re: Where to fish this weekend? (Kayak)

As the weather begins moving toward the fall patterns and the trout start moving in, the areas around Fourchon, Leeville and GM are gonna start heating up. If I were fishing this weekend, (and it's still too early to tell whether that will be happening or not)I would probably be fishing either out of Leeville, off old LA1 or the north side of HWY1 on the way to G.I.

Bull reds start making their way into the shallow marshes this time of year too, so you can probably have a blast targeting them around the edges of where marsh drains into bays.

As for the GM smackdown, several of our fall tournaments are held during hunting season. . . just be courteous to those guys who have been itching to get out there all year for opening day and keep your head on a swivel. Be safe and protect yourself- have a navigation light at the very least.

Teal season wasn't that big an issue last year- I fished from the public launch and there was quite a few hunters going out around the same time as we were trying to launch, but there were no issues. I fished around the Bayou Blue area after making my way across Catfish Lake; found a nice school of upper slot reds in the marsh and took home a little cash. Of course, this year you have to catch a flounder, I think. . . my flounder tally is up to 1 for the year so far, so I doubt anyone has to worry about me!

As far as tournaments go, this year hasn't been my year!

Yeah. No bitching for one calendar year after winning a goddamn truck.

As someone who's fished out of Bason's every summer for the last decade or so, I'm pretty confidant that the bowfishing pressure has really put a beating on the redfish population. More recently I've started to see big horse power tunnel boats with huge towers bumping fishing but they have almost always been very specific area. Two summers ago someone strung a cable across a canal entrance to Lake Cheniere. There is a private propety line that cuts through a pond to the south of bully camp but it' unmarked and right through the middle of open water. It's become a nightmare to fish. Don't even get me started on the GM public launch and catfish lake.

I've watched that area die a slow death and it's sad. Surrounding property owners have abused the area to the point they are now moving into the WMA. It's gross. I think I was one of the last, if not the last, fly fishing skiff to leave the area.

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that's all private property.

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Doesn't matter, you can't boobytrap shite. This isn't Nam, there are rules.

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you should get a video of the people bowfishing, then, because being down there every weekend... well theres only one or two boats I see, and that's once in a while...
plus, a lot of that area is on the WMA, so you can't be on it at night

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Doth my lying eyes deceivith me? Pull your head out of the sand dude, it's happening, denying that bowfishing is a problem only comes from people who bowfish...

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theres one who I always see in bayou monnei, theres a few property owners whos gotten so fed up with it, that they blocked off the canals to get in there.

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Doesn't matter, you can't boobytrap shite. This isn't Nam, there are rules

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It's not booby-trapped, and now its got some blue 55 gallon drums blocking it. why are you trespassing?

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Doth my lying eyes deceivith me? Pull your head out of the sand dude, it's happening, denying that bowfishing is a problem only comes from people who bowfish...

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so 1 or 2 boats a weekend hurt the redfish more than the 50 boats at the launch during the day or the guides that catch 25 a boat every day?

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Pull your head out of the sand dude, it's happening, denying that bowfishing is a problem only comes from people who bowfish...

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well, kayak fishing is a problem because they can chase redfish where other boats can't. see how that works? we both get our 5 fish limit, yet you complain about the way another person does it. 5 fish is 5 fish. causes less harm than the gator tails running through duck ponds scouting or tower boats banking fish scouting for tournaments

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why are you trespassing?

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Everyone does it, it's nearly impossible not to and it's almost never prosecuted. Also, as long as coastal restoration is publicly funded, people will continue to not give a frick. I am a land owner, I get it, but it's a losing battle not to mention a large part of the erosion problem was caused by the land owners.

There is no incentive for someone not to cross that imaginary line. There is no way to know the line is even there of if it's real. No maps exist for the public to use as a reference. The whole idea of private tidal water is a shite show an everyone knows it.

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so 1 or 2 boats a weekend hurt the redfish more than the 50 boats at the launch during the day or the guides that catch 25 a boat every day?

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It's not one or two boats and you know it. What's next? Are you going to try and tell me under/over size fish don't get shot and dumped? Don't be silly, it's no secret that redfish decline in PAC is connected to bowfishing pressure.

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well, kayak fishing is a problem because they can chase redfish where other boats can't. see how that works? we both get our 5 fish limit, yet you complain about the way another person does it. 5 fish is 5 fish. causes less harm than the gator tails running through duck ponds scouting or tower boats banking fish scouting for tournaments

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ok...

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Everyone does it, it's nearly impossible not to and it's almost never prosecuted. Also, as long as coastal restoration is publicly funded, people will continue to not give a frick. I am a land owner, I get it, but it's a losing battle not to mention a large part of the erosion problem was caused by the land owners.

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that whole are you say is "booby trapped" has someone back there all the time to run people out of it or call WLF or the police. just because everyone does it, doesn't make it right.

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It's not one or two boats and you know it. What's next? Are you going to try and tell me under/over size fish don't get shot and dumped? Don't be silly, it's no secret that redfish decline in PAC is connected to bowfishing pressure

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its one or two boats, and I do know it because I live here... the most ive seen in one night is 6. and i'm not talking about PAC because i'm legal and don't go after dark. im talking about behind bessons and GM.

you've got to have some type of vendetta or just plain ignorant to bowfishing. how many rat reds have you caught that swallowed the hook and died? probably more than ive shot. if its even questionable of the size, we pass on it. I don't speak for everyone, just our group.

and you know as well as I do that guides and tower boats put WAY more pressure on redfish than bowfishing. I see it blasted on facebook every day, 5 man limit of reds, blah blah. it's plain ignorant to put all the blame on bowfishing when you've got at least 5 other factors at play.

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if its not the WMA, then it's owned by someone or leased.

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This is the problem, idiots like you spewing word vomit on the internet. You wouldn't possibly be more wrong.

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This is the problem, idiots like you spewing word vomit on the internet. You wouldn't possibly be more wrong

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its all owned by apache, shell, etc and leased out. that better?

"Pretty much" tells me there is somewhere I can fish without trespassing. Hence the need for a map. The regular fisherman doesn't know where he can or can't go.