Lake P Big Girls

TEAM JO-JO:

Team Jo-Jo’s Fishin’ Fix – Lake P Edition 🎣🌬️

After our Chandeleur Island fishing meeting wrapped up, Big Ron & Oneofthepack weren’t quite ready to call it quits. So we made a quick evening dash to Lake P — rods ready, spirits high. But ol’ Windy had other plans… she huffed, she puffed, and she blew us right back to the dock. 🌀⛵

Now, y’all know Team Jo-Jo don’t go down that easily.

Not being satisfied with that blow-out, Big Ron and Oneofthepack regrouped, reloaded, and hatched a Sunday comeback plan — assuming, of course, that the wind would chill, and Mother Nature would smile down upon us. 🙏🌤️

So be it. The stage was set.

Sunday’s journey began aboard Bay Flat Jr, powered by the relentless Yamaha Nightmare Machine, slicing through Lake P’s surface like it owed us fish. 🎯🐟

Stay tuned… the Silverwonders may have heard we’re comin’. 👀💪

SIGNS:                            

·         Good meeting Saturday for Chandelier Island fishing trip, still looking for (4) more to join us, trip on November 9th Sunday come back 1 AM Wednesday, if interested call me 504-915-4896)

CONDITIONS:

·          Perfect

·         Wind, S.S.E. 6-8 mph.

·         Water status / conditions: slight chops

·         Sky, sunny & clear

·         Temp had jumpsuit & rain jacket all day.

·         Water level, down 6-8”

·         Water Temp , 69.3 F

·         Salinity,  1.5

·         Specific Conductance 2820 

·         Pressure,  30.15 F

·         Water clarity on a scale of 1-7, 5

·         Mississippi gauge: 11.14 R

·         Caernarvon Outfall:        729     ft3/s

·         Tide, Rising all day.

·         Peak tide,  14:16 H .07’

·         Peak tide, 23:33 L 0.1’

·         Major Feed Time: 05:29 / 19:15

·         Minor feed time:   05:41 / 19:45

·         Tidal Coefficient:   84

·         No Loons

·         Saw a shark in Lake P

·         Fish Activity

·                              Very  High Activity  

·         Boats out and about,  40 plus

·      ONEOFTHEPACK’S REPERTOIRE OF TECHNIQUES / STRATEGIES      

·         Be safe.

·         Have fun.

·         See if the wind laid down so we could get out to catching grounds.

·         Practice / perfect our Lake P Troll technique / presentation.

·         Bring some fish for petite Gloria.

·         Find a spot  # with the seven fundamentals / criteria of catching:

1 WIND AT YOUR BACK: (Not a factor today, not much wind, plus we be trolling all morning)

2 MOVING WATER: (Moving in all morning, current plus wind kept pushing us towards Hwy 11 bridge, made it hard to fight fish when reeling them in as we kept running into bridge with fish on.)

3 WATER CALRITY: (A 5, looked good made for some real pretty catching shots for video, you could see fish below water.)

4 HOLDING FISH:  (Hwy 11 bridge)

5 PATIENCES: (Took a while, all of 8 minutes before our first hook up, it be a double on me Lake P Troll rig, had to move to less concentrated fishing grounds as they had a lot of boats in our honey hole, so we moved out to mid-lake)

6 SKILL: (Lake P Troll, Bay Flat Jr boat speed, line distance out, angel on fishing line from Bay Flat Jr to pilings along Hwy 11 bridge)

7 LUCKS: (BIG girls hungry)

·      Oneofthepack’s repertoire of Techniques / presentations:

·         Lake P Troll (LPT)…………….All fish caught with this technique / presentation.

·      Oneofthepack ‘S repertOIRE of LURE DU JOUR:

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·         Matrix Shad Lemon Drop, matched up with 3/4 oz. round lead head w/ 2 trailers, ……All fish caught with this lure / rig.

AREAS / SPOTS / NUMBERS ON THE MAP FISHED:

Lake P Hwy 11 bridge, east side of bridge, trolling both north & south mid-lake.

OUR REWARDS:

·         Lived too fish another day.

·         (20) Silverwonders, 3 Miniwonders

·         (2) NMR’s missed at boat

·         (1) NMR missed reeling in

·         (3) Flounder

·         (8) hang ups, lost (3) Lake P rigs

·         (2) Badly tangled lines had to take a knife to them

·         Great peanut butter & pineapple sandwich, thanks petite Gloria me needed that.

·         Got to see a 5-foot shark bee line across our port side as me reeling in a BIG NMR, he did not get me fish, but neither did I put too much pressure to get her in and pulled hook out.

