Devin
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Also, I may or may not be out there come Saturday. I want to take my kids fishing but also have other stuff they’re “supposed” to do. lol Y’all know how it goes.
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“I stayed to catch an old school limit of 25”
Good stuff. Hell yes.
“The question I have is: how do you guys like to target these fellas on flats?”
Pray for wind and deploy a drift sock. You want to be drifting less than 1mph, 0.5mph to 0.7mph is optimum.
This video from Lake Decade shows exactly how I do it at 1:12:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li5gNUfctr0
Here is yesterday’s video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vavnnVcaRMg
No wind, so I used the trolling motor to move around until I found them stacked up and anchored down. Don’t spot lock in that shallow stuff.
Just throw a cork. Don’t mess with anything else. I have tried and I think you’d just be pissing in the wind. Maybe topwater when the sun is first rising or if its hard overcast. Otherwise, Cork City. An 18″ leader is perfect.
“Also for Devin: why did you think they would still be there after this insane wind?”
Because that’s where the food is. Forage drives everything. The shrimp aren’t running yet. It’s non-shrimp patterns all day until they do.
“Why does wind and dirty water sometimes push fish out and sometimes they stay in these areas?”
I think this has more to do with the fact that people are just scared of dirty water and it erodes their confidence, so they never fully apply themselves to reap the reward that’s there.
It also has to do with how dirty the water is relative to the surrounding water. I really drive this home inside 101, but the gist of it is that water that is stained badly isn’t as bad as straight river water. If that badly stained water is the best you’ve got, then that’s probably where the fish are. They just don’t have anything that’s better, so that’s what they’re gonna be in.
If the food is in dirty water, then the fish will be in dirty water.
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I’m also going to urge you to just trailer to Delacroix. When you get up in the morning, pound a glass of water with a pinch of salt, do some jumping jacks and push ups, get your blood flowing, don’t have caffeine until after you’ve been up for an hour and hit the road early as balls.
Get some 3mg nicotine pouches from the gas station, like Zyn or Velo, to keep you going on the ride there and the ride home. Have some podcasts ready to go as well.
Saturday in Delacroix is gonna be pretty frikkin’ awesome if the predicted conditions don’t drastically change for the worse.
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First off, thank you for making this post. This is the kind of wonderful, intentional and thoughtful approach to fishing that really does make for a better community. Thank you.
“The search function on this site actually works properly as opposed to Facebook, so that made me very happy.”
Yeah, that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
I try, and if ever it acts wonky please let me know. I’ve got a lot going on and do not monitor every facet of LAFB Elite 24/7. I’m here for you guys. Lemme know.
Also, you can search FB Groups by the year and sift through the results. It works better than nothing, though I’d expect better from a multi-billion dollar company.
“don’t be embarrassed if you didn’t smoke the fish”
This is key. We are here to work through it together. I don’t smoke the fish and will post accordingly. Everyone gets their ass kicked eventually. Everyone.
“Maybe you can knock both out if you smoke the trout and are back at the dock by 8:30 am”
I’m so confident in what I’ve seen in my last three trips that I fully expect you to do exactly that.
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A couple things that come to mind: where are you trailering from? Are you seeing recent fishing reports from elsewhere for Vermilion Bay?
Otherwise I would throw the whole flounder notion out of the window. Flounder don’t put up with river water/dirty water like that area is inundated in right now. I have never crushed them in conditions like that. If you see a guide/regular who recently posted a fishing report where they whacked the flounder then that’s one thing, otherwise you have about as much a chance of targeting them as you would wahoo or pink unicorns.
After that, I like the spots you picked out. They would have been protected from Thursday’s strong predicted wind. Maybe not so much Friday. But I do like rocks and it shouldn’t be too bumpy out there on Saturday. It could be doable for redfish.
After that, you only picked out three spots. I would plan to fish more than that. So here’s some to add to your hitlist: I would fish the hell out of the marsh. Get some dead shrimp to hang under a cork, or Gulp shrimp if you can’t source dead shrimp. I would go hit all those cuts and drains on the bayou, working from the south to the north so you’re not running the trolling motor as much. I think you can catch a limit of reds doing that. They will most likely be spread out, catching one here and there. You could get lucky and find them stacked up.
That marsh is a better bet because it’s protected from the rotating wind that’s predicted.
You’ll definitely have a good incoming tide all day.
You may be able to cork trout in The Cove.
I’d definitely soak dead shrimp on that point above the Cove. So I’d fish the marsh and that “big” shoreline on its west side.
If you’re feeling froggy, and the wind indeed lays down, you could run to the east point of Marsh Island and fish that. Think big tideline. Fish against the shoreline soaking dead shrimp under a cork to catch redfish.
I’d also consider trailering to Lake Decade and corking that.
Lemme know what you think.
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Welcome to the community!
Coming from a bass angling background really puts you at an advantage, just be ready to use more spinning tackle, especially clunky stuff like popping corks. Sometimes that’s just what trout want, even over something that suspends in a similar way like a Mirrodine 17MR or Corky Fat Boy.
You should really go to Delacroix right now. I haven’t kept up with the bass tournament trail results, but historically good bags come out of Caernarvon and Pointe a la Hache. Something like 25lb bags IIRC.
So, you have “Plan Bass” down there awaiting you either next to or not far from Plan Trout.
Check out my latest reports for more info on Plan Trout.
Also, that’s a great boat you have! It’s the same one I run and I’ve been happy with it. Lots of bang for buck in the 195TXW.
Thanks for posting an intro!
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It’s also worth noting that the morning bite was best, but they were still biting when we left them at 10:15am
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Where do you plan on going?
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Okay, that’s what I thought. I just looked up that drive and you’re looking at 3.5 hours to Delacroix. Yikes. That’s rough even for me and you know I trailer everywhere. Hmm.
So V-Bay is to you like what Lake P is to me. And guess what? I still drive right over that SOB. LOL
The drive to Lake Decade isn’t so bad. But also driving to the public boat launch behind the jail is a good idea, being way more doable at 1hr 45 mins. That’s about the same time I spend trailering to Pointe a la Hache or Port Sulphur.
Those canals north of Lake Boudreaux have trout in them during spring and they have trout in them now. You are literally fishing the canal and cuts off of it where you see moving water. Cork and jighead.
The ponds and shorelines are also good to cork for redfish. Dead shrimp is a go-to. Or chunk and wind a gold spoon.
The most redfish I’ve ever sighted in a single day was in the ponds north of Boudreaux. 200+ days I’ve had back there with the most recent being April or May of last year.
Or just stick with V-Bay for the very good reasons that you mentioned.
“No that is not the only 3 I picked”
Okay, good.
“I am happy to try my new spot lock trolling motor, and Side Imagining unit.”
Spot lock is the way. Total game changer.
I think that you have what you need to catch some redfish on Saturday. Bring bug spray in case the gnats come out.
Good luck!
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Check my last three reports. Today I didn’t even bring anything that sinks. lol All stuff that floats or suspends. It’s Cork City out there.
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No. It didn’t yesterday or today and this cold front doesn’t look any stronger than the one we just got.
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Saturday is looking g-r-e-a-t. You’re gonna stomp them. Hands down. Total destruction.
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I’ll check it out. Thank you!
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The public launch I linked is probably a good bet and much closer than Dularge. You should seriously check it out.
