m2mannina
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Don’t sleep on a custom built rod. A good shop can build you exactly what you want for competitive store bought pricing. I just had a 6‘4”med fast w/ short butt built by Swampland tackle in Lafayette La. for $250. It is super light and perfectly balanced with a Lew’s custom light reel.
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This is an excerpt from a local newspaper written about a local 3-month tournament out of Cypremort point that starts on July 5 and ends on September 28. The leading speck right now is just over 4 lbs. A 4 pounder is doable but not very common in my area anymore. I think it cements my suspicion that the bigger trout are holding on the docks at this time of the year. I’m sure as the water gets colder, they will gravitate to the flats to warm.
“Marks believes his front-running fish should stay atop the leaderboard in the Speckled Trout Division. “I think it will. There’s still some time. (But) there’s a lot of people beating on those piers,” he said, adding any arrival of cooler water could trigger bigger speckled trout to feed. “The fish are not moving around a lot. The water’s 90 degrees right now.” Also, Marks said, “Right now we’re getting a lot of east wind blowing a lot of freshwater in and keeping it kind of cloudy. Here around the Point it’s not too bad. When you go out to the reefs it’s not good at all.” The Capt. Quints Cast & Cruise Guide Service owner targeted piers and docks along the Point to catch the top speckled trout on a Creole shrimp-colored Matrix Shad on a ¼-ounce leadhead. “I think I had caught three. It was like 8 o’clock in the morning. I had just pulled up to that spot. I had pitched in there a couple times when I hooked that one,” he said, noting he realized it was a big fish right away. “The problem was it was 10 feet from the boat,” he said, noting he didn’t have time to get the net. “I didn’t want to risk losing the fish because it was right by the boat so I flipped it in. I called it a day. I figured to catch one like that the same day would be highly unlikely. Also, I didn’t want to have two fish over 20 inches.”
Read more at: https://thedailyiberian.com/2025/09/02/250903-outdoors-cp/“
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Thanks for all of the replies. I will try to target the reefs on the southside of the island also. That is mainly where I fish anyways. This year will be a little different for me as I am 100% out of hunting. I will be able to focus on fall/wintertime fishing. I could never do that with the hunting I did. I had a smaller boat in the past so once the north wind picked up it wasn’t safe for me to cross the bay. I have a bigger boat arriving in October sometime. I will focus more of my time out there fishing the oyster reefs. I do like top water and occasionally catch a few. However, I’ll have a better chance now that I can throw it during a more productive time of year. @Devin What is that particular evergreen top water. size you use, the SB 125 or SB105.
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I too am in between boats. I won’t have my own until October. It sucks because I have to bum rides but also reveal my spots to my friends..lol The trout are slowly moving in. Some are still offshore, but the reefs are starting to load up. They normally don’t start moving into the bay until the first few fronts in December when the water starts to cool.
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Thanks for the welcome Devin! Yes I have a 25 mag on order. I’ve been without a boat since April. The new won’t be ready until October. Not sure if I can make it till then..lmao..
But yes the fish are starting to move in now that the river has dropped. The salinity is up to 5ppm as of today. The river dropping in combination with the west winds are setting up perfect conditions earlier than normal.
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I think it is just this time of year they are there. Say maybe till November before the water cools too much, but hey what do I know. Our fishery fishes’ way different than the most eastern/western part of the state. That’s why I’m here asking questions. You’re right the salinity during the summer is not enough to hold the big trout. They are most likely offshore spawning. The salinity got as high as 6.5ppt in early August. It is now in the low 5’s. The docks do get some pressure, but not as much as you may think. The few people I see when I’m out seem to just fish the perimeter. Most of the crowd is going for numbers. They pile in the cove and trash pile. The people that really know how to fish are chasing numbers vs size. So, they aren’t spending a bunch of time looking for a handful of bites. That is why I feel like if I can skip a mega matrix or something slightly bigger than the standard matrix further under there, I may have a better shot. I’m sure they are feeding on croakers and pin fish next to those pilons away from the pressure.
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Just wanted to consolidate and get really good at one thing. I liked hunting but fishing has always been my passion. I collected many toys over the years geared toward hunting (houseboat, Airboat, gatortail, and a 20′ CC bay boat.) I found myself enjoying fishing way more than hunting and not utilizing the hunting stuff. Another reason is how the duck hunting has gone down in South La. I was in a family lease since the early 2000’s that bordered the west side of the Wax Lake Delta (Atchafalaya River). We had really good hunting at one time, but the land we leased just isn’t the same. Our ponds became tidal, and the ducks seem to have changed their migration patterns. I focused more on the deer, but that too has changed drastically with subsidence and erosion. The land was harder ground at one time and has since changed to more marsh. This has made the deer hunting less enjoyable. The wax has silted up considerably and restricts the flow, so when the river is high the water backs up in the marsh. I sold all those toys and will be taking delivery on a Haynie 25 mag in the coming months. My wife loves to fish. We’ll be full steam ahead this winter. The only bullets I plan on touching this winter are silver bullets. lmao
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Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve spoken to some of the older guys who fished during the heyday and many of the stories of big trout came from docks in the area. Our bay doesn’t really have many flats we have one huge cove that is protected the most during the winter. That is the area you hear Devin refer to as the cove. Tons of trout are caught there but it is the most well know community hole in the area. The docks are in the same general area. The yellow circle is considered the cove. The orange are the docks I was referring to. That whole area is in the 6-8′ range.
