Devin
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. What kind of grass? Like the tape grass in Lake Pontchartrain or milfoil in the marsh?
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OR….what I would do is:
Greet everyone you’re fishing with at the dock with a 24oz Red Bull in each hand, smash them together, dump the fluid into your open mouth and give them this brief: STFU AND HANG ON
Literally their only job is not fly out the boat.
Then haul ass out of Doulut’s, if there are birds going crazy, great then fish them. If not, resist the urge and KEEP GOING. Then haul balls to Bayou Sue and go STRAIGHT to that 90 degree bend just before #8 and look at your sonar. If you see bait balls give it three casts. If you don’t see bait balls then LEAVE. If you do cast and don’t land three 15″ slobs in a row then LEAVE and make that outboard scream for it’s life for #10. Again, if there isn’t magic right away LEAVE THAT GARBAGE.
Help those kids get their rods put away fast.
Unless there is a friggin’ mermaid at spots 11-14 with a neon sign pointing at a limit of non-throwback hammer trout KEEP GOING to 15 before some troglodyte gets there or the tide peeters out on that end of the marsh.
If the world of inshore fishing is not absolutely on freakin fire at 15 then I’d reiterate (loudly) my “STFU AND HANG ON” policy and try to blow up my motor getting to 16. Like, if somebody was slow reeling in their cork the they would be reeling it in through the boat’s wake as we broke the sound barrier for 16.
Then I would work my way back down through Bayou Biloxi, Muscle Bay, Stump, down to St. Malo and fish those cuts into Magnolia Lagoon and try Jahncke’s Ditch, which will be protected from the wind.
Honestly, given the conditions, I think the day will be made at 15, 16 and maybe 21.
Don’t waste time dicking around with BS throwbacks, croakers, pinfish, “omg my bait flew off” or any of that other crap. Not on a day like that. I know that wind is gonna blow but a 2.3ft falling tide in MS Sound is gonna suck those shrimp out. I’ll be shocked if you don’t smash them.
So yeah, that’s what I would do.
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Yeah, so this is pretty much a copy/paste Devin fall trip to the Biloxi Marsh. LOL Great minds think alike.
It looks like the wind is gonna blow out of the E/NE for awhile before the day of your trip. Water will be up, but it WILL fall with a 2ft tide range. Not as much if that wind weren’t blowing, but it will. So you have that going for you.
After that, I wouldn’t fish Shell Beach area right away. With high tide at 3:30am you may have some falling water first thing in the morning, but it won’t be falling hard. Even if it is, it wouldn’t have been falling as the other side of the marsh toward Lake Eugenie would be.
I would haul ass straight for that bayou at the bottom of the Lakes of Bayou Marron (#16), because high tide over there is closer to a full three hours ahead. Then I would fish that hard 90-degree bend in Bayou Biloxi, as well as your 21, and anywhere I see a buttload of diving birds. I would fish the north shoreline of Muscle Bay (your 22 and 23 are great) and Stump Lagoon. The mouth of Crooked Bayou going into Eugenie will probably be getting rocked by that wind but don’t be surprised if birds, shrimp and fish are there anyway.
Then I’d work my way back and hit those spots you have along St. Malo.
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If that tide was falling you would’ve crushed them. No doubt in my mind. The effort and skill was there, the conditions were not. That’s fishing unfortunately. Next time you’ll wreck ’em.
For now, great report and thank you for posting it!
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Most excellent fishing trip planning. Thank you for providing details and something for us to work with.
I am writing right now and will be for the rest of the day, but will make time later to come back and give this my full thought.
Again, thank you. This is dynamite stuff.
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What did you friends say? They had to have said something about the move to the Castle and the day in general. I’m sure they loved it.
Martello was a great play. I wonder if more boats were there in the morning, struck out, then went home. I think you really nailed it, just have those HDS rigs ready to go. That sure does make life a lot easier.
Y’all did great. Excellent report. I loved the big reveal. lol Thank you so much for posting this and I hope you’re able to get out there again soon.
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“Bounced around to about 5 different places and had action on every one, putting 2 or 3 in the box each spot and throwing back 3 times as many”
Sounds like Wednesday for me. Good to see the consistency. I am guessing the tide wasn’t falling and you got on a morning bite, so I bet the afternoon was even better. Which is great.
“My buddy had live but I did just as good with plastic”
The bait is already in the water. I’m not being critical, I’m just pointing out that someone took that bait out of the water (probably not far from where you were fishing), sold it to your buddy who then gave it a boat ride back to where it came from. As you saw, the fish just as readily bit plastic. It’s the same thing minus the hassle and cost. Just an observation.
