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Posted on 5/31/20 at 4:15 pm to farad
Crickets is slang for live shrimp
Posted on 5/31/20 at 4:16 pm to TJG210
Not familiar with him
Posted on 5/31/20 at 4:17 pm to stoms
What was the name of the guide?
Posted on 5/31/20 at 4:24 pm to TJG210
Wasn’t a guide. Just a guy who has been fishing down there a long time. He’s the guy with the catamaran at sportsman’s
Posted on 5/31/20 at 4:28 pm to TJG210
lol...ok thanks TJG...spiders I've heard of but not crickets... 
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:19 pm to stoms
I was out at the island Saturday. Saw at least 8 guys wading. Surprised to hear that any of them were fishing cocahoes carolina rigged.
We caught 47 on artificial and they had good size. Probably 10 throwbacks. Did catch a glimpse of a sea turtle.
The best part of the trip was seeing the equipment brought to the island to help preserve it, along with the dredge ships and pipe laid to pump back on it.
The island has been rapidly disappearing in recent years, even w/o any significant storms.
We caught 47 on artificial and they had good size. Probably 10 throwbacks. Did catch a glimpse of a sea turtle.
The best part of the trip was seeing the equipment brought to the island to help preserve it, along with the dredge ships and pipe laid to pump back on it.
The island has been rapidly disappearing in recent years, even w/o any significant storms.
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:38 pm to wahoocs
Surfside Beach, TX report last Friday
Light N wind that increased through morning. Occasional breaker in first bar that would get chest level.
Started with topwater, no blow ups. Buddy started catching on spoons, I switched to mirrolure lil John silver bait and caught a few. By 7am we’d caught 4 undersized trout (13-14”) each. We started moving parallel to beachfront and got onto a good school about 7:30, at this point I was using pink silver little Jon. I caught a fish on almost every cast for 20 minutes. I estimate 15 fish. 2 over 15”, 1 very close that I threw back. Lost 3-4 when they came to surface shaking their heads.
I learned a great lesson about presentation today. With braid I tend to over work the baits with my rod tip. Today I was only using 1/16oz jig head so was barely jigging to keep bait in lower 1/3 of water column.
It was a lot of fun.
Light N wind that increased through morning. Occasional breaker in first bar that would get chest level.
Started with topwater, no blow ups. Buddy started catching on spoons, I switched to mirrolure lil John silver bait and caught a few. By 7am we’d caught 4 undersized trout (13-14”) each. We started moving parallel to beachfront and got onto a good school about 7:30, at this point I was using pink silver little Jon. I caught a fish on almost every cast for 20 minutes. I estimate 15 fish. 2 over 15”, 1 very close that I threw back. Lost 3-4 when they came to surface shaking their heads.
I learned a great lesson about presentation today. With braid I tend to over work the baits with my rod tip. Today I was only using 1/16oz jig head so was barely jigging to keep bait in lower 1/3 of water column.
It was a lot of fun.
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:43 pm to wahoocs
Which island? Someone told me in Fourchon this weekend that the budget for maintaining East Timbalier had been cut for next year, ie, they are giving up. Very sad.
Went out yesterday, Hour plus ride each way, 15 minutes to catch our snapper. My crew weren’t keen on culling, those 5-8# snapper were fine for them (trout fishermen). Oh well. Hit a few rigs coming in, more snapper (shocking) and probably 25-30 8-11” mangroves, and 4 8-10# redfish (Federal waters). Oh and one rig that yielded an endangered shark on every cast.
Went out yesterday, Hour plus ride each way, 15 minutes to catch our snapper. My crew weren’t keen on culling, those 5-8# snapper were fine for them (trout fishermen). Oh well. Hit a few rigs coming in, more snapper (shocking) and probably 25-30 8-11” mangroves, and 4 8-10# redfish (Federal waters). Oh and one rig that yielded an endangered shark on every cast.
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:49 pm to Icansee4miles
Tractors and dredging equipment on west end of last island near the horseshoe reef
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:57 pm to Larry Gooseman
West Galveston Bay and had a blast. We also had to throw back quite a few fish as well. All very close but hit 3 quick flounder that went back in.....grrrrrr
Saturday had 4-5 16-17” reds go back as well.
Ended the week end with about a dozen mixed bag but included some very nice specks and one big arse red.
Had fun:)
Pro tip of f the day: gaftop actually taste ok.
One of my sons caught a pretty big one and asked/begged to keep it. Nasty, slimy bastards but I gave in. He also pleaded to cook it......unpleasant cleaning but damned if it was pretty good. But deep frying could make a brick taste Well
Saturday had 4-5 16-17” reds go back as well.
