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GED recognizes pretty much anything you put into it, even MGRS (what the military uses, Military Grid Reference System).
Yeah, if you flip the two elements of the lat/long, that’s like flipping a phone number backwards.
I think where you’re going wrong is not delineating *which* 89 degree longitudinal line you’re referring to when asking GED (or any mapping program) where it is.
Because there’s more than one, since the Earth is round. I can text it out here, but a good way to wrap your head around this (if you’re like me anyway) is to just SEE it in person. So I recommend booting up GED, going to the menu, click on View, then click on Grid and you’ll get all the lines like you see in the screenshot below.
So the reason you’re going to Tibet or Timbuktu or wherever when you punch in the coordinates given by SeaTow is because you’re not telling GED if that 89 degree line is east or west of the Prime Meridian (the line going north to south).
Using a longitudinal coordinate that’s devoid of E or W (or a minus) is assumed to be east. If you put a minus in front of 89 you’d fly to the correct position.
Also, once you understand this relationship of lat/long, you can tell where coordinates are in Louisiana without seeing them on a map. Maybe not an exact position, but you’ll know if they were in the Lake P Basin, Grand Isle, etc.
The “crosshairs” of 30/90 is a trash heap off the ICW by Boh Bros in New Orleans East. So anything NE of that will be 30/89, SE of there 29/89, NW of there 30/90 and SW 29/90.
That encompasses most anywhere you would fish.
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I dropped my trolling motor in and the prop wouldn’t turn! It had power but wouldn’t turn for nothing. By this time it’s about 7am. I spot a current line and decide to get close and drift east with the wind to fish it. We pick up 10 more keepers and prob 15 12.75″ trout by 8am.
What a way to adapt. Sorry to hear about the trolling motor, though!
(Does anyone eat sailcats?) I’ve always wanted to know.
Yes, and they’re great to eat. They’re just a PITA to put up with. Marsh Man Masson did a video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yoKRONAh5M
I’m not sure we’re but I would bet it’s near the islands that separate Bayou Rigolets and Bayou Perot.
I 100% would put money on that.
On the north west side of Beauregard we noticed a couple birds sitting in the water. The wind was blowing straight south at this point and we were at the end of the incoming tide. First cast toward the birds yielded 2 keepers! We picked up out last 4 in the next 15 min and got out of there beating the rain!
You are really good at putting together a box by going off small groups of birds. These are opportunities I would normally pass up while looking for the Mother Lode.
This is why posting reports in a community like this is so damn important!
You are revealing a style of fishing that succeeds where others fail, and that is what is key, not “wHerE R tHe fIsH”.
So it’s not just this report, but all of your reports that really back this up and indicate what to do in that area and, just as important, a strategy to try in other areas.
This is cool. I would pretty much never stop for a couple sitting birds. I would stop for a slam-a-thon of diving birds numbering in the dozens or even hundreds.
But doing so could lead to more running than what’s necessary. I would literally be driving past a limit of speckled trout looking for something that may not be there.
You’re kicking ass, Josh. Thank you so much for posting this report!
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I am very pumped to see a Breton Sound report. I’ve been itching to hear from an Elite member as to what’s going on out there.
“The cut through or “Boogie’s Way” now has (or maybe always had, not sure) PVC poles on both sides of the deeper parts of the bayou (can be seen on GED), the depth ranges from 4 – 8 feet out to Lake Of Two Trees. So no issues running that as long as you stay between the PVC poles.”
Very good intel. Thank you for that.
“I did however, copy Captain Devin’s KML file he posted and pasted it on top of my plan because it had a few rigs I didn’t have, the names of the rigs, and the general location of the dope boat which I didn’t have.”
You’re welcome! Excellent, glad to know that’s being put to good use. That’s the whole point of this forum! I love it!
“First stop was the rig in Lake Fortuna with no luck.”
That’s not particularly surprising.
“From there we headed further out stopping at Five Wells, 32 Block, Compressor, and Hashtag with ZERO luck.”
My anxiety would have been full-throttle peaking at that point in time. I would’ve been a mess, that Mercury would be screaming and the throttle buried through the console. lol
Also, I just found on Navionics that someone called that the “Hashtag” rig. It may be called something else. I don’t remember. I wish I kept better reports from back in the day.
“On the way in I could tell my buddy was bummed that we didn’t catch anything so I decided to try one last place closer in that I knew he could at least fight a bull red or something big which was the Long Rocks.”
That’s it. Don’t give up. Especially if a spot like that is on the way. Why not try it?
Now, a few things:
First, that spot you fished is the exact same spot I fished and caught a limit of 75 speckled trout with customers back in 2013.
The same thing that happened to you happened to us: we ran all over Creation, fishing a lot of the same spots you did, and didn’t catch much. Then we tried that break in the rocks and it was on like Donkey Kong. I called over a few other charter captains in the area: Salty Dog, Fish With The King, and others and we all caught fish. It was amazing.
