Devin
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That’s what I am talking about! Been waiting for a good, neck-deep Breton Sound report. Thank you for providing that.
Also, I changed the title so only members can see the report. The /forums/ URL can be browsed without logging in. I didn’t want to give away Central that easily. Thank you.
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Great report, thanks for posting! Now it’s time to find more spots like that one.
I’ve also heard that clinking two metal baseball bats underwater spooks the dolphins and pushes them away.
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“Has anyone else observed porpoise activity following them when moving in the same area? I think we are training them for easy food with so many throwbacks now. Thoughts?”
I cannot recall a time when they did not do that. That’s been a thing in Louisiana for as long there have been dolphins and inshore fishing.
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“based on what I read here I’m inferring that this is farther away from the bow fishing guides.”
It is, but they still go to those areas you marked.
“Are these areas fresh enough?”
Yes.
“Will get to spanish lake via the cuts between in and grand lake.”
It gets shallow. But the water ought to be up. You should be okay. IIRC there is a bayou or two that runs between Grand and Spanish you can take. It looks like you’ve got it.
Give me a minute and I can pull up old tracks through there to confirm your yellow route.
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“I ran up Chef Pass to start at the hospital wall.”
Dude, no. Fish there in early spring or fall. I would not be hitting that now. Some guides and/or Chas Champagne might go there and hit it just right, but I assure you that if that happened that that bite is about to fizzle out (if it hasn’t already).
Then those same people are going to move to the outside. Maybe not Chas. He doesn’t need to catch limits to move product, but the guides most certainly do.
I recommend going to the outside. The rigs in Lake Borgne are where you begin. I would be looking hard at Mississippi Sound (Isle au Pitre, Half Moon Island, all the artificial reefs around there, etc.), or just trailering to Hopedale and fishing everything from Bay Eloi to Breton Island.
That Alligator Point rig is “meh”. It hasn’t been as good to me as the other rigs out in the middle of the lake. You probably have, at most, 30 days left to hit those anyway. And then you’re gonna be looking at the above mentioned places to find trout.
That and the river is low. The fish are gonna go to the bleeding edge of river water. I hate to say it this early in the summer, but we are starting out the summer with Venice being the king ding-a-ling. So plan redfish or trailer the boat.
And a giant +1 on TOW. You just need to get out there and get your experience. It will come. Just do it.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“I will say I could not find any bottom structure on my side scan.”
Well, good on you for using the provided GPS coordinates instead of blindly fishing wherever the buoy is. It definitely gets dragged off site by storms and for the longest time was something like a half mile or more off site.
I’d watch folks go to it and fish there. lol
But the reef balls are there. I promise you. Just motor around next time and find them.
“It was fun for my kids to see the cork go down.”
Yes indeed! I’m happy to find a bunch of small white trout or small specks just to let the kids have fun. So, mission accomplished, in my eyes.
Also, I think you’re referring to the Tulane Rig. The shell pad and some rig trash were still there last time I graphed it (which was last year, I think).
Next time, go straight for the other rigs in Lake Borgne then move up into Mississippi Sound. That’s what I would do if I had to fish that area.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“All the reports from the beach had been underwhelming, and the surf still looked a little messy from what I saw friday afternoon.”
Exact same thing I’ve heard.
“I’ve never thrown back so many 12.98″ trout”
Fascinating. It’s almost like dolphins have rulers and obey the creel limit. lol
“We easily would have had a 2022 limit”
And if we still had that limit then those trout would’ve been 11.98 inches. On the bright side, we have that many more mature fish able to spawn. And the trout fishing has been making a comeback. So that’s good.
Going east to Venice will solve your trout size problems.
“We posted up downcurrent in about 3′ of water, and casted 1/8oz and 1/4 jigheads upcurrent into the cuts, and let the bait drift over the structures working it very slowly.”
Beautiful. The boat positioning, etc. Just beautiful.
Excellent reporting. Glad you adjusted and found some fish.
