McLovin
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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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Some of those exploration canals have silted in. Check out the January 2021 imagery on google earth. That said, Ida did a number on that area too but no winter imagery yet and I’ve been unlucky enough to have to push pole out of the area in the attached image.
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I’ve used skipper B on the west bank. Needed some welding done and knew I couldn’t do it on my own. They work was good and I thought the price was fair.
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I have learned that if you throw a towel over a birds head, they calm down instantly and you can untangle them. Pelicans are a lot worse than gulls lol, I don’t ever want to catch one of them again. Gulls still aren’t fun though.
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Charge your phone lol!
I tag pretty regularly. I tag more redfish than trout just because there is usually more time between bites since the fight is longer. I’ve tagged 251 fish, 90 this year. Total of 10 recaptured.
I sure hope someone is using the data and it is helping make good decisions in fishery management.
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Yeah that makes sense to me. I’m sorry though, I think my message was a little unclear. I’m not looking to target them, but I did enjoy the surprise bass every now and then. I was just trying to understand what has changed. My understanding is that they can survive in salinity around 10-12 ppt and I had read that brick lagoon had averaged 4 ppt and stump lagoon around 9 ppt in the 60s prior to the MRGO being dug.
It just didn’t seem like the salinity in the interior marshes had shifted significantly in the areas I fish normally and I was just trying to wrap my head around it.
Venice (being the only place I will go out and “target” them by flipping canes) seems like a different animal since while it was impacted by the salt wedge, it still never saw salinity levels go sky high – I think the worst of the wedge got to around 1-2 ppt downriver.
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I see you said the orange routes are questionable. I have run the first bayou you have off the west side of south pass. It’s pretty easy to stay in the channel as long as you have good light all the way until you get to where everything converges together. I just stopped and fished my way through but there was definitely enough water in most places. I still wouldn’t run through there WOT even with my tracks lol. It’s a little sketch but definitely doable.
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That is awesome, I knew there were gulf sturgeon but have never seen one. Would be so awesome for that fishery to be sustainable one day. I’d imagine a big 7-footer can make a lot of caviar!
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I’m sure they are running, maybe just a weird day. The only birds I even saw were where snail bay drains into hackberry bay. Also, if you are ever in the area I highly recommend staying upwind of the platform circled. It has to be more bird poo than steel lol.
Yeah first ones! I fished a fly rod for bluegill and one bass as a kid. Picked a 5 weight back up for a whopping 4” wild brown trout in gatlinburg this summer and decided to try an 8 weight out for redfish! Just haven’t been consistent in bringing it along lol. The first one went completely fubar but the second red looked liked I had done it before!
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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.
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@Team1morecast Thinking along the lines of trophy trout fisheries, I was listening to the Cut and Retie podcast and they had an episode dedicated to people catching their first striped bass in the northeast. Overfishing had basically destroyed the striper population to the point that a moratorium was put in place. All these guys talked about how it was so unheard of to even catch a striper. Something several of them mentioned was how strong the weakfish population was during that time. Weakfish are extremely closely related to speckled trout and striped bass basically fill the same role as redfish once you get up around New Jersey.
As the striper population came rebounding back, the weakfish population plummeted to the point that you can only keep 1 fish now in NJ. I’ve also heard on another podcast that you can even see a hierarchy where redfish, speckled tout, and stripers live. Basically you can cast to a point and the dominant redfish are all you will catch until you fish them out of that spot. Then the stripers bite, then the speckled trout will feed last.
I’m not sure if I’m just rambling but my thoughts are this:
1. I wonder how much available forage is available to truly grow trophy speckled trout and does our normally robust redfish population hurt this aspect/will we see this dip in our redfish help that fishery as well.
2. How much this large population of bass that may have been extended beyond their historical range impacted available forage and is that more of the true impact vs the salinity? Thinking that if you allow more species in to compete in the areas that would normally just be your trout/redfish it probably hurts those populations directly.
3. It’s known that bull redfish will prey on speckled trout. Trophy trout are obviously different creatures, being more solitary. Maybe that’s more of a learned trait to avoid the bull redfish attacking schools of trout? My perspective changed on how large of a fish another fish will eat when I saw the guy who found a dead 30″ trout with a 16″ mullet in its stomach lol.
