Devin
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Actual .kml tracks from this trip
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Map of tracks from this trip
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Gus’s Tackle in Slidell has them, as well as Chag’s Sporting Goods.
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What a great report. Beat the heat and everything. I may have to get out there soon. Thank you so much for posting!
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“Remember my name…”
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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On another note, I have a regular fantasy of moving out of state and getting my anonymity back.
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Also, I understand that this trip was “last minute”, but those kinds of trips tend to fail because key details get overlooked.
In the future, if you (or anyone reading this) let us know where you’re going and what tackle you plan to use, we can identify what you need to succeed. If you told us that you didn’t have anything heavier than 3/8oz (or even 1/2oz) then we could have said something. You just gotta give us the opportunity to do so.
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Also, I will throw up to 1oz jigs out there. It looks dumb on a 3″ soft plastic, but it does work. An HDS will work better, though.
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“Tough day of fishing for us.”
Story of my life, especially this time of year. Let’s see what happened.
“We threw jigs, Carolina-rigged shrimp, and shrimp 3’ under a popping cork.”
Every time I see this in a report I can’t help but think “how heavy were you?” meaning “how heavy was the sinker on that Carolina rig, and how heavy was that jighead?” Because IIRC that tide was like 2.3ft out there which, for Louisiana, is like a rock falling out of the sky. It is very hard to get presentations in that scenario. It doesn’t matter if you throw live bait, Nuclear Baloney or whatever, if the fish don’t see it then they cannot possibly know it’s there then bite it.
“By this time the wind was picking up considerably out of the north, maybe around 10 knots.”
Man, I hate that.
“We approached it similarly, positioning off the downcurrent side, fishing our way from further off the rig to inside tighter.”
I think that is a good strategy. Very methodical and deliberate. Love it.
“Tried a few satellite well heads with the same approach but no luck.”
Man, I have had those days. Just shooting my shot everywhere I go, just trying. I get it.
“We also didn’t try a substantially heavier drop shot with a 1oz weight or jig head heavier than 3/8oz, not sure that 1/2oz would have made much of a difference in the current we observed.”
Welp, that’s it.
I mean, it could have just been a crap day to be out there, but if you don’t get those presentations you’ll never know. Selecting sinking weight is the key difference across Louisiana’s coast, especially in deeper, faster moving water like a 2ft+ falling tide in Breton Sound.
3/8oz jigheads on that kinda tide in Breton Sound is p*ssing in the wind. You brought a knife to a gunfight. The trout were strapped, you were not.
Most people do this, so when I am in a more challenging scenario like that and I see other boats not catching, I don’t let that faze me. I just focus on good presentations.
“At this point it was about 9:30 and getting hotter, so we headed back inside for plan redfish.”
Okay, good move. I would’ve headed toward the MRGO and fished protected points/shorelines there, not for any particular reason other than that is what has worked for me in the past. I’ve posted about this area and those spots before, they are somewhere in this forum. Otherwise, I haven’t been fishing and don’t know exactly where a bunch of redfish are. After talking to two redfish guides I know, it seems no one really does. lol
“Not sure what we should have been doing differently”
Go tie a couple dozen Heavy Drop Shots with 1oz and 2oz bank sinkers ready to rock and roll. Then rig up a spinning rod, two or three with them for next time.
“or if it was just a tough day to catch fish”
It coulda been. Last year I got my butt kicked pretty bad out there, too. It eventually happens and the fish just sidestepped me, if they were there at all.
Either way, great report and thanks for posting it. And, because you did take time to post (this is for all the lurkers not posting) you now know what to do. That’s the difference.
Too many anglers are concerned that the only report worth posting are bragging ones, and that’s just dumb. The tough ones are the ones you want feedback on. That’s where the real growth happens. That’s how you get “aha!” moments and breakthroughs.
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*anxiety building to hear back on this mission planning*
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Yeah, I have a friend in Florida who poked himself on a hook that had been out of the water for days and got a mean bacterial infection. He’s a sailor in his late 30s and he still had to get surgery, antibiotics, etc.
It just happens. Definitely a risk that comes with enjoying the water. Y’all stay safe.
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Ah, thanks for bringing it up. I think this is what you’re looking for: https://www.lafishblog.com/vibrio-vulnificus/
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You can catch some on the inside right now.
If you’re planning to go fishing then you should make a new planning post. Don’t hijack this one. When you do make a planning post, include as much information as you can. The more the better. The more we have, the more feedback we can give you. Tell us where you plan to launch from, the boat you’re taking, the conditions, what tackle you plan on using, etc.
“jUsT wInGing iT” is about the worst way to leverage your membership here. Don’t learn it the hard way.
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Yeah, remote work/home hours are over. Which I’m fine with. lol
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I love that micro brew analogy.
