Devin
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Oh, I love this. Great idea.
Okay, well what’s the point? Why upload to YouTube? It’s a lot of work and you’re nuking your anonymity. That toothpaste doesn’t go back in the tube.
If you’re looking for feedback, then what are you trying to improve?
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Finally, I’ve been waiting forever for someone to post a report like this.
Yeah, try Treasure Isle next time. Go there. More tidal highway, more bait, more fish. The best night of catching redfish ever in my life was at Treasure Isle on a falling tide at night, with shrimp jumping and going nuts and the redfish going just as crazy. It was me, the owner of Cajun Lures and his friend, and IIRC we caught something like 40+ redfish. It was insane.
If you do go Treasure Isle, be sure your trolling motor is good to go because it can be ripping pretty good. If the tide is ripping too hard there (you will know) that is when I hit Lake Catherine or Olimpic Beach and find success there.
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Based off what’s happened over the last three falls, I would forego catching fish in Shell Beach and go to Venice and start learning how to get around it. I’d figure out how to get to 1st Spillway across Zin Zin. That’s a great route to have. Then I’d fish the rocks in the river for redfish. At the bare minimum, go to Empire, launch at Delta Marina and lock out into the river there. No tide, no problem. The river is always moving. I’d look hard at the rocks you see on 10-9-22 imagery on GED just across from and downstream of Empire. The rocks themselves and the points they form can be great for redfish. And you will be protected from the forecast wind.
Or you can go to Shell Beach on a neap tide with 82 degree water and catch 11″ throwbacks or maybe find some redfish that haven’t had an arrow put through them yet by the umpteen bowfishing charters that launch out of there now. Then you can continue to do that through the entire fall while everyone else rapes the living daylights out of the fish down in the River. Even if the Shell Beach area turns on, then so will the rest of Chalmette and they will be there to pressure those fish. And even if the fishing in Shell Beach is amazing this year (fingers crossed that it is) you already know where to go there and the fishing will still be 10x better in the River.
It’s your call.
But if I were you, I’d start piddling around the River and learning that. Be warned, it will ruin you. lol Just ask @Boyce
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Yeah, I think that with this cold front we will see the fall pattern progress more and more. Don’t give up on Harvey Cut yet, it may yet have to turn on.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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10 keepers given the conditions then is great. I’d be happy with that. Plenty of dinner.
Now it’s cooled off and once this wind settles things ought to be moving along for an excellent fall season.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“One thing I did notice was that both times I have been there (this past June and this past Sunday), the same Shrimp Boat has been parked off near the shoreline in Red Pass, boat running, a crew aboard, but just sitting there doing nothing.”
That’s common to see. That’s probably where they chill before they head out, if they were there in June anyway. But maybe they’re pushing white shrimp somewhere closer, now that it is that time of year. I’m not sure if whites are open or not yet.
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Here’s where High Line Pond is:
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Hey Chris, thanks for introducing yourself. The Shell Beach area is about to be on fire. I’d look hard at the usual spots before everyone else does: Doulut’s Canal, Jahcnke’s Ditch, Bayou Sue, Martello Castle, and even the Rock Dam. But there are a ton of other bayous/cuts that dump water on a falling tide that I’d be looking at, too.
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“We just finishing restoring our 1965 Boston Whaler 17”
Good night, that must have been a journey. Well, she’s in time just in time for the fall season. I’m not sure where you live, but you may not have to drive as far as Hopedale/Shell Beach. I’d start taking a hard look at Bayou Thomas and Martello Castle in Lake Borgne on a falling tide.
Welcome to the community!
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Hey Shakey, thanks for posting a report. The fishing will get better as it cools off. I’m not sure that trout are that far inside yet over there. I’d be looking at passes/bayous closer to the outside if I didn’t find them at Grand Pass. In the Planning Section of 101 I have a fall fishing file for Dulac that I think would be really good to try fishing on a falling tide and north wind.
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I stopped the boat and decided to drift out into the gulf with the shrimp and fan cast a popping cork until I found some fish, then I would spot lock and get after it. I didn’t even sniff a bite on the drift out.
I wanted to come back to this. How deep was it at Red Pass? I forget.
After that, I am wondering if you should’ve HDS’d the middle of it or closer to the shore. For example, you could throw a popping cork all day at The Jump when it’s on fire and never catch a trout (I realize that bait wasn’t popping when I was catching there last year), but if you throw something heavy and get to the bottom you will. BUT in a place like the Jump you aren’t fishing the dead middle of it, but off to the side, as close as within casting distance of the shoreline, not in the 60ft of water, but in something more like 25ft of water. HDS that.
There might be something more to Red Pass. And if they’re happening there at a specific depth, then it’s worth checking Neptune Pass as well.
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Ah dang. Well, slips save a lot of time and money, so I hear that.
Well, do this: go fish the bayous draining into Lakes Robin/Coquille first thing in the morning. You may have some shrimp and trout there. There will be throwbacks, something like 10 to 1 keeper ratio. Then, after the morning bite dies, beat feet to wherever you catch redfish. I’d fish the big points.
It may not be a bad day to camp out on the south side of the Rock Dam, either, if that’s your style.
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I’d take a closer look next time I was there. That could be the spot.
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Yeah, that would be wonderful. It’d be great to just make my old milk run and have the fish just friggin’ be there, instead of last year and the year before that.
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That’s correct. He seems like a stand up guy. I would consider asking him about his experience with it inshore fishing.
