Devin
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Nice trout in that net, btw. lol
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Dude, I feel that you got warm. You found where they were biting and ultimately missed the bite with your late start, especially with a water temp at 74.
@Aspiring_Angler this should answer your question as when to get a line in the water. That alone makes this fishing report valuable.
That is indeed a finger mullet. Thank you for taking time to check their stomachs. When we see them with potbelly minnows and bay ‘chovies in their stomach, that will be a sign.
Anyway, I think that in your previous reports you were just pissing in the wind. Now you’re actually gathering a starting point. Get back out there first thing in the morning and I think you’ll make better progress.
I know that if I went back on the water tomorrow I would also be starting from scratch and would probably struggle to find them at first. I can cover water pretty fast by myself or with a capable partner. But I would definitely be looking and covering water like the Tasmanian Devil.
I would take this planning file you now have and recock it for better conditions in the near future. I’d hit 1 then go straight to 11 then work from there. Maybe add some stuff on the other side of Terre aux Beouf in Pointe Fienne, Skippy and Baker’s Bay, maybe even Wreck Bay if you’re cool going that far.
I would.
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Hoping all went well.
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Yeah, and not to mention that sacalait are 1,000% better eating than most anything you’d catch inshore!
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Man, it could be worth looking at those canals at the very top of the marsh above Lake Boudreaux. I haven’t heard any recent reports from there, and I don’t know if fish would still be there with the recent warming spell, but I do know it’s very protected and that folks catch some trout back there during early spring.
Great report, thank you for posting!
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@LA_Fiddler went out and confirmed in this report.
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That is amazing. The entire Barataria Basin can only benefit from that.
Thankfully we don’t have a lot of water skiers and non-fishing boaters to complain about it. Well, I can see the crabbers saying something, but hopefully no one gets the idea to spray this grass. Let it growwwwww.
Thank you so much @LA_Fiddler for taking time to investigate. I can see all that becoming great for bass, redfish and I’m sure the trout will eventually find it.
Great report, thank you for posting!
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Also, I love that you’re taking time to ask questions that you don’t know the answers to. If you don’t know then you don’t know, right? So just ask. We are here to answer and to help. Above all, I just want you guys to come here and have fun fishing, and catching a bunch of fish sure would help to that end, wouldn’t it?
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“does anyone fish spinnerbaits or buzz baits meant for bass fishing in the marsh?”
Yes, and you will catch bass with those and, if they’re not strong enough, redfish will destroy them.
So we use heavy duty spinnerbaits like this one (also pictured below).
However, I will tell you that a great all-around lure to use for redfish is a Texas rigged craw. I’ve used different fancy swim hooks over the years, and simple arrived to the conclusion that a Texas rig is the way to go. You can sight fish with them, or chunk and wind. I usually use a Net Bait Baby Paca Craw. Pearl white is a good color because you can see it easier.
Redfish are not bass. Don’t get hung up on color with these fish.
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Speckled trout are certainly more popular, and I’ve reached that conclusion from personal experience fishing here forever, to making inshore content (and watching the trout content do much better) and even A/B split testing landing pages and signup forms: the trout always win.
But this has not affected how I wrote 101. IF101 does address redfish, but moreso trout because catching speckled trout is harder. This has to do with their biology: they become sexually mature by the time they’re as short as 9 inches in length.
Redfish don’t hit maturity until ~27 inches in length. So the sought-after slot is a big dummy compared to slot specks and they’re available in the marsh year round. You can pretty much catch them in the same pond year-round.
If you can figure out trout, then redfish are easy. There’s a reason they’re a backup fish to the speckled trout for accomplished charter captains.
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Okay, so reading your Overall Gameplan. Yeah, in theory that all works but I think what you’re missing is what is the primary forage? And that’s probably gonna put the fish somewhere that’s less reliant on moving water. I’m not discounting moving water. I’m just saying don’t worry if you fish somewhere and the water isn’t ripping. The potbelly minnows, bay anchovies, etc. don’t really need that flowing water like shrimp do during their fall/spring runs.
What was in those past reports? Grass. @cliffhall has posted something similar.
Boy, will the entirety of the LAFB Elite membership tell me they don’t read past reports without telling me they don’t read past reports? Why do I even pay for the extra PHP workers to run this forum? LOL Might as well delete it. LOL
Just kidding.
“Just trying to go through the full cycle of planning and reporting.”
Well, this post is a great example for others to model off of. Just be sure to add that #11 and drift with a cork.
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Not too warm. Didn’t say anything about it being too warm. Just get out there first thing in the morning and fish as long as you can. Don’t get out there at lunch time.
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Arrrr me matey, many a golden nugget abound in past fishin’ reports if only ye go lookin’ for ’em.
Yeargh!
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I don’t think it’s gonna be that cold for that long, so if you can fish all day I would do that. I would especially fish the morning if it’s gonna be a blue bird sky. Trout will bite longer/later if it’s hard overcast.
The shrimp migration is over. We might get a squirt of white shrimp in Delacroix in the coming weeks and you will be able to take advantage of it right there in that 3-way in front of Sweetwater Marina. But it is short lived. Otherwise I would focus on non-shrimp spots.
I haven’t been on the water at all save for one trip last month, but normally you can count on the white shrimp pattern being over in the last week of November, first week of December. Sometimes it lingers, sometimes not. It just depends on how quick it gets cold.
t definitely overlaps with the non-shrimp pattern. So it is possible to catch trout on the shrimp pattern in one spot and on the same day catch them on a non-shrimp pattern in another spot.
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“How much time do you have?”
LOL
“(I understand that things have become increasingly more difficult)”
Only by virtue of them having been shot/fished to near-extinction.
“I think of trout fishing as the bass fishing and red fishing as catfishing of the inshore world.”
That’s an interesting take I haven’t considered.
