Devin
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Is your ghost rated for 36v? You were running a 36v trolling motor on 24v?
If so, that thing is gonna pull a wake!
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Unfortunately, Saturday I am tied up, but it is looking like I am able to get out Sunday.
Still undecided. Either exploring Venice or hitting Port Fourchon is on the table. I’m really thinking Fourchon. I just think there could be something out there. I have no report to go off of, but generally in the past I like to try to be one of the “first” on the outside hitting virgin trout.
I think you’re in the right spot. Josh’s Pen report has me thinking that trout are still inside, but I have a hunch they could be further out, too.
Last year on 4/15 I crushed ’em under birds by Independence Reef, IIRC. So, about halfway between where you want to fish and where I want to fish.
I guess this weekend will shed light on which one works best.
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Definitely do not fish the Trestles under those conditions.
That west shoreline of Lake Borgne is probably a good bet if you must fish that area. Just be ready to move and cover water.
For me, personally, if I had to fish that side of the River, I’d fish the points, rocks and coves between the south side of the Rock Dam in Hopedale all the way to the Long Rocks and even the Long Rocks itself.
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Yeah, every once in awhile we can count on a hurricane that’s going to delete marsh. Ida did a number on Montegut/Lafitte.
Maybe CPRA’s efforts can put it all back, maybe not. Maybe the River can make something new, maybe not.
Time will tell.
Sometimes I wish I had just moved to the Midwest and started a firearms company. But the time I have spent in Louisiana has been great. There really hasn’t been anything like it. There’s something about launching the boat and punching into the unknown that just does it for me.
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I think fishing the rock jetty leading out to GOA could be good, especially now that trout are beginning to move out there. The wind has gotta play nice, though.
The weirs are community holes you can try, but start fishing them a few hundred yards out then work you way in. Most guys fish the bottom.
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Not to brag, but that is a mind fck I deal with: if someone says they caught a few somewhere (but not many) I fall prey to thinking “well, I can get in there and catch a lot more”. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. The deciding factor is figuring out how they were fishing. If their tackle looks do-do and they unwittingly indicate they weren’t getting good presentations, then that’s a wrap: I’m going in.
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Shhhhhh……
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I guess I could just find a battery with those specs and call it a day. Maybe find one that works with a solar panel to give it extra juice while I’m out fishing.
Perhaps what I need to do is come up with a standard or parameter to shoot for. I guess three days is a good goal. Three days of beating the snot out of Venice and hammering it hard. I think I can do that.
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You will want to have something with an SOS feature. If you your boat flips over and all your stuff goes in the drink, then how are you going to get a distress call out? The radio is still good for that, and so is the InReach. An EPIRB probably even better. That’s worth researching: InReach vs EPIRB. What’s gonna send the cavalry when you flip your boat at SouthWest Pass and you’re drifting into the Gulf of America?
I don’t know anything about Starlink cell coverage.
I do know that I got the Starlink Mini yesterday and had it fired up and surfing YouTube in under five minutes. It is mind-boggling how simple and easy this thing is. It just works. It makes Spectrum look stupid. Thank you Elon for making something so sleek and good. Thank you.
Powering it on the water would be an issue. It runs on 12-48DC and needs 60 watts. I’m not sure I’d be comfortable running that on the house battery. There is a company called Star Batt that sells a self contained battery box that protects and deploys the Mini.
Find it here: https://star-batt.com/product/star-batt-mini-battery/
But that’s a cool $1,600 and that’s pricey even for someone like me who can write off such an expense (this is my looking at you, IRS….stop sending my money overseas and FIX THE FKN ROADS!!!) lol
So I’m sure there’s another solution I can come up with, or maybe I can build something. I like the idea of something that’s protected against the elements.
For now, I can tell you that this piece of equipment is a winner. It just works flawlessly. Now I just need to solve the power issue.
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It can do both. Wow.
Man, I love good tech. Enjoy that badass trolling motor and battery.
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This right here!
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They 1,000% Hoover up redfish way up in the Biloxi Marsh. Watch this B-roll at 8:16. Those are double-surface drive tracks through every nook and cranny of the marsh just off Bayou Biloxi. I filmed it this time last year.
Used to the bow guides couldn’t go that far. Then they shot every redfish around the marina, so they installed a 300HP outboard on their rigs to take them further out, trimming up the surface drives to get on plane, then trim them back down once they want to shoot an area.
“With the NW winds, seems water will be low,”
Good. They’ll be concentrated and not spread out. You have the right boat to get in and out of skinny crap.
Thanks for coming to Louisiana!
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Nah, neither am I. I just can’t believe the state next door really gets a say over the people who are immediately impacted by the river.
I mean, if the river topped the levee and washed away the crime and potholes and stayed away from the trout, that wouldn’t break my heart. LOL
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Also, I am not Tony Stark. I know just enough to fk this up. I am merely sharing what has worked for me and so far, haven’t fried any of my GPS units or burned down my house.
There are no schematics, no formal education, there’s not much planning, just a lot of trial by fire. lol
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One last thing: if you’re going to work in the outdoors (looking at you, commercial fishermen….who aren’t reading this lol) then you had best be ready for a rainy day and by “rainy day” I mean “swift kick in the nuts” aka extreme financial duress. You cannot expect to combat odds with Nature and blame it on someone else. lol
Just…wow.
