Devin
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I’d also like to mention that there was a 3/4 full waning moon out for a good bit of the night and, above all, the air pressure was well over 30 inches at 30.28
I do think a bright moon can help fish feed at night, making that morning window that much more important to fish (not to mention the blue bird skies).
And the air pressure….well, it’s an old wive’s tale. Buck Perry is right.
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Tomorrow and Tuesday are gonna be good. Are you down in Louisiana yet?
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First of all, I think you’re thinking the conditions too much. Just go and do the thing.
You’ll have some moving water. Fish are gonna be shallow anyway, just fish shallow with a cork.
If you go to the Rock Dam and camp out, then the north side will be windy. It won’t be super calm there. The south side will be. I’m not sure if you’re up for dragging your canoe over the Rock Dam. Seems like a PITA, maybe even dangerous.
I think you should just go and hit those ponds immediately off the Spoil Canal for trout and reds. You’ll be protected and I am sure they are fine as the bad weather we just got didn’t last that long.
I also think it may be the best idea to launch out of Pip’s (it’s on the road before Hopedale Marina, not a marina, just a launch and a place to park your vehicle) and go fish Hopedale Lagoon and Lake Ameda. Drift and cork. It will be that easy. You’ll be protected from the wind, too.
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Well there really is a lot of under-appreciated talent out there. Unfortunately, YouTube is geared toward curated content feeds fed by an algorithm than it’s former subscriber based model.
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for joining. I hope you enjoy LAFB Elite for what it is.
Again, thank you.
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Oh, and +1 on the cork. Let’s not reinvent the wheel. When it works, it works. The cork really delivered for me this last winter, it probably will again this spring. lol
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Fishing the marsh and canals above Lake Boudreaux may be a better idea. There are speckled trout in the canals back there, at least there usually is this time of year. The ponds are good for redfish, too.
Find that launch here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/cD2hSZf5cnAnBRg69
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Have you looked at it on a map? That’s a haul.
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If you have any questions about what you’re seeing on sonar, take a picture or screenshot of it, upload it here and we can lend our collective expertise (well, me and like 3 other guys and everyone else who’s lurking lol)
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Good questions. Thank you for asking them.
“Did you do anything different or was it the same old?”
Nope. Just caught them there recently and tried it anyway. Given the conditions I still would have tried it anyway even if I had not fished Friday, but left if nothing bit within 5-10 minutes of casting around. That’s the same thing I would do as any other day of fishing.
“Retrieve, sent, Dark lure color?”
Well, you can’t really retrieve a popping cork any differently. Just pop it. That’s it. Keep it simple.
Definitely nothing different with color. These are Louisiana school trout. Not bass on Day 3 of the Classic on Lake Conroe. Color doesn’t matter when you’re just finding biting fish to begin with.
“in the Vermilion bay….”
Yeah, that area sucks when the river is high (like it is now). Trailer somewhere else or wait for the river to go down or burn gas/time/money to re-learn what you already know about fishing in river water: it’s gonna be a grind.
When the river goes down (below 6ft at Butte la Rose IIRC) is when you want to begin paying attention to that area. Or during the summer out at Tiger Shoals and the oyster reefs. But no amount of knowledge/skill is going to make fish appear where they are otherwise not. There’s a reason why you don’t see a buttload of guides over there chartering year round, but in places like Venice/Delacroix/Cocodrie, etc. you do.
V-Bay and the surrounding area would fair much better if it sat next to 100ft+ of Gulf water like Venice does, but it does not.
Consider all the otherwise “good” areas I trailered past today and it was worth it. I 1,000% could have stuck it out in Lake Pontchartrain today but it’s absolutely beat to death by the cold front that just came through, so why bother? That’s fishing the conditions.
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Anything he says is legit. Either way, just beware down there. Venice will rip your balls off lol
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I don’t see any on Geosphere, did the cold front blow it away? Sure wish there was a webcam to reference down there.
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When I had a slip, I didn’t flush. I’m not proud to say that, but that’s what happened. It would def get flushed whenever I pulled the boat out for maintenance. The motor was fine. It’s really not that salty here in Louisiana.
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I see you made a separate planning post for this and will respond to that.
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Actually, I sucked it up and knocked it out. It was way easier than expected. Any video and pictures aren’t getting changed, but the text is done for the book and both websites, save for this forum.
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What’s holding me back is the trailer. I’d really like an aluminum trailer. The steel trailer works, but aluminum would be nice. But for the price….maybe just say F it and do the Tracker. lol
