Devin
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For the record, I have told multiple here in this forum to go do this exact thing and that they would probably get the exact result you did. It’s like I wrote a book on this or something.
“surprisingly found some trout in the 14-16″ range still around”
Yeah, they’re lost. They could use a boat ride. lol
“It’s just something else when you see them light up on your sidescan!”
Hell yeah it is!
“the winds had shifted to more of a westerly direction”
I don’t know how strong the afternoon wind was, but the powerlines closer to the west end of the lake tend to be more protected. Getting there would’ve been rough, though.
“I can only imagine once the water temps start heating up there will be more reds in the area?”
They’re pretty much always there. When it gets so hot that you can’t stand it, they will be there. They just bite in the morning and evening. More so in the morning. I’ve caught ’em in water 91 degrees.
Excellent work on the reds. Way to execute. It’s really good sonar fishing.
Great report, thank you so much for posting it!
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Did you go? Do you have a report?
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“It was more difficult this time to get on a good bite with inexperienced crew on board.”
That I understand. I don’t know what it was like, if you had to cast, untangle lines, etc. but if you had some hitters in the boat with you then chances are you would have caught a lot more trout. It sounds to me (I could be wrong) you’re pretty close to the smorgasbord of trout. A lot closer than EBM, Long Rocks or whatever.
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“sandbar (location below)”
You are a saint.
“After 45 minutes to an hour of freeing the boat by getting out and pushing”
So, technically, you weren’t stuck. Just inconvenienced. lol Also, way to go on just getting the boat out yourself. Way to man up. Love it.
Yeah, so this tells me (especially based off previous reports) that Venice is the way to go. It is the Promised Land of milk and honey. Always has been.
Great report, thank you so much for posting!
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So, do we know of anyone that has been smoking the trout in that area? Any reports from FB?
I’m starting to think that they’re just in the surf and that’s it.
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Yep, there are some reports in EBM and they’re not reporting stellar fishing. I’d look elsewhere, or at least understand that if and when you do go, you are looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Good question.
EBM = East Biloxi Marsh
Yeah sure, you could try Delacroix closer to the river.
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Herb, the only reports I know of come from this forum and a few from friends. I don’t have any friends save one that fish that area. They’re all terrified of it, especially closer to the outfall of the Mississippi River. The one that fishes that area only fishes redfish and he has not had great things to say about it.
I do think that the rigs by Stone Island and Stone Island itself are worth fishing provided they’re not covered in straight chocolate milk. Stained green is doable. The river is still at 11.5ft and taking her sweet time to fall. Mildly annoying. lol
If the edge of river water is further north, then fish there. I think you’re on to something.
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Faaaaaaaaaaaccck!!!!!
Man, I was rooting for you. I had faith you’d figure something out. Something is going on. It shouldn’t be this hard to find fish.
What the hell is going on?
Well, if you do go to Coco, those rigs could be productive. Or maybe all the fish are in the surf now. I just don’t know. Between your report and @Boyce report, I’m sitting here scratching my head.
Either way, thank you for taking time to post a report. It’s a good one.
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There have been some reports out of that area that you should check out. IIRC it was a lot of throwbacks and gafftops. I’d try punching further into the Sound if possible. Comfort Island has to turn on soon, if not already. I’d check it before the word gets out.
If you do fish the area you’re suggesting, then I recommend long drifts over oyster reefs, and do the same thing at Bay Boudreau. But it’s probably gonna be a lot of throwbacks. I’d put money on a long, frustrating boat ride to learn what we already knew.
Now, here’s my crazy lunatic idea that you’re 99.99% not jumping up and down to try: I’d go to Venice and start learning safe routes there. I’d literally focus on a slow and methodical boat ride to figure out where it’s safe to run. I’d pull routes and known hazards off LAFishBlog and ask about the same thing here. In fact, I’d really leverage this forum to that end and get most of the grunt work done for me here. Who knows? Maybe once you put in some work and show you’re serious someone will share their tracks with you.
