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I feel like YCB is like Port Sulphur. Highly salty. I fished a bayou coast tournament a year or two ago. I fished the wagon wheel and YCB in the same day. The salinity in YCB was like 22ppt and in the wagon wheel it was like 2ppt. Huge difference. Maybe that has changed now. That is a very fluid area for water condition and quality for sure.
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What part of port sulphur? Public launch behind the school?
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The water temp got up. It was 92 when we picked up. IT really narrowed that bite window. The fish were there, but catching them was definitely a matter of responding when that window opened. Great times were had, and I love it. I am very very very very excited for the fall. That same pond I was in when the bite went off probably had 40+ fish in a 100×100 yard area. It will be on FIRE!
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I am beyond excited to go fishing tomorrow. In fact I already loaded my kayak up last night and started in on my rod and reel selection and rigging. Ended up having to field strip one of my shimano D.C.s because it was acting up. I Swear to christ my nickname should be shimano stripper because I can take one apart and put it back together blindfolded. Also lubed up my daiwa but it has been a bit less finicky.
Anyway my plan is to launch at hermitage around 515-530 for first light. Weather is looking awesome albeit hot. I havent checked my buoys today yet but the tide got to about 1.5-2ft over regular high tide on thursday with the passing of bertha. Water temps also lowered a few degrees below the average for the past week. Tide should be moving pretty good and rising till 9am ish where we are. Going to target the broken marsh on the north end of hermitage. I can feel it in my plums, its going to be an epic day.
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Those birds have it out for yall or something.
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Yes
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Might consider also buying a salinity meter. I bought one on amazon for 25 bucks. I check salinity almost every time I fish unless I am to busy or just dont think about it. Usually those are the days when I know the buoy data so I dont really have to break out the meter. For about 3 years I have kept a meter with me and spot checked salinity so I can have an idea of whats going on with the trout. Trout chase that salinity gradient in the summer for sure when they are trying to go out to the passes and offshore to spawn.
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2 – I wouldnt fish it if its super muddy. I would run south away from the discharge at the diversion. You can check to see what the gate has been doing. I did just discover there is a USGS buoy at caenarvon and they report discharge (8000cfm max). Looks like it has been cranking near max a lot. I would go south to find cleaner water. If the water looks like crap in lery head south toward alligator pass and grand lake work that area over.
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Yeah for the last few years that area west of the school has gotten hammered by high salinity and storms. I have caught a few reds looking for trout by accident but more likely to catch em over oyster beds. Trying to sight fish them in the ponds turned out to be a bug waste. Had to get right up by the levee to really find the reds. Tends to hold some fresher/greener ponds. I think I prefer grand bayou road for reds, but mostly because I am lazy so I can slide the kayak in and immediately be on very good fishing. My last few trips to grand bayou road have all resulted in multiple middle to upper slot reds. Great fishing around there. I am just getting into exploring hermitage thoroughly and I love what i have seen so far. When red october comes, it will be on fire.
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I came to add that I have not seen to many reds around the public launch in a long time. The last time I went in search of reds I did find some but it was probably close to a mile north of the launch near the levee. It seems the area has had a hard time recovering from storms. Ponds to the west of grand bayou just dont have any grass at all anymore. I have had better success with reds up by grand bayou village and hermitage. Grass can be found in the ponds although it isnt great, its better than the areas to the south.
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I also found another USGS tide gauge right where caernarvon (spelling?) dumps into lake lery. This will give you very very very accurate tide data for the lake.
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I think I am the one who misread the graph. I thought I saw the 800cfm and it was 8000cfm. SO it is at nearly min discharge. Still min discharge of 1000cf sec isnt nothing and it doesnt take much to stir up the water down there.
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Well I am not talking drastically south. Yes at some point you start running into mardi gras and neptune runoff, which is also very very muddy. In between there can be some very clean water, especially in those areas where the grass is super healthy.
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Cheap to tow it over to mississippi and launch there. Take your old lady to BSL for lunch after. She will like that.
