Bad Luck Specks
Report Date: August 24, 2002
ADVENTURE SOUTH GUIDE SERVICE-Buras/Empire/Venice---
It's been a while since my last report, and I can contribute this to several last minute cancellations. At any rate, I was back on the water on Friday and Yesterday. Friday I had Mr. Parker and his daughter Glenny from New Orleans, and their friend Howard from New York. We had some reports of some beautiful trout being caught at Breton Island earlier in the week, so we gave it a shot Friday morning. I should have known better. The full moon had just passed on Wednesday night and I figured it would make those fish move. Well, it did, and we did not even get a bite out there. I'm not saying that we would not have caught a few if we would have stayed around all day waiting them out, but who?s got time for that. There was hardly any bait, the water was off-colored, and I'm pretty sure that the bite would have been anything but fast if we had stayed, so off we scrambled. We headed toward Main Pass and found a few boats catching fish when we arrived, but just as we got set up, a fellow in an old tri-hull idled up to me, and in turn all the other boats anchored near by, and asked us if we had any spark plugs. The kicker was that after he asked the last boat, he just hammered down on the throttle and just about shut the bite off totally. Oh well, what are you going to do? After that I was behind the game and could never catch up. The tide was high in the passes. The bite had stopped at the rigs, and my goose was cooked. We ended the day with very few fish, barely enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket. Oh well, I've always been honest with my reports, and that is never going to change. You won't find any fictional reports with old pictures!
Yesterday I had Lyndi and Brian from Baton Rouge. We got an early start and proceeded to head out toward the rigs that some trout were caught on early Friday morning. As we ran down the passes, I got a call from another guide who was heading the same direction. He told me that he had caught fish on one of my favorite rigs Friday and that he was headed there. He suggested that we might want to go anchor up and hopefully, catch a few fish before the Saturday morning crowds arrived. I agreed, so we got to the spot and dropped anchor. Right off the bat Brian hooked and boated a nice trout and it looked like things were going to go as planned, at least until a jack-up boat arrived and proceeded to jack-up on the rig we were casting toward. This pushed the fish off of the rig and to the outside of our position. Bad thing was, that by that time there was already 5-6 other boats anchored up outside of me and the other guide, and I could not move to get positioned right. Boats right outside of us were catching trout, but we had a bad angle, and it was very tough to feel the bite. I refuse to sit on anchor and catch fish if my customers can't. I see guides doing it all of the time, and for the life of me, I can not understand why someone would pay to go on a guided fishing trip, only to watch the guide catch the majority of the fish! Oh well, I picked up anchor and quietly trolled out of the area, and in doing so, did not troll over the top of were the other boats were casting (HINT, HINT, HINT!!!) After this we bounced around catching a trout here, a trout there, until I decided to go in and fish for reds at around 11:30. I saw a baot catching small trout, but I decided to pass on these. We already had 6 reds in the boat, so it did not take long to boat the remaining 4 for their limit, and another 5 to make my limit. The fish were again smoking the Baby 1-. After filling the box, we headed in to the passes and tried a few spots, but we did not catch a thing. We headed in just before 1:00. Total for the day was 20 trout and 15 reds.
I'm heading out on an afternoon trip in a little while, and I will post tomorrow. If you want to go fishing with a guide service that prides itself on giving it's clients an outdoor adventure of a life time, give me a call at (504) 392-1700, or on my cell (504) 382-2711. You will catch fish with us and have a lot of fun doing it! The Redfish Roundup in the passes down river is on, and should continue through September. Don't miss the boat. Before you know it the fronts will start blowing through and you know what that means? Big Venice yellow mouths on the inside!!! I Guarantee Fish and Fun!!! Until Net Time, Catch Em' Up!!!
Don't miss Louisiana Outdoor Adventures tonight at 8:00 CST on the Outdoor Channel. There is some awesome top water action, and probably the best top water strike from a bull red caught on camera that you will ever see!!!
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