GreenwaterJon
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Great report, Daniel – and another good trip with some quality fish, thanks!
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Counterfeit Pass at the Goose Pond can also be good – there’s a deep bend where the pond drains out into Counterfeit Pass. I usually position the boat just downstream of the cut and jig the bottom, but on good tide days you may see some surface activity as well.
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Welcome Jamie!
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Wow, awesome haul of gorgeous trout, thanks for sharing… 👍🏼
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I’m going tomorrow, too – and in the same general area…
I see you’ve got the mouth of Big Magill Bayou at Chef Pass marked for tomorrow. If you are there maybe check out the waterway crossing just north of the Chef. The bayou is deep and has some bends and a deep intersection that may hold trout now that the temperatures are really dropping.
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Thanks Daniel,
Very good report, and you’re right – these days a 17” fish is a ‘hammer’, and I suppose a 20” fish is a ‘maul’ (your biggest is more of a ‘sledgehammer’). All are rare, with the over-20” fish even more so – thanks for releasing them…
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I’ve managed only four trout over 20” this year. My largest was a fish slightly over 21” in length, but absolutely enormous in girth. She was caught in early May at the Lake Borgne Block-22 gas platform (the large structure in the north part of the lake). This fish was the only one of the over-20” trout I kept – and she weighed nearly 4-1/2 pounds on my (genuine) Boga-Grip spring scale – after spending all night in the ice chest…
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I went today, and fished the Trestles on the Orleans Parish side. I was there 2-1/2 hours on a big falling tide and caught only five trout. I had quite a bit of company out there, even at mid-week. The fish were all keepers, up to 18”, but very hard to come by. My temperature gauge said surface temperatures were 54° to 56°F today. Does that sound right? Winter is coming…
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Wow… I’ve fished fairly often in 2024, and have four fish over 20” all year – with perhaps another dozen or so over 17”. You pretty much equaled that in one morning – great day and really good report, thanks!
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Just back from the annual Thanksgiving journey to the family compound (which is at Lake Fork, with a nice 21’ Ranger sitting on the lift, but so cold and windy I never wet a line), looking for Lake Pontchartrain basin info – that is NOT about fishing the bridges with 200 other boats. This is an epic report – many thanks, Daniel!
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This is a really great report, even if the fishing wasn’t the best. The bigger specks hanging around the Rock Dam matches my own experience a few weeks back… Thank you!
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Sounds like a really great trip – huge kudos for setting up the trip for success with a three year-old, not an easy thing to do.
P.S. Star Bayou, just around the tip of Alligator Pount on the northeast side, is one of my favorite fall locations when the shrimp are running, thinking this had to be somewhere nearby. I saw both jacks and bull reds (though not together) tearing something up out in Lake Borgne on Friday (10/25), though I was in the northern part of the lake…
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Many thanks – I have a friend who wants to go fishing on Monday (10/7), and won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, despite a 15-20 mph wind forecast. My plan was to launch at Shell Beach or Hopedale and fish the interior marsh to try to stay out of the wind, but this has been a funny year in the Biloxi Marsh and now I’m thinking we should at least have a look at the outer bays if at all possible, really appreciate the good report…
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Really good tip on finding some larger fish. I’ve been finding small fish under the birds, too – so your tip about fishing good areas (points, reefs, tide lines, etc.) NEARBY for some better fish will probably be a big help for me, much appreciated…
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Thanks Devin,
I started getting some weird “transducer overheat” messages on my sonar unit this summer. The messages were intermittent, usually happening late in the day after the unit had been running for several hours. Anyway, I learned that the root cause of the this problem is usually that the transducer temperature sensor had failed, or is starting to go out. I haven’t seen this message since early September, and my sensor obviously isn’t completely dead, but it could very well be reading too low, so I appreciate the insight…
