Devin
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Thanks for the heads up. It’ll be great when the bridge is finished and hopefully it looks sharp!
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“Am I to idle the whole route? I want to cover water but don’t feel confident hauling ass thru the route. Any advice?”
Yes! What particular location are you talking about? Do you have a screenshot or some coordinates so we can see what this troublesome area is and give you some feedback?
As for idling: it seems like a PITA until after you rip off your lower unit or get hard stuck. I spend a lot of time idling.
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“Is there a 3rd party product I should use or anything else so I can travel confidently thru the route?”
Not if you want to reinvent everything I teach inside Advanced Inshore Navigation. Here are a few shining examples. The cost of learning all that: a few lower units, some dents, the occasional unplanned workout, getting cold, getting wet, lots of down time and thankfully, only hurt pride. It could have been worse.
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Great question.
Navionics is not a map that was painstakingly put together by a cartographer who has been to Louisiana and genuinely cares deeply about your ability to navigate the marsh, much less your fishing trip.
Most maps are compiled from previous data, which is usually sweepingly broad and vague with very little actual detail outside of provided ATONs and known data. Nobody from Navionics is going out there to look to be sure. Instead they’ll just slap a “user beware” warning on their product in tiny text and then market the hell out of it to get you to part with your hard-earned dollars.
This is why satellite (or aerial) imagery is such a big deal: all those details that couldn’t be captured are now mostly captured (and it’s free).
I like to use Navionics web app for its Sonar Chart feature. I cover this inside 101 and the Fishing Trip Resources. I spent more time than anybody in the history of inshore fishing typing that stuff out in a rough draft, reviewing it, editing it, final drafting it, putting it on a teleprompter, filming it, editing it, watching it again just to be sure before finally uploading (and then doing the same thing for the lesson and course framework). So please forgive me if I’m not jumping up and down to re-do all that all over again here in this forum. lol
I really recommend looking at these videos:
Examples of Planning Real Fishing Trips
Those all cover my take on Navionics to some level of detail: that it is only a tool in the toolbox to use with your other tools in the toolbox (such as GED).
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“It’s almost like this guy knows what he’s talking about.”
Thank you, sometimes I feel like I’m just talking to a computer screen, so it’s great to hear this.
“or even documenting them for myself”
I am guilty of that, too. It’s hard. That’s why I think that, for the long term, it’s better to get back early and write a report, save the GPS tracks, etc.
It’s great to have you back posting here. The fishing is as good and will only get better as it cools off. I also haven’t been on the water, been doing lots of writing, but I am chomping at the bit to get out there and enjoy some TOW.
Thanks for posting an intro!
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Here’s what I got from last year. Anywhere there’s a “stuck” pin is where it got stupid shallow and I got stuck. Now that I’ve looked at these, I think your orange route through “Williams” could be good, just watch out for any shoals from siltation. I think you got this!
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Hey Gene, I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner. I hope your fishing trip went smoothly. In the future, you gotta give us more notice than the night before.
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That’s a great boat! And welcome to the site. Thank you for introducing yourself!
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“over two day’s probably landed 50-60 specks but we kept maybe 2 out of every 10.”
Yeah, that sounds about right for the Biloxi Marsh. It’s been consistently that way for awhile now and I keep hoping that since the river has been down (and now the limit has been lowered) that it comes around.
It seems like one has to cover water there to find the Mother Lode.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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Yeah, I would call 24 specks a productive grind. Plus you got to cover water. Great report, thanks for posting it!
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Hey Pat, very good to have you here. Thanks for saying hi.
You have some good questions but they would really be best served by this community if they were posted as a new post. That’s because when people look at the forum they’re just going to see this post bumped to the top, which is a post about the introduction forum, not about anything navigation.
So all they would see is a post with a title about something regarding introductions and not think that it could have a conversation about navigation.
Please make a new post and we can get you taken care of there. That’s the best way to keep this forum engaging, organized and useful to yourself and to us. Thank you.
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Okay, good to hear. Hopefully I can get out there some time. I could use some TOW to recharge my battery. If/when I do, I will post a report. Thank you!
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I was trying to get there, too! It has to be deep on the backside because it is at one of them north of the West Bay cut. But I just kept running aground lol So I gave up. If there’s a way to get back there without a surface drive, airboat or wings, I do not know it.
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If you mean your #3 pin, locals call that West Bay, or the West Bay Cut. Williams Pass is probably a pass that used to exist but isn’t totally there anymore. That point is ace, but I like to spot lock a little further inside in the middle wherever I see bait balls on the graph.
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“If you look at the imagery from 1/23/24, it looks to have a pretty large boat going through it. So maybe?”
Yes, you are correct, but where the bayou ends is where the silt falls out of suspension and it gets shallow. So inside the bayou you’re probably good, outside of it is when things get sketchy. See my pics posted below.
