McLovin
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Adding in some information that will help out here (this is my commute to work).
1. There is a speed trap that is sometimes set up on De Gaulle, usually right past the entrance to Lakewood. I’ve only seen in set up once in the last year (two weeks ago or so) but it’s a 35 mph zone and it’s easy to get caught speeding there.
2. When coming back during the school year, they usually put a sheriff to direct traffic on Woodland Highway at the intersection with F Edward Hebert Blvd. They don’t actually know how to direct traffic and it will be miserable between 3 and 330.
Tolls are enforced both directions, they aren’t as expensive as the Grand Isle toll though. I think they charged me 8 bucks or something when I was towing my boat. I usually take the toll bridge on the way home just because traffic gets rough on the CCC.
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Like Boyce said, be careful in stump lagoon. I’ve always stuck to the south shoreline and then cut straight across and never ran into an issue. The east end has a lot of stumps over there.
Coming out of stump lagoon, don’t stick too close to the shore, I have hit bottom there. October 2012 imagery on GED shows the shallow area pretty good, it’s 30-40 yards out.
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Dude that is wild, I will check that out. I can only imagine how awesome it would have been back then.
I was jigging the rattle trap through the water column, they wouldn’t touch it if I just reeled it in. Lol I even caught an oyster shell on one cast. They were only in about 2-3 foot of water, I guess that stop and go action was triggering the bite.
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Welcome to the forums!
Man unfortunately what you are seeing is sounding more typical of the way the sight fishing has been going. There should be more redfish in the interior ponds but a few others along with myself have not been seeing big numbers like before.
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I took my daughter out for a trip last night. I feel like I definitely saw one blow up, I didn’t get a clear look at the fish but it was big and came out of the water. There were a few mullet getting chased by something big too. I threw a tuna popper for about 30 minutes straight but no dice I also threw a normal size topwater and nothing chased it either. I think there are some out there but they are not in numbers yet.
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Man, I feel way under qualified to discuss big trout since I have boated two 23″ trout in my life but I’ll throw my 2 cents in because I do appreciate this discussion and it’s one of big interest to me. I definitely agree with everything you said. I will add a caveat that I think a big bait has potential to be better for you. I think some smaller trout will pass on the bigger lures and that gives you an opportunity to get it in front of the bigger fish.
I see guys like Mike Herrmann building and throwing big glide baits specifically for big trout. I honestly think this is the best way to go to target them, but then you have to both:
1. be in the area that the big trout are holding.
2. be prepared to only get a few bites but the ones you catch are going to be good ones.
The problem I face is that I have doubts that I’m in the right area and that probably means that I’m not going to stay as long to wait out that good bite since more casts = higher chance of catching a good one. I caught one of my 23 inchers on a River2Sea S-waver 200 at Chandy this year. I would love to get one of Mike’s glides because I know it will likely have a better sink rate for the salinity levels here. That said, I hate throwing a $45 lure and I’m not sure I would like to throw an $80 lure lol. I mean I look at these guys in the bass world and they are catching monsters on them. I heard someone make the comparison to a fat person and McDonalds. If a fat person has to walk a block to get a French fry, they probably won’t do it but would probably do it for a Big Mac. But if they have to run for that Big Mac, they probably won’t do it, but they will walk for it. So swimming a big 8″ glide bait looks like a mullet that is just relaxed and swimming along can entice a big girl to eat.
My other 23″ trout came along some obscure structure at Lake P, but was also mixed in with other sizes. I think I caught 25 trout and half were 14-17 inches, the rest were 18-19 inches, and then there was a 21″ and 23″ fish. It was such a different experience vs the Chandy trout, it almost felt like it didn’t belong at the location I was fishing.
It seems like when I target bigger trout, I tend to get impatient and fall back to just catching trout. I feel like I’m not going to get “good” at it until I’m willing to get skunked in the pursuit a few times.
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I’ve only fished Salvador a couple of times and really only caught bass but I’ve read articles in the past talking about Catahoula and little Catahoula bays being good for redfish. I do remember trying Catahoula bay and there were a good bit of stumps out there.
They also installed a big rock jetty on the east side by lafitte last summer that may be worth looking at.
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Aight y’all have given me the confidence to do the dang thing myself, thank ya! @Devin I did not realize how affordable the ultrasonic cleaners were, got one coming in on Friday!
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“Known for being in the lake late summer? Why? Because that’s when the water is warm and salty. I think of jacks as a beachfront type species.”
You know, I used to think the same thing. I did a good bit of research a few years ago and they can tolerate a shockingly low salinity. They were THICK in the lake last year around late June/early July, the salinity meter at highway 90 was only reading 2-5 ppt so the lake was likely pretty fresh. I remember reading a report about one getting its way all the way over to Lake Okeechobee which is just wild but it is connected to both the gulf and Atlantic by canals.
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I almost went to the beach off main pass instead of south pass. It was originally my plan but past success led me to go south pass and I never made my way up to the main pass beach.
Garden island bay wasn’t too bad. I think there was one spot that was sketch but it was closer to the beach. I don’t remember the exact depth, but I feel like I remember seeing around 10 ft or so for most of the run. There was a shrimp boat in closer toward redfish bay which gave me confidence.
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“But, FWIW, you could invest in Atomic Rhino smelling salts.”
This is the kind of advice that makes this the best forum on the internet. I swear it’s like @Devin is playing chess while I’m playing checkers lol.
“Man, either you’re doing a splendid disinformation campaign to keep redfish folks out of Venice”
Dude I wish I was. I feel like I had better days down in the WMA last year but I figured the NWR would be good if not better. Especially fishing the area that is closed to access four months out of the year. I’m telling you though, I’m going to go back with some fiddler crabs and MERK some sheepies. I thought I have seen some areas with a lot of them, but I’ve never in my life seen them schooled up in the shallows like they have been in Venice.
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I noticed riverside bay looking good too. I think if I took my bay boat, I probably would hit it up. Hopefully I’ll have a good report to bring back!
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Taking the skiff out to get into the skinnier water! It’s a 17ft Carolina skiff. I’ve taken the bay boat to Venice and sightfished but I’ve noticed that it limits me on getting into a lot of ponds. Seems like a lot of them build up the sediment right at the entrance when the water velocity drops but the back half of the ponds are plenty deep enough.
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Great call, I had shifted my plan east from when I originally started and didn’t think about moving my route over as well. I’ll probably take la loutre to Eloi to Curlew. Doesn’t look like there is too much of a difference between that and taking Treasure Pass to Christmas camp lake and then out to Curlew.
I do like the idea of of launching out of Pass Christian but I think that extra 30 minutes of sleep is going to be crucial for me lol.
I need to remember to check Geosphere, I always sleep on it vs the higher resolution satellites, that dirty water definitely isn’t as far as it was a couple days ago.
