What a crazy week!! Started off in the middle of last week
with several trips to run and most of the spots that we like to
go to were open for fishing, but as the week grew on the Feds
continued to expand the fish zones. By the first part of this week those fish
zones had expanded to the point that 100% of the areas we like to fish were. The
really sad thing is that the fishing was RIDICULOUSLY GOOD. The Tuna where all
over the place and hungry. The chicken Dolphin where all over the place, and we
ran into a nice school of Bull Dolphin that was interrupted by about a 300lb
Blue Marlin which we hooked and had on for a few minutes un till he landed on
the 60 lb Flouro leader. The craziest thing about the ever expanding fish zones
appear to be moving South and Southwest, and there is no oil in site!!! We would
run through a little tiny bit from 3-7 miles out of South Pass and never see a
hint of it again. The Satellite images Show the oil to still be off to the East
and what little movement I am seeing is East and North East.
Our plans are to stay AND FISH IN VENICE, at least for now.
Green Canyon is still wide open, and there are 3 spots just West of Innovator,
the furthest spot that is in the closed zone. I think we will need to plan on
primarily run 24 hour trips, leaving about 2:00- 3:00 in the afternoon and
returning the following day. This would allow us to get bait on the way and be
in Green Canyon for the evening and early night bite, both of which has to be
witnessed to believe. The morning bite is equally impressive.
I thought about moving to Cocodrie, as we would have access
to Cobia, Grouper, Snapper as well as have about an equal distance to Tuna land
as we would have out of Venice. I spoke with the owner of the Marina in Cocodie
and he told me that BP had taken over the Marina, Restaurant and lodging
facility's.
The only other option is Pecan Island, and I am still working
on that for the inshore species, but with the TOTAL LACK of infrastructure I
just don't really seeing that happening, but there is still hope.
From Venice we still have Lodging even if we have to resort
to putting everyone in my camp and we still have a place to get food and fuel,
and if you’re brave enough to make the run to the canyon you will NEVER forget
it. It should be illegal!!!
Keep praying that they plug the hole.
As a side note I was digging through the Bible the other
night and came across the 16 chapter of Revelation. It said something about the
“second angel poured its bowl out on the sea and it turned red like that of a
dead man and every living thing in it died.
God bless!
Capt Jerry Allen
PS
Hunter Graduates from High School this weekend and at the end
of Summer he'll be going to Baylor
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