[LA_Fiddler]

Well done. Not an easy feat yesterday with those winds!

[LA_Fiddler]

The big girls have hit the beaches in force this week.

We’re going for Snapper on Saturday so I’m just going to fish the beach Thursday evening and Friday. Not bringing my bay boat. By Sunday and Monday there’s usually too much boat traffic and the fish are spooked.

Friday should be absolutely fire on the beach. I’ll fish plastics.

The bait shops will be quickly sold out of croakers this weekend.

If I had my bay boat, I’d go straight to the beach on Elmer’s island and throw into the breakers.

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 6 days ago by  LA_Fiddler.

[LA_Fiddler]

Yep. I drive a small Acura MDX with an 18.5 Kenner, and it’s $21.50.

[LA_Fiddler]

Great trip!

I don’t know that the island has a name. It’s just part of grand terre islands. but the pass between grand terre and that island is Coup Abel (Pass Abel) said “koopa bell”.

The next pass east is 4 bayou pass.

[LA_Fiddler]

Good report – I thought about your plan Saturday morning when the wind laid down real good and thought you had a good shot but sounds like the water stayed dirty.

Family stuff got in the way of us going Saturday but I heard the beach was nasty anyway.

EDIT: By the way – even a small trailer is $21. They do it by total length of I think 35’. My small SUV and 18’ boat on a single axle is still $21. Its the worst.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by  LA_Fiddler.

[LA_Fiddler]

Man sorry for the tough day.

It’s just like that sometimes.

I’ve been there. One day soon you’ll be throwing them over the side and the boat next to you won’t be able to buy a bite.

Once you get confidence with the cadence on a jighead it’s hard to go back. Keep at it

[LA_Fiddler]

This matches up with my last couple of trips – If you had clean water I’m surprised they weren’t holding at Manila

[LA_Fiddler]

I think you’ll get beat up at any of your spots on Friday. Tide is great though for the whole weekend.

I’ll be down there fishing the beach for Saturday morning, but not bringing the boat this weekend. If the beach is dirty, I won’t catch.

If I fished Friday, I’d have two plans:

1. Be directly behind the island and fish corks on points. Clean water shouldn’t be a huge problem, but the further north you go, the worse it will get on Friday. Hit em quick and move on if nothing. I usually find the tide is too strong for upcurrent. I let the cork drift down current from what you can see above water.

2. Head west behind Cheniere and hit the marsh there. I put a pin on a safe place to start from. You’ll be out of the wind for sure.

On Saturday, all your spots should be pretty good if the water is clean, which I’d hope is the case.

BTW, Just east and south of your point 13 is Hotel Sid – The rig is gone, but they just put a new CCA reef there last year. https://www.louisianasportsman.com/fishing/inshore-fishing/raising-canes-hotel-sid-reef/

[LA_Fiddler]

Good report, thanks!

[LA_Fiddler]

From a boat, fish live croaker hooked through the anal fin with a Carolina rig. They live longer that way. Use as light of a weight as you can. Usually 1/4 to 1/2. 2′ leader to a kahle hook. I use 3/0 hooks. They’re big girls and they have no problem with the big hook. Let them eat it, don’t set the hook too quick.

I don’t use live bait if I’m wadefishing. I usually tightline a double rig plastic, but this weekend I’m going to try out a suspending soft-dine too. Target areas where there’s a dip, pothole, or current moving out.

If you ride to Elmer’s, you’ll see bait busting the water early in the AM. Spotlock or anchor outside the breakers, and throw into them. A light south wind is perfect for this, because you can still cast towards the bank easily with a 1/4 oz and the waves aren’t too big.

You want to throw where the waves break. The trout are waiting there to ambush disoriented baitfish caught in the wave.

The only caveat is that if you have NO wind and end up with a flat calm day, you’ll get no breakers which means they spread out a bit more, and I find you have to go deeper earlier in the day.

[LA_Fiddler]

You’re going to have monster rising tides this weekend and strong south winds all week. That usually equals super clean water once it the wind finally does lay down. I’m eyeing up Friday as a possibility to run out of Lafitte or maybe Leeville. Friday and Saturday both look very fishable, but the beach will probably be too rough. Showing 2′ seas on the forecast currently. Protected water behind the island should be lit.

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by  LA_Fiddler.

[LA_Fiddler]

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[LA_Fiddler]

I think the snow kill was really bad. I went to the Pen about a week after the kill and saw hundreds of dead trout all of good size.