Vbay

[MattMigues]

Heading down to the bay to see if I can get my drag pulled, last few days have been tough, saturday I scratched had one buddy fishing in weeks yesterday and not even a short fish and another east of the point that only kept 1 red... I'm hoping this afternoon I can change the luck and pick up a few keepers. I may even try my luck on a few specks.

[meaux fishing]

Good luck Matt

[Goooh]

It sho is raining where I'm at on 90 by 10, hope you stay dry!!

I just left big lake and only caught 2 croakers, I suck bad at that place!!!

[jdunbar]

let us know, I keep wanting to go there, but never see where the water is looking decent. Such a shame that it's so close, but hardly ever decent water.

[redaddiction]

Originally Posted by jdunbar

let us know, I keep wanting to go there, but never see where the water is looking decent. Such a shame that it's so close, but hardly ever decent water.

I here ya! But the seasonal cycles with the river will always be what they are. I just stay away completely until august till December, sometimes January is still good.

The one thing I never understood is they can catch trout on the edge of the Mississippi river, largest river in the country, but we can't catch trout 25 miles away from the Achafalaya!

[J.D.L]

I would imagine that if we didn't have the intracoastal and numerous canals dumping fresh and dirty water into the bay it would be more consistent. But it is what it is.

[MattMigues]

Water was pretty just fish had lock jaw

[I make oil]

Mississippi dumps into the Mississippi Cayon? 10 mile out the mouth of the river your in 1000' of water. Atchafalaya bay is very shallow and wide? Then the flow is split between the wax and the river? Go over to Halters Island and reds are easy. We catch reds and flounders all the way up to the ICY on the wax side. I've never had consistent luck with specks unless I go wayyyyy out to the EI platforms out the river or the south side of SMI. The other end at Weeks bay to Verm Bay is a little better on the reefs when the river level is down later in the year. It's a tough area to fish no doubt about it.

[MattMigues]

That's exactly our problem, we get an east wind when the river is up and there goes whatever salinity we have, water is getting pretty but i think fish are hit and miss right now well trout, reds are usually easy to catch but last couple trips have been tough.

Originally Posted by I make oil

Mississippi dumps into the Mississippi Cayon? 10 mile out the mouth of the river your in 1000' of water. Atchafalaya bay is very shallow and wide? Then the flow is split between the wax and the river? Go over to Halters Island and reds are easy. We catch reds and flounders all the way up to the ICY on the wax side. I've never had consistent luck with specks unless I go wayyyyy out to the EI platforms out the river or the south side of SMI. The other end at Weeks bay to Verm Bay is a little better on the reefs when the river level is down later in the year. It's a tough area to fish no doubt about it.

[Montauk17]

West winds the next few days....the reefs outside the pass should be getting right.

[jdunbar]

have yall ever noticed the unbelievable amount of sand trout there? I think that I might have caught one in big lake. It's so weird how different the two places are.

[Montauk17]

Originally Posted by jdunbar

have yall ever noticed the unbelievable amount of sand trout there? I think that I might have caught one in big lake. It's so weird how different the two places are.

Yeah last year was off the charts....you would catch 10 whites to 1 speck. They fry up good too.

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by Montauk17

Yeah last year was off the charts....you would catch 10 whites to 1 speck. They fry up good too.

I caught about 100 in a hole in sharks bayou one day, I was surprised. Had a customer with me that didn't know the difference, all i did was bait his hook while he slung them in. First spot we stopped and never moved - he still thinks I'm the trout master...

[Montauk17]

Originally Posted by Goooh

I caught about 100 in a hole in sharks bayou one day, I was surprised. Had a customer with me that didn't know the difference, all i did was bait his hook while he slung them in. First spot we stopped and never moved - he still thinks I'm the trout master...

Haha....I keep a ultralight in the boat for times like that,makes it fun.

[MattMigues]

I was leaving Quintana yesterday and saw someone pulling in a nice white anout 14", maybe I shoulda fished off the bank instead lol!