Trout in GI?
 

Anyone else see this on LAS?

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/lp...4#.U6ldenm9LCS

Doesnt surprise me. I saw the article in the advocate. People need to stop overreacting. The fish are there, they are just small due to cold weather. It takes about a year for them to reach 10in under normal conditions, so with the cold weather and lack of food it would take a little longer this year. This is why everybody is catching so many short fish right now. There are some guides pushing this so they can get the limits lowered and all the sheeple are following their lead. Lets leave the fisheries science to the biologists please.

2 trips down there this summer so far. Put 13 hours on the boat in those 2 trips, fished hard for 9+ hours a day for less than a dozen keepers. And I'm talking 12in fish. Somethings defiantly up. Land loss is a big factor. But not sure what else

Cause they are doing such a great job with the snapper?

Bob, my friend is down in the keys this week participating in the conference regarding red snapper.....should get an update in the next day or two

But bird island isn't holding fish, all the trout MUST be dead.

lol #truth

Ive heard several good reports from the gi area the past couple weeks.

I could have easily had 75 keepers last Sat. If it wasn't for dolphins and Jacks busting up our schools. Did catch 3 to 1 shorts tho

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Wish they would open a season on dolphin

Or at least a dolphin tazer

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Are you fishing close to the island? Heading down in a couple weeks for a few nights and was just looking for a lead.

The West wind and been main problem with fishing Grand Isle and a lot of Southeast LA summer hotspots. The west wind makes water quality not good producing smaller throw back specs, we need more south or southeast winds to push better water to our coastline.

fished out of bridge side sat and Sunday burnt 6 gal of gas between the 2 days with 150 2 stroke we caught 35-40 small trout came home with about 10 keepers letting my kids fish. bird were all over they would just break up fast

Part of the problem
 

Many of our issues start here.

This is (was) Grand Point Island in Barataria Bay. A few years ago, it was a big island that could fish 5-6 boat comfortably. Now, it's a small strip of submerged clam shells. We're losing a lot of premium trout habitat every year to erosion.

I was singing this tune 2 weeks ago when you couldn't buy a trout around the island. The water around the island was terrible. Dirty, no bait and definitely no trout.

This week has been a different story. I went Monday and found nice, pretty green water again. The bait came back and so did the trout. We caught 45, with 15-20 over 16". Of course, a ton of small trout which is typical for summertime in the bay.

I don't think it's just one or two things going on, but a laundry list of problems hitting us all at one time. Come October/November, you'll have trout everywhere again and you won't hear any of this no trout song until next spring..

agree

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Well I was in the fourchon area

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Here is the article...

Pressure, winter and a little blip about land loss. Land loss should have been a huge part.


http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=6811

By fall ,all these trout will be 12" an they will be everywhere.

Yeah, that's what they were saying at the end of the article.

maybe this will calm people for a minute or two

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=6813