Devin
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Seeing 35 reds is a huge step up from what I’ve seen this year, last year and the year before.
Excellent work!
Great report, thanks for posting!
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The beaches could be banging. If anything, there will be plenty of lee water behind the islands.
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Have you seen a good sat image to see if the water is garbage or not? I imagine with the river dropping it’s gotta be cleaning up.
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Let’s make this easy: how do you know you’re hitting the bottom with the jighead?
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TW doesn’t list the weight, that’s very unusual.
Either way, it’s a good looking reel. Haven’t you been casting these? What has your experience been like?
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I bet they do.
Kris Robert used it successfully in Texas and Chas Champagne has in Florida. I’ve used it on bass in Lake Conroe, Chickamauga, a private lake in Mississippi, Logan Martin and Guntersville, too.
Could you give me more information to work with? What brings this up? What experience did you have?
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It beats the hell out of the strike net they were using.
Honestly, given how expansive Louisiana’s fishery is, how important it is to our culture, recreation and identity (think of what’s on our license plates), it’s a crying shame we didn’t have this sooner.
Better late than never.
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Great report, thanks for posting!
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That sounds about right. I’m glad to hear of some fish coming out of there, because it looked scarce for a little bit.
Thanks for posting a report!
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What I like the most about this is that you’re applying what worked in Lafitte/Grand Isle to EBM. They do kinda set up the same way: islands, tidelines, birds, etc.
This is truly fishing the patterns and conditions. Dude, give yourself a pat on the back.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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It is almost always the same frikkin thing wherever you go across Louisiana’s coast.
Doesn’t matter if it’s Seabrook, Southwest Pass or Vermilion Bay. It’s the same patterns.
Everyone likes to think their area is particularly unique and want me to drop everything I’m doing to go make a video showing them how to do the thing that works in other places where they don’t want to trailer to.
That’s why I made IF101: to show the process you can cookie-cutter for pretty much anywhere trout/reds swim.
What those people really need is not a f**king YouTube video but some self-application. Learn the process, get out there and apply it, keep reports, rinse and repeat.
Maybe also when everyone is raping the daylights out of the fish in X area, then just drive there.
Watch, it’s going to happen in Venice now the river is going down: the trout fishing will be utterly stupid and there will be people who do anything but drive there and try.
Okay, rant over. lol
Josh, thank you for applying the process and fishing the pattern. It is a beautiful thing to behold.
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“I pulled up on one looked decent but a mud bottom not hardly any oyster at all.”
Yeah, it was probably dredged or never seeded to begin with. Honestly, what you did is the best way to find out.
The video lesson I linked is a great start, but at the end of the day you’re still going to have to go look and decide for yourself. When you do find fish, keep that spot to yourself and enjoy the fruit of your labor.
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Man, nice reels are nice. That’s all there is to it.
I’ll have to take your word for it, my reels still run and I’m not dropping new $$$ on that. LOL
I’ll see if Gus has any next time I’m in there and play with them to see what they’re like.
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Spot on.
If you’re not hitting bottom then it’s not the Pontchartrain Pop. It’s just bouncing the jig up and down in the water column.
Usually whenever people say jigging doesn’t work for them the thing they’re unwittingly neglecting to do is get to the bottom. That’s why I ask how they know. If they can’t explain how they know, then they don’t know.
The question after that is, “What weight are you using?” In my experience, whenever this is not specified it’s because 1.) they don’t know and 2.) the sinking weight is entirely too light.
Not to mention slack line.
Otherwise, this is a great conversation and I’d love to get to the bottom of it (no pun intended lol).
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That is an incredible ramp to launch from.
Depending on where you’re trailering from, I could recommend launching from Pass Christian in Mississippi and shooting across the Sound. If the wind is calm, that tends to be a shorter/straighter shot into EBM.