Now we just need a deterrent for Flipper. I still want to try the aluminum baseball bat idea (clinging two together underwater, not hitting dolphins with it lol….though some days I want to)
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TOTS strikes again!
“My topwater game needs work, so more fish were lost than caught due to poor hookups.”
I wasn’t there, so who knows? But my guess is that you just need to let the fish take it. Don’t move until you feel him on the line, then sweep the rod. You’re not setting the hook like you do flipping. Just let him take the lure. Sometimes they miss and you don’t want to rip it away from them. Let them bite it, let the lure fold over on to their face then sweep the rod. If not, you will only hook them with one treble hook as opposed to all three (or two).
“Getting to add tracks to my graph in a new area of Venice makes me happy.”
THIS
I do think that if it stayed overcast you would’ve been good.
Excellent report. You are on the path to long term success in the most challenging/rewarding place to fish inshore on Louisiana’s coast.
Thank you for posting!
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PLOT TWIST!!!!!!
Excellent chess move.
Man, the conditions are setting up pretty dang good for a Long Rocks trip. I love fishing a light west wind there. I think you can do good things there, but do not hesitate to run up into those rigs in Bay Eloi and hit them with a jig.
Have you seen my article on fishing the Long Rocks?
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Yeah, I had a feeling…
You would get absolutely blasted by that southeast wind because it will have miles of open water to build up waves and make your life a living hell.
You want to be in the lee of the land, which would be on the south side of the bridges. There the wind doesn’t have miles of open water to build waves.
I think you could live on the south shore and jig up some fish at Hwy 11 and Trestles. Hell, try the Twin Span, it’s right there.
You could do the same even better at SeaBrook and Causeway, as well as the powerlines and rigs outside of Kenner. You’re more likely to catch redfish there. You could even run protected the whole way.
Plan Redfish isn’t a bad idea, but I really love the idea of you committing to an art form that will pay off in the long run. Everyone wants to get rick quick, but that’s not how it works. If you’re willing to put in your TOW and jig your ass off….well, then go do it. I think that’s really badass.
If you have sidescan sonar, then this is also a good time to look at it while you move up and down pilings to give you an idea as what to look for.
When the wind lays down, go hit the rigs and reefs in Lake Borgne and Mississippi Sound.
Good luck!
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Have you fished The Jump?
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I think you are 1,000% onto something here.
I will not jinx it by saying it. But I think it’s coming and now is the time to look/prepare.
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Shooter, for the love of all that is holy, please do not use ChatGPT to give fishing advice in here. lol
“Don’t get discouraged by not seeing much on side scan — many of those reefs are low relief and hard to distinguish unless your settings are dialed in.”
I know you didn’t write that! Reef balls are low in relief and hard to distinguish? Your contrast, sensitivity, etc. could be completely blown out and there would be no way you could miss these reefs if they scrolled past on your graph.
These reefs sit FEET over the sea floor. If you don’t see them on any kind of sidescan on the market then it is because you are not hitting them with sonar. See attached pics of crushed concrete and reef balls. Look at the length of those shadows.
If the reefs didn’t provide any relief then why would fish be there?!??!?! “Reef balls are low in relief and hard to distinguish” sounds like something some dumbass computer programmed by a hipster coder in California would say!
“Usually when you’re catching 10-12” trout nonstop under birds this time of year…”
…it’s because that’s all that’s there. Go somewhere else.
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If there was such a thing as magical settings that just worked then the graph would come from the factory set that way.
But they don’t, do they?
Think about it: it’s like a flashlight. The further the flashlight can see into the dark, the further you can see.
When I am hunting for those reefs, I punch out to 300 feet on either side and use a lower frequency to see that far (450khz).
When you see them, drop a waypoint, motor over to them, then use a shorter range and higher frequency to see more detail (if needed/wanted) and figure out where you need to position the boat to get presentations on and around them. I’ll do something like 40-60 feet at MEGA frequencies. 800khz works fine if that’s all you’ve got.
