Cocodrie fishing reports?

Caught 30 on Saturday with 2 people....be careful out there if you’re going to the islands. Tons of the island has disappeared and new giant sandbars in other places.

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Last time I was there I nuked my motor and the fishing sucked.

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This sounds like 80% of my fishing trips anywhere

Fished Saturday and caught 60. Had to weed through a lot of small ones but had steady action all day. Ended up finding some nice 18” trout in the bay on one stop.

I found clean water in Pelto and wailed on them on one small platform inside wine island. Lots of birds diving in several spots with shrimp leaping out of the water. We caught trout on every cast under the birds but they were all 11”. I’ve been owning a camp and fishing in Cocodrie for 25 years and I have never caught as many undersized trout as I have this year. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve quit fishing live bait or something ecological. My wife could not buy a trout with live croakers last Saturday and they are usually the ticket to bigger trout this time of the year.

Went out Sunday am to find wind 3 times what the camp anemometer said. Water was dirty. lots of small specks and whites. Only had 5 keepers before storms blew us off.

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That's the biggest reason I think changing limits is unnecessary. It's called Mother Nature.

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Agreed, not to mention the lack of brown shrimp inshore this year limiting the trout forage. Low salinity water/and late cold fronts are no good for brown shrimp production and probably played some part in it.

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year, or just since this storm?

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Since the storm, the camp on trinity island is completely gone except for the pilings and there are now several cut throughs in the island.

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The Horseshoe was actually a horseshoe sticking out of the water

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It was a shell pile?

Yes

And they were arranged in the shape of a horseshoe, with a cove in the middle

We would pull up, throw anchor, get out and fish from the shells on the inside and out