Devin
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“Firstly, I am in search of trout for the easter fish fry.”
If all you have to do is feed people fried fish, then why not whack the daylights out of the sail cats? They ought to be piled up behind the Rock Dam right about now. lol
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“starting seeing redfish pop up to the top”
I’m guessing you saw them tailing? Did you actually see the redfish at all?
I bring this up because in the past gar have fooled me. Gar will tail, too.
” Is it possible that’s what I saw jumping out the water?”
Probably not. The can jump when being chased, but a shrimp jump is so distinct from anything else that I am certain that if you thought you saw shrimp, then you saw shrimp.
Both these bait types can certainly co-locate.
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Excellent report. Glad y’all caught some fish.
I’m looking forward to y’all getting down to Delacroix and trying your skill there.
Good luck!
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Not bad at all after a hiatus!
Great report, thanks for posting!
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F Lake Pontchartrain and go back to where you caught your last PB in Venice. Grind that spot out over and over and over. They are there. They have to be.
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Do you have a report? Sorry I didn’t see this when you posted it. What @Jason_B said is spot on. That’s kinda out there. Not that fish can’t be out there, but you’d drive past a bunch on your way there.
If I were you, I’d focus on Delacroix and get a win under your belt.
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Man, with that wind, Saturday is gonna suck. lol
But I do think it’s doable if you can find a good shoreline in the lee of the land.
I’m guessing you’re going in a boat and not the yak?
Pointe Fienne, Wreck Bay, Four Horse, Baker Bay, Adema Pond, the top of Bay Lafourche and Bay Jack are all doable and somewhat protected or just outright protected.
Take Terre aux Beouf and the Twin Pipeline down. I’d not cross the Garigue unless you love getting your ass kicked.
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“IF101 and LAFB Elite definitely paid off this trip.”
That’s what I’m talking about. Apply the process and you will succeed. You are the living proof of that.
I would say that’s pretty danged good for your first time to the area. So let’s see, you didn’t get stuck or lost or rip off your lower unit and you found the pattern.
Bang! That’s where it’s at!
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I like it. You will have good moving water, it ought to be calm and good water clarity. Great tide.
I’d just try Bay Lanaux in addition to everything else you got going on.
Good luck!
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Someone got light-sabered. Nice.
Man, that lower unit is worth 20+ years of LAFB Elite. I’m just saying, when I’ve done what I teach, I don’t rip off lower units. Everytime I destroyed a lower unit was when I was free-navigating.
“I asked the guy for the location of where he hit it at and got no response.”
I absolutely fkn hate it when people do that. So then why is he telling everyone? Free man-therapy session?
I guess he was fishing a redfish tournament and went to Boudreaux and didn’t want to give away his spot.
Anyway, that looks like a 675? And he was only doing 45mph? Likely story.
If he was, then he hit something hard. Last time I saw that happen to a lower unit, a rock was the culprit. Wood doesn’t really do that. I bet he hit an old pipeline like what happened here.
Oh well, this is why we do our navigational homework. Which I see that you have.
I have more experience running the top of Boudreaux in the marsh there. There’s definitely pipelines and stumps up there. And I’ve ran some down where you are showing your homework. That was ten years ago, and based off what I remember, we were good so long as we looked for the obvious stuff on GED.
If someplace is that new to you and you have the heebie-jeebies that much, then go slow, monitor your sonar and establish those safe routes.
Sure, it can be tedious, but nowhere as tedious as buying a new lower unit. See above links if you’re curious how I know.
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That episode blew up on y’all’s YouTube. I wonder what the difference was.
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“but I’m trying to help others”
Thank you so much. I really respect that.
It looks like it ought to be flat calm.
It could be kind of early for a shrimp run, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you ran into some birds. I know that I did in Barataria in April at Independence Reef a couple years ago. Absolutely smashed them.
I think your plan is good, I’d just throw in some extra tidal highways/major points and oyster reefs to fish on that falling tide.
Since you’re familiar with the area, I am assuming you already have your safe routes nailed down.
Good luck!
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“I can’t remember hearing so many reports from so many different people of boat loads of trout coming out of there.”
Surely you cannot mean last year and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that.
It’s very typical for Delacroix to produce this well during spring. I do think it was late getting started because the river was low, but now I am guessing that those PLH fish got pushed north when the river hit 8.5ft.
I’m not saying other areas don’t produce at all, but I am saying that since at least 2009, I’ve seen Shell Beach guides run south and have never, not once, seen a Delacroix guide go north to Shell Beach/Biloxi Marsh/etc.
Sometimes the fish just pile into an area and that’s all there is to it. Finding them elsewhere can be a struggle. I personally hate it when that happens because the only thing you can do is join the circus.
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“he’s also previously sunken a dual rig pro-drive”
Oh that’s all we need to know.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just another guy with more money than sense. Everybody move along. lol
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