Devin
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Unfortunately, Saturday I am tied up, but it is looking like I am able to get out Sunday.
Still undecided. Either exploring Venice or hitting Port Fourchon is on the table. I’m really thinking Fourchon. I just think there could be something out there. I have no report to go off of, but generally in the past I like to try to be one of the “first” on the outside hitting virgin trout.
I think you’re in the right spot. Josh’s Pen report has me thinking that trout are still inside, but I have a hunch they could be further out, too.
Last year on 4/15 I crushed ’em under birds by Independence Reef, IIRC. So, about halfway between where you want to fish and where I want to fish.
I guess this weekend will shed light on which one works best.
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Definitely do not fish the Trestles under those conditions.
That west shoreline of Lake Borgne is probably a good bet if you must fish that area. Just be ready to move and cover water.
For me, personally, if I had to fish that side of the River, I’d fish the points, rocks and coves between the south side of the Rock Dam in Hopedale all the way to the Long Rocks and even the Long Rocks itself.
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Yeah, every once in awhile we can count on a hurricane that’s going to delete marsh. Ida did a number on Montegut/Lafitte.
Maybe CPRA’s efforts can put it all back, maybe not. Maybe the River can make something new, maybe not.
Time will tell.
Sometimes I wish I had just moved to the Midwest and started a firearms company. But the time I have spent in Louisiana has been great. There really hasn’t been anything like it. There’s something about launching the boat and punching into the unknown that just does it for me.
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I think fishing the rock jetty leading out to GOA could be good, especially now that trout are beginning to move out there. The wind has gotta play nice, though.
The weirs are community holes you can try, but start fishing them a few hundred yards out then work you way in. Most guys fish the bottom.
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I imagine you have to save each track for each individual day in order to make them identifiable.
Let’s say you didn’t do that over the course of five fishing trips. Well, then you have five trips in one single, long track.
I’ve done this before by accident, and what I did was load that file into GED, make five copies and edit each one down to the individual days.
This is a pain in the ass. Doing it once was enough to remind me for the rest of my life to do it the right way: save the track at the end of each day.
Assuming you’ve been doing that, then the ability to export each track individually is somewhere in the settings. I know that I’ve done it on my Lowrance units and Simrad. Unfortunately, they are deep-sixed somewhere and I don’t have a power source ready for them, or I’d hook them up right now and tell you what I see.
After that, I’m guessing you have a single long track. Organizing that away by itself is better than letting the geospatial tumor grow.
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I think this is the harder way to do it.
The easier way is to take a power brick with the power rating for your unit and solder that to a plug that fits your unit (which you already have). And you most likely already have the power brick laying around somewhere in the form of a power cable that you don’t need anymore (like for an xBox or something with a brick inline in the power cord). Cut off the existing power plug and solder the desired one on and insulate.
If you don’t have a soldering iron then crimp the wires together with a butt connector.
I’ve used these off Amazon and gotten female quick connects to solder the GPS power plug to. This way I can run the same brick for multiple GPS units, which sometimes I need to do (not simultaneously, obviously).
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Also, I am not Tony Stark. I know just enough to fk this up. I am merely sharing what has worked for me and so far, haven’t fried any of my GPS units or burned down my house.
There are no schematics, no formal education, there’s not much planning, just a lot of trial by fire. lol
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On the bright side, if they do, we’ll have a…uhm…I forget what year it was…I think 2011….a 2011-style event: all the fish that got used to a clean lake and spread across it will become amassed on the east side. We still caught during a Spillway opening and we caught well. Ask Chas Champagne if you ever get the chance. Good times.
It’s the same thing as always I guess: fish the conditions.
On the bright side, it will push more fish toward the Long Rocks (last year kinda sucked) and will give the opportunity for more grass to grow back, since so much died during the Freeze.
Pros and cons.
I’d rather the river stayed low, however. I enjoy watching Plaquemines Parish panic over saltwater. lol
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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They 1,000% Hoover up redfish way up in the Biloxi Marsh. Watch this B-roll at 8:16. Those are double-surface drive tracks through every nook and cranny of the marsh just off Bayou Biloxi. I filmed it this time last year.
Used to the bow guides couldn’t go that far. Then they shot every redfish around the marina, so they installed a 300HP outboard on their rigs to take them further out, trimming up the surface drives to get on plane, then trim them back down once they want to shoot an area.
“With the NW winds, seems water will be low,”
Good. They’ll be concentrated and not spread out. You have the right boat to get in and out of skinny crap.
Thanks for coming to Louisiana!
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Nah, neither am I. I just can’t believe the state next door really gets a say over the people who are immediately impacted by the river.
