Latest / Sac-A-Lait Talk / LOUISIANA MARSH SAC-A-LAIT SECRETS with GLYNN PRESTENBACH
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- speaker-0: Welcome back to Sackle Talk, and it's time for our slab bite segment. Today we are talking to a man who knows exactly how to make every single minute on the water count. He is a die-hard Sakalay technician, a true master of the weekend grind, and a guy who consistently puts heavy slabs in the ice chests. Please welcome to the show Ben Prestonbach. Lynn, welcome to Sakole Talk. speaker-1: Thanks for having me. Dwayne. speaker-0: yes. Thanks thanks for joining the show and giving our listeners some insight and and sharing your expertise. speaker-1: Okay, no crowd. speaker-0: Mr Glenn, if you're ready, man, we're locked and loaded tonight, okay? So let's get started. speaker-1: All right, we're ready. speaker-0: All right. Hey, Mr. Glenn, first of all, tell us the backstory of Glenn's Rod and Reel Repair and what services you offer. speaker-1: Okay, I've been working on real since I'm a kid. But I went in business in nineteen ninety-three, kind of a part-time deal. And my wife got interested in and she does just as much repairs and things as I do. She runs the show. But I was doing it part time till I retired. Now I'm in it full time. It's 33 years we're in it now. We the Lose, ZEPCO, Quantum, Warranty Center for Louisiana, Mississippi, Shimano Service Plus, Okuma. Just about all the major brands we can work on. We also do ride repair. I do some custom bills, but not I don't do a lot of custom bills anymore. Mostly soccer rods if I do bills. But give me something to do since I'm retired. speaker-0: Okay. Y you you also do jigs, right? Don't you love speaker-1: I do I do hair jigs, I pour lead head jigs, I pour a lot of my own crappie baits, plastics. Kinda kinda got into everything, you know. Okay. I like pouring my own plastics because I can I can get the colors I want. speaker-0: Right, 'cause a a lot of times, especially if you go to a big box store, you I mean, you go there and and they don't have the colors you're looking for. speaker-1: Right, right. You know, I can do a lot of colors. I'm into the the hollow shifts and all the micro shifts stuff and all in the baits and getting two and three colors in the baits. It makes it fun catching things on what you build. speaker-0: Right. It makes it I I imagine it makes it that much more re rewarding. speaker-1: yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Porn baits does get a little expensive. The moles are high. You know, everything you do is high to do. But I I put a few in the shop here to sell. I don't I don't go in the internet and sell. I just hang some in the shop and sell speaker-0: Okay. All right. Mr Glenn, where are your your primary home waters that that you fish? speaker-1: by a black, by the large, you know, the the marsh. I do fish the basin some in the summer. fish a little bit of Lake Verette, not a lot, but whatever, you know. But that salt water intrusion starting to get us pretty bad down here. Right. In the more. Yeah. But we can still get out there and find them. speaker-0: Okay. Mr. Glenn, what is your favorite technique for catching Sakhalai? How how often you like to fish speaker-1: I mostly fish a 6'6 spinning rod. We like casting for them. And I do have some jigging rods that I made. They're not real long. They're seven foot, four inches long. And they're a stiff rod. Kind of built like the fly rods people fish, but just a little bit shorter, a little bit stiffer. We like fishing those in the spring in the spawn. Okay. speaker-0: All right. Hey, Mr. Glenn, if you can only tie one single jig colour for the rest of the year in in the Louisiana Marsh, what are you picking and why is it superior? speaker-1: Like the black and saw truce in the marsh. It's always did me right. You know, it's a good jig it's a good jig call in the bars. speaker-0: That's the That's speaker-1: Blue and white, blue and white. speaker-0: your go to color? speaker-1: Right. That's my go to color. speaker-0: So Charseus in black and blue and white? speaker-1: Blue and white or even the the cage and cricket. I like the cage and cricket. speaker-0: Think okay. You s you c it's hard to go wrong with those three colors. speaker-1: Right, right. A lot of people talk about when you fish colors. I fish those three colors, sunshine, dark, whatever. That's my three favorite. speaker-0: Right. Does it doesn't matter. speaker-1: Right. One thirty second ounce, one sixteenth ounce jig. I do have some one twenty four. speaker-0: Yeah. But one thirty second and one sixteenth that those are you your two main go to's as far as correct jig weight. speaker-1: Correct underneath a floating underneath a little cork. Sometime I use a slip cork, sometime yeah. Sometime I just use a pig cork. speaker-0: Okay. Do you do you use a slip cork certain times of year or what what determines whether you use a a peg cart or a a j a slipcork? speaker-1: Use a slip cork right before the spawn when they kinda in the middle of the canals. I use a slip cork to be able to get down a little deeper. And then a