Devin
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Get that sandwich plate. Do not drill holes in your transom. That plate will flex a little and be way more forgiving. Plus it makes installation way easier. I had one on my flat boat and loved it.
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How big were the sharks if they were eating bull reds?!
Usually the sharks I have problems with are smaller ones that I guess are black tips and smaller bonnet heads.
I’m glad to hear/see the diversity in inshore species. I’m telling ya, now that the Saltening is here, I’m gonna get a friggin bay boat again. It’s time to run the outside.
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And this is a test reply, along with some screenshots.
Y’all have no idea how pumped I am!
I remember posting on RodnReel from a desktop years ago, never in a million years would I have guessed that I’d provide a friggin APP for Louisiana’s inshore anglers!!
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Hey, Reid! Welcome to the site!
I am really good at finding where the fish ain’t, more than I am good at finding where they are.
Yeah, me too! Check my last report if you’re not sure. lol
It gets harder to find folks to fish with as everyone gets older and their lives get busier. I like to try to get out there on Fridays and am always open to fishing if anyone wants to get out.
Y’all heard the man. Say hi and get out there!
It’s great to have you here, Reid. The fishing has been good, just don’t do whatever I did in Breton Sound the other day. Absolute nightmare lol
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lol brilliant title
Yeahhhhh, I know who you’re talking about, I’ve met them and I think that, once you get to the bottom of it, that they are down to earth, great people.
I do think you’re on to something. Because I don’t believe that whenever they started fishing (whether it was last year or the last century) that dressing up fish and slinging them in front of the camera was their primary goal. It was probably just having fun fishing.
And that evolved (or devolved) into something else.
But I do think what you’re seeing in their fishing reports is a bit of audience capture, a symptom of social media use and one of the less-obvious realities of creating content for the public. I’ll explain.
It’s a safe bet that the content they’re making has been encouraged by the amount of positive feedback they’ve received for posting it. They did something cute, a bunch of people liked it, and they were “rewarded”. Now they do it again and again.
But, if they never had that medium, or never had that feedback, then we’d see something different in what they post. For example, if they couldn’t post pictures, or if pictures were in a less ubiquitous format (i.e. RodnReel) then they probably wouldn’t play dress up.
Another example: if Quentin Tarantino grew up in the 2010s, we’d probably have a radically different film maker, because the content he made would have been subject to influence by likes, views and algorithmic suggestions.
I don’t think anything of the sort was on his mind when he made Pulp Fiction. He just made what he thought was the best film possible with what he had (and that film(s) has stood the test of time).
So, I’d say that the folks you’re talking about have been audience captured to some extent or another. This is a perilous road, because it’s easy to have things misperceived.
A good example within the realm of fishing is a younger Kevin Van Dam. During a high-stakes tournament, on live TV, he would catch fish that wouldn’t keep and unceremoniously throw them back in the water and cast back out.
That’s the logical thing to do in order to get the bait back in the water and catch fish that win, but in the eyes of viewers he appeared to be disrespectful to the fish.
Of course he wasn’t, but the appearance was there and the response he got from people was enough to motivate him to gently place fish in the water for the release. It looked dumb, but it kept people off his back (which is wildly important to sponsors).
I’ve had something of a similar experience and have been forced to adjust in one way or another. Trust me, I understand.
I don’t think the folks in question mean to be ill towards speckled trout, but their content is certainly a product of the Facebook environment and they’re probably not fully aware of all perceptions people could have.
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You pretty much took the words out of my mouth. That’s exactly what I would do, especially running west to the Fourchon Barges and Timbalier.
It sounds like you already know where everything is and have it marked.
I do recall some time ago there being an underwater obstruction by the Fourchon Barges, I am looking for info on it now, but recall it being around 29° 6.518’N 90° 10.695’W
After that, it looks like the wind will lay down on Sunday and it will be overcast. So it will be cooler, and easier on your old man and I think trout bite better when it’s overcast. So keep that in mind in case Saturday wears him out.
I think night fishing is a brilliant idea.
The toughest thing will be that wind on Saturday. Windfinder says the waves won’t be over 1ft, but NOAA says 1-2ft.
Also, you should check out @WestbankJosh reports if you haven’t.
Good luck!
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That’s brilliant. Thank you for sharing!
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1. I really have no idea. Maybe the mother lode of trout is in East Bay or west of the River. Without more TOW I cannot be certain. It’s possible that I just missed them.
2. Because Central has deeper water, is closer to the deeper/saltier water of the Gulf and could have better water than the Pea Soup Hell I saw everywhere else. That and it has way more platforms to fish. You can spend all day there. Or it could be a total waste of time and gas. I do know that is where many guides were running in 2019 during the height of the Freshening.
Maybe the trout moved up into EBM. It’s worth looking at. I just need to get a 24′ bay boat with a 100 gallon tank and cover water like a fiend for a week straight.
I like to think that I’m pretty good at finding/catching fish, but my Achilles Heel is that I do not tap my angler’s network at all. I only go off the same fishing reports everyone else has access to. I’m very hard headed about this. It really wouldn’t hurt to just ask folks I know who fish out there. LOL
That and I used to fish way more often, so I would have recent personal experience to go off of. Running in the blind can be tough, and that’s what I learned last week.
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Like I said in my report, I just could not believe it. I just think I got lucky and was at the right place at the right time during that time of the day. I mean that with no discredit to the process of elimination or plan.
That is 100% the truth. Sometimes you just gotta keep going and not give up. The planning/process is just a step to increasing the likelihood you get on ’em, but sometimes dumb luck and grit come in to save the day. lol
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I can’t wait! Easy patterns!
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The only thing better than having a boat is having a friend with a boat. lol If you get a chance, post a report. Thank you so much!
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If you didn’t reply to this, I was gonna email you. I know this is up your alley.
Man, I’ve been hearing soft n sweet whispers of tarpon all over the friggin place.
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Yes, and those aren’t bad spots to try.
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It’s cool. You are entitled to your opinion and that’s okay.
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In my experience, the beaches further west can be worth trying, but they’ve never been awesome to me. I think the sections where you see shell on the bottom are better, but I’m not sure how you’re going to see that from a boat.
I’d run straight for the Fourchon barges before the Armada gets there, then Belle Pass, then Timbalier. Unless, of course, you have some intel for Caminada/Gorilla Alley, then I’d trailer there.
