The Gulf off Louisiana is not dead in fact we both proved it quite the contrary over the weekend..Thanks to a great effort by Chad Pedley to dial my cell phone 75 times Friday night we were able to get back on the water for the first time since dodging Katrina..The Journey started Thursday morning when Jerry Travis and I brought the 36 Twin Vee to Lizard Creek Boatyard in Springfield from its hurricaine hole on the Tickfaw..the Balancing Act and Megabites are still stranded in the Tchefuncte River were they will remain until the waterways in and more importantly, around New Orleans open..anyway..the journey brought us through the Blood River and into the access cut to which we had to dodge, dip, duck and well, dodge a barrage of fallen pine trees in a canal no wider than the boat itself..From there we loaded the boat onto a flat bed trailer and trucked the boat to Dulac the next morining..had to wait on DOT permits since that sucker takes up an entire lane..it was an altogether other adventure dodging power lines on Rte 22 and it made for some close calls..Anyway it was a real blessing to get out Saturday and thanks to Eric Pellegrin I was able to find my way into the Gulf..saw plenty of debris on the way to the grounds, these included docks, houses, trees, pilings, channle markers, coolers, life rings (MP 283), duck blinds, marsh grass, rosseau cane clumps, dead cows and bloated alligators,,made the long run to the tuna grounds finding 7 yellowfin, 4 of which made the cut the largest and first and most significant fish of the trip, a 60 pounder...that fish meant alot..and boy did I appreciate it.. after about 2 hours into the tuna fishing portion of the trip we decided to bail in search of bottom fish (up to this point it had taken 3 hours to reach familiar territory)..first stop added a limit of AJ's and even the one's we missed were not taken for granted..last stop yielded the fastest 5 man limit of red snapper of the season..something about the storms that gangs them up..seemed like every fish that was run out of west delta was clouded up on the bottom and hungry too..we started out using live pearl jacks before switching to dead sardines though we probably could have nailed them on artificials..most fish were the eating size variety although we never had to think about measuring any of them..I imagine there were some big ones down there as well..using 40 pound line cost us some fish..although this stop was primarliy a grouper stop, it only yielded one decent gag..made it home about 6pm in time to make it home to a still dark home in Madisonville..was worth all the sweat and effort although we count ourselves very lucky for the opportunity, actually blessed is a better word!..Until the next adventure, we are ready willing and able for those with the resolve and means..have plenty of availability since 80% of our trips were cancelled this month..the best way to contact is email although we have an Alanta cell phone number until we get power and phone service at home..404-446-8556 is always on.. this fish is the first one since evacuating..feels so good to be back at the Dexter Lake Club!!!
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09-12-2005, 02:10 PM
WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS!!!
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