We offer complete full day and overnight fishing
excursions into the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Your adventure can take you as far as 80
miles from the end of the pass (close to a HUNDRED from the dock). You will go where the
fish are. Lucky for us, we are blessed with a vast area of great habitat from which to
choose. Typically, for our blue water quarry, we are fishing around many of the floating
oil/gas structures in the Mississippi Canyon...usually in 2500 to 5000 feet of water. Most
of our rig and wreck fishing occurs in much less water. 200-500 feet is a realistic depth
to target big grouper, snapper, cobia and amberjack.
Long Range Overnight
These trips typically leave the dock at 2:00 pm. Your first order of business will be to
secure some live bait. That is accomplished around one of the many stand-off buoys or
around local, medium ranged platforms close to the break in the Continental Shelf. Small
blue runners (tuna crack), threadfin herring, goggle eyes, scad, bar jacks and mullet are
all acceptable offerings. That accomplished, you will move to your first fishing location to set lines
out for the late afternoon/evening bite and fish through sunset. With the arrival of
nightfall, usually a move is in order, and you bounce out another 30 miles or so to a deep
water floater. Mars, Ursa, Devil's Tower, Horn Mountain, Nikika, Elph, Medussa and Ram
Powell are some of our favorites. This is where most of the best nighttime action occurs.
All the ambient light of these structures works to attract baitfish, squid, and other
small organisms. Of course this in turn, attracts bigger game fish and so on. The light
also works in the feeding fish's favor in that in creates a perfect scenario for them to
ambush the blinded bait from below, since they are silloetted so perfectly against the
light at the surface. This helps create the most amazing top-water fishing you can
imagine.
The overnight fishing finds us slow trolling live bait, casting poppers and Frenzy flying
fish at busting tunas, jigging glow diamond jigs for blackfin and bigeye tuna, kite
fishing live baits, trolling diving plugs and also chunking. We adapt all of these
techniques each night to develop the technique that they want...since as every serious
fisherman knows...it seems like they want something a little different each time.
Depending on the night action, you may choose to move into a better location for dawn or
simply relax until the action heats up with the arrival of the sun. Probabaly the single
best hour of fishing each day, and you will be positioned perfectly to capitalize with a
night's worth of expertise under your belt.
With mostly tired passengers and usually a full box of fish, your vessel will be headed
North, but your angling may not be over. One of the great
resources that we enjoy here in Louisiana is the abundance of oil/gas platforms. No matter
which route your captain chooses to take...he can't help but pass all kinds of rigs.
Firing down the remainer of your hard-earned live bait can produce great results.
Gag and warsaw grouper, red snapper and monster amberjacks all call these platforms home.
And they are usually willing takers.
The whole ordeal will have you back at the dock no later than
2:00 pm the following day. Your time can be divided up any way you choose and you may
tailor any one of these trips to suit your individual needs or requests.
PRICE
$2200 Plus Fuel
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504 723-0742
12 hour Blue Water and Rig/Wreck Our standard day trip has us leaving
the dock between 5:00 and 6:00 am (specified by your captain) and may entail several
different things depending on your target species of fish. For our usual customers, that
has us leaving the dock with good live bait on our minds. An early start
is usually an advantage since that gives us a jump on the rest of the fleet. With some
live bait at your disposal, your captain will head for productive waters which may lie
just 7 miles out (Fall mullet run fishing) all the way to about 60 miles which puts you in
up to 5000 feet of water. In any case, you will be in business with our cutting edge
tackle and techniques many of which we have developed ourselves.
You will arrive back at the dock around 6:00 but may be earlier or later dependeing on
specific circumstances.
PRICE
$1200 Plus Fuel
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