Devin
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Me watching the River dropping below 5ft on August 5th.
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This report has me pumped. I am hoping that those areas turn on with white shrimp in the months to come. If they do, it will be slam-hammer heaven on the speckled trout and redfish.
I also wonder how the redfish are doing at the rigs in Salvador.
Whenever I would sight fish redfish I’d head to the south shoreline of Salvador, but haven’t been there since Ida. I see that it’s blown out on GED. I just hope the grass is still there.
I think you’re right about the sediment, because anywhere in the outfall of the River, where that sediment drops out, the bottom gets hard. Like something you would see in the River itself.
I do know that in many places in Salvador where I dropped a Power Pole, I could hear the fiberglass spear scraping on what sounded like shells. I wonder if there used to be (and still is) a slew of rangia clams in Salvador like there is in Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne.
That sure does help keep the water clean.
I appreciate your report, and think that good things are coming to Cataouatche and Salvador. I hope so! It’d be badass to fish Whiskey Canal after a strong cold front!
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David, thank you for posting an intro.
Yeah, I kinda was in the same boat as you: grew up fishing one area (Biloxi Marsh) and eventually branched out to pretty much everywhere else. lol
Things you learn in SeaBrook helps to catch fish in The Jump. What you can learn fishing Caernarvon extends to anywhere just outside Davis Pond. It’s kinda cool how it’s all related, but also so different.
Man, I love Westwego. What a great place. I used to run airboats and slowboats out of Ultimate Swamp Adventures behind the seafood market. That was a good time and before they put in the idle zone. It was a lot of fun, but I understand why the idle zone was put it. Airboats can be annoying if you’re trying to sleep or enjoy the peace and quiet.
I saw the report you posted and will comment on it shortly. It’s pretty cool to see that inshore species are being found so far north. I think it’s a sign of the Saltening.
Now, I did push redfish with the airboat in Yankee Pond (before it was filled in) and saw a guy catch a sheepshead in a dead end canal behind Devil’s Elbow, but I am hoping that the inshore fishing is picking up to what it was 12 years ago.
Thanks for joining LAFB Elite, having an open mind and for posting a fishing report!
Tight lines, David!
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What boat are you going in? That 22ft Bad Cats?
I may have some GPS tracks for that area somewhere. They’re mostly horribly organized, but if I can find it then I will post it here. They are tracks running out of Pass Christian to Gosier and back. I almost ran out of gas. lol
I’ll let you know ASAP
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I love that boat! Blazer makes a great bay boat. The bow is nice, the non-capped hulls are great (I assume yours isn’t capped).
Nothing against capped boats, they’re beautiful, it’s just one more thing to take care of. I’ll take the shrimp boat finish, thank you. lol
So that’s an inshore fishing machine!
Having that spot in Fort B is nice, too. You can hop into Campo’s real quick if needed.
I dunno if you’ve seen it or not, but this post Breton Sound Beatdown 100% applies to you and your boat.
I ran Breton Sound a lot from 2011 to 2014 and ran a Pathfinder 2200V, which is practically an identical hull to the one you have.
Just make sure your radio works or you have some method to get a shout out to the world in case something goes wrong.
Tight lines, and I hope to see some fishing reports soon. Thanks for posting an intro!
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Here’s a quick video of it for size reference.
Y’all be safe out there!
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Yes! I literally just finished a post about some different rigs and a route down the Spoil for people to try. It’s like you’re reading my mind. In fact, everything in this report is like I went and fished that today. Unreal.
“We left New Orleans at 3:30AM headed for shell beach.”
BANG! I love the early morning wake up and the dedication.
” I wanted to launch from Venice but I hadn’t had time to do my homework on safe routes so I opted for the 40 mile run that I have done before.”
Smart man. FWIW, that run out of Baptiste Collette is pretty straightforward: once you’re out of the rocks, keep going straight for awhile before turning, because the water has silted in on either side of the channel.
I have not personally run that in awhile, but I have heard that’s the case and that’s what I see on GED.
“They didn’t run through the rig so I don’t think they were the problem, there was LESS bait but still bait so a bit of a head scratcher.”
