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Okay, F it, I’m going. Someone’s gotta follow up on the tip of the spear aka @Boyce
I keep hearing horror stories about the LNG Plant traffic and how bad it is in Belle Chasse, etc. Well, that’s time I can spend covering water and fishing, so I’m gonna launch at Beshel’s and make that run down the river. The problem is the wind, but if you look at Windfinder right now you’ll see that the predicted 20mph NE wind will be cutting across the river, rather than down it, giving me lee water to ride in. I’ve made this run in these conditions before and made out okay and I think I can make good speed down the river. There’s a couple bends that will get sporty, but what I have now that I did not have then are protected routes in the marsh paralleling the river from PLH to Ostrica and even under Bay Denesse. This is LTS at work. I ran those routes when the water was much lower during the summer, so I can run them fine in my Tracker tomorrow.
I really don’t know how far south I will get. Last year I was catching trout and redfish in the river well above Venice as far north as Buras, but the river was also below 3ft and stable. Tomorrow she’s coming up above 4ft. She looked clean on Geosphere and numbers clean on a turbidity monitor at Belle Chasse.
Gotta go to know!
Last year I made a few runs like this and they were easy 100 mile days. One day was 121 miles. But I’d rather be covering that water and graphing it and putting a bait in it that sitting in LNG traffic trying to pay attention to a podcast.
Better wind is coming up and I do think the river will go down, so tomorrow will be good scouting for that. I will build upon what Boyce scouted if I make it that far south and, if I don’t, I’ll let y’all know what I find that far north.
I’m also leaving a float plan with a friend and taking a satellite communicator that will be clipped to my PFD in case SHTF.
