Devin
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Yeah, you can get down that canal. You’ll just have to ensure the draw bridge comes up. IIRC, hail them on Ch 13. I don’t remember the number off the top of my head, if you were to call. Otherwise, that canal is fine. I suggest checking GED over relying on Navionics alone.
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“I ended up catching a limit of keepers, tagged and released 8 that were over 18”. With 5 or 6 of those being 20”+, one was probably the largest I’ve caught since this time last year @ 23”. And kept 7 smaller fish for dinner.”
That is a great day of fishing right there.
“These fish are too important to ‘release in grease ‘.”
Agreed. I hate that people treat the marsh like a grocery store. You are 100% correct. The fishing is coming back, too. But that area is still in the heart of the Great NOLA Area and gets pounded by everyone and their mom. That’s one reason I move out to other places, because there’s just that much less boating/fishing pressure and that really does make the difference. Even getting down to the river by Pointe a la Hache makes all the difference, there’s a lot of trout down there (I think there’s just more) and they don’t see things like jigs and jerkbaits very often, everybody fishing down there is throwing a cork.
If you like the Pac Man style of fishing, the river is where it’s at. Lots of rocks down there beginning from Mardi Gras Pass all the way to Southwest Pass.
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That one fish knocking on 21″ is a freakin’ football!! Unreal! What a fat trout!!
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Just keeping this thread going: I ran over my drift sock yesterday *facepalm*
whoopsies
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Hey Jamie, great to have you! I always wondered what the beach bite in Grand Isle would be like when the wind is honking out of the north. Or even when it’s calm, there has to be something at the Fourchon Barges, Timbalier Island rocks and Belle Pass. There must be. Or just run north to wherever @WestbankJosh is fishing. lol That man cannot be stopped.
I’m sure the marsh west of GI is worth looking at, but one time I went running back there and gates and “no trespassing” signs where everywhere. That was the Harrison Judgment Area IIRC. We know fish stack up on Hwy 1, so I’d look for how they get there then kablammer them with a boat.
Of course, the Sulphur Mine is good, but that would be a wee bit of a run. Do you keep your boat on a slip or trailer? Maybe towing to Bayou Blue Marina off 24 could be good. Big Bayou Blue probably kicks ass right about now.
But one place that I think could hold some serious hammer speckled trout is the Flotation Canal in Port Fourchon, especially after a strong cold front blows through. You would be a hero if you found them in there. No one told me to fish there, I’m just eyeballing it off what I know and how to fish the conditions. A look at Navionics might reveal more.
Either way, thank you for introducing yourself and I hope to see some reports. Do not hesitate to ask for any kind of help planning your next fishing trip.
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That’s another good day of fishing. Yeah, it’s nice to stack the days up like that, helps one get a good idea as to what’s out there. I’ll probably be out there later today or tomorrow. I’ll post a report when I do.
Great report, thanks for posting it!
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What I love about this report is that you built off the previous day’s TOW. And you didn’t go back to the friggin’ Trestles! Man, people love pounding that square peg into a round hole. Good on you. It makes me wonder how Martello would be doing on a falling tide.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Well, you’re dealing with a yokel on Facebook, so take that intel with a grain of salt. I haven’t heard anything from Chas that most of the trout they’re catching are over 20″. Absolutely not. But I’d like to see it return to where there are more of that class of fish. That would be great.
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I think that’s a safe assumption, but the water temp was still 57-59. It wasn’t “that cold”. I got out there for lunch time because I had to drop off my kids at school. Otherwise I would have fished the morning. They definitely bit better when the sun got low in the sky in the afternoon.
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I look forward to seeing the reports where guides can’t fill out their limits because they have to throw back so many 20″ fish. I promise that is coming, especially during summer in Breton Sound. Back in the day, many of our speckled trout were over 20″ and we kept boxes of them. It was just normal. A 20″ fish was nice and always a joy to see, but nowhere as rare as they are now. I hope we hit that threshold and just have so many fat fish to catch (and release).
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Our fish are so much fatter compared to Florida and Texas fish. That’s not a pissing match, they just really are fatter. There’s a lot more here for them to eat, especially down by the river. Which is great, because they need all the good they can get to grow and reproduce. The more fish that cross the 20″ mark are that many more fish that cannot be kept as often as the slot fish. Grow, grow, grow!!
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Do you have pictures of that?
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You’re right, it’s not a secret, but we both know the “fair weather fishermen” wait for someone to hold their hand, pat them on the head and show them exactly where to go. Now the additional fishing pressure comes out. Very few are going to do what you’ve done, which is just get out there and fish without the hand-holding.
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“You never know as I didn’t have binos (weirdo) or talk to anybody but didn’t seem like enough to stick around for me that day.”
I’m sure you intuitively discerned that they weren’t catching. If they’re sitting down or look bored, they are not catching. lol
In the realm of bass fishing, they call fisherman who fish stuff they can see “bank beaters”. A lot of the best fishing is done “offshore”, not meaning blue water fishing, but fishing structure in open water. A bass angler who can’t do this cannot possibly expect to be competitive. Well, that edge certainly cuts in the realm of inshore fishing.
I’ll tell you that, when I am fishing, I am visualizing the structure of the water around me. Sonar goes a long way to aid in this, but so does understanding the structure of different bodies of water: I’m not going to expect a flat in the middle of a pass. Looking at depth charts helps, too.
Quick note: structure is how a body of water is shaped. It is not bridge pilings, oysters or timber. Those are cover, or items on structure.
The best way I can describe this visualization is how an airplane pilot sees the land beneath him. The water isn’t there, and he can see the contours and shape of the ground. Well, in our case, the water blocks our vision, so we rely on mentally visualizing where the bottom structure is. This may seem alien or difficult, but consider that you already do this when driving your truck/car: even though you are not looking directly at other vehicles in traffic, you can “sense” where they are by using your mirrors and remembering/visualizing their location in relation to you so you don’t hit them. Same thing with walking through a crowd of people or finding what you need at the store.
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Well, then feast your eyes, because the pattern I fished yesterday was already filmed and uploaded 3.5 years ago. lol
