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If you go toward lake robin which is an excellent option given the wind….stop and fish this flat. We call it “the bucket and the stick”. I think the buckets gone but the stick is still out there off of a point. Huge grass flat. It has always been productive for me.
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That was me. I killed it in port sulphur two weekends ago. Caught some really nice trout and I was way inside in my kayak. I agree that the best action is probably going to be out toward the old camps in Lake washington area, but dont look past some of those oyster beds on the sulphur canal. Try the old camp pilings at the southwest corner of SanBois. Thank me later. In fact I can guarantee if you wait for the tide to start moving into sanbois and you throw to those old camp pilings and jig the dropoff to the channel of dularge you will hammmmmmmmmmmmmer the trout. Axe me how I know.
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I dont know that area as good as points further southeast but I do know that a lot of that broken marsh off of the wilkinson canal can be very very very shallow. Just keep that in mind. Take it slow working your way around. Your boat should draft shallow enough to play around and learn some good spots.
I think I am seeing a trend, and I don’t really want to step on Devin’s teachings or come off the wrong way but I see that just like this trip you are planning is like a solid 30 miles one way to get to the island just past grand terre. Not saying dont do it, but you could spend alllllll day, or all week, or even a month within a 5 mile radius of myrtle grove marina. Same goes for hopedale, port sulphur, anywhere for that matter. I think a lot of times people are so focused on running to one spot a million miles away they run past really good fishing. Look at my last port sulphur report. I took my kayak to a spot 2 miles from the launch and slayed bigger trout. I guess what I am saying is that all that spot running is ambitious and I spent years down there just exploring and breaking down areas without having to run all over christendom. Slow down. Learn one leg of your route. Spend all day breaking it down, fishing it, then when you go back you will know all of that and where the fish are holding. Maybe im just crazy. Just food for thought.
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How I run southwest to lake washington and other points. Basically avoidimg the entire mine area.
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Firstly I have to say that any area in lake washington, grand ecaille, billet bay, Bay laynaux, Bay Sanbois and just about anywhere near port sulphur is all kind of proceed with caution. Even outside of the sulphur mine the whole area is littered with pipelines, platforms, and generally all kinds of oil field stuff. Pipeline canals have rock weirs and pilings, and sometimes that stuff is submerged. On your first trip there I highly recommend running everything relatively slowly and just exploring and laying down known good tracks. EYES PEELED ALL THE TIME.
Ok the red area is straight up NO GO zone. That is basically all of the old sulphur mine with lots of submerged debris. Dont go through there. On the north end where the freeport sulphur canal ends there is a marked channel through rattlesnake bayou. If you want to go west of rattlesnake bayou I recommend not going outside of that marked channel until you clear the platforms for about a mile or two out into the bay. You can go around the east side of the sulphur mine through the lake. I have done it and I see people do it a lot but honestly I just avoid it. They are generally going south towards the old sheriffs camp (group of camps at the end of old robinson bayou) or to four bayous pass. I go to those places through lake washington. I will post a picture of the way that I do that. With that being said Lake Washington is full of shit too, and generally you can run it pretty quick but there are random pilings and concrete platforms that can sometimes be hard to see. You have to run it with your head on a swivel.
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Sorry I havent gotten back to you. I checked some of those coordinates the other day and they are for sure not correct. I do have a paper chart for that area that I can send a pic of when I get a chance to dig it up. Just been hella busy.
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This is what the trout were puking up in port sulphur. I threw a regular sized marker 54 all day. A friend of mine with a camp in grand isle says he is throwing the shrimplets double rigged.
All that to say that sometimes bigger baits dont necessarily mean bigger fish. This tiny shrimp came out of the mouth of a 20 inch trout. They are all eating them.
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I have to mention there is at least a 60% chance ill get sick of driving and stop in port sulphur. We will see.
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She relented. I fish saturday.
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I was out in that area past the red pin about 2 years ago. I was able to get in but that whole area between the red pin and those little islands is pretty damn shallow. I was there on a good high tide day and just more or less trolled in. I did catch some hammmmmmer trout and reds back there by those grass islands and lots of school trout on the oyster beds past those little islands.
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It wasnt h2s smell. Regardless that thought did cross my mind in that moment. One of the lafayette guys I was fishing with has worked his whole life in inshore/offshore oil said it was the corrosion inhibitor they use on/in the wellheads. Either way I wasnt sticking around to find out.
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Compared its not purple like the other truth colors. Its more of pink/white with pink glitter. I think it mimics white shrimp and thats why it works so well. I jlhave literally caught over 1000 trout on this particular bait. It might be the most prodictive single trout bait ive used in the last 5 years.
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I think its possible the trout will be there. Id mentioned this before but I fished YCB and the wagon wheel on the same day a couple of years ago and the salinity in the wheel was like 2ppt and it was 21 or 22ppt in yellow cotton bay. Thats a world of difference in the same back yard.