peg cork in the spawn up against the banks. speaker-0: Okay. Mr Glenn, what kind of water movement or river stages are you looking for right now t to ensure a productive day on the water? speaker-1: As long as I've got a outgoing tide down here in the moorsh I do better. I don't like a incoming tide. I just yeah, outgoing tide. speaker-0: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of my other speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: that was one of my other questions I was gonna ask you about the marsh the tide. But you you answered that one for me. Great. speaker-1: Yeah. Like down, go inside. speaker-0: Okay. So you like the outgoing tide. Okay. Right. What what is your process for tracking down Sakalay in the fall transition? speaker-1: I've got a live scope on my boat. I just just keep moving and casting and looking for them until I find them. speaker-0: You just you just keep on chasing speaker-1: That's it. Just keep chasing them. speaker-0: With that live scope. speaker-1: Right. Now a lot of time I don't even turn the live scope on, you know, the marsh. It just depends if I if I can find them pretty quick, old school, that's what I do. speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask you. so how how heavily do you depend on live scope and do you still keep old school tactics in your back pocket? speaker-1: keep a lot of old school tactics. You know, I learned from a lot of old guys, a lot of them are gone now, but you find your p nice grass bed or something in the middle of the canal, summertime, that's where I like to fish speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: My best time to fish is the summer. I run to the summer. Milling of the summer. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: Okay. I go find me a nice grass bed and I'll get on and they normally they pile up and I'll speaker-0: You get on early before it gets too hot, right? speaker-1: yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've got a camp in the morse. We'll go out in the morning, fish, and then we'll go to the camp and then when it cools off we'll fish in the afternoon. speaker-0: That's yeah, that's the way to do it. Yes. Yeah. speaker-1: Yeah. And where we make the full day. speaker-0: Hey, Mr. Glenn, when you're on a stubborn bike, what is your go to jig profile and headweight to get down to the strike zone effectively? speaker-1: One sixteenth. and normally I put a little split shot right above that one sixteenth jig to get down. Of course, you're not fishing a lot of deep water down here. speaker-0: Right, in the mouth in the marsh, right? speaker-1: And the bars, correct. speaker-0: It's a lot of shallow water, right? Right. Let me ask you this. how how many inches above your jig are you putting that split shot that little split shot? speaker-1: About four inches. speaker-0: About four inches. Okay. speaker-1: Right, about four inches above the jig. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: Just just a little BB split shot. speaker-0: Right. speaker-1: And I also fish a little spinner, a little one sixteenth spinner. And I put the little jig and I put the little split shot right on front that spinner and it works good. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: Just to help bring it down a little bit. speaker-0: Yeah, to get it to get it down there into the strike zone. Right. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: I think you had answered part of this question, but I'm gonna go ahead and ask it again, because you may be able to add to it, okay? Are you finding are you finding that a slow, steady cast and retrieve method is triggering more thumps right now? Or do you park them right in front of them and tight line vertically to get them to bite? speaker-1: Don't hardly tight line at all. We we we mostly fish with a cork. speaker-0: Okay. Pitching. speaker-1: The little spinner. Right. Or the little spinning. I like throwing the little spin in the fall. And speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: just slow roll it. speaker-0: A slow, slow rest a slow retrieve. speaker-1: Thank you for you, yeah. speaker-0: And if you think you're going too slow, slow it even some more. Yeah. speaker-1: Yep, slow slow it down. Yeah. Live scope will tell you what to do with it a lot of times. speaker-0: Right. Hey, mister Glenn. For Anglers transitioning from a deep reservoir or the Chaffla Basin to the coast of Marsh, what is the biggest mindset shift required to successfully locate Sakala? speaker-1: I would say just work the banks real slow and work the grass beds. You can find grass scattered grass beds in the middle of the canal, work the grass beds. speaker-0: Okay. So just work the bank slow and work the grass beds. speaker-1: Or the grass beds, yep. speaker-0: Just just pitching a cart. speaker-1: Did you cork or a little spinner? speaker-0: Okay. All right. Hey, Mr. Glenn, as we head deeper into the fall months, how does the shifting base population in the marsh alter your bait selection and the speed of your retrieval? speaker-1: It doesn't really. I kind of fish it the same way