“Caught some big white trouts.”
There have been some nice whites out there! Very good to hear about more of them. Most excellent.
“I had a nice box with variety: specs, white trout, redfish, flounder, and I kept two huge crabs.”
That’s a great day on the water. Glad to hear it, and I think you will only end up catching more and more as the water temperature drops.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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That’s a good question and I’m glad you’ve taken time to post it.
My understanding is that Garmin units take a .gpx file.
So you will have to save your waypoints/tracks as a .kml file (as outlined inside 101) then convert that to a .gpx file using GPS Babel or GPS Visualizer (instead of .usr, as outlined in 101), put that on an SD card, insert inside your Garmin and then (I assume) you will be prompted as to whether or not you want to upload the .gpx file.
That’s what I figure off the top of my head. I am hoping someone who actually has a Garmin can chime in with their personal experience.
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Great report, thanks for posting!
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When did you turn in? I wouldn’t expect to find good bird action until the tide has been ripping out for awhile. For today, that would be the afternoon. Same for tomorrow. I’d fish for reds first then look for trout.
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Are you just asking where to go or do you have a plan besides three generic spots the something in Lake Borgne after that? What are you going to do in Lake Borgne?
I’ll tell you what I would do: launch the boat at noon and fish to sundown. Given what I saw last year, and that the wind will lay down, I’d run from Rigolets to Shell Beach looking for diving birds.
Or get started in the morning and ride from Rigolets to Manchac and back looking for diving birds.
What most people will do: launch at sunrise, get flustered because fish aren’t biting as well because it’s autumn and the tide isn’t falling first thing in the morning.
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“along with a ribbonfish (not something you see everyday)”
We used to see them pretty regularly!! Perhaps it’s a sign that things are going back to the way they were.
“planning to fish the mouth at Lake Eugenie, but we had two to three-foot waves inside the bayou and eventually realized the mouth would be almost unfishable,”
Too bad, because that’s a great spot for a falling tide. Next time.
“but the best fish we caught were sitting deep at the Rock Dam. That’s a bit puzzling to me”
It’s a giant reef that’s probably come alive with the Saltening and more croakers and pinfish. The only problem with it is that it’s hammered all the time. But, as you saw, if you can get in there with presentations that fish usually don’t see (like your jigging) then you will catch fish most people miss. The south side probably could’ve been productive, too.
It was certainly a tough day to fish. Wind like that doesn’t help. But now you have a handle on what’s out there and with the cooler weather maybe your next trip will be more productive. I’m going tomorrow and would love to go that way to build upon your report because it’s a good one. But alas, my buddy wants to take his boat and it’s slipped in Delacroix. So we will figure it out over there.
Great report, thank you for posting!
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NE wind east of the river tends to raise water levels, but west of the river drops them. Full explanation here: https://www.lafbelite.com/lesson/if101-2-3/
If water is high, redfish will just go up the “stairs”, but there will be more real estate to find them in. I’d rather have lower water, but that comes with the caveat of navigability. Full explanation here: https://www.lafishblog.com/redfish-jubilee/
“It’s just the way I like to fish”
Perfectly understandable.
“so was curious about how much water may be blown out on that side, but ill figure it out once I get there.”
By the time the wind quits blowing so hard out of the northeast, the water would have returned to normal levels. It will most likely fall out on Friday and be at predicted levels by Saturday at the latest.
Looking at Geosphere, it appears that Yellow Cotton Bay is clearest now, with West Bay, Bay Adams and Bay Lanaux after that. The river at Venice and down to SW Pass looks good, but looks dirtier further north by Baton Rouge, and that could come down the pipe. Hopefully not.
If you do fish the river and use a trolling motor with spot lock, be sure that it’s connections are all squeaky clean and ready for amps, because the river will test it.
Something else to keep in mind: the marsh outside of the Venice area tends to have a softer, more forgiving bottom. The bottoms around Venice and anywhere influenced by the river are hard. Very easy to get stuck.
If you see terns diving, it’s probably bull reds underneath them. Same for gulls.
Good luck out there!
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+1 on #9 there, it could be protected nice and pretty from that wind
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Sorry, just saw this! In short, I fish the entire thing if it is new to me. This time of year, you want to be fishing falling tide for the white shrimp.
Full explanations:
https://www.lafbelite.com/lesson/if101-5-1/
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