Ended the week end with about a dozen mixed bag but included some very nice specks and one big arse red.
Had fun:)
Pro tip of f the day: gaftop actually taste ok.
One of my sons caught a pretty big one and asked/begged to keep it. Nasty, slimy bastards but I gave in. He also pleaded to cook it......unpleasant cleaning but damned if it was pretty good. But deep frying could make a brick taste Well
Posted on 5/31/20 at 10:04 pm to KemoSabe65
Did a trip out to the Chandeleur Islands on Friday. First ever time out to the Mississippi side. Ran out to New Harbor Island area from Bay St. Louis. 15 trout, couple 3 lb fish and 1 flounder. Beautiful water to start the day. Could see the bottom in 4' of water. Too many boats in that area though. Guide services have it covered. At one point, we were fishing in amongst at least 12-15 skiffs from the charter boats. Learned some things for next time.
Posted on 5/31/20 at 10:19 pm to Icansee4miles
Whiskey or Trinity, the largest remaining portion of the Isle Dernieres chain.
And they must have dredged Trinity Bayou too, b/c I saw 2 boats running where it used to be.
This was my first trip out there this year, and I have no idea where Whiskey Pass is anymore. Last year, you could read the break, and feel your way, and plot ur GPS, then trust it.
Yesterday we scraped thru about 50 yards of one foot of water to get thru, and not at low tide. Used the dock side going back, and you can now pass within 50 yards to the east of it.
Someone who hasn’t been there in a few years would have no bearings.
And they must have dredged Trinity Bayou too, b/c I saw 2 boats running where it used to be.
This was my first trip out there this year, and I have no idea where Whiskey Pass is anymore. Last year, you could read the break, and feel your way, and plot ur GPS, then trust it.
Yesterday we scraped thru about 50 yards of one foot of water to get thru, and not at low tide. Used the dock side going back, and you can now pass within 50 yards to the east of it.
Someone who hasn’t been there in a few years would have no bearings.
Posted on 5/31/20 at 10:43 pm to KemoSabe65
Saturday morning. me and my dad
purchased live shrimp at 6am
left dock at 6:20
spot for 6:50
limit by 8:00
Breakfast at 9:00
this is out of Cocodrie (well technically Chauvin, but we are all in this together)
purchased live shrimp at 6am
left dock at 6:20
spot for 6:50
limit by 8:00
Breakfast at 9:00
this is out of Cocodrie (well technically Chauvin, but we are all in this together
)This post was edited on 5/31/20 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 5/31/20 at 10:47 pm to wahoocs
quote:
I have no idea where Whiskey Pass is anymore
i did this 3 weeks ago
hadn't been to the west end of LI in a couple years. place looked foreign to me. hit some mud after fishing the west end headed west through whiskey pass.
the islands are getting to be all F'd up. sucks
Posted on 6/1/20 at 6:07 am to donRANDOMnumbers
Fished Venice Saturday and Sunday with No Colors and another friend and little hammer.
Limited on Snapper both days and good size to them
Saturday had a nice mixed box of reds, trout and sheep head to mix with the snapper, Sunday got our snapper and headed to the camp. Great weekend
Limited on Snapper both days and good size to them
Saturday had a nice mixed box of reds, trout and sheep head to mix with the snapper, Sunday got our snapper and headed to the camp. Great weekend
Posted on 6/1/20 at 6:19 am to hall59tiger
quote:
Was stranded out there for about 7 hours but we managed to catch about 10 redfish and my buddy caught a catfish on a spoon.
At least you guys were able to make some lemonade out of the lemons you were dealt.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 6:21 am to Da Hammer
Buddy left with his crew Friday out of Cal pass and passed us in old river while we were tubing Sunday. Limits of rare 25# ARS and 1 170# YF.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 7:22 am to KemoSabe65
Went to Bayou Black Sat. 15 bass and all the Blue Gill you want to catch. The bite is short though.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 8:21 am to KemoSabe65
Went and surfed Elmer's Sunday. Managed 10 nice trout and 15 large channel mullet. Had one of them go 17"! Had bait everywhere and just looked like we were going to tear them apart. Could not get away from the catfish and never really got on a solid trout bite. Wind came on eventually and killed everything. Everyone I talked to said Saturday they slayed them but Sunday they just turned off. Also noticed before the wind picked up, large crabs in the surf all over. Might be getting close to setting up some crab lines down there.
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