First Trip to the Rock

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Weedeater and myself made our first trip to Rockerfeller Refuge yesterday. The morning started off with after launching the boat and trying to get on plane, I realized that we was going to have to reload the boat. I had opened the plate the covers the vent on my tunnel more than what it had been and we couldn't do more than an idle because of blowing out. So we reloaded the boat and fixed the problem. Relaunched the boat and off we went. We turned in the canal where the cement weirs are at and because of the no wake sign being on only one side of the canal and being at an angle away facing away from you we was greeted by some not so happy people. After I apologized we continued to the Mud Hole weirs. There wasn't quiet as many boats there as the Cement weirs. Weedeater threw a few times and caught us some bait and off to find some reds. We made a stop at the LSU Weirs where there was only one boat. We tried our luck there but to no avail. So we decided to make a run to see the Gulf. Nothing spectacular but rough nasty water. We decided to make a run in a canal we saw on the way from the LSU weirs. Long story short after we idled a ways in their I decided to get on plane just in time to round the corner where there's another set of weirs by the LSU Weirs. After we almost jumped the weirs and ruined our drawers we turned around and went to try the Cement Weirs. After weedeater caught about 3/4 of our limit of shrimp and me cleaning the fish out I took over the cast net and finished the off limit. This was with a 3 1/2' foot net because someone said they was bringing theirs also so I just grabbed my small cast net. I wanted a few crabs so we went back to the Mud Hole because that morning they was catching crabs everywhere when caught our shrimp. The shrimp was good gumbo or stew sized nothing big. We tried on the outside of the weirs and nothing. We moved to the inside of the weirs and they seemed to be only biting in front of the weirs. After we finally was able to get us a spot on the weirs we kept 2 1/2 dozen crabs. We had a really good time and met a lot if nice people. Thanks to Acearcher for the tips and advice. The only question we have is where is some good places to go catch some reds and a guy told us how to rig up to catch some gars. Where is a good place to do that at also? Neither of us has done that but would like to try it for the heck of it.


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