First trip since I returned from Chicago...canoe trip with my brother to Fourchon. Just threw in off the side of Hwy 1 and paddled about a minute.

Um, the specks are biting...all fish caught on plastics on a jighead, color doesn't matter, as long as it's chartreuse.







A beautiful "roseate spoonbill" feeding along the shoreline...







And the money shot...

You used to LOVE it when I posted these reports! Oh wait...that's when you lived several hundred miles away...:hihi:

I have less productive days, but there is no such thing as a "bad outing" when you're talking about fishing...especially marsh fishing, to me.

I thought about it...and I have a better response to your question.

When I'm off from work, I'm OFF from work...usually a couple of months at a time. I am pretty selective about when I go.

#1--I RARELY go on weekends, unless it's a tournament.

#2--I pay VERY close attention to conditions, such as weather, barometric pressure, wind speed/direction, tides.

My favorite time to go is when it's partly cloudy, falling barometer, light south winds, and moderate tidal movement. Incoming or outgoing dictates WHERE I fish.

Obviously, during the late spring/summer, it's pretty good every day. This time of year, I fish around the fronts. If you recall, a front came thru Tuesday night. That's why I fished Tuesday. I could've gone Monday or Wednesday, but the conditions wouldn't have been what they were Tuesday. Preceding a front, we usually have the warmest day, south winds, and a falling barometer. I don't even know what the tides were, but it didn't matter, because the wind dictated the current...and I fished the current to my advantage.

I don't care whether it's bass, specks, reds, flounder, bream, or crappie...barometer and current dictate the fishing. It's a pain to fish the day after a big cold front...but if you have the right place where the current works to your advantage, it's doable. I just hate cold weather, though.

Tuesday, we fished some borrow pits (sand pits) with a bayou that connected to the Gulf running just south of them. There were cuts from the bayou that flowed into the pits on a rising tide, or in this case, a south wind pushed water thru the cuts. The fish were active due to the falling barometer, so they just stacked up at the entrance of the pits where the bayou was dumping bait into the pit with the current flowing in. The fish are in these pits because it's the deepest water around. The water's cold, so the deeper the better. On warm days, they'll move onto flats nearby to feed...but they won't stray far from the deep water, in case it gets cold again. It's really pretty simple. Oh, and fish S.L.O.W.L.Y!! The fish are not in their spring "fatten up" mode. They're just eating to live. They aren't as aggresive, and don't like to waste energy chasing food. They're just hanging out on or near the bottom, waiting for a morsel to be swept in front of their noses. So you cast upcurrent, and let the bait drop. As it's dropping, it's being "swept in front of their noses". Watch your line/keep slack out. We caught most of our fish the other day before we ever had a chance to even move the bait. They were hitting it on the fall. If you have slack line, or aren't paying attention, you won't know they hit it.

There's your winter marsh fishing lesson of the day.