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There’s really only one route that makes sense to take from bait inc. Make a route and post it, or simply look back at other posts on here. I posted a route once before recently

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@Boyce yeah I’m in Slidell. Haven’t tried the pearl, but i should go try there. I’ve always done pond fishing, afraid to find a submerged or floating tree with my boat.

But it looks like Josh is fishing from a fiberglass boat.

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“Spotting lighting of deer”. Everytime I see the term redfish jubilee, that’s what I hear. That analogy is spot on.

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I feel like winter time the pelicans are always acting like they are starving to death.

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With the freeze that just happened, Im thinking about getting into fishing for panfish and other freshwater species.

I’m fishing for bites mainly as it is.

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@Boyce @WestbankJosh seriously, if either one of yall wanna go, hit me up. I’ll pay for fuel, or whatever

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I’ve tried catching crappie, never been successful. I’ve only caught bluegill and bass. I must be fishing all the wrong areas. Would love to go with someone to do it. I’m lost lol

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Thanks for writing all that out. Yeah, we must run in different circles lol. I get a bunch of people who will express interest in going fishing, then when the time comes to go, they can never go. I end up fishing alone, which I don’t mind, but it really hinders experiences and opportunities like deck handing on a sport fisher. When I stayed in a slip the owner and I would go fishing and I learned quickly that not everyone fishes the same way. Like in August wants to leave the dock for 7am. That doesn’t work.

Maybe I’ll make that a goal for 2025. To try fishing with new people

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lol yes!

By the way im Seeing people caught limits of the rainbows today same park, they just caught them on the bottom using power bait

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I’ve been contemplating your reply, I do I make friends with someone who owns a sport fisher? lol I struggle to find friends to fish with, on my boat, when I’m not even looking for them to chip in on gas lol

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Oh really? That doesn’t sound fun at all lol… other than the adventure of going out there

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It’s definitely worrying. That video of the trout shooter posted isn’t “a couple of dead fish”. It looks like the whole freaking population ( I know it likely isn’t, but it’s definitely substantial). I worry people are only sharing on social media, and not directly with LDWF.

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As far as LDWF not being proactive, it is frustrating to me also. Like do i want our fishery to be Florida ? No. But is there a happy medium, I think their is.

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It was all good, she didn’t have the patience for it. Had her cast a few times, but the playground and trees to climb were calling her name.

As for the filets, I had no idea since I hadn’t eaten that before, but it’s not a white meat fish. It has orange meat like salmon does. We smoked it half shell style with brown sugar and some other seasoning. Came out great. But it has tiny bones in it, maybe I didn’t fillet it properly? Idk. Super clean meat since they are fed pellets or whatever at the farm. No worms or anything like you see with specks

But it was still fun. The bad side was it was impossible to figure out a pattern. It felt like I hooked 2 or 3 pretty quick then the bites were random. They weren’t relating to structure or shoreline like we are all used to

Edit. They put a good fight on an ultra light setup. Jumping out the water and everything.

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Looking at Facebook, there doesn’t seem to be much laying off of any species.

I’m relatively new to fish kills like this, is this a common occurrence? In the last 5 years I don’t recall seeing fish kills on that magnitude.