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Brilliant question. I was just wondering the same thing, and I have ideas. So let’s spitball this.
First of all, thank you for posting it. I practically grab members by the hand and beg them to do this exact thing just to help them catch fish and instead they ask for handouts, lurk or just do something else. So, thank you.
Also, you’ve reported back in the past, so thank you for that as well.
Okay, first thing we look at is wind, right? That’s what will determine where we can and cannot go, where we can and cannot fish. And it looks like the wind is gonna lay down across most of Louisiana tomorrow. This means options.
As you said, the tide range looks great. It will be sunny, which I prefer overcast weather, but whatever. Just make sure you’re fishing at first light.
So, Lake Decade looks clean as a whistle. The NW wind today might murk it up a little but I bet you can go there tomorrow and do good things.
But the wind is laying down and it will be the only time it does for awhile. If you want to learn Lake Pontchartrain, then tomorrow is your chance. In your intro post you said you live in Baton Rouge (see why we post these things?) so I could recommend launching from Williams Blvd boat launch in Kenner. I dunno which 24′ Carolina Skiff you’re running, but I bet it can handle Lake P better than my 19ft tin bass boat. So you’re golden.
If I were you (this is where you read between the lines) I would fish everything between that boat launch and the Hwy 11 bridge on the south side. This includes things that don’t stick out above the water.
After Lake P, I would consider Hopedale. Either the south side of the Rock Dam and further down to Lake Anathasio, or up into the Biloxi Marsh. It’s not cold enough or low enough to make me warrant fishing the Spoil Canal. That and it’s just too close.
If you did go out of Shell Beach and fish the MRGO north of the Rock Dam, then I would look hard at the section of MRGO between Martello Castle and Shell Beach. Water has been clearest there (if you look at the latest satellite imagery) and it’s probably not pressured as bad as the stuff closer to The Wall. Plus you can drift shallower water in the marsh. I would fish where I see grass beds on GED.
If you really wanted to get jiggy with it, you could launch from Pass Christian, MS and run into Mississippi Sound and fish the reefs there, then punch down into Bayou Biloxi from there. Then, when you get back, you’re somewhere nice you can take the fam. The Gulfport lights are nice.
I personally am leaning toward venturing out further away because the wind allows and you just know there’s gonna be a lot of people in the more commonly fished areas. It would be baller to find them biting somewhere all the potlickers are not. Surely they are. Otherwise, anywhere close to where lots of people are will probably have more throwbacks.
