Devin
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I imagine you have to save each track for each individual day in order to make them identifiable.
Let’s say you didn’t do that over the course of five fishing trips. Well, then you have five trips in one single, long track.
I’ve done this before by accident, and what I did was load that file into GED, make five copies and edit each one down to the individual days.
This is a pain in the ass. Doing it once was enough to remind me for the rest of my life to do it the right way: save the track at the end of each day.
Assuming you’ve been doing that, then the ability to export each track individually is somewhere in the settings. I know that I’ve done it on my Lowrance units and Simrad. Unfortunately, they are deep-sixed somewhere and I don’t have a power source ready for them, or I’d hook them up right now and tell you what I see.
After that, I’m guessing you have a single long track. Organizing that away by itself is better than letting the geospatial tumor grow.
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I think this is the harder way to do it.
The easier way is to take a power brick with the power rating for your unit and solder that to a plug that fits your unit (which you already have). And you most likely already have the power brick laying around somewhere in the form of a power cable that you don’t need anymore (like for an xBox or something with a brick inline in the power cord). Cut off the existing power plug and solder the desired one on and insulate.
If you don’t have a soldering iron then crimp the wires together with a butt connector.
I’ve used these off Amazon and gotten female quick connects to solder the GPS power plug to. This way I can run the same brick for multiple GPS units, which sometimes I need to do (not simultaneously, obviously).
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On the bright side, if they do, we’ll have a…uhm…I forget what year it was…I think 2011….a 2011-style event: all the fish that got used to a clean lake and spread across it will become amassed on the east side. We still caught during a Spillway opening and we caught well. Ask Chas Champagne if you ever get the chance. Good times.
It’s the same thing as always I guess: fish the conditions.
On the bright side, it will push more fish toward the Long Rocks (last year kinda sucked) and will give the opportunity for more grass to grow back, since so much died during the Freeze.
Pros and cons.
I’d rather the river stayed low, however. I enjoy watching Plaquemines Parish panic over saltwater. lol
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Why Hopedale?
I’m sure that there will be clear water somewhere in there, but why not somewhere a little fresher with more grass? Like Pointe aux Chenes, Pointe a la Hache or Venice?
I’d also avoid Hopedale because it absolutely gets raked over by bowfishing guides these days. If you love spooky fish that run from the best presentations and steathiest approaches, then you should definitely fish Hopedale.
I’m not certain if bow guides are in PAC or not, but I have not seen them in PLH and certainly not the further reaches of Venice (but count on them being closer to the dock).
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I would do that. I think it’s a good move. You’d have some north wind to clear out any river water. Go for it!
But keep Lake Athanasio in your back pocket as well as the rocks further inside the MRGO, any points with tidelines around them as well as the south side of the Rock Dam. I’d also run out going around the Rock Dam and keep an eyeball out for diving birds. It’s sort of early-ish for that, but you never know.
You’re more likely to see diving birds going that way out the MRGO than the Spoil Canal.
Good luck!
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Not bad at all, that’s an acceptable grind and a lot of fish to eat.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I’ve caught limits of speckled trout deep and shallow in every air pressure that Louisiana experiences.
In my humble opinion, it’s correlation, not causation.
The only angler I found that efficiently explains this to my simpleton mind is Buck Perry in his book Spoonplugging. Essentially what he says is that air pressure happens at the same time far more important things happen (i.e. high wind and temp drops) during a cold front. Or overcast weather, such as when the air pressure is low.
Going off air pressure to determine when and where to go fishing is, in my opinion, right there with getting your palm read. Same for solunar feed periods. Might as well be astrology.
I’m open to any and all new information and will change my mind if presented with a good argument.
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Oh wow. Okay, this isn’t me shooting the messenger lol:
That’s kind of retarded.
Oh boo hoo, Mississippi! Like USACE is in control of unprecedented snow melt and 1,000 year floods. Yes, it’s a government organization that’s staffed by people who put on pants one leg at a time like anybody slinging an oyster drege. Like, c’mon.
I’m fully aware of what happened and knew they filed a suit, but didn’t know it went anywhere. So that’s interesting….well, VERY interesting news you have to share.
So, what is the Corps gonna do if MS says “no”? Let the levees top over and destroy a national port? Flood a joint reserve base used to protect our airspace over the Gulf of America? Flood critical infrastructure supplying 30% of gas and oil to the rest of the nation? Coal? Shipping? Homes? Businesses?
