Devin
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Man, I love Cocodrie. Very happy to see some Coco reports.
I’ve been trying to stay away from Facebook as much as I can
If you don’t mind me asking, how come?
I know that Facebook really messes with my attention residue and can be a timesuck for unproductive doom scrolling. I don’t like that or the way it makes me feel, so I’m happy to be free of it.
I for sure caught a limit of trout that day but the sharks only allowed me to keep 8
That sounds about right for August.
Before The Freshening we put up with those things all the time in Breton Sound. Bonnet heads and blacktips tearing up trout before you could get them in the boat. You’d hook a trout, see it fighting in the water then watch it explode on the face of a shark. Very annoying. lol
Also, I assume you mean “Sulphur Mine”?
then took our time getting out the the same chair well I fished in the second report and it was on!
Excellent execution. *chef’s kiss* It sounds like you picked up the tail end of a bite from the second trip and went straight out there to get it when it was better.
Excellent reporting, thank you for posting!
And even though these are “late”, they’re really not. It’s about the patterns, the general intel and *surprise surprise* it will be June and July again next year (and the years after that) and this report will help folks find and catch fish.
So, thank you!
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Here are the pics I mentioned. Forgot to attach them. My mistake!
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I like this report because it brings up something very important about moving water.
It totally makes sense that you’d go to American Bay and not see water moving much (or at all), then hop into the Twin Pipeline and see it ripping there.
While this video lesson inside IF101 fully describes why that’s the case, the graphics attached below do a good job, too.
The Twin Pipeline has more flow velocity, American Bay more flow capacity.
I still think you’re good to fish points in American Bay if water isn’t clearly ripping around them, but if it’s dead still then I wouldn’t bother (sounds like it was dead still).
These spots I posted here are worth trying for redfish, I’m not sure if that’s too far for you or not.
Bayou Duhe on the west side of Lery could be bangin’, too.
Either way, you’ve posted a lot of great reports this summer and keep overall doing well in Delacroix. You’ve really taken that and ran with it. Your great work does not go unnoticed!
Thank you for posting another report!
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Hey Preston, welcome to the site! Pathfinder is a helluva boat, very good for running open water.
Thank you for posting an intro and I hope you’re able to make some reports in the future!
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Another EBM report. Outstanding!
These areas are 40 to 50 miles one-way from my home in Eden Isle in Slidell
For summertime trout, that’s pretty standard for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. Fishing Breton Sound out of Hopedale/Shell Beach, you’re looking at a similar run.
but these turned out to be Spanish mackerel, acres of them
It’s good to see those coming back. They virtually disappeared during The Freshening. Let us know how the fillets turn out!
Man, if I were you, I’d get that trailer fixed. Last year’s trout run in Lake Pontchartrain wasn’t as good as other places. If that happens again then you’d be prepared to make the haul to greener pastures.
Also, the artificial reefs in Mississippi Sound (like Cabbage Reef, Grand Banks, etc.) could be worth your time.
This link at LDWF has more info (to include a PDF and KML).
Fishing them with a Heavy Drop Shot is a good choice, too.
Great report, thanks for posting!
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It’s been hot, so I’m glad to see you got time to go fishing.
but the point of this trip was for him to catch… and catch he did!
Yeah man, I’d rather the kids have fun than find the Mother Lode. They’re gonna grow up, and you want them to have fond memories of this. When they get older they can help with actual duties and that’s a lot easier to do if they’re enthusiastic about it. Nothing is worse than raking your kids over the coals just trying to find fish. Good job on your part not doing that. lol
First time fishing the Marker 54 Shrimplets and they did great!
I’ll get some from Gus’s Tackle. I keep hearing good things about these baits.
Dredging had stopped for 2 days so the water cleared up nicely and the trout were at the 2nd sandbar just past the rocks.
That’s Grade AAA intel. Thank you so much for this report!
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More Barataria reports! Awesome!
“He must have scared off the trout as that was the last game fish I caught the rest of the day”
He 1,000% did. When they run around in the water drumming as loud as they do, that spooks everything. It’d be like someone running through a restaurant screaming bloody murder. That will clear the place out pretty quick.
“I have a theory there is a new sub-species of trout in the Barataria Basin taking over. They are identical to normal trout in all ways except they are genetically limited to 12 7/8″. I have caught tons of 12-13″ trout this year.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!! That’s so funny. Yeah, I hear that 100% lol
It’s annoying, but guess where the 13″+ trout are going? Home in someone’s ice chest.
