Devin
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone.
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Where are you getting your gage height for Atchafalaya from? Do you have a link? I’m not seeing a 3.5ft rise in the river.
I’m seeing a 1ft rise at Butte La Rose on USGS here: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/07381515/#period=P30D&dataTypeId=continuous-00065-0&showMedian=false
Local rainfall isn’t going to move the needle very much on a river that big.
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“My buddy is already asking to go back.”
That’s awesome!
“We would catch 2-3 trout in 20 minutes then move again. Ended up catching around 20 trout and one more flounder. Didn’t measure any trout but they were definitely small.”
Yeah, they’ve been shallow and corkable. Go straight to that next time and you’ll catch more keepers. It sounds like you caught the tail end of the morning bite.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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+1 on what everyone else here has said. Took the words right out of my mouth!
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Something I’d like to note here is your willingness/capability fishing different areas. Very remarkable.
Last year on April 15th I crushed the trout under birds in open water NE of the island IIRC. I’ll have to ferret out that report.
I’m sure GI is turning on and will be ready here in a bit.
Great report, thanks for posting.
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“I need to start by saying I’ve tried to fish the Pontchartrain basin several times in March and have been frustrated by incredibly muddy water each time.”
You are fishing one of the more difficult areas after a significant period of decline in our fishery (Freshening) during the most difficult time of year to catch them. If the wind is constantly cork screwing from every direction at 25 knots, you are going to have a tough time. It doesn’t matter how good you are or what you tie on, it’s gonna be a grind. lol
I give you credit for trying anyway. That will put you ahead of everyone else who doesn’t have that TOW.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I’ll give you props for fishing one of the more difficult places to fish during the most difficult time of year. Otherwise I’d trailer to somewhere more protected from wind and more productive (i.e. Delacroix, Venice)
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I would count on it rising more as snow in the north melts. I just don’t know how much snow melt there will be. Every year is different. I like to think that we’ll get a break since the snow was plopped on us this year. lol
Hopefully the Mississippi stays in the single digits and drops below 5ft soon, like she did a couple years ago. What the MS does, the Atchafalaya will follow.
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Welcome to the Community and thank you for posting an intro!
It sounds like you’ve seen a lot over the years, but the old adage is true: one never stops learning. Inshore fishing is a continual game, like shooting a moving target.
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That’s pretty handy dandy. I’ll have to take a look. Usually I just read the entire article, they’re not long at all. BUT, to process all of them? That’s something else.
I’d be worried that the AI will miss nuance, but I guess you’d only learn that by actually trying it.
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Ahhh, I misread your report. My dumbass brain just say “Atchafalaya” when it wasn’t there lol
Yeah, smaller rivers fill up quicker, but go down quicker, too. The Pearl by where I live is like that as well.
It just is what it is.
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That sounds about right. The golden piece of intel to have is if those fish were caught when Breton Island was completely devoid of river water, stained or covered in it.
Then you can use Geosphere to make a judgment call based on that intel. If you know what day that report was made, you can compare imagery.
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Thank you so much for sharing this.
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“I was thinking the outgoing tide just kept going because all the water that had been piling up in the lake from east and south winds just overpowered the incoming tide, helped along by west winds on that day”
You are thinking correctly.
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This is good advice, especially seeing how important it is to keep up with trends (if they are indeed relevant) in order to maintain relevancy. For example, RodnReel had great first-starter advantage, being the first fishing report forum in 1995, but lost that momentum in Mobilegeddon. Mike Lane was just too busy enjoying his success instead of thinking ahead.
I’d like to see AI put to work ferreting out reports from RodnReel in the Internet Archive. That would be interesting.
