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Red Pass is surprisingly shallow, about 3-5 feet. IIRC, it starts getting shallow maybe 500-1000 yards from the mouth. I’ve only been out there twice, but I couldn’t find a deep area for anything. It stays pretty deep throughout most of red pass (7-12 ft or so, IIRC), but once you get to that mouth, it shallows up quickly. I am wondering if I would’ve started with a jig in those deep areas just before the shrimp if that would’ve produced. One thing I did notice was that both times I have been there (this past June and this past Sunday), the same Shrimp Boat has been parked off near the shoreline in Red Pass, boat running, a crew aboard, but just sitting there doing nothing. The same boat in the same spot 3 months apart. So, back to how the hell shrimp get in there… man, I have no idea either. But evidently that Shrimp Boat likes that area enough to camp out there lol.

I didn’t see any guides or any other boats for that matter in Red Pass— none out in the open water after the mouth either. I had it all to myself, and upon seeing those shrimp I figured it was game time. Most of the guides I saw were running offshore and hooking a left out the marina while I hooked a right.

I remember you mentioning High Line Pond on my planning post, but I could never locate it when I was searching around GED. Sometimes you gotta get that zoom just right to show the name of certain areas lol. Where exactly is it?

While I do enjoy fishing the typical areas I always have like the Pontchartrain basin, I just can’t get Venice off my mind. I have got to go back asap. For me, fishing is all about the hunt. Finding the fish is more rewarding than catching them, especially in a new area, especially if it’s Venice. Granted I would love nothing more than to come back into Venice Marina with a limit of Trout in my small little Bass Boat and pull up next to the big dogs to unload, but the exploration aspect and the finding fish aspect is what drives me more.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by  Boyce.