I Went Exploring, and Found What the Fish Wanted!

When viewed through different lenses, Forrest Gump was either the village idiot or an Einstein-level genius and erudite philosopher.
One of his most famous musings, of course, was about the surprising taste of a confection pulled randomly from a variety pack. You might pop in your mouth a luscious caramel coated in dark chocolate, and thoroughly enjoy every second the treat tantalizes your taste buds, or you could start looking for the nearest garbage can when you discover you've bitten into a gag-inducing chocolate-covered cherry.
Exploring the marsh is a lot like that, and that's why I can't ever get enough.
I always do map study at home before I venture into new areas, but I never really know what I'm going to find until I get there.
That was certainly the case this week (Feb. 8) when I ventured down to Hopedale out of one of the coolest places in all of South Louisiana, Paloma Lake. I went to a bayou that looked good to me on a map, and discovered it had far more depth than I expected, which is really a great problem to have, although it did cause me to change my strategy a bit.
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[@fishinwithferg6048]

Chocolate covered cherries are the best! I need to start reading the description more. I’ll have to watch forest gump from a whole new perspective now.

[@marshpirate2924]

Thanks for all the intel. I'm 7 weeks out from having my right knee replaced. You have kept chomping at the bit, with your fishing reports! Please keep up the great work!

[@billmoss5624]

👍😎✌
Thank you Todd.

[@LarryBoyfishing]

Nice drum on luers bro,I went last night lots of small trout 1 keeper, it was nice just to get on the water

[@gillisdanos9354]

I bought some Zimmer Swimmer worms and yesterday I went fishing and I caught some Reds , Bass, and Flounder all on the bait. I was impressed.

[@MarshManMasson]

Yeah, the fish absolutely love that thing

[@--dh--]

The fish seemed to want just about anything this week. Limiting reds on live shrimp in 30 minutes fishing shallow oyster lakes.

[@jerryraiford4563]

Is a launch available on Hopedale canal

[@dallaslassalle2190]

Todd, just wondering how often do you get a reply from anyone that has caught your tagged fish, and what is the normal distance traveled by inshore fish? Thank you for the video and your response.

[@MarshManMasson]

3% of speckled trout and 6% of redfish

[@farmassist6212]

@@MarshManMasson ...and distance traveled?

[@GiornoEugenio]

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