[Daniel_Gig]

I don’t have radar, it’s so damn pricy. But I 100% want it. Along with flir cameras. I mean visibility is a huge factor that determines when I can leave the dock. Imagine arriving to chandler islands and watching the sunrise, without that long scary ride in the dark lol

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From what I’ve experienced, our region in general just sucks for internet. When I visit other places, like Austin Texas, their internet is insanely fast, everywhere it’s really good.

Here, no matter what they promise, I’m lucky to see a fraction of it. We recently switched to vexus fiber optic, and it’s much better than spectrum, but still not what they claim.

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@MLeBlanc a lot of those lake B trout have pushed out further. This time of year, especially after say 9am, I’m looking for birds and other signs of life. By July, I don’t bother wasting too much time on the north side of the marsh, I typically run straight out if I can. Yesterday I never found CLEAN water over there but did find fish, the water they were in was only slightly better. Birds are your friend this time of year

[Daniel_Gig]

Awesome man

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That’s a monster for that area. Congrats

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I’ll “rep” an LAFB sticker lol

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I know it’s been high, and the threat for opening was there, no doubt, but I think the media hyped it up/fisherman are terrified of it.

On a side note, everyone remain on the lookout for river debris. At the long rocks like 2 weeks ago I saw maybe 4-5 giant trees float past me in like 20 mins so there’s a lot of trash out there anywhere on the coast. Even ship island(or one of the other ms islands) had a tree wash up

[Daniel_Gig]

This just tells us your human haha

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With 5 kids in the car including a 2 year old. Drove 1300 miles there, and 1300 miles back, only stopping for fuel, food, bathroom… lol My wife would start the drive, once kids fell asleep, i took over driving through the night, and she would take back over around 7am the following day… Spent 14 days on vacation, now i need an actual vacation

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Aside from the forum compatibility, does chatGPT work well for writing accurate reports? I’m always looking for better/easier ways to make reports

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@Devin Really? That’s wild? You know that for sure? Seems like it would cost more to get it back up.

@MLeBlanc great to ask pre planning, but on the water, when in doubt, go around. There’s a section of north of the dam that I thought was an opening, but it was really subsided rocks just below the surface. I was going slow enough to not do major damage.

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Yesh it’s beautiful up there, even in June their high temps never get went over 80°, mostly low 70°’s as the high each day and it snowed a few times while in the mountains. I’m a huge fan of the mountains and national parks. When I visited Rocky Mountain national park as an adult i thought it would be cool to take my kids up there, so we went. They’ve been asking to see the mountains, so I figured instead of going to Florida and melting in the sun we would do a summer mountain vacation. 3500 mile road trip. Capped the trip off with a stay at great wolf lodge with indoor waterpark for the kids, they loved that. I’ve been dying to hire a fly guide and do some stream trout fishing, but that wasn’t in the budget after everything else lol

Anyways, yeah I love seeing you sway people away from the BM, since it gets hammered as it is. But yeah, I think things are looking a little better this year 🤞. I almost didn’t fish it based on what others were reporting. But I think that guy just didn’t venture out far enough (I’ve done it myself a million times, got skunked in an area, only to find out people limited out like .5 a mile away).

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If your asking me I never fish it

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My little 4 stroke mercury did something similar, was a hose that came loose off the idle sensor* could be wrong there on sensor.

Either way,I’m sure you’ve tried a little YouTube DIY before posting lol

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While I know everything you’re saying here is true, Isn’t this the “networking” part of inshore 101? Yeah I’ve probably had to fish with 20 people to find 2-3 good ones, but eventually you find someone who is contributing equally (or as close as possible), not totally annoying or abrasive. Or any other number of personality traits that would make you not want to fish with them…

Sometimes your “network” will have a report they want to keep the lid on, but might be willing to share more with a handful of trusted anglers in their network.

Like if I get on a fire mrgo bite in early winter, I’m not handing over the same detail when posting for 100’s of people to see, as I would if it were an angler who I know that can and will return the favor. Because I know my network won’t go pillage my spots, they wont go post online like they discovered the fish, and I can trust that they will be good stewards of the fishery.

Maybe I’m half reading… just my thoughts