Now, I forget the tide on that day, but it was definitely moving. It was also overcast. I am guessing it was not overcast for you. But you still caught fish in deeper, moving water. Man, that’s where they’re gonna be if it’s gonna be a late bite.
So was it hard overcast? How hard was the tide moving? What bait did you see the fish eating if any at all?
After that, good call not going to Breton Island. It’s a community hole anyway.
Did you find the Dope Boat?
Did you try fishing a cork at the rigs at all?
Did you fish live shrimp at all?
Something else to consider is that this fishing trip kinda supports my “most water, least fish” theory that you can read about here on LAFB.
Basically, it’s the idea that now, here in the Saltening, there’s more water for fish to be in than there has been in years, and there’s fewer fish to occupy that water.
So it’s kinda like my badass Mandeville trips from October last year: you will have to cover water to find the Mother Lode.
And that’s what you did on this trip. Very neat.
It’s interesting because I thought of that 2013 trip the other day and figured I should post about it here in the Community. LOL Looks like you figured it out on your own.
All I can say is great report, thank you so much for posting, I hope you post more!
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That is fascinating.
Yes, that’s a channel that runs from Lafitte all the way to the GoM.
On imagery from 1985 the spoil on either side is barely visible. It’d be interesting to graph it. Submerged rocks are just the best.
I tried pulling up Navionics to see if there are any notes for that area, but it’s being wonky right now.
Thank you so much, for sharing this. Maybe @WestbankJosh will check it out.
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Some people fish it and catch a mixed bag and that more or less has been my experience.
But, I think what you ought to do is take a hard look at the reef to the east of there.
It’s marked by a white buoy at about 30° 8.817’N 89° 22.856’W
Attached is a .KML for all of Louisiana inshore artificial reefs. I didn’t make it, just got it off LDWF’s website. It could be put together better, but it works well enough.
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During the summer when it gets hot, if that water ain’t moving that’s a wrap. Rarely has this ever not been the case for me.
You did what you could. You already know where the fish are gonna be next time you get out there. Based on your reports, I’d say you’re on them.
Excellent report, thank you for posting!
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Finally, I’ve been waiting on this report!
“We would pick up 3 keepers and a few throwbacks over the next 2 hours.”
Man, that sounds rough.
“What looked like it would be a tough trip was saved with some last spot magic!”
Some times you just need to keep going and that’s all there is to it.
“I decided to throw a matrix lemonhead on a 3/8 jig and BOOM it was on.”
That’s interesting. Were you in deeper water than the oysters you’ve been fishing? Sure does sound like it.
“We picked up 30 keepers in less than an hour and had to leave them biting!”
Man, you are dad of the year. That’s some good stuff. Good job letting the kid catch ’em. I’m glad it paid off for you guys!
Could you tell if the shrimp were browns or whites? I’m not sure it really matters, it seems like you’re on a steady pattern.
Great report, keep up the good work!
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Yeah, in July I’d be rolling knee deep into the Sound, if I wanted specks. Those poles you ran past are good to check for triple tail, though. Otherwise, EBM has been a dink festival. I’d go to the rigs past the Long Rocks out of Hopedale if I wanted trout, or go to Grand Isle.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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I did some reading about this in general, and it was just accepted back in the early and even mid-20th century that the marsh was just wasteland. People had the mindset then (left over from the 19th century) that Nature could only hurt us, and that we could not permanently and definitively hurt Nature. Now we know that’s not the case.
What’s mind-blowing to me is that that 19th century mindset is still found in the minds of some people today on Louisiana’s coast.
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I’m going to post this as a separate report so it’s not hidden in the comments. Thanks for sharing this!
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This look pretty cool! I will definitely check this out. Looks a lot better than switching back and forth from the site to GED. Thank you for sharing this!
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We fished the shrimp on a Carolina rig at the rigs as a last resort after trying the drop shot and jig and did not even get a bite!
Yeah, that’s kind of it. I think that if the fish are there, then they are there. That’s why I stressed this so much in the new 101. Some people lose confidence if there’s no live shrimp and that’s just not reasonable. You just need a sparkle beetle. LOL
You posted some great reports last year and this is another good one. Thank you for posting it.
I’m busy setting up an app for LAFB Elite, making content, etc. so I have no idea when I’ll get on the water again. So, for now, I must live vicariously through all of you. lol
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That’s what I love about Breton Sound!! It’s legit out there!
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No problem. I appreciate you participating in the forum.
If I were you, I’d hit that reef, but there are more to the east that are worth looking at.
There’s also one at the top of Lake Borgne that can be good. When it’s on fire, it’s on fire.
I shot a YouTube video out there a couple years ago.
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A Sound trip! Awesome, if you get a chance, please post a report. Thank you so much!