For what? To save a luxury food only people with spending money can afford?
Imagine being a shipping magnate reading this news and thinking, “Yeah, I’ll just use the port of <Miami, Houston, Mobile, NYC, whatever> because they’re not retarded.” Then we lose all those jobs.
Geezus.
Don’t forget that what prompted all this was the totally unprecedented, unpredicted and 100% uncontrollable 1,000 year and 500 year floods that I refer to as The Freshening. Spillway openings in the past didn’t decimate their leases in EBM, but that one did. There was something like a 90-100% mortality rate of oysters. Trust me, I get it.
But I hope they also took time to sue the Pearl, Amite, Mobile, Wolf and Pascagoula Rivers, which also experienced the same historical floods.
Hopefully after that they succeeded suing gravity.
–> And don’t forget that every sluice gate installed along the Mississippi River was installed at the behest of the oyster industry, to include Caernarvon! <–
I swear, it is like dealing with Iraqis. Geezus. The short memory literally reminds me of tribal bickering. Might as well scream “ALLAHU AKBAR” each time they drop those tongs. lol
Here’s why: oysters do not do well in high salinity water. They absolutely get demolished by predation including, but not limited to:
- cow-nose rays
- black drum
- sheepshead
- atlantic oyster drills (truly awful)
- vibrio vulnificus
- and a lot more evil sh*t
So once they start dredging dead oysters they’ll change their song and dance. Watch. When it happens, remember I said it here. Because lower salinity that oysters thrive in keep those predators at bay or remove them altogether (especially the drills, those are the worst).
I’m all about not having the detrimental short-term affects of a reasonable amount of river water, and I’m even more about anything that supports Louisiana’s inshore fishing, but I’m not so brain-dead and blind to the hierarchy of needs that I’d do so at the expense of everything else. lol
Oh, and I’m also fully aware of opening Morganza instead, but that’s just passing the buck somewhere else. There are oystermen in Vermilion Bay and I’m sure they won’t like it, either.
And I heard Meta is building an AI plant in Morgan City (ugh….why) and they have a bazillion dollars and I’m sure they won’t let local politics risk the billions they’re investing there.
The lesson here? Have serenity and stop using lawyers for everything.
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“I usually fish Hopedale because it’s where I have the most experience, and since I come from out of state, only so much time on the water I like familiar water for safety and probability of producing some fish.”
Fair enough. But if that’s all you ever do then that’s all you’ll be stuck with.
“Venice I’ve always avoided this time of year because of the river been too nervous to find clean water. I have typically just fished the fall & winter there”
No, sir. There’s always clean water, and areas near the river tend to have more milfoil in concentrated mats that filter the water very well. And what makes the river water great is that it clearly shows you where NOT to go.
I think you can go into Hopedale and catch a few and have fun and it will be a success, but if you really want to stomp their balls you’ll have to get away from where the bow fishermen and dead-shrimp guides keep their boats.
With that said, you could probably get away with hitting the MRGO south of the Rock Dam. The points, coves and rocks will give up some fish. You won’t find much grass, though.
If you want help with routes for Delacroix, PLH, etc. then show us which routes you want us to look at to get a second, third and fourth pair of eyeballs to confirm they’re good.
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Yeah, that’s why you see light conditions mentioned in my reports. The best days of trout fishing were almost always when it’s hard overcast. I think that’s another reason they prefer rigs and bridges so much. It’s shade.
Plus, the way the water is lit up sunny vs overcast is a big difference. It’s much easier to see when it’s not a disco ball underwater.
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I do love this idea of putting the data together to see what picture is really being painted, but I’d go to think that you’d need way more catch data from multiple anglers. That’s tough to get. But now that I’m thinking about it I wonder if AI can pillage Facebook pages of prominent captains and put together their catches and automagically correlate that with conditions.
I’ll leave that to someone else. I already have a lot on my plate (and getting stuff off of it every week lol). I need more fishing time. lol
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Bucky Perry is such an OG. He literally traveled the country and applied his process wherever he went and caught fish.
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I do know Chris at Speckled Truth is big on solunar feeding periods, and one day I’ll get to talk to him in person at length as to why.
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Never give up on the kid. They won’t forget it.
