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Have to go out of town Saturday but @will-grand and I will be searching for them Saturday! Give us a shout @Boyce

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Yes there are several factors to consider.

Water level: a strong NW wind will drop the water level in the Marsh. Areas like MRGO are not affected per se but the marshes and Shallow bayous around it will be affected. This will concentrate fish in certain areas because they cannot exist in those areas the water has drained from. This is also a serious consideration when making routes because some areas will be non-navigable. This is most prominent in the winter but can happen any time to varying levels. This is a really important factor for juvenile redfish who spend a lot of their lives in shallow ponds.

Water clarity: If you have a wind that’s consistently out of the same direction then that shoreline will have cleaner water. For example: if you have a 15 MPH wind out of the west for 3 days and then lays down to 5 MPH, the east side of large bodies of water will have the tendency to be significantly dirtier than the west side. This means that you could have better luck on the west side finding clean water and feeding fish.

Bait: this is where I am not as strong with my knowledge because I rarely have seen this and or been able to prove this. But from what I understand: they say that wind will push bait onto one side of a body of water. So if I am fishing and the wind is coming out of the west then the east side will have bait concentrated and therefore more fish feeding on that bait. I must say that I have never really seen this applied in real life i.e: I was fishing on the Lee side with no luck and then went to the wind blown side and started whacking them but I’m sure others can chime in!

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Welcome to the board, I ran all over south of the dam yesterday and will be posting a report later today!

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That’s badass dude!! Me and a friend were just talking about striking out there just for fun to see what is there. I mean… Breton is not that far from Venice. You’re definitely going to drive past a lot of fish but it would be very unique.

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Spot 15 on a falling tide with the shrimp running 🤌

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Man my dog was sick and I checked the weather app at 3:25 and it said a 92% chance of thunderstorms at 7AM. I wrote it off, but way to freaking go for it! I have noticed that the storms hit consistently 3-6 hours after predicted the night before. Idk if it is pressure coming from the gulf or what but they always seem to spread out and slow down.

Glad you got on em, we will tag em another day. Image attached is @WestbankJosh on his way to smash a limit!

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Thanks for the report! I had gotten a bad report from a guide but I guess guide+shrimp<badass fisherman + knowledge lol. Way to get in them early. Definitely don’t want a “spot” but is there an area you like to start on the long rocks or just drift a section and keep moving down? Thanks and awesome job!

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What do you mean regarding Jahncke’s ditch?

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I see now! Sorry

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We were seeing a ton of bait pop around us too in the morning, with not as much action underneath them as you would expect. I tend to try to look at bait popping less like there are trout directly underneath them and More is just an indicator that there is bait so the chances of trout being there are greater. But who knows.

I’m sorry to hear that you had a difficult day out there. It is definitely a game of inches so do not be discouraged by your game plan. They were in those areas, you may have just been a little bit off from smashing them. I know that that is not helpful to hear at this point ha ha but your plan was not a bad one.

All of the little things definitely add up out there. I had a very nice day, but @Devin was a couple hundred yards away and he was back cleaning his boat while I was running around like a lunatic.

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Did you stay in Hopedale Lagoon/Amede or did yall move to find cleaner stuff?

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My buddy and I are doing Saturday and Monday for sure. Gonna be fun

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@Devin tired of his entourage of mouth breathers getting skunked and really laying out the roadmap here. A lot of these were spots I hit today and ones @Boyce & I were already talking about. Feels good to be on a similar wavelength.

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Trouble for playing hookie is temporary. A day smashing fishing is forever

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Any rhyme or reason to the locations of the fin fish? It’s obviously no coincidence that where I was smashing them, I saw/heard bait popping on the surface. Is there anything that draws these fin fish to a certain area? They need phytoplankton/grass so do you target areas based on that or just have a pattern and run those spots planned until you find the bait?

That’s kinda the key I’ve always missed with spring. I am decent at summer and Fall because the shrimp pattern is easy to predict and plan for. The fin fish is a little more difficult.