TEAM JO-JO:
First mate Big Hugh and Oneofthepack have been waiting patiently for the trolling season to start up along the trestles in Like P. Word was the BIG girls were out and about along trestles, the only day Big Hugh could make it was today, (Sunday) but the previous bad weather had us concerned about water level, clarity, and if it was even fishable / catchable.
We came up with a plan/s comment as follows:
· “A” Troll trestles
· “B” Troll Lakeshore Estate canal system
· “C” troll ICW
Big Hugh made the call says he lets just meet up at the Pointe see how it looks and we can decided with plan we wanted to go with, plus he indicate plan “A” &”B” just about coincided with each other.
Team Jo-Jo ready to assault either plan, just needed to see how conditions where, and we be at them
SIGNS:
· Could not sleep up all night, maybe 2 hours sleep, physicked up on BIG girls.
· Had to get some juice, had sheet with oil ration to gallons in phone, but could not find out how to open albums, after about 20 minutes me got it and was able to use right oil mix for gallons added to tanks. Had me a few minutes aet for 6 AM meet up
· No wildlife (aka Rabbits) along Oak Harbor Blvd, that not a good sign
· Big Hugh waiting for me
· Teamwork loading gear, and backing Bay Flat Jr into the water was quickly done
· Yamaha Nightmare Machine took about 30 pulls, but it be my fault did not follow protocol on how to start her.
· Plan “A” was selected and we off to trestles.
CONDITIONS:
· Perfect
· Wind, E.3-4, E. 8-10 mph.
· Water status / conditions: Little ripples, slight chop
· Sky, sunny & clear, snowbird day
· Had some fog
· Temp, 66.2 brought jumpsuit me glad me did had it on all day
· Water level, down 14-16’
· Water Temp , 56.1 F
· Salinity, 4
· Specific Conductance 7010
· Pressure, 30.13 F
· Water clarity on a scale of 1-7, 7 plus
· Mississippi gauge: 3.9’
· Caernarvon Outfall: 602 ft3/s
· Tide, Rising all day
· Peak tide, 06:57 H .95’ - 19:29 H .69’
· Peak tide, 15:24 L .30’ - 23:06 L .52’
· Major Feed Time: 06:01 – 18:28
· Minor feed time: 12:09 – 00.54
· Tidal Coefficient: 45
· Fish Activity
Low Activity
· Boats out and about, 45 plus
· 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.
· Get Big Hugh back on water, give refresher curse on how to perform Lake P Troll technique / presentation.
· See if the BIG girls wanted to play
· Bring home some fishes for Big Hugh fish fry next week
· Find a spot # with the seven fundamentals / criteria of catching:
1 WIND AT YOUR BACK: (Wind a none factor, not enough to impact our ability to fish and/or do Lake P Troll)
2 MOVING WATER: (Rising all day, but not much current)
3 WATER CALRITY: (7 plus, perfect it be)
4 HOLDING FISH: (FB3-FB5 Westside of trestles)
5 PATIENCES: (In hot spit at 6:32, 6:41 nice Flounder in box)
6 SKILL: (Lake P Troll technique / presentation)
7 LUCKS: (Had a few fog banks but not that bad)
· 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)……………100% fish caught this way.
· 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:
§ 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 …..100% fish caught with this rig.
AREAS / SPOTS / NUMBERS ON THE MAP FISHED:
Lake P, trolled along trestle, Fire Break (FB) 3 to FB 5 was the hot spot, it was over by 8:30 AM
OUR REWARDS:
· Lived to fish another day.
· (29) Silverwonders, 6 Miniwonders
· (1) Redwarrior
· (14) Flounders
· Missed (2) BIG NMR girls at boat, they were so big our rods bent, and we could not whip them over the gunnel, Big Hugh & Oneofthepack both lost one this way.
· Fried chicken for lunch, thanks Big Hugh me needed that.
· Being on the water with one of the best fisherpersons me know that be Big Hugh
· Perfect Sunday for fishing, one beautiful day it be.
· Lessons learned:
§ Big Hugh bought a Bay Flat Jr for him to troll Lake P, has a 25 HP Yamaha with electric start, he be still working on it and will have it in Lake P soon.
§ Bites were early, by 8:30 AM it was just about over.
§ Need to move up meet up time tom make sure we out for daylight, go from 6 to 5:30 AM
§ Located a new area in Lake P to troll.
§ Big girls are out there, and they be hungry.
· Best fishing trip of my life, until the next one.
FISHERPERSON OF THE DAY:
Big Hugh is a little out of practice, plus needs to get his rods, reels, and Lake P Troll rigs in order, have multiple rods rigged so when one pops just pick up another rod and keep trolling. Big Hugh, dominated Redwarriors, had his share of the Flounders, and did some damage with the (NMR) Silverwonders, even with the extra points for fired chicken he fell a little short for honors today.
Oneofthepack was on his game today, both with Flounders & NMR’s me take fisherperson of the day honors today. But me know next time out it will be a different story with Big Hugh.
SUGGESTIONS:
Check out u-tube on how to rig a Lake P Troll rig, search Oneofthepack Lake P Troll Rig. Any ???? call me 504-915-4896.
PONDER OF THE DAY:
“Challenges are what makes a fishing life interesting and overcoming them is what makes fishing life meaningful.”
Q&A:
What is your greatest catching skill?
TEAM JO-JO’S future stratagem:
Wednesday Big Ron from Kansas and his (3) boys, we will be heading down to Delacroix abord the Bay Flat Sr, in search of whatever will bite, hopefully we find some action, until then:
Good Fishing
Team Jo-Jo & Oneofthepack
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