catchyalater

TigerPrawn is giving you great info, I can't add much besides seconding what he's saying.

My question is whether your launch point is set in stone. I've been catching a ton of trout inside the marsh this year, but it's deep in the marsh in deep large bayous.

Whether you went to those types of spots or the outter islands, I'm not sure the Point Marina is best this time of year. For me I'd pick Bayou Caddy if you want to get to the islands more easily, Campos or Hopedale for the marsh trips.

Yeah it's a Cayenne! I originally wanted a copperhead but they stopped selling by the time I had saved up enough.

But yeah, I'm the same, I'm never going to get rid of this boat. It's mine through and through and I can bring it basically anywhere from the marsh to small streams, and sometimes the big bays.

Hey what's up you guys, it has been a long time since I wrote one of these. Anyone who hasn't read one of these, when I started my youtube channel I would post fishing reports here and link to the video. That went a long way to whatever little measure of success my channel has is due in large part to those reports.

I wanted to bring that back because as we all know, a big cold front is coming through and I feel pretty damn confident I have the redfish figured out.

This trip was last Wednesday when the winds finally died down a bit after that arctic blast. I had been exploring the idea that I call temperature gradients. These are areas of small, shallow flats or duck ponds that are connected by or drained by small windy bayous. I call it temperature gradient because these areas combine both deep pockets where the temperature stays stable and flats that can warm (or cool) really fast.

Thus, a gradient. If you have watched my videos lately, this is all I've targeted so far this winter, and I've had only one trip in the last two months where I haven't caught a two-man limit of reds.

And that's how this trip went too. I launched out of Hopedale around 11:30 am and went to a kayak spot first. There were hammer trout there but it was difficult to land them and it was also pretty slow. So after about 20 minutes of that, I left for spot number 2.

I entered from the main bayou where I fan-casted for about 5 minutes as I made my way into a smaller drainage bayou connected to a pretty big, but very shallow pond. As I trolled into the bayou, I moved pretty fast because I wanted to get to that temperature gradient area.

As soon as I got to the last bend of that bayou before the big flat, bam! A 19" red. I kept going until another, this one 18". Then another, then another, then another.

Ultimately this one little bayou gave me 8 redfish, almost all (if not all) over slot, all in less than an hour.

The only other thing to add is lures. Just use lures that are slow, not huge but not small, that can slowly fall to the bottom. I was using the HH Salt Minnow (I'm not sponsored by them) in smoke because that color and profile just do great in the muddy water. But, you may find clean water, and in that case that's another report.

As always with these, you can find the video here: https://youtu.be/ZsIMv1yFpfo

Thanks for reading y'all!

The river we back up to is called the little river. Finally got the address, don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Oh man, I should put out a video on this. Probably a lot of what I'll say has already been said so I'll try to focus on the things you need for maintenance which is what you'll be doing a lot of.

What I keep at home
Good electrical pliers
6 guage wire
6 guage butt connectors
Heat shrink tubing
Heat shrink butt connectors 10-16 guage
Heat gun
Water proof battery charger

What I keep on the boat
Voltage tester
Portable car battery jumper
Silicon packets - put these inside of anything you keep in the boat.
Towels with carabiners
Rechargable hand warmers
Portable tool set
Backup trolling motor remote
Backup reels
Snacks that can stay safe to eat for a long time
Inflatable PFDs - Use way less space, just as safe.
Water bags. These use basically no space and get smaller as you drink them, saving lots of space.

I'll stop there, there's so much more. To me the key things besides the big ticket items (gps, trolling motor, etc) is the stuff you need to have to fix things that break while you're out there and the things you have to have without using a ton of space. Space is at a premium on almost all boats, and things break all the time.

Good luck, it's a life changing purchase.

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted.

I've had to watch my MawMaw go through dementia and parkinsons, my PawPaw go through terminal cancer, and my Mom go through ALS.

Not only do I have zero desire to go through any of that myself, but there is absolutely no way I will put my family through that either. People don't see this side of it, but those are not individual diseases. They impact, and in some cases destroy entire families.

Why not let people have dignity?

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Basically trying to decide if the price to pay someone is worth my potential frustration

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If this isn't something you do often, it's definitely a multi hour (3+) job. Easy to do a cost-benefit analysis on that. Plus throw in you can blame someone else if it fails. :lol:

I've had uhaul install hitches on two of my cars and it was just fine. It's the electrical part to me that's really important and I'd rather someone who does it all day do that.

Topic says it all. I have the day off tomorrow and the wind hasn't been bad. Was gonna spend my day in the rain if I can get to any of the docks.

Has anyone heard or seen any info? I checked facebook and just see that Rigolets marina has closed, none of the other groups seem to have any info.

Yeah I'm going with a 4". I guess I'll make a video showing the progress.

Now that I did all the epoxy layers on the original repair tries I also gotta clean all of that.

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I've fixed and changed so many things I don't think you can say this is the same boat I purchased in 2021.

That's a really good idea, I didn't know they made those. Edit - I didn't know they were called that. I see now, I just need to understand if they can hold my weight up there.

Thanks y'all! I will be towing with this ugly repair tomorrow, we'll see how it goes. If I can make it pretty I'm fine with it but obviously would prefer doing it the right way if I can.

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I mean I'd be lying if my goal wasn't to be something like that. Now I just need to find that window between work schedule and weather to go put out another video.

Thanks for watching them man!