Devin
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Same day report!! Let’s gooooooooooo
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I’ve got a lot to say here, but will get to it tomorrow. It’s late.
As for now, good frikkin job!
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Good night, the salinity in Black Bay!!!
That’s what we in the biz call a clue.
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The easiest way you’re going to catch a bunch of speckled trout is by finding them in the first place.
That west wind isn’t going to affect salinity to the point it will impact your fishing trip.
Have you read past fishing reports here? Historically EBM has been Throwback City. It’s been that way for a long time now.
But some good reports have come out of places reporting oyster reefs in 6-8 foot of water. Find that.
Comfort Island has historically been decent but no good recent reports out of there.
In a 24ft Sportsman you’ll be fine in wind tougher than what’s predicted. You ought to find some great water out there.
Also, I wouldn’t use non-marine forecasts.
Good luck!
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Are you referring to the island at the end? It’s a pretty straight shot. Either way around the island works.
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Okay, excellent planning post. Great job. Couple things:
Next, in the future, please orient that map correctly. It’s tilted and slightly off-north. This is a case of “help me help you”. I don’t sit here waiting for planning posts. I just check this forum as I’m writing and editing content and helping out is something I do out of the kindness of my heart.
So if someone posts an assed up map I’m likely to ignore it and get back to something more productive. But if you post a map that’s easy to read (humans have read maps north-up since the beginning of maps) then it’ll be way easier for me to look at it and go “ah, that’s what will help him out” rather than sit there and try to make heads/tails of what nonsense is in front of me.
Press “R” when in GED to reset tilt/zoom. Easy day.
Also, if you make your routes different colors, then that also makes it easier:
“green route is good” or “orange route is bad” or whatever…you get it
So, if you look at my attached picture…
…your yellow route is good. Someone did their GED homework but, FWIW, that same route is in the 101 Student .kml
Lots of goodies in that file that will save you time.
Green route is also good.
I’m not warm/fuzzy about your other routes. There’s a dredge project on Bayou Gentilly and I’m not sure you can make a turn at the black circle.
I’m pretty sure you’re gonna run into trouble at the red circle if the water isn’t up. That whole area can be skinny, maybe just avoid it.
Also, I’m not so sure about Lost Lake. I’d look at the marsh on the west side of Lake Lery, maybe the southwest shoreline as well. I’d look for submerged grass. There’s probably a lot over there.
The area circled in blue could also be worth looking at.
Bring something weedless. Texas Rig is a good choice.
Good luck.
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It would’ve been a different day had the wind laid down. That I am 100% certain of.
But man, good on you for grinding them out and making it happen anyway.
You pulled through! Excellent report, thanks for posting!
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“my kids were begging me to come back next weekend”
Man, that’s the win right there. It’s hard to get kids interested in fishing. Some certainly come easier than others.
Excellent work!
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“but not a single bite”
That is the dangdest thing I’ve heard about redfish in a long time.
If the place were fresher, I’d question if they were carp because I’ve seen something similar in Venice.
Are you 100% positive they were redfish?
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Then there’s no way those were carp. You’re only gonna see carp in the freshest of stuff and if it really is that fresh then you would have been catching bass there for eons before you ever saw carp.
Man, I have no idea what to tell you. I’ve seen a lot of schools of bulls and slots and never seen them do that on a shoreline inside. That’s nuts.
My guess is someone’s anti-depressants flew out their boat and that entire school of redfish ate them. LOL I have no idea what to tell you.
Maybe go buy a lottery ticket while weird things are still happening to you.
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Take it easy. It gets shallow coming out of Joseph Bayou. There could be bull reds at the mouth of it in that deep stuff. You’ll see them bigger than you know what on sonar.
Otherwise, take it easy, shoot straight, getting your safe route is the biggest win when you’re fishing down there.
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Okay, first of all, that’s a badass resource. I didn’t know that one. Consider it bookmarked.
Those salinities make sense, but they are pretty far inside. New Canal Station may as well be in the Tennessee River.
The salinities in Mississippi Sound aren’t much higher. That’s why I think trout are further out in EBM, and that report of them being in oyster reefs that are 6-8ft deep make sense. Reefs like that aren’t in Bay Boudreau, IIRC.
I have a pretty good memory, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I got a depth wrong somewhere.
Anyway, I use USGS NWIS Mapper for stations in MS Sound.
My guess as to why the salinities are so low there is all the rain we’ve had pouring into local rivers. I’m sure Chandy and Breton Sounds are salty.
Which leads me to a suggest, @ChasinFun : a boat like that is wasted fishing EBM. Maybe hit the very eastern edge of it to find that high-salinity rip then, if the wind lays down, punch into the sounds. Fish the islands and make your way to Central Rig.
Yes, it’s a haul. Don’t be a whiny b*tch. Go for the gold. You can have some really epic action out there.
The Venice guides are slaying limits of fat slobs and I promise you they are not doing that in EBM. lol
If it’s too windy, then stay in EBM and play the island hopping game.
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Excellent.
That .kml file is right here.
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If they’re spawning out in open water then that makes sense, but I wouldn’t imagine they’d be spawning against a shoreline in Big Lake?
If there’s one thing I know to be true, it’s that the marsh will always leave you asking more questions than what it answered.
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I don’t even mess with them in deeper water if I am fishing Delacroix. I am catching them in clear, shallow water.
