Devin
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“Pointe A La Hache looked like and to see if it had bait to target redfish.”
As soon as I read that I knew it would be a bust. PLH just hasn’t been great for redfish for a few years now. But good on you for just going and looking anyway. That’s what is gonna keep you ahead of the power curve.
“we left Hopedale Marina at 5:30 headed down the Spoil Canal and out the long rocks to the platform roughly 5 miles out.”
NOW we are cooking with gas!
“There were several boats there and of course they was in the prime spots.”
Those are kinda community holes, but if they were there first thing then there must be a slew of trout there. I’ve fished those rigs a bunch over the years, catching 100+ trout on charters or with friends/family. When I want to fish those rigs, I leave the dock (if I was leaving Hopedale Marina) at 4am, definitely no later than 4:30am.
” Devin mentioned this in my planning post about where they remove the rocks for the dam. I didn’t know that they did this and was thinking no way they picked up every rock. Nonetheless I graphed and found rocks scattered all along.”
Yeah, so I really like for people to figure things out for themselves. I want them to think critically and actually fish instead of waiting for the spoon-feeding.
The gap in the rocks really isn’t a secret, but that there’s still rocks there is something a lot of folks don’t know. So when I read that is what you found there, then I know that you’re paying attention and applying yourself. Bravo. Thank you for that.
And yes, I think that if you want to get on fish, you gotta get closer to Breton Sound/Venice. The fish have a lot of water they can be in. It’s not like 2011-2014 when there was a bunch of fish and a little water for them to be in.
Man, what a report. Excellent work. THIS is Louisiana fishing. Glad to see someone come in here and show us what’s up. Thanks for posting!
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With that said, you can jig anywhere.
Maybe consider jigging somewhere else.
I bring this up because people tend to learn better through positive reinforcement. If you are going to what will amount to a grind, you will not be positively reinforced on what works and what doesn’t.
Sorry, but the best time to fish those bridges has come and gone.
You’re really better off catching some fish. So, if I were you, I would go hit the rigs/reefs in Lake Borgne, Bay Eloi and Breton Sound when the wind allows. Which, unfortunately, does not appear to be on June 5th. You really want the wind to lay down. June 7th and 8th look better.
I understand you probably can’t fish those dates, I’m bringing those up as examples.
Good luck.
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If you just want to grind a jig bite then go to the bridges and jig until you get tennis elbow and your hands are covered in blisters. Jig your heart out.
With that wind, do you think you will want to fish the north or south end of the bridges?
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Well, whatever y’all did, it worked.
- 40,000+ views
- 1,000+ likes
- 400+ comments
That’s the best performing video on that channel, and it may be performing better than the 2014 drone video. Can’t say for sure because it’s not an even-steven comparison, I don’t have those analytics anymore, and the data I did have isn’t aggregated as well as what we have today (12 years later).
At the end of the day, people need to know about menhaden reduction.
This video is just a set of jingly/shiny keys to get attention. The next one is the one that will hit home. It goes live on Monday.
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That’s pretty cool. I’ve got an 8wt that I dabble in. Haven’t committed to it yet.
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Man, I dunno what y’all did. But whatever that was, KEEP DOING IT
The video has absolutely exploded in analytics overnight.
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What kinda boats are you guys running in? That will determine if the Sound is doable or not.
I think your blue route is best, but I would add Bay Eloi’s rigs to it, as well as the rigs further past the Long Rocks. I would fish them all. I don’t recall if you’re savvy on sidescan or not (I think so?) but I would just graph for bait balls.
If there are bait balls around those rigs, hammer them. If not, maybe try anyway but it will probably be a ghost town.
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Man, this time of year I would only be at the rigs in Lake Borgne and pushing into MS Sound. They are there!
Either way, excellent work making it happen with the weather. The rain has been relentless.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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A Roatan fishing report was not on my bingo card. LOL
Sounds like you had fun.
I enjoy fishing other places because it’s good cross-pollination to learn new stuff, gain new perspective and bring that home to become a better angler.
That was certainly my experience bass fishing. If you can become good at most disciplines of bass fishing, you can become good at anything.
I’ve not heard much of bonefish and have only seen them in pictures, but my understanding is that they’re an extremely spooky fish.
My experience with a fly rod is also limited, though I do have one. I’ve used it to catch some bluegill and bass in the neighborhood pond in an effort to land a koi I’ve seen swimming in it.
How the hell a koi got in that pond is beyond me. Someone’s freed pet, I assume.
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“How are you going about identifying oyster reefs?”
Sonar helps, too. But GED will zero you in a lot faster. Yes, I get it. GED homework is annoying and time consuming. But nowhere as time consuming as looking at all those PVC poles without knowing where to start.
That and the river is low. Still in the single digits and not forecast to get into the double digits.
It’s not like 2019-2021 when the river was high and all those fish got pushed to the west to Grand Isle. Like it or not, they’re closer to the river.
I guess you can look at how the guides in GI did. If they’re posting limits to social media for 9am then there’s your clue.
I’m sorry it was tough, but this report is still a good one. Knowing where NOT to go is key! Thank you for posting!
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ha ha ha ha ha ha “My LIfe’s Work” that’s funny
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Thanks for the help! Looking forward to your report.
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Okay cool. Well it looks like the wind will setup perfectly for the Long Rocks. I’d fish the section that has land on the other side, the end, the open part that was taken out to build the dam, the other end and then the very tippy tip.
My fav part is the one with a stretch of land on the other side.
Then you can go inside to the MRGO and fish the SW and NE side for specks and reds. You will be out of the wind there.
Of course, there’s always the south side of the Rock Dam. You never know what may wait for you there.
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I thank you.
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That’s what the next video hammers home.
The whole bull red argument is smooth brain. Inshore anglers collectively killed more bull reds before the limit was changed, and a gentleman I know and respect broke down the numbers to me: that even now that bull reds are illegal to keep, a substantial number of them are killed from release mortality. Even with conservative numbers, release mortality bull reds still rival bycatch bull reds.
But what makes the bycatch bull reds a hot topic are their spectacle. And that’s it. It is occasional, not very consistent. I’m not justifying it or watering it down, I’m playing chess rather than checkers.
The real argument (and the far deadlier consequence) is the lynch-pin nature of menhaden’s role in the food web. With menhaden gone, the entire fishery will suffer, if not outright collapse.
We’ve seen it happen in Maine, New York, Jersey and Cheseapeake.
There’s a reason purse seines and reduction fishing was banned along the Atlantic seaboard as early as 1879.
This is nothing new under the sun.
But you have got get people’s attention and motivate them. The bull red video is the jingly keys to that end.
