McLovin
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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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I like Earl at Bayou Outboards at Airline and Causeway Boulevard. He has done good work on my Yamaha two stroke
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My buddy’s wife who is an engineer at the COE recently told me that Neptune Pass would now be the 10th largest river in North America by volumetric flow rate. Completely wild how much it’s grown.
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One thing I definitely recommend is getting on the wlf website and pulling up a map of the biloxi WMA. It has black marks that show dams and wiers (even some of the ones not on the WMA itself). Use that as a starting point, and mark the locations of existing obstructions using GED. The map they have isn’t great but it gets you in the ballpark. Some of the obstructions are underwater when the tide is high and they can bite you.
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That last pic is a thicc girl!! Awesome trip, great report!
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I have had my tilt and trim get stuck in the upright position before. There is a manual relief that you can turn with a flathead screwdriver, usually on the right hand side but you will need to google your specific model. Turning that should allow it to lower back down. I’ve had mine just get bound up in the past and once I did that it worked like normal. Check around your seals, if you see any build up of dirt/debris you have a leaking seal.
As far as the electrical goes, it does sound like you may have blown a fuse and that’s where I would check first. I’d then grab a multimeter and check your voltages/use the continuity setting to be sure you have good connections everywhere. Good luck, hopefully it’s just something minor and you are back on the water early tomorrow!
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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.
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He does take a long time. I use Metro Boating for my Mercury, I haven’t used them for my Yamaha though. They have done impeccable work on that end and are much faster. I just don’t know how renown they are for Yammies and can’t give an opinion either way on them on that side. They are a Yamaha dealer so I assume they service them as well.
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Yeah it was screaming out by then
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Lol I laughed so hard at this
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I shot out of Mud Lake into the Bay, I would normally take the channel if it were darker though.