The river is gonna go down and as it does the fishing there will only get better. Fish will leave the areas to the north and head there because that’s where all the food is. That’s what they’ve been doing since 2021 and I have no reason to believe they’d do any different this year.
In fact, let me consult my crystal ball: Ah yes, I foresee people fishing the same usual stupid fckng community holes. I see The Wall, Martello Castle, ICW, Seabrook, Trestles and more piled with boats. I see all the YouTubers making the same video (again). I see pressured fish, throwbacks and people struggling to make it happen just like they did last year and the year before that and the year before that.
Now let’s shift our wizard-like gaze to Venice. There’s @Boyce and @Jake_Flies hammering the daylights out of trout in unrecognizable spots in the river!! Not catching a dozen and chalking it up to “uH bAd DaY oN tEh WaTer iS bEtTeR tHaN Uh GuD dAy at wUrK” but actually crushing the trout so bad you hear them screaming from The Wall. We are talking 50-100+ trout days.
Then what happens next is the same thing that always does: most people are too scared to go try because they didn’t put in their TOW to learn the area. Or they make some half-hearted, poorly planned attempt, miss the fish and relegate themselves back to their prison of over-pressured community holes.
You’ll thank yourself come fall/winter when the area really turns on and big keepers are everywhere in the river.
Or, at a bare minimum, I’d launch from Delacroix and explore/learn the bleeding edge of river water in places like American Bay. Kinda like what I describe here.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
In all fairness I would have looked right at that corner on GED and been like “yeah, I’m idling that”. I would idle and graph the entire frikkin thing on my first time out there (and I did).
With that said, out of the quarter million licensed inshore anglers in Louisiana, there are only enough to count on one hand that post actual Venice reports here. Please grant him life. lol
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I am also bad at counting. You’re in good company.
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Johnson! That’s a throwback. I had a 50 that served me well.
Everyone stop what you’re doing and give a moment of silence to a great two stroke.
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Oh, it’s gonna be longer than that. lol Yeah, I get this “issa looong drive” complaint/argument a bunch. But what do you think I’m doing?
Yeah, look at the address in my emails. That’s not Buras, that’s Pearl River. I drive past every community hole in St. Tammany, Orleans, and St. Bernard Parishes to go slug it out on the river at the opposite end of Plaquemines Parish and it’s worth it.
Same for Boyce and others.
That and just being there is epic (not to give Venice too much credit).
To get around the traffic in Belle Chasse and the LNG plant I will sometimes launch at Beshel’s in Pointe a la Hache and run down the river. That saves time.
But even if your total trailering time was just an hour more…well, consider this thought experiment: would you sit down and listen to your favorite podcast/music for an hour if it meant crushing the trout? For me, that’s an easy answer.
With that said, I sure do love fishing reservoirs. It’s just so more straightforward. Like training in air conditioning. It’s nice. Enjoy that trip, have a good one, and consider getting those safe routes when you get back.
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You are correct, except for one thing: I didn’t get stuck. The motor broke down. Big difference.
Yes, I did get stuck out there once. That was five years ago. During that time I’ve mostly mastered the area and am one of the few people who know how to run it. Most people get gun shy and go fish <insert Long Rocks, Trestles, The Wall, etc>.
Put it this way: SeaTow West Bank was too scared to run the mouth of Neptune Pass to get me, same for Plaquemines Sheriff and Sea Tow New Orleans didn’t know how. So I sent Sea Tow pictures of my routes and we put something for their captain to use to come get me. It was good teamwork.
Then I drifted into Breton Sound to clear the mouth of Neptune to make it that much easier for him. And, to be clear, their captain (Captain Gary) is the bee’s knees. Flawless boat captain. Cannot say enough good things about him.
The point here is that I got real intensive with my GED homework and taking it easy running that area until I had my tracks and knew the depth. Any experience one has pre-2011 doesn’t count anymore. Mardi Grass and Neptune Passes have really changed that area.
But, I think Herb is on to something.
