McLovin
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Nice report! There were so many skiffs out there today. It was only my second time out there but there definitely weren’t as many motherships when I went last June.
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Yeah like Devin said, the first day you are there it will be blowing like crazy. The way to early forecast says it might slow down a little bit, but I don’t trust anything other than Windfinders super forecast because it uses topography and that will only go out 3 days.
I second cat island, probably would be good to wade out there. There are tons of grass flats on the west side of the island so you probably need to go something weedless or top water.
Be careful around the south spit, that sand bar goes a decent ways out. There is also a reef on the beach side that I’ve heard good things about but never fished it. They said you can find cobia around there during the summer.
I would approach it very similar to Chandeleur. Hopefully you will have some good weather!
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I’m surprised nobody mentioned Sentinel Hub EO browser, now it’s subscription based unfortunately. They have a free version, the Copernicus browser, it still lets you get extremely detailed but it’s so much slower than the EO browser was. A tip is to adjust the gain a TINY bit higher to brighten up the image.
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I feel like Hermitage just has so much construction traffic around it between the pipeline for the LNG plant and the marsh restoration to the southeast of it. I would think that if you head back toward Myrtle Grove through Bayou Wilkinson you could try and fish some of the bayous dumping in. I’ve also had good luck at spot 2 in the attached photo on a falling tide in the spring.
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Ok, so maybe drinking the kool-aid but check out hook and bullet sunglasses. I think their official name is purpose built optics. I tried them after listening to an episode of the speckled truth podcast about them. I am a believer that they help me see into the water better.
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Please take this with a grain of salt, but I think most bridges operate on channel 9 or 13 on vhf. I saw online that the highway 11 bridge operates on 13 and will coordinate with the railroad if it’s not already open.
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That’s been my experience. I’ve been worried the epa would be waiting for me at the launch to get me for lead poisoning the lake lol.
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Kind of pricey but millennium makes a good boat seat, I haven’t had any issues with mine. They also make deer stands, but be careful – they are easy to fall asleep in lol.
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That floating grass almost reminded me of sargassum, just not as bad as it gets in the emerald coast area.
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The boat was in about 2.5/3 feet of water, I think they were probably in about 1-1.5 feet of water. Hindsight after looking at the satellite image from last summer, they were probably working the edge of this grass line. The black circle is where the boat was, the red is where I was casting.
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I did, I tried both a normal size topwater and a big one. I don’t know why but they just didn’t seem very interested when I was throwing them vs the subsurface lures.
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Actually I say that, about 10 boats rode by, only about 5 were fishing the long rocks. The rest I guess went out to Breton sound
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Lol the crowd I was talking about was the mosquitoes! I was the only soul there until about 0730. Partly because I was out there so long before sunrise lol. But there were about 10 boats out there by 0900.
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The males stay there pretty much the whole time. It’s one of the reasons they don’t live as long, they stay in drumming schools to breed a much as possible with as many females as possible.
The females just have to lay their eggs once a month and then can go do their thing wherever. They probably are going to stay close by if there is decent forage, which we probably have in Louisiana. They have done acoustic tag studies and found females will even go back “inside” (I think this study was in Alabama and the females were found in mobile bay despite it being during the summer) to where there is more forage. I don’t think it’s a common thing for them to do that because it’s energy being burned needlessly if there is plenty to eat outside.
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Eh I went out there yesterday to duck hunt. Fished for a couple of hours after and it wasn’t super clean in the places I tried albeit being kind of a quick fishing trip.
The river, main pass, south pass, and a couple of other areas all had about 6” of visibility. It did have a decent green color to it with a hint of brown. Found a couple of ponds draining out better water but no action unfortunately. Hopefully since the forecast is for it to keep dropping it will get back to that 1-2 foot visibility.
