McLovin
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This is going to be a fun one; I’m already gleaning information from Cliff’s reply.
Topwater:
I like the One Knocker Spook in either bone or the speckled trout pattern, the Heddon Superspook Jr. bone, the SB-105 in bone, or the SB-125 in bone. I have tried using black for topwaters early in the morning but have never had much success. I’ll throw these year-round, usually a steady pattern but will experiment with pauses and cadence.
Subsurface:
I LOVE throwing subsurface in spring and summer. I like to throw the Texas Customs Double D or Double D XL, the only color I use for this one is The TRUTH. I also like the Borboleta Lele, especially at Chandy, I usually use the 08H or 10H colors. I work these similar to a floating jerkbait.
Jerkbaits:
I’ve had success with floating jerkbaits in the spring. I like the cotton cordell red fin in either silver or gold. I also like the purple megabass vision 110 in the winter. (Not a hard bait but a soft plastic fluke will also draw the same style of strikes if you are dealing with grass).
Twitchbaits:
Similar to Cliff, I like the 17mr and the 27mr. I’ve had success with The TRUTH, silver, and the mullet skin color. I have never done well on the fatboys or corkys. I mainly throw the in the winter but will throw them year-round. Baby tarpon and snook LOVED these lures in the middle of the summer in the everglades.
My go-to rods:
Duckett Jacob Wheeler medium crankin’ (moderate) 7’2″ – I use this rod for topwater, subsurface, aggressive jerkbait/twitchbait bites
Evergreen combat stick 7’1″ medium fast – I use this for more subtle bites on the jerkbait and twitch bait, usually during winter.
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I was fishing by the station close to the rock dam and was wondering what the hell someone was trying to build out there lol.
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I’m not super familiar with that area but I would at least check out Grand Pass, that giant drain into Caillou Lake since you have a falling tide!
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Don’t overlook the edge of Lake Barre and Lake Tambour out there! I’ve haven’t fished the Lake Chien side as much because we had a camp on Isle de Jean Charles, but I have seen massive amounts of shrimp, trout, and birds at the mouth of the main bayou where it dumps into Lake Chien.
There are a lot of natural bayous that are silted in around this area and may look deceivingly deeper than they actually are. That red low water mark pin you have (the one by Lake Felicity)? Yeah I barely made it out of there in my skiff once. That was during the winter but I can confirm the water is low there lol.
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I’ve always thought that was some sort of calcium deposit. I’ve seen it a few times in the Biloxi marsh and in port sulphur so it’s definitely wide spread. It’s usually way back in dead end ponds when I have seen it. I’d be very curious to see a good explanation for it though.
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Yeah, it’s only about 2000 acres. I did confirm with the Hammond office, it is no access to anyone – not even boating through since the goal is to prevent any disturbance for the birds.
I agree, it’s not a huge impact to fishing but I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of it, so they don’t get caught inside it!
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Yeah the shaded area with the green ducks
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Yeah my understanding is that includes even just boating through there, similar to how delta national in Venice operates. I’m going to be going to the Hammond office this week to get my alligator hides inspected so I’m going to ask about it and verify.
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“But the best time to do that would be on rigs on the outside during their spawn (Breton Sound during spring).”
This. I was listening to Mark Davis on a podcast talking about the sheepie spawn in Venice. They went down there in March. They were catching sheepshead on dead shrimp, but he said they caught one on a bare jig head lol.
Apparently, Venice Marina doubles the fish cleaning price if you go over 200 lbs of sheepsehad and then doubles it again at 400 lbs lol.
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I went in through the pen, then came out into round lake. It had been a couple of years since I fished that area as well, it’s lost a lot of land.
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One of the ways I’ve had luck with mangroves is to chum them up first. Spot lock the trolling motor up current of the rig (I’ve heard a good argument for down current as well though) so that the chunks of cut pogie/squid/whatever float into the rig. The mangroves will get fired up and start to follow the trail of bait out. Then you can toss out a chunk with a hook on it but no weight to catch them. My buddy has used the marker 54 shrimp and smoked them as well. I think a lot of guides use live croakers. My experience has been after catching 2 or 3, the rest wisen up and you rinse and repeat at another rig. You need super clear water to do this but that’s typically not a huge problem south of Chandy.
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I’ve never used it, but they make a sinking fly line that probably could be used to “jig” a heavy fly.
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I was pickled tink with it! I actually didn’t see any no trespassing signs, the ones that were there were just blank signs. I think they were so old the lettering had weathered away or the placard had fallen off.
I know I probably shouldn’t say this but I usually just ignore the signs even if they are there lol.
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“Braid grabs itself. It’s not a single filament.”
100% I agree with you here, that’s actually why I don’t like it for jigging any more (I strictly use either mono or flouro) plus I don’t typically need to bomb a cast when I’m jigging. Braid needs to be reeled under tension otherwise you lose the casting distance advantage. I also do not use 4 strand at all, I know there are some uses but I only use 8 strand.
“Because if casting distance was the only metric by which to judge fishing line, then we wouldn’t need all three.”
I wasn’t implying that casting distance is the only metric, I’m sorry if that’s how my message was interpreted.
“Lastly, if one is having to use the fishing line to feel the bite through the rod, then that person is not using the rod or fishing line as well as they could.”
It’s not necessarily the bite that I’m implying the advantage of feel is, there is certainly some aspect of the bite but being able to feel bottom textures is much easier with braid vs mono. Or being able to feel the vibration on a spinnerbait blade change subtlety before something grabs it. Depending on what I’m doing, it may or may not be important though.
I personally use all FOUR lines – nobody has mentioned fly line lol. I have reels spooled with straight mono, flouro, braid, braid with mono leaders, braid with flouro leaders, reels with 8 wt fly line, reels with 9 wt fly line.
