McLovin
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I’m digging the first episode so far! I didn’t realize Spotify would play video but lo and behold lol
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Honestly I was banking on being well enough to fish this morning after 4 days down with the flu (I wasn’t lol). I typed up my plan running off a steroid shot. Since Sunday looks like a no go with winds gusting to 35 mph, it will more than likely be next weekend before I’m able to get out and execute this plan. Although Tuesday looks ok right now…
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Nice trip!
That fish in the box is a hybrid; striped bass will have unbroken lines.
I’ve never trolled the rocks, but I have a buddy who does, I know he tries to troll right around the crab trap lines that run parallel to the rocks. He’ll look at the buoy ropes and try to get his lures in the vicinity of the trap itself.
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Heck of a nice day given the conditions, I had a lackluster duck hunt out in Biloxi and have never seen the water so low. As I was heading in I hit mud in the first bend out of muscle bay and could see the bottom coming across stump lagoon.
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I feel like it will be a struggle to find them shallow early and that west wind may dirty up the water by the time it warms up.
Out of your three choices, I would probably lean towards muscle bay/stump but that’s only because I’m more familiar with that area than others.
Outside the box idea: could you run a slip bobber to just above the bottom of a deep hole? I know walleye guys routinely run them 15-20 feet deep.
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I have two rods that I have full spools of flouro on. I battled with invizx for a while, messed around with line conditioners, etc. Switched over to seaguar tatsu and all the problems went away (which they better have for the price of that stuff). That said, I also figured that you have to tighten up your brakes and spool tension if you want to go full flouro at the expense of casting distance. A backlash in flouro will eventually kink and break away randomly.
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Yeah mono backing with braid on top. No need to have a full spool of braid on your reel, save the money and put a half spool or less on the reel.
Braid can go directly to a popping cork or use a leader if going directly to a lure. Use a palomar knot vs an improved clinch with braid, IC can and will slip.
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Awesome report! I’m glad to see some trout in the Barataria basin, I struggled around Port Sulphur a couple of days before your trip.
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Dang man, the way the wind has been blowing just catching anything was a win, way to grind it out and make it happen though.
That’s WILD that on a random Wednesday there were that many boats at the Castle and at the wall when we have only had one decent front come through. I can’t imagine what it looks like on a Saturday lol.
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I’m down. Hopefully I won’t run off your audience lol.
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It’s funny, I wasn’t expecting it to be as redfish heavy as it was. I was thinking the bass would be in those canals but only the one bit. It overall felt like a grind, I’m grateful just to have caught the 3 bulls that I did. They were all impressive too, 29-31 inches but built like tanks not the skinny bulls that may have just got to 30 inches.
That said, I want to go back and explore because the scenery is so unique. I expected the area to look more like Venice, but it was its own animal entirely.
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Where you pop out of that skinny canal into Bay Allen, I’d continue to that canal and avoid that skinny, squiggly bayou. It’s been choked out by hyacinth during warmer months anyway in past years.
Yeah I’m honestly scratching my head on this one. That bayou looks like it’s silted in right before it gets to the canal anyway, I think I just had tunnel vision and missed the forest for the trees.
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Honestly shouldn’t have left fish to find fish. West was not a good decision, I should have just been a little more patient.
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