for posting!
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Looks like Dude’s! I’ve been there once or twice. Took the guy who (at the time) owned LASM out of there.
Excellent report, thank you for posting!
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Yeah, I read stuff like that in reports and it makes me wonder if the issue is bad presentations.
You will know when you do hit bottom when the line gives out. It looks like a bow is knocked into out, when the line goes from being taut to bowing a little because the lure has stopped moving and has hit bottom.
To see this in action, start watching at the 48 second mark here in this video.
This is much more easily detected with casting tackle than spinning. I am assuming you were using casting tackle?
I probably would’ve gone a half ounce at those locations, but 3/8oz with enough slack and casting up current can certainly do the trick. If you hung it down current, then you’d want 1oz on an HDS.
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I think those menhaden captains get paid bank. I forget the number, but it’s a juicy six figure income. Regardless of what it is, paying that guy’s mortgage isn’t worth risking our fisheries from collapsing.
Sucks to suck.
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“that 2200 people rely on them for work”
Yeah, so what?
Way more people than that in the recreational and commercial industries rely on the fishery that they would be wiping out if we let them.
It’s such a sad argument.
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“They even flew in their South African CEO with his fancy accent to make a big splash!”
That guy can kick rocks. I have never wanted to naked-fight someone so bad before in my life.
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Thank you for watching. I know it can be like pulling teeth.
More often that not, the old adage “there’s nothing new under the sun” applies, and chances are someone has already invented that wheel.
That’s certainly the case here. We don’t need what happened to the upper east coast to happen down here. We cannot afford it.
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BAM!!!!!
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Huge +1 on this.
I just can’t get down with destination fishing. Too much can go wrong.
Many times over the years we’ve had people come here asking how the fishing is in <insert month> because they booked a lodge and, at the end of the day, there’s no way to know. It’s a total crap shoot.
I think the best way around this is to book for a long time, like a week.
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Unfortunately, most people in Louisiana can’t read and at least one of those persons sat on the Commission last time I was there making a comment.
Guy had the nerve to say that my claims were unsubstantiated, there’s no evidence, blah blah blah whatever.
All of what I’ve said there, here, and in the article I wrote are things that have been documented extensively.
Furthermore, the menhaden reduction industry is subsidized by the government to make a product that can be had from elsewhere for cheaper at a profit. So they’re not even a real business, that is sucking the life out of the Sportsman’s Paradise by removing the most important link in the food chain.
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ha ha ha ha ha ha excellent work
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Shrimp don’t do what menhaden do. They don’t provide as much energy to fish or clean the water like menhaden do. Shrimp boats also stay off the beach. Pogey boats do not.
After that, pogey boats want to come in close to the shoreline and even get on it because that’s where the menhaden are.
But let’s not complicate the issue: menhaden reduction fishing needs to be GONE. That’s it.
