Devin
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“I would call this trip very successful, getting to learn how to fish Lake Borgne as well as checking out the Biloxi Marsh for the first time. I can’t wait for the wind to lay down so I can really break it down.”
I have to agree. It’s all about gaining the experience for long term success. You’re on that road. Keep it up.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“I would call this trip very successful, getting to learn how to fish Lake Borgne as well as checking out the Biloxi Marsh for the first time. I can’t wait for the wind to lay down so I can really break it down.”
I have to agree. It’s all about gaining the experience for long term success. You’re on that road. Keep it up.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Thanks for sharing!
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I hate to hear about the engine problems, that definitely throws a monkey wrench in your ability to confidently execute the fishing trip.
Sounds like your dad had a good time, though. That’s what really matters. Y’all didn’t get skunked either.
Great report, thanks for posting it!
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It sounds like they’re just at the Long Rocks and that’s all there is to it.
I’m surprised I haven’t heard of anyone trying the Trash Rig, that one usually ends up being the most productive in all of Bay Eloi.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Good luck out there!
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“I figured it was better to make her happy than Devin”
LOL Happy wife, happy life.
You crossed Lake Borgne? Was it rough?
Great report, thanks for posting!
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You should really begin looking the area over in GED and previous reports here in this forum. This place isn’t even a year old yet and it’s already got a good little archive. Do that and the ideas will flow in.
I don’t have time to bake the cake for you. But if you get me one fresh out of the oven I can throw some icing on it.
After that, what are your goals for this tournament? Are you going in your boat? What equipment do you have for navigating this area? GPS unit and mapping card? I can’t read your mind.
If we can cover everything I mentioned above then we can minimize the amount of things you wish you would have known before launching the boat.
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Dude, it’s been hard. I keep in touch with a guide friend down there and pretty much all everyone does is drive past trout to go dead-shrimp redfish. Then they hammer the bejesus out of the reds all day with dead shrimp then the bow guides come in at night and shoot the rest with arrows.
These people are so friggin dumb, because then they whine about all the throwbacks and bull reds, but no slots.
Hmmmmm. I wonder where they all went.
It’s tough. That’s why I run down to Pointe a la Hache and try to get some distance from the docks, but now that area is covered in river water and, according to my reports, doesn’t clear up good until the river hits 10 feet.
It is what it is.
But you are the spear tip. You did what spear tips do. This is inshore fishing in Louisiana. Your day of hammering them will come.
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There ya go. Work on the boat on the windy days. I would not have gone yesterday.
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I would have a route taking you to the sunk rocks off Timbalier Island, as well as Fourchon Barges and Belle Pass. The route down the beach is obvious, but I’d make one going through the marsh just in case of wind.
Obviously we have no idea what the wind will be like this far out, it will take a few more days for a decent forecast to materialize. So you want to plan for stuff that’s protected from wind, just in case.
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That’s 1,000% what I would do: get out there and go look. Never, not ever in my life, not once in a 100 years, would I expect to walk into a tournament and place in anything without any prior TOW.
My first redfish tournament we landed in the money (with my buddy taking 1st place in the pond I found) and all of you would be appalled to know how much TOW I put in to get that result. I didn’t fish once or twice, ask on Facebook, or just try someplace I already knew. I covered hundreds of miles of shoreline in a 15ft flatboat. It was worth it.
I’m not expecting you to do that, but I do think that you would benefit immensely from planning a scouting trip, getting feedback from us to capitalize the most on it, then building upon that on game day.
I would also be sure to exercise an element of operational security, which will be tricky and up to you. If you need me to delete anything, reach out right away.
After that, why only trout? Is there not a slot redfish division? If there were, I’d be looking at redfish up toward Golden Meadow or Lafitte. Wherever it’s fresher and their tails are shorter.
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I know that because I’ve fished it a lot over the last sixteen years. Especially since the Freshening, it has been like that. It will improve.
Don’t beat yourself up. Tough trips happen. Just keep a detailed personal report you can refer to later so you don’t reinvent the wheel.
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“Close on the rocks”
Yeah, that’s the difference right there. You gotta make casts to the rocks and it sounds like you got that part figured out. That’s the key detail so many anglers overlook. I’ve only written a 2,000+ word, highly SEO’d article with detailed pictures about that every thing, not to mention YouTube videos. So it frustrates me when people fish the Long Rocks with a popping cork or something else and don’t get the same result.
Either way, great job on the fish!
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That is what it’s all about.
