Lake P & Mother Nature Challenge trip

Stanley Fink
Jun 20
6 min read

TEAM JO-JO:

Team Jo-Jo Fishing Log Entry – Wednesday Evening Trip Recap

🎣 Date: Wednesday (Evening Trip)👬 Crew: Big Rudy & Oneofthepack📍 Launch Point: The Pointe – 3:30 PM rendezvous🎯 Mission Objective: Validate Big Rudy’s Nautide App feeding time theory & duplicate Tuesday’s success📽️ Pre-Trip Fuel: Big Rudy crafting his Tuesday “masterpiece video” (Don’t miss it!) + Oneofthepack watching past epic trip clips = Full-on fishing fever

Mindset:We both knew lightning rarely strikes twice in the same spot, but with Tuesday’s haul still fresh in our minds and the Nautide App calling for prime-time bite windows, the fever was too strong to ignore. The spirits were high, the rods were rigged, and Team Jo-Jo was back on the water chasing that familiar Silverwonder high.

Game Plan:

Arrive at The Pointe at 3:30 PM
Target peak feeding window as predicted in the Nautide App
Replicate the Tuesday pattern with adjustments based on wind, tide, and clarity.
Fish smarter, not harder — trust the data, trust the instincts, trust Team Jo-Jo vibes

Report Pending...Let me know how the evening unfolded:

🎣 Fish caught?
🌊 Water conditions?
🌬️ Wind direction/speed?
🦈 Any bonus Redwarriors or surprise guests?
🧪 Did the Nautide feed time hold up?

Looking forward to hearing whether science, timing, and a little Jo-Jo magic created another memorable evening on the water. Tight lines & high hopes!

P.S. Let me know when Big Rudy’s Tuesday Trip Masterpiece drops—I’ll have the popcorn ready. 🍿🎣

SIGNS:

· Editing fishing videos, watching fishing videos proved to be too much for Big Rudy & Oneofthepack because before you know we all set up for another evening trip to Lake P Trestles.

· Meet up 3:30 PM

· Yamaha Nightmare Machine one pull to start good sing this be.

· No see any bunny rabbits along road, bad sign this be

· Off to Lake P trestles to start our evening of trolling.

· Heading into a rainstorm

CONDITIONS:

· Perfect

· Wind, S. 1-10, S. 6-8

· Water status / conditions: slight chops with 3-foot rollers, no white caps

· Sky, cloudy

· Rain got a little wet, not bad

· Temp, mild kept rain suite on all evening.

· Water level, down 4-6”

· Water Temp , 85.6F

· Salinity, 1.4

· Specific Conductance 2655

· Pressure, 30.32 F

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

· Mississippi gauge: 11.7’

· Caernarvon Outfall: 622 ft3/s

· Tide, rising.

· Peak tide, 05:19 L 0.10’

· Peak tide, 14:27 H .50’

· Peak tide, 17:20 L 0.40’

· Peak tide, 19:399 H 0.05’

· Major Feed Time: 05:38 – 17:54

· Minor feed time: 11:46 – 12:30

· Tidal Coefficient: 59

· Fish Activity

· High Activity

· Boats out and about, 4

· ONEOFTHEPACK’S REPERTOIRE OF TECHNIQUES / STRATEGIES

· Be safe.

· Have fun.

· This is me daily therapy for ALL me aliments.

· Put some run time on the Bay Flat Jr and the Yamaha Nightmare Machine

· Gather Intel for future trips, and to share with fisherperson, (on Facebook) to help assist them in their choice of areas to fish, lures to use and presentation of same to the elusive Silverwonders.

· Catch what catch can.

· Learn what learn can.

· Confirm Big Rudy theory re: bite times.

· Have a repeat trip like Tuesday.

· Bring some fish for Oneofthepack.

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

1 WIND AT YOUR BACK: (Kept us cool, directly in our face, kind of slowed down our movement forward)

2 MOVING WATER: (Rising , but not as strong as Tuesday, which be why me think we missed bites)

3 WATER CALRITY: (A 4 plus, sandy looking, not clean, clean & dark)

4 HOLDING FISH: (North of mile marker 174 out to second set of groups of steel pilings)

5 PATIENCES: (Slow evening, need some, but we were ready for this condition.)

6 SKILL: (Lake P Troll)

7 LUCKS: (Did not get wet, survived rainstorm)

· Oneofthepack’s repertoire of Techniques / presentations:

· Anchor up cast & retrieve slowly along the bottom, with a twitch every now and then, tight lining…………………………………DID NOT TRY

· Drift with the wind cast & retrieve (DWWC&R)……………DID NOT TRY

· Oak River Troll (ORT)……………….Did not try.

