Devin
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Okay, F it, I’m going. Someone’s gotta follow up on the tip of the spear aka @Boyce
I keep hearing horror stories about the LNG Plant traffic and how bad it is in Belle Chasse, etc. Well, that’s time I can spend covering water and fishing, so I’m gonna launch at Beshel’s and make that run down the river. The problem is the wind, but if you look at Windfinder right now you’ll see that the predicted 20mph NE wind will be cutting across the river, rather than down it, giving me lee water to ride in. I’ve made this run in these conditions before and made out okay and I think I can make good speed down the river. There’s a couple bends that will get sporty, but what I have now that I did not have then are protected routes in the marsh paralleling the river from PLH to Ostrica and even under Bay Denesse. This is LTS at work. I ran those routes when the water was much lower during the summer, so I can run them fine in my Tracker tomorrow.
I really don’t know how far south I will get. Last year I was catching trout and redfish in the river well above Venice as far north as Buras, but the river was also below 3ft and stable. Tomorrow she’s coming up above 4ft. She looked clean on Geosphere and numbers clean on a turbidity monitor at Belle Chasse.
Gotta go to know!
Last year I made a few runs like this and they were easy 100 mile days. One day was 121 miles. But I’d rather be covering that water and graphing it and putting a bait in it that sitting in LNG traffic trying to pay attention to a podcast.
Better wind is coming up and I do think the river will go down, so tomorrow will be good scouting for that. I will build upon what Boyce scouted if I make it that far south and, if I don’t, I’ll let y’all know what I find that far north.
I’m also leaving a float plan with a friend and taking a satellite communicator that will be clipped to my PFD in case SHTF.
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Yeah! Do you know where The Jump is? Look at my attached pic. Fish there, not far from the shoreline, you want to be in about 25-30ft of water and just hang a Heavy Drop Shot off the back of the boat. It’s as easy as it gets. Just make sure you’re at least 1oz or heavier on that HDS. After that, you can do the same thing in the river against rock shorelines and find success.
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If you don’t mind me asking, when did you plan on going?
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“We were a little frustrated as we kept finding the perfect formula for smacking the trout but we weren’t catching much.”
That’s exactly what I’ve been seeing: lots of bait, hardly any trout. There just aren’t as many trout as there used to be. I think they’re coming back though.
” I threw a cast out and never saw my jighead hit the water and thought it flew off, turns out it got wrapped around a bird and I had to fly it like a kite for 5 mins trying to reel it to the boat”
That’s hilarious. Glad to know it’s not just me. I just reel them in, untangle them and take their picture. I show them to non-fisher people and explain that I can call birds to land in my hand. Some believe me.
“We were both hyped about catching our limit, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about smacking them under birds within sight of the dock. It kinda feels like cheating and that we didn’t earn it or really “figure them out” if that makes sense? Maybe I just can’t be content haha.”
No, you did great! You made the best of the conditions that were given you. Next time you go you know what to look for, so knock out your fish then use that extra time to go explore somewhere else. Or just know you will probably catch them on that pattern anyway and use that time to go find something else. Otherwise, I’d be stoked to go on a fishing trip like yours. Sounds like a good time.
“Also, we realized today after looking at a picture that we only left with 29 keepers and not 30. We must have clicked the fish counter one to many times, so I’ll count 1 of those 2 keepers I accidentally threw back”
I can’t count either. You’re in good company. lol
Great report! Thanks for posting!
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Looks good. Thanks for using the forum to this end.
Shrimp boats use Brady Lagoon, you’ll do great.
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Also, I caught enough 12″ fish to keep 25 speckled trout, if the old limit was still in effect. Just something I wanted to note.
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Yeah, so I’m back and I can say that if y’all want to catch ’em you should consider camping out at the Rock Dam if wind permits. I’ll post a full report ASAP.
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Well, this is good intel. I’ll reconsider launching from PLH then. You guys didn’t fish the Jump by any chance?
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I’ll have to get back to you on this, there’s a lot of work I must to do to get ready for tomorrow.
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I’m 99% positive that I’ll be going tomorrow to do God’s work.
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Perhaps I’ll go Tuesday. I can make Venice happen with a stiff NE wind. The tide sucks, but the river keeps moving, right? I’ll have all day Tuesday. So maybe Tuesday. lol
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+1 on this
Have a towel, or use your shirt, or you are getting pecked. lol
Also, if you get enough practice, you can get an arm around a pelican’s wings around to his head and hold his bill shut. Then it’s picture time.
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I didn’t have anywhere else to go besides Plan Redfish. I had fished other spots and they sucked. The only other spot I would have been comfortable duking it out was the Rock Dam, and that was a couple dozen miles away. That and the tide looked like it was going to turn, so just waiting seemed like the best option. It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was better to do than running 25 miles back to where I came from. lol
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Yeah, it’s the best time of year to catch ’em and it’s just being weird. I wouldn’t mind the warm water temp so much if the wind would just chill out.
I see that there will be a window of calm wind in Venice tomorrow, and I have thought of trying it, but my luck it would lure me down there, then change and I’d be screwed. I’m probably, once again due to the wind forecast, gonna stay close to home. If the tide was better I’d head down to PAC, Dulac or Lafitte.
With that said, in 2016-2017 we had a warm winter and Lake Pontchartrain was banging on all eight cylinders from October to April. It was insane. But the wind played nice. That year Chas caught an 8 pounder, IIRC. Lots of fog, too. Great for trout. So I am keeping my fingers crossed that happens.
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Tuesday is gonna be a neapy tide, but that northeast wind may drop the water for you. I’d be ready to fish rock piles or the weirs or even go Plan Redfish.
I might head down there Monday or go to Lafitte. I haven’t made up my mind yet. Or Venice. I just hate the tide and the wind!!! This November needs to get right!! lol
