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Yes, the boat lives on a lift out behind the house, so my fishing trips all begin and end at my back door and I’m limited to fishing areas that can be reached from Eden Isles. (This is still a huge area, and I have made journeys up to 170 miles round-trip in the summer, but these are very draining – both physically and financially…) I hope to have my trailer back in road-worthy condition by springtime and expand my horizons in 2025.
On the other point, if I DID somehow outfish you on this one single day, it’s honestly only because of what I’ve learned from you. When I returned to Louisiana a couple of years ago I considered myself a good angler. I had decades of experience with bass fishing and with both inshore and offshore saltwater fishing. I was very good at the craft: casting, knots and rigging, lure selection, presentation techniques, boat handling and navigation, all that stuff. I also had some knowledge of fish habitats and behavior. But I had no idea how to use the various information resources to put together a trip plan, only a vague understanding of the life cycle of trout and redfish, didn’t really understand how seasonal changes affected them, was always mystified by tides and currents in the marsh, etc. In other words, I didn’t know what I didn’t know… Thank you for showing me how all the pieces fit together. I know it has helped me catch more fish, and is more satisfying to approach fishing from a basis of knowledge and understanding.
