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Rigolets fishing advice
Posted on 6/5/16 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 6/5/16 at 12:26 pm
Not looking for any spots or coordinates, just never fished the area and want to try a new area. Heard there are good wellhead and oyster reefs in the Lake Borgne area that hold some good trout. Anybody fish the area or advice as far as cautions with boating certain areas would be great. Thank you.
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Posted on 6/5/16 at 1:18 pm to Pirate0714
really need to keep tabs on the pearl river. if it get high then the area muddies up.
meauxgeaux2 fishes there a good bit and may chime in.
meauxgeaux2 fishes there a good bit and may chime in.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 1:23 pm to Pirate0714
Alligator point
Posted on 6/5/16 at 2:54 pm to tigersownall
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Alligator point
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:22 pm to Pirate0714
Rigolet fishing advice,,,
Find somewhere else to fish.
Find somewhere else to fish.
This post was edited on 6/5/16 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 6/5/16 at 5:02 pm to Pirate0714
Just tie up to the L&N and drop heavy weighted baits to the bottom. Nothing else good over there as far as I know right now
Posted on 6/5/16 at 5:09 pm to Pirate0714
Run south till you hit Da Rocks.
Thats a tough spot to fish, but if you can jig the piles you can pull up some trout on the bridges in the right conditions. I haven't been too successful, but I plan to learn this summer and fall. Good luck to ya.
Thats a tough spot to fish, but if you can jig the piles you can pull up some trout on the bridges in the right conditions. I haven't been too successful, but I plan to learn this summer and fall. Good luck to ya.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 8:28 pm to GumboPoBoy
Thanks for the advice. Place I'm gonna try to learn this year with the boat running now.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 9:14 pm to Pirate0714
There are trout near the Rigolets in Lake Borgne. Shrimp everywhere. Rigolets is tough this time of year but it'll get better. It's a really awesome and rewarding place to fish, but at certain times of the year you just gotta chalk it up to it just not being that good. It seems that every year has been progressively tougher over the last few years.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 10:11 am to bluemoons
Is there a reason why it is tougher this time of year? Anything to do with the Biloxi river?
Posted on 6/6/16 at 10:30 am to Pirate0714
It has a lot to do with the Pearl, but that's only one of many unpredictable variables that affect the area. When the Pearl is high and we get a prevailing east wind, it blows a lot of nasty water into the pass.
I have a lot of experience fishing the area, but I haven't fished it much the last couple of years, so take my advice for what it's worth. The Rigolets isn't much of a resident area for fish....it's a transitional area. So what you have are a bunch of spots that turn on depending on what habits the fish are re: movements into and out of Lake P and Lake Borgne. It's a very frustrating place to fish, but it can be very productive at certain points of the year. For example, the L&N bridge turns on towards the end of spring and the end of summer, but typically gets slower during the middle of summer. That's no secret and anyone who fishes the area learns that quickly, but the important question to think about with regard to the area as a whole is why? Towards the end of spring, the fish are moving out into Lake Borgne. Towards the end of summer into early fall, they're coming back into Lake P, so you can get them again. This holds true with most of the spots in the area, and it's pretty easy to avoid the crowds when the area is on, because the fish are there.
There are also specific little niches about each individual spot that can only be learned through time spent on the water or paying a guide to take you and show you. I highly recommend the latter. You can learn in one day with a guide what would otherwise take hundreds of hours to learn on your own, and there is no place where that holds truer than Lake P and the Rigolets. If you're interested in taking that route, I can recommend someone.
I have a lot of experience fishing the area, but I haven't fished it much the last couple of years, so take my advice for what it's worth. The Rigolets isn't much of a resident area for fish....it's a transitional area. So what you have are a bunch of spots that turn on depending on what habits the fish are re: movements into and out of Lake P and Lake Borgne. It's a very frustrating place to fish, but it can be very productive at certain points of the year. For example, the L&N bridge turns on towards the end of spring and the end of summer, but typically gets slower during the middle of summer. That's no secret and anyone who fishes the area learns that quickly, but the important question to think about with regard to the area as a whole is why? Towards the end of spring, the fish are moving out into Lake Borgne. Towards the end of summer into early fall, they're coming back into Lake P, so you can get them again. This holds true with most of the spots in the area, and it's pretty easy to avoid the crowds when the area is on, because the fish are there.
There are also specific little niches about each individual spot that can only be learned through time spent on the water or paying a guide to take you and show you. I highly recommend the latter. You can learn in one day with a guide what would otherwise take hundreds of hours to learn on your own, and there is no place where that holds truer than Lake P and the Rigolets. If you're interested in taking that route, I can recommend someone.
This post was edited on 6/6/16 at 10:32 am
Posted on 6/6/16 at 11:42 am to bluemoons
Thank you for the advice, if you do have some recommendations for guides I would like them yes.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 11:49 am to Pirate0714
Kris Robert knows the area well and is a really nice guy. I've fished w/ him a couple times
Posted on 6/6/16 at 12:47 pm to Pirate0714
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Kris Robert
Is always my first recommendation. He's a good human and a great fisherman. There are several others, but I would check with him first. To get check into going on a trip with him, call (985) 707-9049.
This post was edited on 6/6/16 at 12:53 pm
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