Devin
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F*ck yeah!! This is what I’m talking about. Do your dang homework and show it off. Okay, let me go over this and I’ll give you my full-blown, unfiltered two cents.
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What boat are you going in?
It’s not gonna be flat calm, unless the forecast changes. But, depending on the boat you’re in, you can give Bay Eloi a try.
I do think you’d be running past a lot of fish, and you wouldn’t be capitalizing on the falling tide. Are you familiar with the white shrimp run during fall?
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Can you break this down for me a little more? So you started at the south end of Doulut’s and trolled down the shoreline throwing a gold spoon at the shoreline, correct?
Did you ever cast into open water when you caught the trout? Did you focus on trout once you caught a couple?
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Do you have sonar and, if so, do you monitor it wile fishing?
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Will you have the chance to scout at all? That would be ace.
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“I hadn’t seen trout in the area since spring”
That’s exactly where they should be this time of year.
I’d fish there again with a cork and HDS in the deeper stuff.
Man, those redfish are FAT. That’s exactly what we need to be seeing this time of year!
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“When the reports hit, it’s too late – that’s my mentality”
1,000% the correct mentality. Few have that. Most people just want to be told where to go.
“with water temps at 86 degrees”
It’s warm. In years past it was cooler than this (well, I dunno about last year). It really needs to cool off a wee bit more. For example, in this YouTube video where I caught a limit of speckled trout on the fall white shrimp pattern, that was filmed on 9-28-21 and the water temp was 78 degrees.
So, yeah.
“S wind was cancelling out the falling tide”
If that tide wasn’t ripping out, then the fish will wait until it does. I cannot tell you how many times I have fished a spot when the water wasn’t ripping out on a falling tide, only to return hours later when it finally did and it was a night/day difference in fishing action. It has happened so many times that when I launch during the fall I don’t bother with anything other than a hard falling tide (if I’m fishing that shrimp pattern).
So, if that water wasn’t ripping out, then you may as well have not tried at all. Go back when it is, and maybe trout will be there instead of dinks and catfish.
Either way, you got to run the boat (and of course there’s something broken on it, like that’s what boats do lol) and further prep for the madness that’s coming.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Well, when is it? What boat are you fishing out of?
” I don’t have many fall spots for Grand Isle. I could really use some help.”
So then make some. If you know what I know (and there’s no reason not to) then you know that if you want bigger trout you are going to have to stay away from the shrimp pattern.
You know you’re going to have to fish non-shrimp spots, where there’s fin fish that bigger trout like to eat.
Where are those spots located?
What I’m looking for from you are those spots selected based upon the above information. Then I can tell you what I think.
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Welcome to the Community. I’ll tell you the same thing I’ve told others:
Check out this planning post here, there’s lots of good info there that will aid your upcoming fishing trip.
I cannot stress it enough: the key to making the most of your membership is to:
1. Knock out IF101 so you have the same knowledge and speak the same language as the rest of us
2. Use this community to get help planning your next fishing trip. Not doing the work for you, but providing us with an obviously thoughtful plan we can provide feedback for.
3. Rinse and repeat.
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Thank you for the heads up!
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That’s great. That way you can learn “where they ain’t”. But I do think that sticking it out at Belle Pass and grinding that bad boy out can land you a couple 20″ speckled trout. It will be a grind, but it’s possible.
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Okay, I see. We’re not on the same sheet of music. So, lets implement a short term solution and a long term, permanent solution.
Your short term solution is “you should go fish the big passes draining into Lake Borgne”. Martello Castle, Doulut’s Canal, Bayou Thomas and Chef Pass, all off of Lake Borgne. You can fish Bay Eloi if that’s what makes you happy, but you sure would be driving past a lot of fish just to get there.
Those are all community holes you can find some fish at on Friday and Saturday. But, they will get crowded, over fished and are not fishable under all conditions. You will be stuck in a loop and never really branch out to find biting fish in new spots.
The permanent solution is to learn how to find your own fish. That’s what I teach inside Inshore Fishing 101 and (relevant to this time of year) Fall Fish Location. Once you have that knowledge then you can make solid planning posts here because you’ll know what we’re talking about.
I bring this up because you haven’t completed either course.
All the context, related information, etc. are in those courses. That’s why I went to the trouble of making them, and there’s really no point in re-typing out everything here that’s already made in video format there. That makes sense, right?
If I were you, I’d go so far as to skip those fishing trips and learn my process to finding fish so you’re not learning it all the hard way when the fishing is really good (like it will be here in the next 30 days).
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The fancy sonar stuff is not necessary at all. It’s just good to monitor depth. I wouldn’t look for redfish in a spot like that, I’d 1,000% expect there to be trout (this time of year). If you accidentally caught that many with a gold spoon, then there were probably a lot more chewing in that spot.
I mention a cork because the trout were probably in that deeper water feeding toward the surface. If they’re not, then an HDS will solve that (because then they’d be at the bottom of that deeper water).
Doulut’s is more like a pass than a bayou, with two big bodies of water on either side. It sets up a lot like Martello and Bayou Thomas, and tends to move a lot of water and (consequently) a lot of shrimp. Trout stack up there as a result.
Where you fished works, but a little further out into the scoop can be more productive. Gonna need a danforth anchor out there.
Thanks for getting back to me, this sheds a lot of light as to what’s going on out there.
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Okay, this is more like it.
Good boat to be in. You can definitely deal with more chop in that thing.
I think the spots you picked out are a good start, but if I were you I would be looking hard at rocks in deep water (at least 10-12ft).
So I’d consider fishing the sunk rocks at Timbalier, Belle Pass and even Fourchon Barges. The rock jetty at Caminada is worth trying as well, there will just be other boats on it because it’s right there and well known.
Of course, this will all depend on what the wind allows you to do.
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I think that’s why it’s good to bookmark the Facebook pages (or wherever they post) of guides local to an area in order to have that comparison.
For example, if folks in this forum are struggling in Breton Sound, but I see Rory Rorison, Jon Sanchez and Brandon Carter are smoking them, then I know the problem isn’t the fish.
Just keep in mind that they almost always have recent TOW and a way stronger angler network of legit pipehitters who have also recently been on the water.
Ya know, I feel confident that I could find fish anywhere completely from scratch, but do acknowledge that a trip or two could be necessary just to learn where they ain’t. That totally happens. If I’m on the water a bunch and already have that figured out then it’s much easier dial ’em in.
