Speckled Trout Moving into Marshes!

[@TheTermite74]

Starting to see a few rat reds and some small trout around fourchon. It’s good to see some new fish coming back there. Fishing has been tough since the last hurricane.

[@marshpirate2924]

Thanks for the video.

[@lijahsandz]

Just was seeing em shallow busting the top of the water

[@anthonycyprusjr7829]

Hope ya enjoyed CCA NShore Banquet,meant to introduce myself to ya but missed the chance,unfortunately. Got a buddy destroying fine reds in Delacroix area and I think Lake P gonna be loaded up this Fall,if not already. Grass beds re-emerging and have seen/spooked bunch and one of my spots LOADED with white shrimp,so no doubt specks should follow🎣🐠🎩

[@joelmurphy3706]

red fish decline is a result of the ample amounts of bow fishing. Ponds that they would normally rest are getting shot up every night.

[@JohnSmith-kz1ll]

That's weird I'm in Texas and the marsh has been awful quite with reds definitely few and far between not what it was last year. But I have been tearing them up on rocks and oysters in the bay

[@anthonycyprusjr7829]

Just got reply from Lafitte fishing buddy. Said he caught over 10 juvenile reds yesterday might be nice omen PLUS wife and I went N to Jackson,MS and we musta squashed over 50 love bugs ALWAYS awesome sign,according to some VETERAN Lake P soft plastic experts 🐠🎣🛶🤪

[@daniel4753]

Where did you go out of? I got a yak and would love to start getting on the trout!

[@kendalcobb367]

Yep!!!! Time too get the pogie boats out of the gulf.

[@evanlanginais]

I believe it has to be the pogy boats. I remember seeing so many dead big reds, trout, jacks, basically anything wiped out behind them. That said I've had early great success at the point this year. Way more the normal. But it's not like the pogy boats can get into that bay.

[@RickyVargasIII]

The trout bite is on - in Leeville. Todd what specs for rod when you throw that Matrix Mullet?

[@RickyVargasIII]

Cool video thanks man!

[@MarshManMasson]

I like a 7-foot medium-light-powered rod with moderate action because I fish braid as my main line. If I were a mono guy, I'd probably go with medium power.

[@davidtyler7869]

Hey marsh man need some tips on some of the baits that I have

[@perrybaumann9416]

What is the reason the trout migrate into the marsh?

[@Deeznuts84356]

Food

[@josephlassiter1412]

Is there a way I can contact you in private about one of the reasons the red fish are gone?

[@tmprestenbach]

Marsh man, I see you had a white trolling motor and now a black one. Which color do you rather and why?

[@Antonio-jg4qb]

I caught two big reds on Sunday. Let both go. One was 34 and the other was 28.

[@alpoveda5738]

Hey Mr. Todd, you down in empire seeing the birds? Haven't seen much in biloxi marsh

[@pault5816]

The lady fish have been insane around the fourchon area. We had to fish on the bottom to catch any Trout. We did catch a few small redfish

[@Deeznuts84356]

Lady fish bad in Lafitte also.

[@Nolaman70]

I lost my tagging kit it flew out the boat on the hwy. I did get a few that were recaught. I enjoyed participating, I need to get another kit...

[@MarshManMasson]

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[@chuckmatses6803]

WAIT-transition? I thought it was about something else, eeeeesh.

[@dylanfournet6080]

It honestly seems like ever since the pogie boats started pushing their way in and becoming a real issue is when we started seeing a decline in all fish numbers. Thats the only thing that has changed at the same time we started seeing fish population decline. It hit specs first as they are more vulnerable being inshore - offshore in the same areas as these numb nuts running purse seines and also since pogie is more of their main diet. (more so than Reds and Bass) I think its now effecting Redfish/Bass because we now have more Specks forging on food deeper in the marsh where pogie boats cant reach. And not to mention all of the bull reds and specks that are caught in the nets and wasted. You can always tell when a pogie boat has ran an area by all the dead bull Redfish floating in that 3-4 square mile area and the filthy stinky water. There is a reason pogie boats are banned on the east coast and just about everywhere else.

[@dylanfournet6080]

nice episode tho!

[@Fishman1]

Nature cycles, it happened in the 80’s with redfish

[@farmassist6212]

gill netting was the primary cause

[@Fishman1]

@@farmassist6212 hill nets definitely had an effect but since hill nets have been removed , redfish have cycled up and down. Weather cycles, freeze, hurricanes and many other natural causes.

[@bigjspec]

The rod and reel person never hurt the # of saltwater fish. Guides Bow hunting every day will clear out an area. But nets of any kind is the main problem. Think about this only two states allow the pogy type operation where do U think they all work. Nets kill grass and bait which is live blood of fish #$

[@anthonycyprusjr7829]

Todd,Just taking short break from cutting grass and buddy of mine shot me four pics of four reds he nabbed in Delacroix Marsh,guess ya might try hitting dat Marsh🎩🐠🎣🛶😎