Devin
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The Jump is probably about to turn on.
I’m guessing that anyone catching speckled trout before the front was doing so in Riverside. Just a guess.
I think that stuff further downriver in Southwest Pass, First Spillway, Joseph Bayou, South Pass, etc. will probably turn on first due to the river being dirtier further north, but I’d still check the Jump and Baptiste Collette anyway, just to be sure.
We are having a massive water temp drop now, and that’s a great thing we need to really kick off fall fishing.
I myself will be headed down to Venice after a couple more maintenance items. Can’t wait to get to the Promised Land!
Also, you did well not getting stuck or ripping off your lower unit. LOL That’s a win. AND you didn’t get skunked like someone we all know in Biloxi Marsh!! lol
Hopefully you got some new tracks, too.
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Your experience on the Hwy 11 bridge was the same as mine. I’m sure with the drop in water temp we are having now that that will change.
Good work on finding that ledge. I was getting anxious when you said you didn’t find them in Two Trees and was pulling my hair out when you said that the Long Rocks Gap wasn’t producing at first.
Great report, thanks for posting!
Also, I checked Hospital Wall that same day and it was a bust (at least when I was there). So you made the right move!!
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Dude, I feel you on the trolling motor.
I had one deploy when running at 45mph with customers, and that “unbreakable” shaft exploded on impact. lol
That was embarrassing.
So, now I strap that bad boy down. Whether thats a strap of velcro, or a bungee cord, or whatever, it gets totally secured, especially when making long runs over water that’s not flat calm.
Now, as for the fishing: what’s interesting is that @Geremy fished the gap in the Long Rocks that same day as well.
He caught ’em good there, so what was the difference?
Well, I wasn’t there, but based off the detailed reports both of you provided, it’s clear that he had to move around to find the ledge of the MRGO.
And that was the ticket.
FWIW, I’ve also fished that ledge further southeast toward Breton Island for big speckled trout. There was a channel marker you could hook off to, but today it is gone.
So consider making that adjustment, and consider yourself fortunate to be a member here and having the opportunity to learn that.
If this was Facebook, you’d never know. But this is LAFB Elite, and the Community is really shining right now.
Finally, the fall pattern doesn’t really kick into high gear until the water temp stabilizes around 74, and it looks like that is what we finally got.
It’s possible to get on ’em when it’s in the high 70s and low 80s, but this year has proved different. The good bite was more like finding a needle in a haystack than what it was the other way around.
Great report, thanks for posting! It will be better next time you go out!!
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Shoot, now I see the wind is out of the east.
The Campo’s are great people, I cannot say enough good things about them, but you are gonna take a 4.5 mile butt whoopin in that 19ft bay boat. Maybe launch out of Hopedale Marina.
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I think you can count on it being a tough day.
Water is going to be garbage, it cooled off a bunch, etc.
If I were you, I would focus on deep holes and fish the hell out of them.
I would go with low expectations and work your butt off.
Also, it’s gonna be rough in the MRGO coming out of Campo’s if that wind is cranking out of the north.
During wind like that, I normally launch out of Hopedale Marina.
Hell, Hopedale Marina is a lot closer to those two areas you are considering.
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That pontoon is so cool! Very comfy.
It makes me happy to see folks going outside of what’s conventional. I bet that thing is comfortable. You could take a nap before heading back lol
Great report, thanks for posting.
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I downloaded your .kml and looked at it. Yeah, I would hit that area. Here are some spots I would try.
5 is where I caught them yesterday.
8 and 9 are Robin and Lingeo. Def worth trying.
Your red route is good, but I ran green yesterday and it was fine. Just a little curvy.
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Yeah, the jacks are running right now, and it’s my understanding that they’re headed out. So now is a good time to catch them.
As warm as it’s been, you can 100% still catch trout on the islands.
But those camps you see out in Bay Ronquille, and the pilings in at the sulphur mine by No Man’s Land, those can be good, too.
Interesting, Tuesday as also a tough day for redfish guides (shrimp/cork types) east of the river. That’s kind of inexplicable, it’s October, they should be crushing them.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention seeing loads of diving birds everywhere? Or did you?
There should be a bunch of shrimp running out there. I’m sure there is.
I haven’t spent a lot of time looking for redfish to sight fish out of Myrtle Grove. I almost go somewhere fresher/grassier for that.
I know you’re doing the fly thing, so a good bandaid to fix this would be to fish the southwest side of the MRGO south of the Rock Dam.
Hard bottom, protected from a NW wind and can be good for sight fishing.
Just start at the south side of the Rock Dam, put the trolling motor down and troll in a straight line until your battery clocks out. lol
It’s a helluva lot closer than Myrtle Grove, and a helluva lot simpler. I’ve had some good days doing that in years past.
I wouldn’t fish it if the wind were blowing out of the NE really hard, however, as that shoreline would’ve been pounded the entire time.
It sounds like Monday was a good day getting a handle on the area, but Tuesday doesn’t make sense. Fish are weird.
Either way, excellent report, thank you for posting it!
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Monday I went fishing out of The Pointe on Monday and had a tough day. Basically did the same thing you are planning, but I did not fish the Hospital Wall or Treasure Isle. Still gotta post a report for Monday, but there’s the verdict:
I did fish the Trestles, grass beds, Chef Pass, Hwy 11, Bayou Thomas, those rocks on the Bypass (by that derelict rig), the southwest corner of Lake Catherine, and Mud Lake.
Mud Lake was the only place I caught speckled trout and they were small save for one keeper.
Everywhere else was either dead or had jacks (they’re making their way out right now and are bunched up).
If I were you, I would – at a minimum – send it for places not listed above. If it were me, I’d go fish somewhere else entirely and give the fish this cold front to move into the lake.
If it were me, I’d go hit Hopedale or Delacroix, fishing from Bay Lafourche to Lake Coquille.
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How’d it go?
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That’s reason #1,853 why I got the Z520C and have been testing it so close to home.
Venice will be covered very quickly.
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Good question.
The short answer: sharp turns in bayous and wherever they dump out into a larger body of water such as a lake or bay.
Or go to the Rock Dam with some dead shrimp under a cork and wait out some sheeps, reds and drum.
But, if I were you, I would stay home to knock out 101 and Fall Fish Location.
That will answer a lot of questions for you.
I see you already started and that’s good, but I would complete it then turn that knowledge into experience. Learn the easy way over the hard way.
Especially with the best fishing of the year arriving, I’d want to have all my ducks lined up in a row.
Especially with gas being what it is, I would 1,000% pick some other day to go.
For reference, I didn’t take off to Venice the day I got my “new to me” boat. I played it safe and spend more days doing maintenance than I have on the water.
To better paint the picture for tomorrow: my kids will be spending the day practicing casting in the backyard instead of grinding it out in wind and pea soup.
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It’s also called Little Lake. It’s the lake to the north of the L&N Bridge.
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That’s basically why I made it. lol All killer, no filler.
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Yep. Aqua is working way past its intended lifespan.
Geosphere is geo-stationary and gives you an image every ten minutes.