·         Lessons learned:

§  Sharks in Lake P, last time out with Big Rudy we each got a strike on our Lake P Troll rig, my fist fought it for 15 seconds, then Big Rid got a strike, but his lasted about 30 seconds, when we both reel in our trailers where gone, all we felt was a slight tug, and it was over. Today I saw the shark as it passed Bay Flat Jr about 1 ½ foot below water, very weird looking.

§  Had to switch tactics today, do to:

·         Company (2) many boats headed out pass parish line to troll.

§  Trolled north to south & trolled south to north.

·         Switched over to the east side of the bridge, the tide was coming in, and we wanted our Lake P Troll rig / lures to be as close to the pilings as possible. We wanted to play Russian roulette with pilings cause that is where the big girls live & hunt.

·         Bay Flat Jr needs some go juice.

·         Best fishing trip of my life, until the next one.

FISHERPERSON OF THE DAY:

Big Ron was on, on, on them, he managed a few real nice NMR’s, and even had a Flounder  his credits, but even though he brought the peanut butter & pineapple jelly sandwich, all his efforts where a little short for today’s honors. Big Ron, lost his Lake P Trolling rig on his bait caster rod & reel, and started to fish with his spinning rod & reel set-up, me think this was a mistake, because me feel the best way to do Lake e P troll is to use a bait caster rod & reel set-up for many reasons.

§  Better feel

§  Better to fight fish

§  Better type drags.

§  It is easier to monitor how much line you let out to get to strike zone.

§  It is easier to get out lined up, (do not lock reel use thumb to control this) to get to the bottom.

§  It is easier to let line out, (do not lock reel use thumb to control this)  when you got hung up.

It was a Oneofthepack type day, fish hook up a double, made all the right moves / calls to keep us in the action, perfect action for our video, learned how to work Clipchamp to edit our videos, all good, me be fisherperson of this day, and happy to be so.

SUGGESTIONS:

🎣 Team Jo-Jo Flippin’ Fish In – Bay Flat Jr Style 🎣

Flip it right, flip it tight.Check out that slow-motion video magic—watch how Big Ron works that rod when an NMR (Non-Measurement Required, for the uninitiated 😉) gets boat-side. No panic, just precision.

He’s not just dancing with the rod—he’s guiding the girl right where he wants her.The secret? He waits for that sweet moment when she’s heading toward the Bay Flat Jr, then with a swift, clean whip, she’s airborne and in the boat. 🐟✈️🛥️

Pro Tip from Team Jo-Jo:

• Never flip when she’s running side to side or pulling away—you’ll lose the fight, and maybe the fish.

• NEVER use a net when the action is hot and heavy—you’ll be spending your day untangling hooks and watching your crew catch while you're benched. 😤

Momentum is your friend. Let her power work for you—flip her up and in, clean and quick. One flip, one fish, back in the game.

PONDER OF THE DAY:

"If I can get my son to love fishing half as much as I do, then I will have done my job as a father." - 

Q&A:

🎣 Known vs. Unknown — Which One Hurts More?

While we were fishing, we started wondering about two scenarios that every angler faces at some point… and we couldn’t decide which one is worse: the known or the unknown.

⚓ Scenario 1: Known

You’re reeling in a BIG fish.The fight is on, and you win—almost.You get her to the boat, you see this beautiful big fish in all her glory...Then—POP! Off she goes just as you try to flip her in.

You've seen her. You know exactly what you lost.That image stays with you, haunts you, and plays over and over in your mind like a broken record.You tell yourself, “If only I had grabbed the line better, if only I had waited...”

⚓ Scenario 2: Unknown

You’re reeling in what feels like a monster.The rod’s bent, drag screaming, arms burning—this is the fight of your life.Then—gone. Just like that.You never even get a glimpse.

What was it? A 30-inch Silverwonder? A bull Redwarrior? A prehistoric marsh beast?You’ll never know. It becomes a story with no ending, a ghost fish that will live in your imagination forever.

🤔 So… What Scenario is Worse?

That’s the million-dollar question Team Jo-Jo asked on the water.

Big Ron says one thing. Oneofthepack says another.We ain't got a clear answer, just two aching memories and one more reason to go back out there and settle the score.

🎣 Curious what the rest of Team Jo-Jo thinks… Known or Unknown?Let’s hear it at the next Fishing Curriculum Session.

TEAM JO-JO’S future stratagem:

Going to be off water next week to many things  going on, but if an opportunity comes up rest assure we will take advantage of it, until then:

Good Fishing

Team Jo-Jo & Oneofthepack

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