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I dropped my trolling motor in and the prop wouldn’t turn! It had power but wouldn’t turn for nothing. By this time it’s about 7am. I spot a current line and decide to get close and drift east with the wind to fish it. We pick up 10 more keepers and prob 15 12.75″ trout by 8am.
What a way to adapt. Sorry to hear about the trolling motor, though!
(Does anyone eat sailcats?) I’ve always wanted to know.
Yes, and they’re great to eat. They’re just a PITA to put up with. Marsh Man Masson did a video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yoKRONAh5M
I’m not sure we’re but I would bet it’s near the islands that separate Bayou Rigolets and Bayou Perot.
I 100% would put money on that.
On the north west side of Beauregard we noticed a couple birds sitting in the water. The wind was blowing straight south at this point and we were at the end of the incoming tide. First cast toward the birds yielded 2 keepers! We picked up out last 4 in the next 15 min and got out of there beating the rain!
You are really good at putting together a box by going off small groups of birds. These are opportunities I would normally pass up while looking for the Mother Lode.
This is why posting reports in a community like this is so damn important!
You are revealing a style of fishing that succeeds where others fail, and that is what is key, not “wHerE R tHe fIsH”.
So it’s not just this report, but all of your reports that really back this up and indicate what to do in that area and, just as important, a strategy to try in other areas.
This is cool. I would pretty much never stop for a couple sitting birds. I would stop for a slam-a-thon of diving birds numbering in the dozens or even hundreds.
But doing so could lead to more running than what’s necessary. I would literally be driving past a limit of speckled trout looking for something that may not be there.
You’re kicking ass, Josh. Thank you so much for posting this report!
