Devin
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“The strange part was the ponds looked great super clean”
The ponds were great. You did a good job finding that good looking water. It sounds like you did everything right.
The problem isn’t you, it’s the redfish. For one there’s just not that many of them, and I am 99.99% certain that exact pond gets raked over by bow fishing outfits. I’ve seen them pull into other ponds into the vicinity, I could not imagine why they would spare that one.
You also described a fishing trip I had to the River a couple years ago where I found all kinds of gorgeous ponds full of everything but redfish.
Hmmmm…what exclusively targets redfish? It must be the porpoises!
Sarcasm aside, I’ve fished that pond before and it’s a great one and it has been loaded with redfish in years past.
Just keep doing what you’re doing. You will find the Mother Lode.
Brother, I love how the next trip you went to Port Sulphur, rather than going back to the same pond and scratching your head as to why you’re getting the same result. That kinda move right there is the difference between getting the same ol’ results and really growing as an angler.
I’d be interested to see what you can get into off of LA-23 down toward Venice. There’s gotta be some good grass there you can launch into.
Great reports, thanks for posting! Way to show boaters how to think and how to do it!!
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Okay, cool. A couple things. Let’s address this one first:
“I want to spend more time fishing than boat riding”
Yeah, no kidding. lol Me, too. While we’re at it, I would like all my scratch-off tickets to win money.
Unfortunately, there’s an amount of risk with gas station lotteries and fishing.
If you’re starting from scratch then that’s what you’re left with: managing that risk. The best way to do that is to use the process I teach: picking out spots based on the conditions and fishing them in a row, eliminating unproductive water to zero in on the Mother Lode.
Which brings me to my next point: The Process is the appropriate mindset to have.
When you have that, then you can start making progress. When you don’t, you are stuck with re-inventing the wheel each time you go fishing.
Take it from the guy who’s made it doing this for a living: the paragraph above is where it’s at. I can only show people the door. I can’t help them if they’re not willing to open it and walk through.
Moving on: all the areas you mentioned are worth trying, in my opinion. I would forego the Long Rocks because it’s a dismal community hole. Everybody and their mom will be there to pressure the fish to go somewhere else.
After that, you’re not really starting from scratch. Brother, you’ve got access to the best fishing reports in Louisiana one can get. Show me where better ones are posted.
I don’t require anyone to post anything beyond a general area, and members in here are posting exact spots. I’d say folks here have painted a pretty clear picture where to concentrate your effort on Wednesday. Did you thumb through recent reports? What did you see?
Here’s what I would do, and I’m talking about me personally (so nobody get your feelings hurt): forget all the areas you listed.
They’re garbage.
Me, personally (IF the wind lays down), I would rather lay down on train tracks than spend all morning grinding throwbacks or do anything besides set the hook on trout that I need to measure because they’re too long. That is Louisiana summer fishing.
If it were me, I’d run deep into the Sound. I’m going to Little Central, 32 Block, Five Wells, Dope Boat, all the way to Central Rig and beating the daylights out of each spot with sonar and a jig.
Just run past the Long Rocks and generally head east and hit whatever sticks out above the water.
If the wind does NOT lay down, then I’d start in Mississippi Sound and work my way down the east edge of EBM, using islands as needed to stay in lee water. I’d find oyster reefs and artificial reefs in deeper water and fish those with a cork and jig.
And I would be unsatisfied with that, and would curse the wind for being wind, but would take what I could get.
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“I did learn a whole new area of Louisiana that I know has fish”
This is what it’s about: the long term game.
Let me consult my crystal ball: ah yes, this fall Delacroix will turn on with keeper specks while Hopedale and Biloxi Marsh are Throwback City.
This fall you will want to catch those fish and this fall you will have tracks taking you to them.
The people who refuse to do this homework because they’re scared to come out of their comfort zone won’t have this benefit.
They’ll just go to Biloxi Marsh or the same spots in Shell Beach or (heaven forbid) The Wall as if the river wasn’t high for ten years and has been down for the last five.
“bUt tHaT’s wHerE uH cAuGht ‘eM”
Well, not anymore. River is down.
That and you can still get on redfish (far more redfish) than you can in Shell Beach/Rigolets/Wall/Biloxi Marsh.
You did the right thing. Excellent work.
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I’ve been waiting for a Salvador report! I think there’s just a bunch of redfish out there this time of year (as there usually is). You’ve got all kinds of cool bottoms out there, as well as rigs, cypress stumps, grass, etc.
There’s just so much to do out there for redfish.
For sure, if you had more time I think you would’ve crushed them.
Just don’t forget those rigs and the grass/stumps on the south side of Couba.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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“Took the advice from Devin’s email about comfort island as I’ve never fished it.”
Well, thanks for reading my emails. But please keep in mind that:
1.) those are scheduled weeks in advance and
2.) they’re really just ads
If you wanted to experience Comfort Island, then good on you. Experience is good. Otherwise, I would leverage this forum first.
And, if it were me, I would have seen that recent reports for Comfort are not great and instead would have fished the places that have been (and are not far from Comfort Island).
I think you were close to the Mother Lode. If it were me, I’d be happy with this trip and then build on that to find ’em and whack 45-60 trout next time I was out.
Great report, thanks for posting.
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On that side of the lake the tide is gonna do what it does. The day someone figures out exactly what it does is the same day people can explain why women act the way they do.
The sky is blue, fires burn, mullet jump and the west Lake Pontchartrain tide rises and falls when it rises and falls.
Next, I drop waypoints on fish I do see.
They’re probably not going anywhere.
Then I go back and collect them if the Mother Lode doesn’t present itself.
Excellent work putting your kid on some fish.
Great report, thanks for posting.
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A Lakemaster Louisiana Delta card will work, but will never replace what you learned in 101. Nothing does.
In an effort to not repeat myself.
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Did you get a camera yet?
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“The funny part is we passed them in the sound at around 1:15…they were heading towards curlew and we were heading back towardsr breton from curlew.”
Oh man! I’ve definitely been there before. Sorry to hear that.
“I know they were throwing live”
That had squat to do with it.
“They caught them all at one spot on curlew that we apparently didnt try.”
I think that was it.
That and I’ve fished all over Louisiana’s coast and have a pretty good memory of most fishing spots.
But sometimes that memory can be a little wonky. It’s been awhile.
But, IIRC, there are some sunk barges by Curlew. If so, they could’ve fished those and not the island itself.
Just something to consider.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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As long as they’re working and not for parts, that’s a helluva deal.
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+1 on this, but I have certainly found redfish on the inside during summer, especially when sight fishing
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+1
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“Hey guys, I’m new to LAFB Elite.”
Welcome to the forum, it’s great to have you here!
“It turned out to be the fuel sending unit gasket.”
Sounds like rainwater and/or condensation was pooling on top of the tank and leaking in?
I hear you that non-ethanol gas can sit longer because it’s not used as much, but that’s not the case in Louisiana. We run boats here and lots of boats here (as you well know). Maybe West Virginia has lower demand, but not us.
A brand new mower going down in your front yard is one thing, but an outboard going down in Breton Sound is another.
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+1
It’s a recurring “buy once, cry once”. lol
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Good job.
Send it. FULL SEND
Also, I had just racked out by the time you posted this. I stayed up waiting to see if you’d do it or not.
And you fkn did!!!
Thank you for doing the thing, so you can get out there and do the thing.
Good luck.
