the Hammock
 

Vermillion bay was beautiful yesterday!! Water was slick!! And the hammock was hot. 30 boats all catching there share of specks! We got out there around 8. Should have been there earlier, but My quater lid popped off my igloo and mashed a guys windshield on hwy 90. How wonderful!! Well we ended up with 15 nice trout biggest 19" long 3 to 4lb I would say.

My buddies went out vbay yesterday. Like u, they didn't get out till 8am. They caught 15 specks, 15 white trout and 6 reds.

nice to hear good reports from the hammock, been a while since i heard that.

nice job

No wind today, nice temp......bet you coils load up today too!!! Thanks for the report

Day late
 

I launched my kayak at the park this morning around 9am. Quintana launch was competely full. Spotted about 15 boats in the cove when I drove up. By the time I got the yak in the water and paddled out nearly half were gone. water was low and not moving. fished plastics for a couple of hours without a fish. Saw one boat catch a big drum on shrimp and that was it. Did not see anyone catch a trout.
I fished the Delcambre canal a couple of days ago near the Hwy 14 bridge and caught some reds, freshwater cats and several huge drum(released).
Gonna try the Prien lake area tomorrow morning, should be good conditions.

When you talk about the Hammock
 

are you talking about the actual Hammock Lake that's only about 2 ft. deep, or are you referring to the general area on the other side of the Point where the nice camps are? Can't see too many people fishing Hammock Lake with water depths as shallow as it is.

When people refer to the hammock they are talking about the area on the bayside of the opening to hammock lake, including the marsh bank.

Ok
 

that makes more sense. I know I've trolled in the lake and have hit oyster shells with my trolling motor it's so shallow. Are they fishing by the newer opening to the west, or the original Eastern opening where Hammock Bayou comes out?

The shell reef that off the first point heading twards the hammock lake. It's shell and cypress stumps the reef. This reef is directly in line with that point. Hope this helps u out.

Look out tomorrow there will be 100 boats on this small reef. :smokin: Nice catch

Believe it's called
 

Dead Cypress Point or Dead Cypress Island...looks like it's the point between the opening of Hammock Bayou and the opening to Hammock Lake.

When I fished it I would generally fish from the point @ 29 42' 18.51"N;91 51'31.27"W
to the cut located at about 29 42'30.48"N;91 51'03.54"W... Good luck. You'll probably have to conver the GPS points before they'll work in your GPS

LOL, I would have given anything when I first started fishing to have some gps points. The bay is so tough to fish as it is and the people who fish it are so hush hush, I figured I'll help where I can.

I hear ya...I dont mind helping someone out,but people need to learn HOW to fish,not where, and be courteous. If I can throw my lure in your boat,your way too close. That is the main reason everyone is so hush hush is because the majority has no clue. If you have a trolling motor USE IT,or drift with the wind. Sorry had to vent a little. :smokin:

I feel you bro, that's why I don't fish for trout in the cove or weeks bay or the trashpile until Gun opens for Deer season, thins the crowds out a little. I'm at the point now where I would rather catch 5-10 reds and some flounder by myself than 100 trout with people casting 5 feet from my boat.

No doubt. There are plenty of other areas to fish if people would learn to find fish instead of piling up where the boats are at. Oh well thats just the nature of the beast in the bay.

Haven't been out in VB in ~2 years, but I'll give up a personal secret.

The platform (platform 89) @ N29.6937 W91.93257 is a bit unique. You'll have to go there and look at it versus the others to figure out why it's special. Good water and tide movement usually means plenty of trout. Me and 2 other guys pulled in 2 limits of specks in ~30 minutes one day before a storm ran us off.

There is also a hole of some sort right nearby @ N29.6943 W91.93385 that'll some times give up a huge black drum or bull red (mostly croakers and hardheads for me, anyway).

Now everyone knows my one and only true "VB Secret" :)