When they drum real loud while fighting, that will spook the trout. I hate bull reds, too. But to hook into quality trout like that is classic Breton Sound. I love it!
“There were 8 boats stacked on the east corner of the island, I only saw two fish caught and they were throw backs but I would have to expect they know more than me?”
I haven’t been out there since the island was dredged, but I know I liked to fish the outside on the north side of the island, and the inside by where the Coast Guard station used to be (those pilings that are there).
I’m not sure what’s going on there these days.
“The tide was falling and they would consistently be on the north side instead of using the rig as a current break. Very bizarre.”
That is kinda weird, but in bass fishing it is common to fish the upstream side of something when fishing in current. Sometimes the current breaks just in front of something like a rig or bridge pilings and fish will stack there.
I think you did great and will only get better with it out there. There’s certainly a bunch of specks stacked somewhere out there.
Breton Island is good, but everyone fishes it. It sounds like you know how to read sonar, so if I were you I would dedicate to more of those rigs.
Check out this .KML I posted in the General Discussion forum.
Great report, Levi! Thanks for posting it!
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Here’s the .KML file:
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Oh, and thanks for posting an intro and welcome to the forum!
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I see that you use the Polygon Tool inside GED.
You know, I’m something of a Google Earther myself. lol
I don’t know your thoughts on night fishing, but I bet that’s 100% a thing right now.
Specifically, the lights at Treasure Isle, strong incoming or falling tide. I’m sure you know all about it.
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When I saw “Hackberry” I thought this was a Big Lake report. lol Doh! But I know Hackberry Bay by Grand Isle, I shoulda known better.
I did modify the title to reflect Grand Isle.
Man, y’all gotta come up with something for these dolphins. I heard that banging two aluminum bats underwater scatters them without screwing up the fish. One of y’all need to seriously try that in order to see if there’s a way to get around this dolphin problem.
For the record: dolphins have always been a problem like this, just less so during the Freshening and, now that things are back to “normal”, the dolphins are back in force. It is what it is.
Great report, Ryan! It sounds like the bays north of Grand Isle are doable, and that’s great for when the wind blows.
Thank you so much for posting in here!
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Yeah, I may have allegedly done that and it allegedly does work, but the fireworks get soggy over time. Even if they don’t get wet, the humid air and damp environment of a boat causes them to get wet enough where they won’t light or explode.
Of course, this is all hypothetical. I’ve never done anything mean to a dolphin(s), accidentally or intentionally. I’ve definitely never thrown small explosives in the water, or at animals, especially nowhere near critical oil & gas infrastructure.
Nope.
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That’s very interesting. Okay, so those tracks helped you break the ice and (just like a cold plunge) once you’re in, you’re good to go and run free.
So, that motivates me to keep cranking out the .KML files I’ve been posting in the General Discussion forum.
I have more actual tracks I could post, too. There’s an entire hard drive of 15 years of them and it’s my goal to get through them all and organize them.
It sure is nice having tracks from 2016 to go off of, even in places hit by hurricanes or by the river.
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Yeah, that’s the secret sauce: it’s all the same, with a few exceptions (like the River).
Once you understand that in your heart (because you can be told that and it still won’t make you feel warm and fuzzy lol I get it) then you can unlock new places.
The greatest example of this I found is actually in a book written by a 17th century, undefeated samurai named Musashi. Within everything there is the same Way.
Anyway.
Where is your boat slipped at?
I’d say for the fall is when you want to have it on a trailer. That’s the best/easiest time to crush the trout.
All that stuff you ran in this fishing report is probably going to be batsh*t crazy on fire come the white shrimp run.
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Devin. Reason: added more context
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I think you would be playing with fire. That even makes me nervous.
What I would do if I were you is fish Black Bay. Stone Island, The Wreck and the rigs around there. Bay Fortuna could be good, too. But I would feel better fishing Black Bay.
It’s less of a run if you gotta haul ass. Being way out in Breton Sound puts you another 10-15 miles out, and a lot can happen in 10-15 miles.