· Reverse Oak River Troll (RORT) ………..DID NOT TRY

· Oak River Skim (ORS) ……………DID NOT TRY

· Cork ……..DID NOT TRY

· Lake P Troll (LPT)…………….Did not try.

· Drop shot: Did not try.

· Dead bait……None

· Live bait………………None

· Oneofthepack ‘S repertOIRE of LURE DU JOUR:

· 3” H&H Purple Beetle, matched up with H&H ¼ oz. round white head with gold hook……………Did not try

· 3” Chartreuse Glow Beetle, matched up with H&H ¼ oz. round white head w/gold hook………….Did not try

· Matrix Shad Lemon Drop, matched up with H&H ¼ oz. round white head w/gold hook……………Did not try.

· Matrix Shad Lemon Drop, matched up with H&H 3/8 oz. round white head w/gold hook……………DID NOT TRY

· Matrix Shad Lemon Drop, matched up with H&H 1/2 oz. round white head w/gold hook……………DID NOT TRY

· Salt Strong Power Prawn (added 10-25-24) matched up with: Did not use:

§ 1/16 oz:.

§ 1/8 ox:

§ ¼ oz. jig head :

§ 3/8 oz. jig head :

§ Tandem Rig:

· Matrix Shad Lemon Drop, matched up with 3/4 oz. round lead head w/ 2 trailers, ……Did not try.

· Tandem rig, ¼ oz. round H&H jig head with gold hook, matched up with Matrix Shad Lemon Drop …..Did not try.

AREAS / SPOTS / NUMBERS ON THE MAP FISHED:

North of mile marker 174, back to 1st & 2nd group of steel pilings, back & forth

OUR REWARDS:

· Lived too fish another day.

· (11) Silverwonders 3 Miniwonders

· (1) Hardhead cat

· (2) bottoms, no lose nay Lake P Rig

· Sun was out beating down on us, rain clous moved in and kept us cool all evening, mother nature takes care of her boys.

· Got my snicker bar this time, thanks Big Rudy you the man.

· Meet with rising tide.

· Water clarity a little off

· We had 4 boats for company.

· We headed out into a rainstorm, most fisherperson would have never left the dock, but it was perfect it be.

· Used same technique , “Lake P Troll” same presentation, same pattern, same plan as Tuesday.

· Lessons learned:

§ Forge ahead into rain clous, never know how it will work out, in this case perfect it be.

§ I think we missed fed time, as when we first got out there we were on them, then they stopped, and that was it. Next time we will have to be earlier and fish our way into indicated feed time.

§ We are getting braver & braver with the Bay Fla Jr, but we never lost respect for mother nature and the condition & quickly that Lake P can get.

§ Bilge pump fixed.

§ Big Rudy did not want fish so me brought home for Sonofthepack Big Randy to clean.

§ Need to be back at them Friday

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

FISHERPERSON OF THE DAY:

SUGGESTIONS:

It is a lot better to fish when clouds are overhead, even a little rain is not bad, rather than have the hot sun beating down on you all day / evening.

Might want to think cloudy / rainy days are good.

PONDER OF THE DAY:

"I look into... my tackle box and think about all the elements I should consider in choosing the perfect lure: water temperature, what stage of development the various live baits in water, what the fish are eating right now. Then I remember what a guide told me: 'Ninety percent of what a Silverwonder eats is in colors of chartreus glow or purple, and about ¼ of a foot long”

Q&A:

As we where heading out into the rainstorm, a question came to my mind of two scenarios for yesterday and todays trip, and I had to share with Big Rudy, to see how he felt about them.

Which is worst and / or better to have happened to you?

Scenario 1:

· Have high expectations of catching , and you catching nothing.

Scenario 2:

· Have low expectations of catching and you bust them up.

I guess it be like “The thrill of victory” and “The agony of defeat”