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Originally Posted by "W"
Yea wait till you have zero winds and weaker tides..Jetties can turn nasty fast....they had some guys on here who sunk going to jetties in a 16ft flat not long ago....about 25 years ago my mom and dad got flipped at the jetties in a 18 ft flat by boat waves
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When I was growing up, we fished the jetties (Calcasieu pass) quite often in a 16 ft flat bottom aluminum boat, but my dad always waited for the ideal days. Fishing the jetties in a small boat is much trickier now than it was in the 1970's and 1980's. The tidal flow has increased considerably due to the loss of marsh in the estuary. The combination of tidal and wave action can do some odd things. There seems to be a lot more traffic of the really big ships coming through and they don't seem as inclined to slow down for the small boats like they used to.
We've been out there a few time in a Alumacraft V 16 a few times when the preferred bay boat was not available, but I'll only do that on a day that looks pretty good and with a crew that knows where their weight needs to be and responds very well when a big wave is about to hit. The Alumacraft V 16 is much more stable than flat bottomed aluminum boats.