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As far as sky conditions, It really depends on where I am at. In Lake P all of my best bites have been when it was a clear sky and a lot of sun. Fishing shallower water I definitely like overcast conditions.

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I have tried to pay attention very closely in the past on how the fish react whenever we have a full moon. The one thing that has helped me notice their behavior is road fishing. You are very limited in road fishing on where you can go. So many times I will be where I know the fish are at and wait out the bite window. It seems that the days leading up the full moon especially during the summer the trout go crazy. Now for fishing the day after a full moon, you will have sometime of morning bite. Then I have always noticed fishing will pick back up around mid day. A lot of time after a full moon the bite window is also a bit shorter. I saw this in this past weekend release over 20 tournament. It was a live leaderboard so you could see whenever everyone else was catching fish. Everyone caught good til about 8 and then almost no fish were weighed in for almost 4 hours. At 12:30 I got on a good bite and ended up catching a limit. I checked the live leaderboard and everyone else was catching again too. Seems to be more of a mid day bite day after a full moon.

[will-grand]

I have run both of those routes and have never had any issues. The second route I run quite a bit. When the tide is low some of the ponds can get pretty shallow but if you stay on plane you should not have an issue. I run these routes in a 24ft triton so you should be just fine.

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Fourchon and Grand isle should be firing on all cylinders here soon. I work the swollfest fishing tournament every year. On June 4th last year, it was insane off elmers island. I mean it was watching 5-15 trout as each swell would come up and break on the beach. Think I caught my limit in less than 15 minutes in ankle deep water. The funny thing is on June 3rd I was out there and didnt see even a sign of life. It seems like when they show up at the beach it is in full force.

I have talked in depth with Terry St. Cyr on this and he was saying that it is always right around the first week in June is the best beach bite of the whole summer. He told me that it always seems to be 0 to 100 when they show up. Just something to keep in mind for the upcoming weeks.

Great report!!!!!

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I had hit that thing about year and a half ago. It is mean, yall be careful running that area! There is an old pipe down there that they didn’t pick up from dredging.

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Great report, very valuable intel for future trips. I am looking forward to the book as well. For anyone looking to try Venice in the near future, if weather permits I would consider taking a look at Breton island. Got a very good report from there today. A bunch of fish over 20 inches.

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No indeed, I was catching limits off the road til May last year. Last much longer than most people think.

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Have to talk a lot of guides and very experienced louisiana trout fishermen. Article seems to be spot on from what I am hearing across the state. Talked to Mr. Terry St. Cyr and he was telling me this one is bad but doesn’t even touch what it looked like in Grand isle in 89. Hopefully all this is true and we can get back to giving these fish hell.

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This is a great time of year to target sac a lait in the tchefuncte river. They are just now starting to spawn and that will go til end of march for the most part. I would recommend launching at Menetre park and work any cove off the river with docks heading north. I normally throw a cork with a little jig under it.

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I have been waiting to make any comments on this situation until I felt like I got a better grasp on the situation. I am very nervous for what this freeze has done to our population of trout and redfish. We have all seen the pictures, straight up horrible… Our fish definitely took a beating from this one. Decided to make a phone calls to someone I know very high up in LDWF. Now I don’t necessarily agree with this to the fullest. I will have to see some data to back this up, but what I was told is that this fish kill was not as bad as we might think. Hopefully they are right and maybe thats why we haven’t seen a limit change. Only time will tell…. On a little bit of a better note, I have had some friends smash the trout the past few days even in areas that reported fish kills. Maybe we have a chance. I am still giving the trout a break until I feel like we know the full extent of this situation.

[will-grand]

Mr. Terry is a wealth of inshore knowledge. Would love to introduce you to him if you do not know him already. He understands our fishery incredibly well. I think you would find a lot of things he thinks about our fishery very interesting!

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Just a little heads up I would take a look at the fouchon barge’s.Talk to a friend who tore them up there this week. Casse-tete island should be holding some fishing in the cut of the island. Just be careful if the tide is low. Ton of reefs over there, but they should be crushing some topwater over there. Good luck if you head that way.

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The trout are starting to show themselves down there. It is still a bit of a grind right now to find them, but four bayous could possibly be a look for this weekend.

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Normally everyone calls it quits this time of year on the road fishing, but March-May can still be very productive. Instead of focusing on deeper holes focus on the bridges. Free lined live shrimp with maybe a split or so depending on how hard the tide is running is the ticket when it warms up. You can still catch some on plastic, but the live shrimp definitely makes a difference.

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I believe that we are at an interesting point in Louisiana fishing. I think that the world class trout fishing Louisiana in the early 2000’s got a lot of people into it, which is a great thing, but I think we are feeling the after effects of it. I think though we will see a swing in this at some point. I know we have a ton of fishing pressure now but it won’t last forever. I am a student at LSU and I can count on one hand the amount of college guys I know that enjoy inshore fishing. It is just not what the younger generations are into. I think the combination of lower limits, tougher fishing, price of this hobby, and younger people not being into fishing as much will eventually help let off on the amount of pressure on these fish. I could be totally off on all this but just might thought on all of it. We have to do what we can now to help those fish make it to this point, but I really believe at some point the popularity of inshore will decline on its own.