[mschultz304]

Great report, thanks. I’m going to head down there next weekend. I got a couple spots in Cubits Gap I want to try out.

[mschultz304]

Interesting that you found fish but they didn’t bite. You got dinner though. Thanks for the report

[mschultz304]

Great info, thanks for putting that together.

I’ve had a Lowrance since I bought the boat 9 years ago, but it’s only a 5″ and my problem is I can’t see anything on it. I only use it for depth and I hold my phone in my hand and use Google maps for navigation. Time for an upgrade.

I want to be able to use the fish finder to find bait balls and see the bottom terrain and everything.

[mschultz304]

Thanks for that! I’ll look into that

[mschultz304]

I hate that when toy’s just getting ready to move and then you catch a nice one, and then couple minutes later catch a rat red, and then few minutes later you catch a 12.5″ trout………..and then a half hour has gone by.

Been there, done that

[mschultz304]

I’ve gone down the river twice in my life, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Having said that, those two times were within the last month and I don’t find the river to be a big issue. Last weekend when I went down, the fog was so thick that I would have never left the dock except that there was a parade of guide boats heading down river that I was able to jump in the middle of and tailgate down. If it’s foggy, you won’t have those boats going through that off river route you’re showing.

We hugged the West Bank of the river going down and I fished a cut off that side until the fog lifted and I felt safe to cross the river to those bayous on the east side. It sounds counter intuitive, but if it’s foggy the river might actually be safer

[mschultz304]

Great report, thanks. I probably saw you Thursday as I was driving to the Northshore for an inspection and wishing I was down there instead of doing 35 mph on the Causeway because of the fog. Glad you killed it.

[mschultz304]

Thanks for the report. Small trout, not stacked up anywhere seemed to be the theme of the weekend.

[mschultz304]

I’m sure I saw you at some point in Pass Loutre. You did better than we did, we didn’t catch one redfish all day. I hate fishing on low tides

[mschultz304]

Thanks again for your input. I pulled the trigger yesterday and got the Lowrance Elite 9″

[mschultz304]

Yes, thanks so much for all of this, I appreciate the time you put into it. I love this group, I wish it had been around the I first started fishing, it would have saved me so much time that I spent spinning my wheels

[mschultz304]

Thanks for repsonding. Turns out I just went ahead and went with the Lowrance Elite 9″. I think it has what I need and is easy enough to operate. I got the La East card with it too. I’m pumped!

[mschultz304]

Thanks again for the tips. The fog changed everything and I think the low tide mark at 9am didn’t help either. Between those two things and the fact that my boat was probably overloaded I couldn’t run around as easily as I would have liked. The best hours of the day were spent trying to just get in a safe place.

[mschultz304]

I may wait to head down river until Saturday after looking at the weather, The wind is going to be 15 to 20 all day. I might be better off hiding behind some of the tall grass in those bayous in BC

[mschultz304]

I didn’t do BC Saturday because by the time we came back up we were wiped. Same with the Jump and I didn’t fish it first thing because the fog was so thick and I didn’t want to be a sitting duck out there. The first spillway was further down than I wanted to go with three people in my boat because I didn’t know how much extra gas it would take to get me back. I would have liked to go further down Pass Loutre, but it looked so shallow I didn’t want to get stuck back there and be low on gas.

Three people in an 18 hit boat with a 90 on the back is not optimal for Venice. You have to cover a lot of ground (water) down there and just pulling up is an event, getting the seats reorganized and everything. I liked fishing it by myself, or with my one fishing buddy, he and I have a system.

I did do BC Friday but didn’t do a report because the weather was so bad that the day was just a clusterf. The first three hours of daylight the winds were 15mph and all we could do was try to find somewhere to give us some cover, and only one of those areas was a good trout spot and it didn’t produce. We went to plan redfish by 9am and got rained on all morning, and the tide was so low that the spots I limited out on a couple weeks ago were land now. We did manage to put three keepers in the boat and threw back probably 6 or 7 that were 17 inches, so I was on them. We tried the river in a few places and hit the Jump on the way back in around 2pm but neither was producing.

I’m looking forward to going back with my buddy after Thanksgiving. That was only my second Venice trip and conditions were tough, so I’m not discouraged. Running around watching where some of the guides were going and how other boats were positioning themselves was educational, and reading the guys reports is helping a lot.