Fished out of the Saltwater Barrier
 

Launched out of the Saltwater Barrier for a change of pace...

Fished the East powerline cut, lots of water coming out and good pickle bite... Ran up to 171, and fished down the West bank hitting the cuts... No water moving there but picked up a couple of keepers... All fish on red/black soft plastic creature baits, texas rigged with no weight...

Back on the trailer for 0930... Hot, still, and hazy this morning...

Hydro

Nothing wrong with a quick productive trip

Nothin wrong with that, thanks for the report!

Thanks for the report. Did you fish the barrier at all?

Just to the North Paul... Another month or so and I'll start the annual search for specks from Prien to the North, the barrier is on my short list once things cool off... Last year we did so well in Lake Charles that we didnt run upstream much past I-10...

I can't wait for that first cold front !!!

Hydro

So the prien to lake charles area does well during the fall? This is really my first year fishing saltwater...

caught this last weekend at the barrier, was full of em there.

Dang that would be fun to catch in a yak.


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I know a spot thats full of em... Just dunno how to catch em

Ive been told mullet. Never tried it though.


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I will require video footage of this :rotfl: !!!

Hydro

Ill go pro this! I wanna catch some. Just dunno what imma do when i get em to the yak

got that one on a gulp shrimp on the bottom. good luck in a yak, I really didn't want to get it in my boat with plenty of room, once you see that mouth open, and all those teeth, kinda makes you not want to mess with him!

dats good eatin'

Let me know when you guys want to do this, I will bring the mother ship for filming and unhook/releasing...

Hydro

We gotta get Weedeater involved for his intellect. Lol.


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That will never touch my yak! I like my feet and fingers

When the water gets salty the trout will move up to the Salt water barrier area. Watch this link and when it gets up to about 8 ppt, trout should start to show up at the SWB. The current reading is ~2.5, so it will 2 or 3 more weeks.....or longer if we get more rain NE of Lake Charles.

Some trout are in the I-210 area now.


http://waterdata.usgs.gov/la/nwis/uv...te_no=08017044

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Yeah ive beeb catch a few here n there around prien!

My not skert :D..... lets go get sum but we gonna need like Hydro said to have a mudder ship to bring them home and someone tthat knows how to clean them

I dont wanna keep em... Just take a pic w em in the yak and let em go

Man that's to good eatin plus I ain't removing the hook unless its dead

Aight as long as u keepin em and cleanin em :D. Im there for professional angling skills

I am up for challenge and chance to learn how to clean them

they are easy to clean really, take a hatchet and lay them belly down. take the hatchet and go down from back to front taking scales and skin down the top of the back, once it's off, run your knife down each side then pull the whole deal out. you can cut the meat into steaks (my fav on the grill) or chunk the meat and make gar balls, either way, they're damn good eatin.

and by the way, when you kill em, make sure you hit where the skull meets the scales, you could beat a hole in his skull and do nothin but piss him off!

Chicken. Lol


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Lol. That there is funny.


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Where are ya'll catching and or seeing them, I am off a few days this week and may try to go catch some if anyone is up to goin

They are thick in that lil bayou that that kayak launch is on at prien lake park.

Very big?

Has a couple surface infront of me while yakin back there... Some were at least 6'' wide across the back

Nice job and thanks for the report

There was some talk back there about specs at the SWB...I been trying to catch up to the reds around that area...not much luck. Catchin a few throwbacks...but not like what I have heard. Fishin gold and silver, Johnson sprite spoons, weed less wobble minnows and spinnerbaits w soft plastics...

Fishin point where old river meets channel at SWB, that bank...and the left bank cuts headed towards lc from SWB. Also, near port in lc. Phew....tough. :help:

Those bait should catch a Red somewhere in that area.

During the summer when it is hot, sometimes they like a very slow presentation and let the bait stay down near the bottom. Fish the dropoffs.

Am I looking at that site wrong ? Looks like 9ppt. salinity

yeah, looks like it jumped from 2-3 all the way to 8ish in one day

Caught in prein lake area couple months ago. Attachment 39115

A 9 mill will do it just fine at the yak LOL!!!