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Yeah that makes sense to me. I’m sorry though, I think my message was a little unclear. I’m not looking to target them, but I did enjoy the surprise bass every now and then. I was just trying to understand what has changed. My understanding is that they can survive in salinity around 10-12 ppt and I had read that brick lagoon had averaged 4 ppt and stump lagoon around 9 ppt in the 60s prior to the MRGO being dug.
It just didn’t seem like the salinity in the interior marshes had shifted significantly in the areas I fish normally and I was just trying to wrap my head around it.
Venice (being the only place I will go out and “target” them by flipping canes) seems like a different animal since while it was impacted by the salt wedge, it still never saw salinity levels go sky high – I think the worst of the wedge got to around 1-2 ppt downriver.