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seats on a pedestal. I have a War Eagle boat

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Great report, awesome that you had a great day. It sounds like you were under cork in shallow flats, not the deeper canals. Is that correct? I’m assuming plastic?

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Thanks for the report. I think the next time I go fishing will be Friday and I think I’ll hit the trestles and the lake if the reports are still good by then. If the wind is high and it’ll be too rough I may head over to the marsh or Delacroix because there’s more cover over there

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Thanks for the report, we all have those days.

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Thanks for the report. I’ve been out of town for a week and I was thinking about launching at Bonnabel and hitting Seabrook and if nothing’s happening there I’ll go to the trestles. Maybe even hit the Causeway if the water is a little rough, instead of going to the trestles

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Great reports! Thanks

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Oh man! One of those days, we’ve all had them. Those types of days are the ones where only the guides and long term fishermen of Delacroix come back with fish. When that wind is ripping and the tide is ripping and it’s been that way for a few days, that water gets like chocolate and it’s just a fight. I’m using my sonar to keep finding more and more deeper holes because I think I days like that the fish go deeper. That’s my theory anyway. I plan on fishing more Hopedale as winter comes in, because I remember how low the water gets in Delacroix during the winter. I’m not giving up on Delacroix, I’ll put my boat at Sweetwater starting in March again, but I’m going fish Venice and Hopedale more this winter than Delacroix.

Thanks for posting

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That’s a nice one! I hope to get. a few hammers this weekend

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I caught a 19″ in Venice just last weekend……….so of course I’m going back this weekend!

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I did ok in the river right outside the jump. Like you said, water wan’t super and they weren’t jumping in the boat, butt he action was fairly steady for us. We were only out there from about 2:30pm to 4:30pm. I didn’t talk to anyone else but there were a lot of boats out there and I saw people pulling up a lot of fish both in the Jump and in the river

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It was about 12-14 feet deep. I would have tried a 2oz but then you get stuck on the bottom every other cats and spend half the time tying up new rigs. The 1oz was probably the right one.

I had typed out this report that night and wondered why I didn’t see any responses, but just realized today that I forgot to hit post

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Cool, thanks for following up. I saw that Capt. Jack limited out with a two person group too. They were out there, I just didn’t get on them. In hindsight, I think my buddy and I kept getting distracted and speculating in some new areas, which isn’t always bad, and I think the people that did well were in spots just like my first spot, at the opening of a bayou/canal into or out of a large body. Places where you could throw into the flats from deeper water and take advantage of that transition. This is my first winter fishing Delacroix so I’m still a newbie out there.

I’ve been putting off the purchase of a new trolling motor because I think I’ll upgrade my boat in the next three years, but I’m going to just go ahead and buy at least a used one, with spot lock. There’s a guy who does used trolling motors on 4th street in Harvey whom I’ve bought stuff from before. That guy in Chalemette is kind of a rip off though, he overcharges. I’ll buy one I could transfer to another boat.

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Thanks for this, I saw your reply before I went out this morning. I tried everything, it just didn’t happen today. Wind was tough.

Can’t wait until next weekend! LOL

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I actually think we would have done better in the river. Right as you come out of the Jump you go straight across to the east side of the river and they’ve been killing it there last weekend and this weekend. Big trout

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For reds we usually throw up against shorelines where there’s moving water. Delacroix is always good for redfish, the south side of Lake Lery where some bayous/canals are have been producing lately from what I hear. We just look for bayous with moving water