[LA_Fiddler]

We need a couple fronts!

[LA_Fiddler]

I love the online. When I’m on desktop I make polygons for rig footings or reefs, then I can pull up my phone out on the water and see where I’m fishing without having to use the historical maps.

[LA_Fiddler]

I have an old photo I will post today that will help. Malice is correct – give that area a wide berth.

I will fish around it on very calm days under trolling motor power and it’s amazing how much I still hit with the trolling motor.

[LA_Fiddler]

Glad the new outboard is hooked up and running.

I haven’t fished back there since before Ida, but have been meaning to go.

Did you run through the pen, Texaco canals, or spoonbill/round lake?

[LA_Fiddler]

I like your points. Good protection with the wind.

You have plenty of room to run that bayou between point 1 and 2, then follow it south or north to fish deep bends or runouts.

Anything you find over 15’ is worth a few casts on the bottom.

[LA_Fiddler]

I think its good if you have a very aggressive jigging style. The only time I’ve found it useful for me is when I have a double rig 1/8oz and I’m working the surf high in the water column on a medium power rod. You can pop it super hard without moving the baits too far.

Fishing deep I can’t do it. If I could pop a jig like Chas Champagne, it would be critical to have mono or maybe flouro.

[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]

Flawless.

I would recommend a version with a way to monitor charge state easily, but it’s a solid battery. I fish 2 full days without a recharge

[LA_Fiddler]

Assuming you have an ETEC gen 1?

Instead of an engine monitor, you may want to look at doing a NMEA setup to your graph. May be cheaper. I did that with my Lowrance and it’s been pretty painless.

[LA_Fiddler]

In addition to grand pass, if you keep running west down bayou dularge from grand pass and there’s another good set of cuts coming from king lake. With that tide and wind condition I don’t know what you’ll see but there will be movement.

[LA_Fiddler]

I got all my matrix this year through a guide buddy who buys direct from Chas, and they were absolutely better.

The color, flake distribution, all of it. For a while, I couldn’t find a shrimp creole that I liked. The good ones had that pink tint throughout, but some of the ones I’d previously been buying from academy were basically clear with flake. Killed my confidence.

I’m going to have to go test the 1/8th on the matrix I have now to see.

[LA_Fiddler]

Thankfully I go through enough baits where they don’t stay in the box for very long.

I have bulk ziplock bags in my shed and re-fill the box when it gets low.

I did find out that you can absolutely NEVER mix an H&H chartreuse with any other plastic, or that yellow will bleed over.

[LA_Fiddler]

Agreed on the 3/0.

Those that look like the yellowmouths are a 1/4oz custom made by a friend of mine. They just look like the yellowmouths, except they have a thin wire hook so you can straighten it out if you get stuck. But honestly, I’m about to ditch them, as the hook design makes the barb a bit too ineffective, and I have been losing fish with it. I may order a pack of the yellows though. They look quality.

I’ve been experimenting with jigheads recently and come back to the deathgrips and goldeneyes constantly. I have a lot of the unbranded ones from the bulk bin at Puglias, too. Probably just going to permanently shift do deathgrips and order enough to where I don’t feel bad losing them anymore.

As to keeping them in the bag, I wish I could do that but I am always in too much of a rush on the water. My bad habit is that I’ll reach for the closest thing available and just throw that on the line, and multiple bait bags end up lying around in the dumbest possible place, so i don’t find it again until I clean the boat. I’ll end up fishing with a sub-optimal jighead weight or an old plastic just because it was easy to find! Keeping everything in one box is the only way I keep some kind of order.

[LA_Fiddler]

i like the lemon heads too – have a few in there, but I tend to stick to the beetles. I don’t know about you but I find they perform best in trout green but cloudy water on the coast.

I think something about the chartreuse in green water pops, but wonder if that’s your experience.

In brown or dirt water I reach for purple usually.