in the summer or the fall, you know. Just slow roll those little spinner baits and fish under a cart. speaker-0: Okay. Hey Mr. Glenn, the Louisiana Marsh offers very little wind protection. When a heavy front blows through and stirs up the shallow ponds, what is your gang plan to find clean, fishable water? speaker-1: Find it find the canals with the willow trees on it that doesn't have a lot of wind blowing. And find the the canals that are kind of sideways to the wind, that the wind end coming straight down the canals is what I do. But I like fishing the canals that still got willow trees on them. That blocks a lot of the wind. And there's still enough of down here you can do it, you know, the way these canals are cut. Right. speaker-0: Hey, Mr. Glenn, because the marsh water is typically shallow, are you scaling down to a one thirty second ounce for a slower fall rate? Or are you staying with a one sixteenth to punch through the surface vegetation? speaker-1: No, I like the one thirty second. That's my main that's my main gig weight, the one thirty second. speaker-0: That's your go to size, the one thirty second. speaker-1: 130 seconds. I like 130 or the 124th. If I'm gonna go to 130 seconds, then I go to 124th next before I go to the 116. But normally what I do if I get on the grass beds, I fish the pockets in the grass beds. I don't try and punch through the grass, I just find little pockets cast into the pockets. speaker-0: Hey mister Glenn, what is the ultimate rule of thumb you can give listeners to instantly determine if a marsh by you is holding a school of sacklay or it's time to fire up the big motor and move on? speaker-1: I would say give it about fifteen, twenty minutes working the banks of the grass beds. If you don't find anything, get out of there. That's speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: that's what I do. I'll get in if if they got a grass bed, we'll work it. If we don't get bites pretty quick, we leave, go somewhere else. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: I also fish the points in the in the summer. Grass beds on points. speaker-0: Okay, Mr. Glenn, this last question before I I get you out of here, okay? How heavily do you rely on scent or tipping your jigs with crappy trailers to get that extra bike? speaker-1: 50 50. A lot of times I yeah, a lot of times I'll put scent in my big bags. You know, if I got a little ziploc with some, I'll put I'll put I've got some with scent, some without scent. A lot of times that scent works now. It'll work. speaker-0: Right. speaker-1: Not like the garlic or the crawfish. Garlic is my main two my main one. speaker-0: Garlic. speaker-1: Yeah. Now a lot of people don't know, probably don't remember this. You remember the dipping jug? speaker-0: Yeah, yeah. speaker-1: I got one. That's speaker-0: Still use it. Okay. You still use it? Awesome. Mr. Glenn, where can the Sakala Talk community follow you and stay updated on your latest catches and adventures? speaker-1: I've got my Facebook page on the Glend Ryan Real Repair. Also I've got a a website under Glendron Real Repair, Instagram or TikTok. speaker-0: Okay. Well, Mr. Glenn, I can't thank you enough, man, for joining us and giving us a a few minutes and sharing your insights and your expertise on the marsh. speaker-1: Okay, I appreciate you having. speaker-0: Yeah, no problem. I I I told you last question, but I I got one more. do you chase the Sacklade in the wintertime too, or when do you normally chase them still? speaker-1: When the hunting season if I'm at my camp in the hunting season I chase d mostly the whole winter. But my f my favorite place, my favorite time is s is February, end of January, February. speaker-0: Okay. All right. Why is that your your your favorite time to to chase the the sack? speaker-1: You know, Janing Star Yeah, the spawning. I love catching him on the sp in the spawn. speaker-0: In the spawn, okay. Right. speaker-1: Yeah, you can leave the live scope alone in the spawn. speaker-0: Just turn it off. speaker-1: How do you put it in the water? speaker-0: Well, mister Mr. Glenn, I it's been a pleasure, man. Let's let's do this again. I'd love to get some fishing reports from you. speaker-1: Okay, no problem. Anytime just give me a call. Just give me a holler. speaker-0: Okay. I'll talk to you later. Goodbye. speaker-1: All right. speaker-0: And that wraps up today's Slab Bite segment right here on Sacole Talk. A huge shout out to Glenn Prestonbach for jumping on the show and sharing his weekend game plan. To all our listeners out there, thank you for tuning in. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Leave us a five-star review and share this episode with your favorite fishing partner. Until next time, keep your lines tight. Look for that thump. And we'll catch you next week on Sackellite Talk. speaker-1: Secrets grow the bayous whispers on the wild ones now with an alligator grin and a copper steel bride We're chasing dreams in the Bayou file It's got its own hill. A song of the bow, the brave and the grim. Every drop of shine tells a tale untold of hands that bled and hearts turn gold.