I mean, if the river topped the levee and washed away the crime and potholes and stayed away from the trout, that wouldn’t break my heart. LOL
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One last thing: if you’re going to work in the outdoors (looking at you, commercial fishermen….who aren’t reading this lol) then you had best be ready for a rainy day and by “rainy day” I mean “swift kick in the nuts” aka extreme financial duress. You cannot expect to combat odds with Nature and blame it on someone else. lol
Just…wow.
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Oh wow. Okay, this isn’t me shooting the messenger lol:
That’s kind of retarded.
Oh boo hoo, Mississippi! Like USACE is in control of unprecedented snow melt and 1,000 year floods. Yes, it’s a government organization that’s staffed by people who put on pants one leg at a time like anybody slinging an oyster drege. Like, c’mon.
I’m fully aware of what happened and knew they filed a suit, but didn’t know it went anywhere. So that’s interesting….well, VERY interesting news you have to share.
So, what is the Corps gonna do if MS says “no”? Let the levees top over and destroy a national port? Flood a joint reserve base used to protect our airspace over the Gulf of America? Flood critical infrastructure supplying 30% of gas and oil to the rest of the nation? Coal? Shipping? Homes? Businesses?
For what? To save a luxury food only people with spending money can afford?
Imagine being a shipping magnate reading this news and thinking, “Yeah, I’ll just use the port of <Miami, Houston, Mobile, NYC, whatever> because they’re not retarded.” Then we lose all those jobs.
Geezus.
Don’t forget that what prompted all this was the totally unprecedented, unpredicted and 100% uncontrollable 1,000 year and 500 year floods that I refer to as The Freshening. Spillway openings in the past didn’t decimate their leases in EBM, but that one did. There was something like a 90-100% mortality rate of oysters. Trust me, I get it.
But I hope they also took time to sue the Pearl, Amite, Mobile, Wolf and Pascagoula Rivers, which also experienced the same historical floods.
Hopefully after that they succeeded suing gravity.
–> And don’t forget that every sluice gate installed along the Mississippi River was installed at the behest of the oyster industry, to include Caernarvon! <–
I swear, it is like dealing with Iraqis. Geezus. The short memory literally reminds me of tribal bickering. Might as well scream “ALLAHU AKBAR” each time they drop those tongs. lol
Here’s why: oysters do not do well in high salinity water. They absolutely get demolished by predation including, but not limited to:
- cow-nose rays
- black drum
- sheepshead
- atlantic oyster drills (truly awful)
- vibrio vulnificus
- and a lot more evil sh*t
So once they start dredging dead oysters they’ll change their song and dance. Watch. When it happens, remember I said it here. Because lower salinity that oysters thrive in keep those predators at bay or remove them altogether (especially the drills, those are the worst).
I’m all about not having the detrimental short-term affects of a reasonable amount of river water, and I’m even more about anything that supports Louisiana’s inshore fishing, but I’m not so brain-dead and blind to the hierarchy of needs that I’d do so at the expense of everything else. lol
Oh, and I’m also fully aware of opening Morganza instead, but that’s just passing the buck somewhere else. There are oystermen in Vermilion Bay and I’m sure they won’t like it, either.
And I heard Meta is building an AI plant in Morgan City (ugh….why) and they have a bazillion dollars and I’m sure they won’t let local politics risk the billions they’re investing there.
The lesson here? Have serenity and stop using lawyers for everything.
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“I usually fish Hopedale because it’s where I have the most experience, and since I come from out of state, only so much time on the water I like familiar water for safety and probability of producing some fish.”
Fair enough. But if that’s all you ever do then that’s all you’ll be stuck with.
“Venice I’ve always avoided this time of year because of the river been too nervous to find clean water. I have typically just fished the fall & winter there”
No, sir. There’s always clean water, and areas near the river tend to have more milfoil in concentrated mats that filter the water very well. And what makes the river water great is that it clearly shows you where NOT to go.
I think you can go into Hopedale and catch a few and have fun and it will be a success, but if you really want to stomp their balls you’ll have to get away from where the bow fishermen and dead-shrimp guides keep their boats.
With that said, you could probably get away with hitting the MRGO south of the Rock Dam. The points, coves and rocks will give up some fish. You won’t find much grass, though.
If you want help with routes for Delacroix, PLH, etc. then show us which routes you want us to look at to get a second, third and fourth pair of eyeballs to confirm they’re good.
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Yeah, that’s why you see light conditions mentioned in my reports. The best days of trout fishing were almost always when it’s hard overcast. I think that’s another reason they prefer rigs and bridges so much. It’s shade.
Plus, the way the water is lit up sunny vs overcast is a big difference. It’s much easier to see when it’s not a disco ball underwater.
