GreenwaterJon
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I haven’t been into the marsh here, but have found fish along the margins of the MRGO here, keeping the boat in navigable depths and fishing in toward the flats and channels along the spoil bank…
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Your plan sounds pretty solid, Shooter – good luck tomorrow!
I’m taking my nephew out for trout and tripletail tomorrow, starting around Isle au Pitre and Grand Pass. This might be in your general vicinity, so perhaps I’ll see you out there. I’ll have one heavy rod rigged with a Coon Pop and another with a 5” NLBN K-Tail on a 7/0 weighted swimbait hook, ‘just in case’ they pop up while I’m out running around. I probably should get a Mississippi license so I can actively target tarpon, but for now I’m just trying to be prepared in case the “hope strategy” actually works……
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I found a dehydrated white shrimp on my dock in Eden Isles this morning – which only happens when they’re pursued by the bass and redfish who hang out in the dock lights, leap out of the water to escape, but land on the dock and can’t get back. Seeing this way back in the residential canals is a good sign that the white shrimp are becoming active, and your report corroborates this, many thanks!
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I lost the first seven tarpon I hooked, six in Belize at San Pedro and another near the Gulfport ship channel just outside Ship Island. I’ve since caught a couple on the Coon Pop out of Venice and several in Florida Bay, but doing it in your own boat really is the thing, and I haven’t managed that yet… I been trying to figure them out for a long time, though, and compiled this little document based on where I’ve seen them rolling, catch reports and a tagging study done at Mississippi State University. You’ve probably seen much of this, but will attach for your review…
P.S. Looks like you have to download the file in order to see past the first page…
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Great report, awesome photo!
I love the summer season, have been trout fishing many times (EBM and beyond, long boat rides), made a couple of snapper fishing trips (longer boat rides), chased tripletail (lots of fun, but likewise lots of hours at the helm), thinking I need to find a good high-water day and do some sight fishing close to home. Your report is some timely inspiration, I think – and much appreciated…
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Excellent – thanks
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Wow, excellent report – very clear and detailed, many thanks!
P.S. The big trout is a beast!
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Great report – and a pretty solid morning catch, thanks for posting!
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Excellent report, thanks! This is one of my favorite areas, and it’s good to hear there are some good fish turning up. I’ve managed a few keepers myself in recent weeks, but last year was almost all dinks, starting with the brown shrimp run in May to the end of the summer season.
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Excellent catch, and great report – many thanks!
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Good report, thanks!
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Thinking about going to the Creole Gap, Flatboat Key, Isle au Pitre area tomorrow, then down toward Door Point and maybe search for tripletail on the way back. It’s big water, but the EBM is still producing lots of throwbacks, not sure what to expect…
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Welcome Jason!
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I’ve found a few on some small wrecks between 25 and 35 feet deep in northeast Chandeleur Sound, not too far inside the northern tip of the Chandeleur islands. I love to go out there in summer after chasing trout in the east Biloxi Marsh in the mornings. Snapper and tripletail fishing is something that can be done in the afternoons when the trout bite is over for the day – but these spots are something like 15 miles ESE of Grand Pass. They’re inside the islands, but not really inshore. There are some old oilfield structures in Chandeleur Sound that might hold snapper in the summer and fall. These are much closer – 5 to 7 miles out in the Sound, east of Deepwater Pass, or ESE of Door Point. I’ve never checked these for snapper, but they’d be good habitat if the water is suitable. I think the key is salinity. They’re under every dock in Florida, in shallow mangrove creeks and grass flats, but those areas are directly connected the ocean…
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Was seriously unhappy with my nephew, who did NOT turn up at 0500 as planned… I’d given up when I got a text at 0800 begging forgiveness, but there’s almost no forgiving a lost fishing day. I must be getting kinda soft-headed, though, because after listening to the apology for the third or fourth time I got talked into heading out around noon to try for tripletail – and managed to guide the kid to his first, a beautiful 8-pound fish – but no trout, no real tarpon hunting, and the tripletail only partially offset my grumpy mood. Hopefully I’ll see you on the water next time…
