[LA_Fiddler]

Incredible! Nice work and great report.

[LA_Fiddler]

The current models show them staying small and dissipating in the Caribbean.

Here’s hoping!

[LA_Fiddler]

Welcome to my neck of the woods! Glad you found them. I’ve experienced that grind many times.

Ive come to prefer Spoons and spinners for that kind of thing because of the casting distance and how much shoreline you have to work.

Those pilings you saw (hit) at the mouth of bayou couba are from an old camp destroyed during hurricane betsy. To show how much the land has changed, that camp was built 200+ yards deep into the gulf canal.

I’m trying to find my way out there again this week if the wind plays nice. Good report!

[LA_Fiddler]

It’s been holding easy limits of bass.

There and north side of catouatche.

[LA_Fiddler]

Looks like perch beds and pilings. Some grass in the water too.

My guess is a freshwater lake but the bottom looks relatively flat.

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[LA_Fiddler]

Nicely done!

Those rocks are super productive. Good job picking it apart from the kayak

[LA_Fiddler]

Good report. The fishing pressure was super high this weekend, especially Friday and Saturday.

People I know who are regulars on the island struggled this weekend. The best result I heard this weekend was a friend of mine who threw carolina rig shrimp at structure. With three anglers they got 35 on Friday. Saturday much worse.

4 Bayou Camps were a parking lot with 3 and 4 boats fishing the same structure.

[LA_Fiddler]

Glad you went check it out! Since my report a couple weeks ago, the lafitte guide boats have all honed in on the south shore of Salvador. It must be tough further south, because they normally doing give it THAT much attention.

I have a video a friend of mine sent showing 17 boats on Grosse Pointe the day before your trip.

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[LA_Fiddler]

Glad to see Philo Brice producing still. I’m impressed you still went out there in the conditions!

Good report thx. Hoping the swells die down this week. I’m considering running out there but probably going east to bay long.

[LA_Fiddler]

I had a friend tell me of the exact same thing happening off grand isle. Millions of redfish but no interest in eating. I’ve heard it’s like they’re in a trance.

[LA_Fiddler]

Great job! Thanks for the good report.

[LA_Fiddler]

Glad yall hit some! Nothing like those big croaker hits.

The reef is mostly just limestone and I think some broken concrete. There is not a ton of relief to the original bottom anymore unless you find the northeastern edge where it’s still got some relief from the floor. I’ve run over a couple spots with a 2’ difference but that’s about it.

You can tell because the bottom is more irregular than the flat sandy bottoms, but if there are waves, you can really only tell on sonar by the strength of the bottom return. Then drag a heavy jighead on the bottom and you’ll confirm it.

Looks like you had the right spot to me! I have friends that hit it religiously, but I almost never fish it due to boat traffic.

I drop a waypoint whenever I hit a big relief on the sounder, this is what it looks like. Otherwise it’s flat with a solid bottom return.

[LA_Fiddler]

did you fish the beach in front of coup abel?

I ran that way and saw a couple of boats, but I couldn’t fish it with kids with the waves.

[LA_Fiddler]

yw. The bite was better on Friday. The water was moving better at the end of the rising tide that day. I’m not really sure why, as the wind was about the same each day, and the tide was supposed to have peaked about the same time each day. But we had a steady slow movement from sunrise to about 7:30 on Friday. It was stagnant Saturday but I was just on a good spot.

The smaller trout were high in the water column where we were. The bottom in 3-4′ was where the keepers were.

[LA_Fiddler]

The freeze was devastating in Barataria, and I can’t be convinced otherwise.

I saw WAY too many dead trout floating in Lafitte 5 days after the freeze.