Devin
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I always thought that tons of fish would get on that grass, especially reds, but have yet to see it. It’s just so good, especially around Bayou Cane.
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So are you just looking for a brand name someone likes, or are you looking for a reel for a specific technique?
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“trying for Redfish around the Irish bayou lagoon”
You could see a few, but it won’t be anywhere close to what you saw in Venice.
Venice is the kang.
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“immediately realized I didn’t have enough weight”
So fishing there just didn’t count. You may as well have never gone. Fish could have been there, they just never saw your lure.
What sinking weight were you using anyway?
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I would drift the flat by the Wall first thing in the morning, then move to Martello and Bayou Thomas once the tide is ripping.
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Yeah, if you number the spots it is a lot easier to identify which one is which. Then we could tell you “Hey don’t fish Spot 13” or “Spot 9 is where we caught them on Friday” or whatever.
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This report reads like my inner monologue after a tough day of grinding bridge pilings. LOL
“John Hammond “spared no expense””
HA HA HA HA HA HA
“[Que Devin reading this in a Colombian jungle wearing military blackface, “THIS FUQIN RETARD, I SWEAR!”]”
lololololol
The Causeway is a lot of fishing spot. Great report, thanks for posting!
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I hope I’m still fishing when I’m 80!! Life goals! Use it or lose it!
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ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Also, that’s a highly specific date. LMAO
Also again, you’ve proven yourself to be a talented, open minded and intelligent angler who excels across different environments after different species. It’s not that you were naive. You just didn’t sink your teeth into yet. Now you’re BTDT. Bang!
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I’m not going to dig in my heels and fight for something unless it’s absolutely what I believe in and know to be true. Venice being the king-ding-a-ling of inshore fishing (well, most fishing lol) is one of those things.
When Lafitte, Biloxi Marsh, V-Bay or wherever knocks Venice off the throne, then I will cheerlead that new champion.
Plus, at the end of the day, I just want guys here to have fun catching fish and to do so safely. And if that means repeatedly encouraging them to go to Venice, then that’s what needs to be done. No one has been disappointed or proven me wrong yet.
If an area just doesn’t have fish, then it just doesn’t have fish. Period. End of story. You gotta go to where the fish are.
And if I were consistently wrong about these things, then there would be no LAFB. Or it would be so easy to be right and there would lots of LAFBs. But there’s not. There’s only one.
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Amen to what Shooter said.
Venice is where the epicness happens! I rarely fan-boy something, but I am 1,000% a cheerleader for the magic that is VENICE!
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That’s very cool!!
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“extreme caution must be taken”
Right. Like what I teach here.
“Some of the reefs are not shown on GED due to our water clarity not being the greatest.”
That’s understood, but not the underlying point: when one operates solely on a mapping chip, they are doing so without having taken an appreciation of the area in which they will be navigating. But when one does their navigational homework, they are bound to learn more about an hour than showing up on step at cruising speed.
Finally, I doubt the creator of said mapping chip went out there and graphed the area. Not for $50 he didn’t. He probably used the same imagery that’s available in GED, and I bet it wasn’t rasterized to the same level of quality as GED’s 11/15/2019. Not without being a gigantic file that won’t fit on a 32GB card.
Anyway, I’m not picking on you. This isn’t a dick measuring contest. In fact, I greatly appreciate your input as V-Bay and surrounding area has historically been devoid of anglers who engage and help each other, at least compared to the Greater NOLA Area.
It’s just that I take safe navigation super seriously because I’ve had the best and worst happen (navigationally) across Louisiana’s coast. Not just places like Vermilion Bay, but everywhere from Slidell to Venice to Big Lake. The times I have ever had an issue are when I started trusting the mapping card and free-navigating away from my planned routes.
I used to say the exact same thing as you (except my card was $350) and had to learn the hard way with a collection of busted lower units in my garage to show for it. Those are expensive, but the incidents could have been much worse (bodily harm or death).
I will not risk that “worse” for anyone reading content in this forum.
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No, if all things are equal, that water will be ripping out with a half foot to go by the time you’re out there at first light.
Then you won’t see it begin to move in until as late as lunch time. It has to gain momentum to be noticeable. Of course, this depends on the structure of water you’re in, what the wind did the days before, etc. all that IF101 stuff.
USGS at Bay Gardene confirms this, and that’s probably 30 minutes to as much as an hour ahead of Bayou Lingeo.
Also, I’m interested to hear your actual observed conditions versus predicted. How was the wind?
