[LA_Fiddler]

Nothing like that croaker thump! Good work

[LA_Fiddler]

If you go to 4 Bayou, I recommend you run at safe light if you don’t have a GPS track already. Give Grand Terre a decently wide berth to the north. There are pilings and debris which will ruin your day.

It will be crowded, but there’s a ton to fish out that way. Not to give too much away, but don’t be afraid to run further east into Bay Long to avoid the crowds.

[LA_Fiddler]

Glad to meet you! Yall pelay’d them trout!!

I’ll put my own report up tomorrow after one more quick trip.

[LA_Fiddler]

I run an 18’ Kenner out of GI with a 130. That forecast isn’t really scary for fishing overall, but actual 2’ swell would probably take me out of fishing the beaches early AM when you have to be close.

[LA_Fiddler]

Launching at Ludwig is going to probably be the best bet with the wind on Saturday. The marsh island directly across Bayou Rigaud has plenty of spots to fish and you’ll have a good lee shoreline to play with, plus all the rock piles on the south usually produce on rising tides. I’ve kayaked across there with a pedal drive before.

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[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.

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[LA_Fiddler]

i’d better do that!

[LA_Fiddler]

thanks, cap

I’m definitely going to do some rig graphing. I just got a sidescan in the last couple of months, and I definitely need the practice.

I ran to Couba island two weeks ago just to run around and there was no grass yet, but hopeful for later this summer.

[LA_Fiddler]

I’ll be up in the freshwater chasing reds this weekend but for sure next time you head down. Good luck!

[LA_Fiddler]

shoot, i get the frissons just thinking about running port sulphur to 4B in the daytime! If you fished out there before you know everybody runs east to 4B and pretends like it’s the end of the earth.

So much good stuff east of 4B that nobody touches. It’s my favorite area to fish.

[LA_Fiddler]

thanks for the tip – I tried fishing that rock jetty in December looking for specks, but the water was a little funky. Good idea i didn’t think about stopping there.

[LA_Fiddler]

So as you drive down the island, there are several crossovers for ATV/golf carts, and some of those have parking near them. People just kinda make their own spot. They all have orange signs and gravel crossovers.

[LA_Fiddler]

I’d say 9:30 on Friday, roughly when the tide quit.

There was a good early bite, then a lull, then about 8:30 it picked up again for an hour.

[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.