McLovin
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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 don’t feel like Yellow Cotton will be your best bet tomorrow, but I haven’t fished there recently so take that with a grain of salt. Devin posted a report last year around this time, he found trout in the river by Bay Denesse. That may be a doable option for you since you could launch at Fort Jackson (I’d launch directly in the river and not at the old launch), the wind and ship traffic would sketch me out in a kayak, but it’s only a half mile crossing to fish the east side since that should be better with the wind.
I don’t know, I feel like you will have less wind at Hopedale but also less cover to hide from the wind. Venice gives you more cover for hiding from the wind, but the wind is predicted to be blowing harder. Worst case, if the trout aren’t biting then you could go into ponds for redfish or even flip into canes for bass.
That would be my advice, but if you aren’t comfortable with the river, don’t do it. I don’t know how often you are out on the water, but big ships can’t stop quickly so unless you have good confidence in your abilities, it’s easy to get in trouble.
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I haven’t listened to either podcast yet, but I was reading through the comments on Lake Pickle’s Instagram post. There is one advocate from the industry in there talking about the studies and makes some decent points. Although anytime someone says, “there is no shortage of X,” I am always thinking of how they said that with bears, deer, turkeys, quail, ducks, basically anything here in the 1800s.
His main points are:
- 90% of bycatch is released
- Shrimp boats damage the ocean floor and are more impactful
- Pogy boats catch <1% of the pogy stock
I’ve been diving into this article here: A Gulf Menhaden Deep Dive – American Saltwater Guides Association
My main thoughts are:
- The average redfish caught in the nets is 37.5 inches long.
- 26752 reds are released via “rollover” at 16% mortality; 17841 reds are released via “chute” at 98% mortality. Total redfish killed is 30,118: 4280 rollover; 17484 chute; 8354 killed as keep.
- 750,000 redfish are killed via recreational anglers but are not sexually mature and not contributing to the breeding population.
- It’s hard to get off my mind that we as recreational anglers fought hard to have the limit reduced further to 3 fish vs the current 4 but our elected officials decided against it.
I still think our fishery decline is multi-faceted; it just sucks that we make a step in the right direction and one year later that decision is in jeopardy.
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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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I should have gone, I was short on vacation days but I’ll be at the next one. Man this one hurts.
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Some quick math:
- 20,000 Bull redfish killed by pogy boats
- 20,000,000 eggs per spawning season (actual estimate is 20-40 million eggs)
- 50% of the redfish being female
- That’s 200,000,000,000 eggs laid
- Assume 0.1% of the eggs hatch (again I’m probably being conservative here, most estimates are just <1%)
- 200,000,000 redfish fry hatched
- Assume 1% of these fry survive to slot size (again I feel like I’m being conservative)
- That’s 2 million slot redfish that are not there JUST from pogy boat operation.
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Need to get Joe Bergeron elected to governor.
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LDWF does not give AF
I don’t think the organization as a whole doesn’t. I think a lot of the organization (biologists and LEOs) puts a lot of their soul into protecting our resources. I do think that there are members of the commission who would see everything go up in smoke and be ok with it. As long as it padded their pockets.
I don’t know what the answer is. You have to think why they hell aren’t CCA, TRCP, or any other conservation organization worth a damn fighting the hell out of them with civil suits using this data? These organizations have the money to hit these guys in the face, but it seems like they tip toe around.
