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Originally posted by Cajun Blake View PostOP was travelling on I-49 between Shreveport/Natchitoches where the speed limit is 75 mph. Must have been doing 85+ to get pulled over. I agree that many small towns (Olla, Pollock, Leeville, Venice, Golden Meadow, Port Sulphur, Buras, etc... ) you will get pulled over for 1 mile over the speed limit. Traffic fines support the budget.
The amount of said traffic fines are a freaking joke
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Originally posted by glen View PostMan that sucks. Today didn’t get any better. It is still time on the water. Venice can be magical but if it isn’t it isn’t at all. A lot of influence from the river
Venice is magical, no matter the catch. We were a week late, the river isn't up or anything like that. We were targeting yft behind shrimp boats and they just weren't there, the storm forced the boats to come in and there just weren't tuna behind them. Saturday was less than 1' seas, Sunday was 4-6' and we just couldn't do what we needed. We had a great time and I'm already planning my return trip. Venice offshore is easily twice as good as Texas.
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Venice offshore is easily twice as good as Texas.
It is there you can stack wahoo till the boat sinks and pick up 100 plus AJs that hit baits trolled for Wahoo. The bottom fishing has every darn tropical fish the Caribbean offers as well as our traditional Texas / Louisiana shelf coastal species. It also has the hated Lionfish.......which is now part of the scene there.
And I've never gone offshore out of Port Aransas without smoking a pile of fish - YET!
Not on the boat and skippers I'm sailing with.
We even scored Yellowfin in 15 ft seas running in an offshore gale at Perdido one year, Northern blew down on us about 200 miles South of Port Aransas with a solid fetch...seas went 12 - 15 and we fished, changing to troll put YFT in the box. Burnadell can recount that trip for us
The Venice mosquito fleet has that world dialed in better than the fleets here in Texas. And considering the run out to the Lump is relatively in range of most of the CC boats there, they can maximize what they have.
Here in Texas, you get a boat that can run 3 - 5 days offshore, 4,000 plus gallon fuel load with a hull around 90 - 125 ft long, Texas can deliver some serious solid options offshore. But here in Texas, the local fleet is not dialed into the 100 plus mile runs our scene requires to be consistent offshore. This is soon to change.......very soon.
Many here do not target the species we have and opt to play the top game and or 200ft shelf game literally exclusively. But there's a serious fishery from 600ft - off into the abyss that is simply magical here in Texas. And those trips require a 48 plus hour offshore presence to mix it well.
San Diego - as an example, just back from an 8 day long range trip off the Mexican Baja. Two solid days steaming to get on location 550 miles south along the Baja. 4 days on scene and another 2 days steaming back. Here........7 to 10 hours steaming and you cover everything from shelf to deep abyss. Floater options in the NW Gulf, holding in hyper deep waters, is consistent along our side of the GOM. And the swing of the shelf off Brownsville up to Matagorda Bay, from a bottom contour zone, it's feature rich. Many aren't tapping it and for that, we are sitting on an offshore gold mine.
There are a few in the planning stages to take Texas to that next level. More than a Day trip on a Center Console and way less than the San Diego long range experience.
Texas 2 - 5 day trips - max a catch quota - shift to the next species quota. And multi-day trips allow deeper catch quotas per person.Last edited by AtTheWall; 10-16-2018, 09:39 AM.
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