Fishing Bayou style....
 

There's a lot of bad things about living in Louisiana, politics, crime, corruption. Then again there's a hell of a lot of Good things too, SAINTS football, inshore fishing and last but not least offshore fishing! Didn't get to use the V but 55 Mi offshore is to far from home fore my old gal.sept 26 trip. Final tally 11 tuna, 6 from 60-70 lbs, 5 20-25lbs, 3 dolphin, 2 bulls in the 30-35 lbs range one 350+ blue marlin we couldn't get to the boat after 1:30min fight that we just kept upping the drag till the 40lb line gave it up.

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you forgot to mention all the excellent food.
great report
"Sportsman's Paradise"

that is sweet, wow. I love louisiana

THAT IS SWEEEEEEEEET! Is that you about to be murdered by the knife-wielding thug?

Great trip and report! Even if it were closer all that meat might sink a V anyway!

Yeah thats me, Norman Bates is a old friend who decieded to ruin our picture,payback will be Hell.

Very nice!

how far you gotta run for that kinda fishin?

ya'll went out of Venice?

Roger out of Venice 55 Miles due South, Live bait at the rigs.

55 miles? sheeeeit! thats 75-90 miles for us up here.

I know :sad::sad: and from where i dock my boat is 120 mile run, i'm 40 miles north of Montauk.

In the late fall months and early spring months they come in to spawn on a sea mount called the midnight lumps(Sackett Bank), 19 miles out. My last trip to the lumps we started fishing at 7:30 by 11:30 we had 12 tuna, smallest at 100 lbs, largest at 158lbs. we stayed till 3:30 and added 23 blackfin. Louisiana is by far one of the premier Yellowfin fisheries in the world if you want a world class fishing trip w/out breaking the bank look into it.:nice:

It isn't that far away guys. look at a map and get over here. The Mississippi Delta built a landbridge almost to the edge of the continental shelf. Venice is about a 45 minute run from the open gulf down the Mississippi, but a V is plenty of boat to do it in reasonable weather. Been there and done that, it's on the opposite side of the state from me and worth the trip. If you get there and the weather sucks, there's almost always a lee shore with shallow rigs that hold more fish than most people can imagine. Venice is at the end of LA Hwy 23 and has everything you need on a fishing trip. It lost everything a few years ago in Hurricane Katrina but they're ready again. Just watch the speed limits on Hwy 23, the Plaquemines Parish cops run a tight ship.