[LA_Fiddler]

Thanks for the report – really good stuff.

As Devin said, they are really spread out.

You caught in three bayou bay and round lake. That’s the upper limit of latitude I’m targeting this time of year. But I’ve gotten several reports of people still catching specks in Salvador in the last two weeks! Likewise I’ve gotten reports of limits in the nearshore rigs by the gulf. I think the lack of rain has kept salinity up this year and they’re not moving out super fast.

Finding clean water is the game! I like to think of clean water as one of two scenarios: either already being in place already or moving in on a rising tide.

If you went to the south end of little lake (protected from the several days of strong wind we had)and the water is clean early, that tells you the water has been clean there, and the big tide doesn’t need to bring clean water up from grand isle to catch.

If it would be dirty, I’d focus on spots where the clean water is going to appear first on its way up from the gulf.

But if grand isle is dirty, you’re probably screwed.

[LA_Fiddler]

Beautiful! Thanks for the report.

[LA_Fiddler]

Thanks for reporting back! When the water is dirty and rough, it’s always a hard day there.

I didn’t take the boat down, but did some fishing on the island. A quick wade on the backside of the island Saturday showed me how filthy the water was and I spent about 30 minutes throwing before quitting.

Fished the cheniere fishing pier in caminada pass in the afternoon and worked the flats for a couple flounder.

[LA_Fiddler]

Spots 3,4,”Shallow” – good spots.

The whole north side of that island (Beauregard Island) is a big flat and you’ll usually catch there on a falling tide IF the water is cleanish. Don’t be married to a specific point there, you have to drift and move around. Size of fish is always the problem there but I’ve caught all along that north shoreline.

Spot 23 and all the rocks west of there all produce. That first cut right where you have the yellow marker is a deep hole about 10-15’ between the rock jetties. Always worth a jig.

I don’t fish those rocks on a falling tide,the water is always too dirty in my experience. Too much crap pulling out of the bay. I MUCH prefer a rising tide.

Spot 25 is not fishable. That channel you see north of the island between those rocks is bayou rigaud. If you decide to run it, pull up a nautical chart first. it’s very narrow and less than 2’ of water outside the channel. The buoys are confusing. Picture below: orange is no bueno. Blue are my GPS trails, red is where I got cute and tried to find the channel boundaries one day. 😁 found it.

The rocks directly behind grand isle and the island across from LDWF (google the kayak launch) is good. You should be reasonably protected on all that.

If you cross barataria pass and get behind grand terre you’ll be protected, water quality will be the question. You’ll be fine in a 23’ but you’ll feel it.

Don’t run on plane super close to grand terre for the sake of your lower unit. There are a lot of old pilings and junk. The rocks on the eastern end are the deepest and you’ll be protected.

I’ll be there fishing roadside Saturday!

[LA_Fiddler]

Thanks for the report! Got me thinking I need to carry an extra primer bulb!

[LA_Fiddler]

We must have been very close to crossing paths! I launched at joes. Since we fished the same stuff on the same day i figured i’d compare notes here.

“I pulled up to a small piece of structure I like to fish and saw a couple birds working with a nice tideline forming off it. Set up on the back side and first cast produced a keeper trout.“

Exactly the same pattern we fished on the rising tide, but we found it a lot later on.

“Right around 8:00 the wind picked up and the bite shut off almost instantly. I stuck it out until about 8:30 trying to get something going again, but nothing doing.”

About this time I was still up north in turtle bay working the falling tide, but the water movement died off around then. The wind did pick up but I was kind of protected so didn’t notice it. It did dirty the water up a bit. We wasted about an hour trying stuff north of harvey cut. Had I done it over again, I would have started in little lake.

“With a decent box started, I decided to move around and check some other areas. Hit Plum Point, Red Eye, and a few Hackberry spots but came up empty. Water was pretty dirty in those areas and the wind had it rolled up enough to make it tough to fish effectively in open water.”

Just to show how crazy these animals are, we found our biggest 3 trout of the day at Plum Point, but didn’t get there until about 12:00. By 12:30 they shut off. There was junk/grass floating in the water, but we were able to fish it from the west side of the point and throw into it without getting sloshed around too bad.. When it drifted over the old point, they would hit it. We fished the old platform just east of plum pt and it was uncomfortable with the waves.

As that tide came during the day, the water quality got better even with the wind. It was about 7/10 at plum point at that time. The islands in little lake close to bay dos gris with the shell bottoms were clean clean clean 9/10 through the early afternoon. East side of LL stayed clean as far up as 3 bayou bay.

“Made my way back toward Turtle Bay, fished a couple points and picked up one more keeper. Then pushed back into the Rigolets and found clean water fishing the lee side, caught a couple small dinks along the wall openings, and decided to call it.”

We started the morning in rigolettes fishing those same cuts and same results – tons of dinks on the openings.

Gotta get your contact at some point – happy to help with live intel or join forces if we’re ever out on the same day. I’m eyeing up something not next week but the week after.

[LA_Fiddler]

Points and tidelines were the ticket yesterday for us in lafitte yesterday on the rising tide. Water was beautiful so you should have great water tomorrow too.

[LA_Fiddler]

I will be down there on a separate trip! We’re going for mangroves and snapper unless the weather is abysmal. I’ll try to feed any intel we can.

[LA_Fiddler]

That’s the good stuff- way to go. There’s just something beautiful about kids catching specks

[LA_Fiddler]

Thanks for the report.

I’ve started using the 3/0 owner on the Slick Jr., (which of course is how they recommend it). The weightless setup just gives me so much confidence. They are absolute fish catchers.

[LA_Fiddler]

It would be a good spot for one, but I haven’t noticed it if so. They were stacking pipeline segments there a couple years ago but they’re gone now.

I’ve been wanting to fish the rocks northwest of there but I’ve never found the occasion to stop.

[LA_Fiddler]

Just a regular ole non government-funded shallow spot!

[LA_Fiddler]

Thanks – I’ve been able to sit on them and pound out fish after fish once or twice in the spring, but it’s rare and usually later into April and early May.

That or I’m ADHD

[LA_Fiddler]

Those little boogers have my heart ❤️

[LA_Fiddler]

gotcha – thanks for sharing!