Specknreds
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We have had some great fishing despite being surrounded by oil. The area I'm fishing is still open to recreational and commercial fishing. It is extremely difficult keeping up with what areas are open. It changes daily depending on which way the wind blows. I've been stopped by the Coast Guard twice saying I was fishing an closed area. One time I checked the closures the night before and come to find out they closed the area at midnight. They made us dump our fish :evil: . The other time I tried to argue with them knowing I'm right. They were from the East Coast and didn't know how to read a chart, but I argued as far as I thought I could get away without going to jail. I along with a bunch of other guys filed complaints with the CG.
I have fished every day that I've had off for the last 4 weeks because we just don't know when it will be our last. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to fish Venice and Grand Isle again in my lifetime because they are covered in so much oil. I believe the oil is pushing the fish into the areas that do not have any oil yet. We have caught several hundred Specks each day. We only kept around 10 each day. I went through 3 packs of plastics last Sunday. It has been insane. I can't even turn on the news anymore due to the fear of this might end any moment.
This is an Gafftop Catfish.
Nice box shot of a few Specks and Reds we kept.
There is some really weird stuff going on. I caught this freshwater Blue Cat miles from the nearest freshwater.
A cool shot of a little cut dumping into the Gulf.
The boat ramp.
Some pictures of the oil clean up boats and efforts.
Oyster boat being paid by BP to deploy the yellow oil boom.
Boat decontamination area.
I have fished every day that I've had off for the last 4 weeks because we just don't know when it will be our last. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to fish Venice and Grand Isle again in my lifetime because they are covered in so much oil. I believe the oil is pushing the fish into the areas that do not have any oil yet. We have caught several hundred Specks each day. We only kept around 10 each day. I went through 3 packs of plastics last Sunday. It has been insane. I can't even turn on the news anymore due to the fear of this might end any moment.
This is an Gafftop Catfish.
Nice box shot of a few Specks and Reds we kept.
There is some really weird stuff going on. I caught this freshwater Blue Cat miles from the nearest freshwater.
A cool shot of a little cut dumping into the Gulf.
The boat ramp.
Some pictures of the oil clean up boats and efforts.
Oyster boat being paid by BP to deploy the yellow oil boom.
Boat decontamination area.