Notice how before the limit change we had all that 11.9″ speckled trout, now they’re all 12.9″.
On a positive note, that much extra trout get to spawn and make more. I just hope we actually see an increase in numbers and the fishing returns to where it was before The Freshening.
Also, if you read @WestbankJosh reports, he’s not really finding them ganged up in one spot so much as he is putting a limit together by catching a couple here, a couple there, and so on. He’s fishing birds in any number, doing anything at all.
Check out his reports. He’s identified a pattern that’s working, even if it’s something of a grind.
Anyway, great reports, Ryan! I appreciate you taking time to post them. Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much for posting an intro!
Yeah, it’s been HOT. Now is a good time to just get ready for fall. There’s been reports of lots of shrimp in the Barataria Basin, hopefully we see the same thing for Lake Pontchartrain.
The forum is pretty active with it being this hot, imagine what it’s gonna be like when things pop off on the white shrimp migration!
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Hey Aaron, thanks for introducing yourself. You’ve been around since the beginning, but “welcome” to the new site.
One of the things I’ve always wanted is a community people could come to and use, and ask questions and contribute and grow.
The early vBulletin boards of the Internet had the potential for this. I was part of a really good one in the early 2000s that was moderated, organized and had good resources. I never forgot that and have been chasing something like that for inshore fishing since 2014.
It’s been tough. The Facebook group LAFB Inshore was good at first, but FB really just uses groups as another source for user generated content to put in News Feed and serve ads on. Otherwise, the organization and search function of Groups sucks. It’s just so obvious that FB doesn’t care. lol
That and everyone realized the low barrier to creating a group and now the user base is splintered.
I tried a public-facing forum back in 2014 to 2017 called Louisiana Fishing Reports (LAFR), and it did well enough, but got axed for LAFB Inshore. Now I’m taking lessons learned from both experiences and applying them here.
It kinda sucks that it has to be in the form of a paid membership, but that’s where we are. You get what you pay for. A free BuddyPress forum is gonna be wonky, full of Google AdSense, etc. and something “sleeker” like Facebook Groups comes with a whole other litany of hot garbage. lol
I like this site as it is, it works great on a browser like Brave (or even Chrome) but the new app being developed is gonna kick ass.
The main ingredient is gonna be you guys. It’s gonna be you guys showing up, making posts, saying hi, helping eachother out, etc.
So I appreciate you making an intro post and hope you post a report in the future.
Thanks, Aaron!
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Dammit, Boyce, I hate to hear you made the effort and didn’t get what you wanted. Maybe Josh will comment here, but it seems to me he’s been grinding birds. Like, if there’s just a few sitting then they’re getting a lure tossed at them.
My buddy then hooked up with a massive bull red and all I could do was think about how much I hoped his line would break so he didn’t time vampire us in this one spot so he could reel in the 980th bull red of his life.
I laughed out loud when I read this because that’s exactly how I feel. Like, F that redfish. You can’t even keep them anymore. Just straighten out the hook and let’s roll. lol Man, that’s exactly what goes through my head: “nOt aNoThEr bUlL rEd!”
On the bright side, you have tracks and know where not to go. I’m curious to know if you ran anywhere near the fish Josh has been fishing or got nowhere near them.
The shrimp report is interesting, too. I am thinking Little Lake and Myrtle Grove are gonna have a banger fall.
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Very good feedback.
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I’m surprised you did as well as you have that long into the summer. The Saltening has certainly arrived.
I know that during August I have historically done much better at places like the rock piles on the beach, the jetties and Fourchon Barges.
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Hell yeah it will, just make it tougher and heavier. Use stronger line and I’d have some bank sinker as heavy as 4oz just to be on the safe side.
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That is exactly what I said to @WestbankJosh in one of his recent reports: That I don’t think I would have caught the same fish he did (if any at all) because I would be running and gunning for the Mother Lode rather than picking up some here and there and eventually making it happen (if I had fished that same day).
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I did some reading about this in general, and it was just accepted back in the early and even mid-20th century that the marsh was just wasteland. People had the mindset then (left over from the 19th century) that Nature could only hurt us, and that we could not permanently and definitively hurt Nature. Now we know that’s not the case.
What’s mind-blowing to me is that that 19th century mindset is still found in the minds of some people today on Louisiana’s coast.
