leon-alberti
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Anyone ever tried Bayou Segnette? Tested my new kayak propulsion system the other day and there seemed to be a lot of surface action in the evening. Wondering if reds make their way up there much.
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Wait a sec. 2 of my apps said minimal rain, but Weather Channel has it at 60-90%. Maybe I need to rethink this.
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Do you know when/where is the meeting? I see the LDWF has a regular meeting at 9:30am on the 6th. But can’t find info on a meeting on the 7th.
https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/page/commission
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Hey Shooter – just wondering what the latest info is. I have a 23′ Sea Hunt Ultra that I would bring, as well as 3-4 friends to fish on it. Basically, I can fill my boat, but would be interested in finding sleeping accommodations. If we had to stay in the Venice lodges, that’s fine. But, I’d rather shoot the shit on a houseboat with some other LAFB members at night!
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As a final count, my boat will be me+3. But, I think we are going to stay in our own cabin at the Marina. So, don’t save us a space on a houseboat. Thanks!
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Hey Shooter – any confirmation of that 2nd houseboat yet? I’m assuming you’d like a final headcount of people I’m bringing?
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I’ve been there some days and it’s packed! Probably not at the end of October with rain in the forecast, though. I just have gotten really used to West End, when I might be the only trailer in the whole lot.
One other thing I hate about Bonabel is the concrete-topped pier. If I don’t have my bumpers out, I’m afraid of gouges in my hull. At West End, it’s all wood and pretty well built so you’ll hit the pilings before the deck.
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I would say visibility was around 2′ down in the sun. But, Devin made a great observation in a video I recently watched where he showed that visibility might actually be BETTER when it’s overcast. I was able to see baitfish and my bait around 2′ down before it disappeared into the murk, but that was in sunlight. When a cloud blew over, the trout may have been able to see even better.
You know . . . I wonder if we got more bites when it was cloudier . . . I really don’t remember.
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Sorry, I said “suspend” when what I really meant was that I just saw fish at that depth. I don’t know if they were moving . . . though I doubt it, because we weren’t moving and they would come and go on the screen.
I was using both sidescan and ClearVu (Garmin) side-by-side on the screen.
I guess it could have been other fish, but we didn’t see anything else. We did see lots of bait, though.
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Sounds good about Venice. It’s a long drive, but such choice once you get there.
I do have a specific question, while I have your attention. I could see the fish on my sonar. We were in ~20′ of water, and they were between 5-10′ deep. Sometimes a bit deeper. But, they were obviously feeding on the bottom.
What is their method of doing so? I mean, I can envision predatory fish laying on the bottom (or low in the water column) and looking up to silhouette bait, then attacking from underneath. And, I have seen fish that look for bait buried in the mud. But, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen video of a fast predatory fish (like trout or redfish) swooping on bait from above. It was obviously happening, but I simply cannot wrap my head around what it looked like!
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Hahaha – it was kinda touchy. We were on my boat, but our guest wanted to show us some of his spots. Once we had tried those . . . I suggested we move further out. I’d just rewatched one of your videos where you talked about them moving out and liking cloud cover (I think it was that Father’s Day one). I figured that they might be out a lot further.
I really wanted to go up into the Biloxi marsh and try some of the spots you’d marked in your series (Biloxi Marsh Ledge 2, Redfish pond 1), but it was getting just too hot. There was zero wind, so it was a broiler!
