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Are you in a kayak? I can give you lots of good tips on venice and YCB. What area in port sulphur were you in? I dont recognize the spot your talking about?
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This gets me fired up.
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Damn epic. Gosh that flounder makes my mouf water.
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Similar to my kayak trip in hermitage. Water was fairly clean by standards of over there. But not super clean in general. Some of the grassy back ponds were fairly clean but reds werent forthcoming. I was alternating throwing underspin with gulp and megamatrix on weedless screw lock. Caught reds on both but it was tough finding them.
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Well I am doing my USGS buoy data survery this morning just to see whats up and down. Salinities in barataria bay have dropped significantly. The buoy at empire and north of grand bayou village are reporting around salinities around 10-12ppt. They were closer to 20-25 before the storm. The ground water runoff has made a major impact on the salinities of the bay, and those have not been overwhelmed by the south wind and higher tide levels.
The good news is the tides are still averaging about 2ft above marsh level, so I should be able to go way way way up into the skinniest of spots with no issue in the kayak even on low tide. I could have easily taken my boat back into the same areas this time around if I would have chosen that route.
I also took a peak at turbidity which is super important to know, especially in super shallow barataria bay. It was way up 2 days ago with all the wind and rain, but it has come back down so It is possible that the water is cleaning up quickly. We will see when I get down there. Water temps are topping out around 86f, which is getting on up there. Reds will definitely be dipping off into deeper areas in the heat of the day. The temps early in the morning are still gonna be in the upper 70s so the reds should be feeding hard till 10-11 id think.
I am gonna hit the water for first light. I dont mind waking up early, in fact I like it. No traffic, coffee, jams, or rick steves on NPR. I will likely get my fill by noon or so and be back home early afternoon to sit in the a/c.
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Day 2 second area.
The outline is the path i took. Ignore the shaded in areas…the yellow path is more or less exacrly where I went. If its really squiggly it means i was in the shallows polling all around. Those areas are total zigzag scenarios.
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Day 2 first area.
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Here are the areas I covered. Just in case anyone was interested. Day 1.
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I have them on 1/8th ounce deathgrips. The best presentation for me is to work it almost like a jerk bait. Couple of fast sideways twitches, then microsecond pause and reel, twitch again. I did try working it at different speeds and cadences but this was the one that worked.
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I was trying to protect his identity. This report goes out to a very wide audience outside of lafb……..i did assume the it was jeremy and ge just used a G online. But either way J or G works for me.
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Thanks yall! Yeah I mean I get miles and miles of smiles out sight fishing for reds. I really do love it and I dont really know why anyone wouldnt want too. Upper slots are maybe one of the funnest fish I have ever hooked into in my life.
I usually run weedless setup. My favorite is a screwlock hook with an underspin with a plastic or gulp curly tail on it. I have that rigged up on 2 of my setups. On the other one I have a regular screwlock 2/0 1/8th ounce owner with a mega matrix. Both setups glide through the salad and drive the reds absolutely bonkers.
Now hear me out. I have seen this before and it might be the case again this weekend. All this tropical weather pushes a giant slug of saltwater up into barataria bay and sometimes the trout come back in with it.. If I bump into some I might play with em.
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I posted a report in the reports section. Wasnt a stellar weekend of fishing but I did catch and I did have a great time and I covered a lot of water.
I will agree with you. So I have a boat and kayak. I think it is more trouble to launch the kayak than the boat. The main reason being is I put my coolers, rods, tackle, everything in my boat and just back it in the water. On the kayak I have to carry all that shit in the truck then unload it onto the kayak. I have a very good system now but it still probably takes me longer to load and unload the kayak than the boat. Fishing from a kayak is a different experience though. There is something about it that makes it unique. The closeness to the environment, the quiet, the physical limitations of distance. I don’t think I could ever choose one over the other.
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You should throw it up on facebook marketplace. Someone would probably buy it for the right price. Sounds like a decent setup you should use it!
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I saw em working on something. There were a bunch of new steel pilings. The crew boat was running in and out of there too like every 10-15 mins. He wasnt carrying people so maybe he was shuttling some kind of supplies. Anyway it didnt look like there was much structure other than a bunch of vertical piles. I did fish all along the front of the bulkheads going down that way and fished some of the sheet piles on the west side of that facility with no luck.
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I am crawling out of my skin to get to the other end of LA1. Plans have remained the same. Forecast is holding. South wind will be a brisk in the afternoons but mornings should be calm. THe fishing will be Epic. I think over 100 people are signed up and fishing so itll be a great turnout!
