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  1. I got over 20 emails from Tapatalk today. I keep trying to switch the email settings, but it doesn’t let me save the settings. I guess there must have been an update recently that changed my email settings.

  2. [mention=918]Mac8111[/mention] [mention=998]4th and 5[/mention]  Thanks for sharing, that Chandeleurs trip sounds like a dream trip to me.  Any idea if he does split charters?  Also, do y’all recommend a specific time of year for reds (I assume fall)?
    To everyone:  on a related note, I’m planning a separate trip to Venice or the surrounding area.  I recall that several posters have fished that area.  Any recs for guides, accommodations, when to go/not go, etc?  We want to target reds, if that matters.  TIA.



    I saw him at the Boat Show and he had a couple of different sign on charters dates. {split charters}. He has posted some of them on Facebook.

    I am not an expert on times of year. My personal choice was to try to avoid hurricane season. If I am taking that much time off work, I didn’t want it to be cancelled due to weather.




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  3. 5 hours ago, CoTex said:

    How does the chandeliers trip work ?  Stay on a houseboat and get ferried over from the mainland?

    I just did a 2- nighter in hopedale here http://www.southernwaycharters.com/dogwood-lodge-hopedale/

    it was pretty easy.  Hopedale is not much to speak of but fishing access was good. 

     

    We did the three day trip with DMJ Charters.   12 people on the boat.  (We rented the whole thing).   We got the marina that afternoon and loaded up our stuff onto the main boat.  (110 ft crew boat).  Then went and grabbed dinner at a restaurant.  (Some boats go out of Biloxi. Ours went out of Pass Christiansen). The boat departed around midnight.  When you woke up, breakfast was ready and you were parked at New Harbor Island, right across from Redfish Point.   


    The boat pulls 6 two person skiffs with them.   You pair up and off you go.  Fish as along as you want.  Most people hit it hard in the morning, come back and grab late lunch, relax a bit and then fish again that afternoon until dusk.   You do that for three straight days, then on Saturday evening, you cruise back towards the marina.  When you wake up, it is Sunday morning and you are at the dock and the fish are cleaned.  Grab your shit and head out. 

     

    All meals etc are included on the trip.  You just need to bring your own beer. 

     

    You need to bring all your own fishing equipment.  It is an all artificial trip.  You can either drift fish from the boat or wade fish.  Lots of wading the surf. 

     

    We would play poker at night.  Hang out.  Usually you are pretty tired from fishing all day. 

     

    DMJ runs a really good boat.  There are tons of pics on their website that gives you an idea of what to expect.  He will pull your own boat out there for free. 

     

    The three day trip with 12 people was $800 per person and we each threw in $150 for tip.  Very reasonable when you consider how many casts you get in. 

     

    Some really big fish out there.   There should be pics on the 2018 thread of our trip we did and I know 4th&5 posted his pics as well. 

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  4. We just talked about that this weekend actually.   I think we will probably shoot for 2020 to do Chandeleur again.    Going to Isla Mujeres in June and have some other trips I would like to do this year.   Definitely want to do a floating cabin down towards Baffin as well. 

  5. I think my wife is trying to win the 2019 award early in the season......

     

    Last week I was fighting with a cold/ crud that is going around.  Felt miserable.  On Friday night I tell her we are going to have a quickie because I am going out of town for the weekend and need to release the build up that was happening all week.   So I get on top and flop around, can't breathe through my nose, snot probably pouring down on her, and we do the deed.  Mission accomplished. 

     

    Fast forward to Sunday night when I get back into town, she is laying in bed and said she feels bad.  (Same thing as I had).  So I jokingly tell her that I am sorry I got her sick while humping her and she slowly looks at me and sheepishly asks " can you pass along a cold from having sex? Like when you came in me?" 

     

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  6. Agree on blue sunny days and the pressure being high. We fished POC this weekend and it was pretty blue skies. We fished from South Pass all the way past the wall at the airport strip on Matagorda island and many many points in between. One fucking bite in two days. One. It was an oversized red that ran under the boat four different times and was angry about being hooked. After I landed him, I told the old man that a lesser angler would have lost that fish. Nothing like talking a little trash on one fish, but if you ever fished with my dad you would understand.



  7. Question - do you have a particular favorite moon phase that you prefer to fish?   

     

    I know I always noticed around the full moon that the morning bite a little slower, possibly because the fish fed a little more than usual under the bright moon.  It would be spotty in the morning, catching a few stragglers,  and then the afternoon would pick up a little.   Anyone else have any wisdom to spout out?

  8. I FINALLY got to try the pepper jack boudin balls from Billy’s in Scott, LA.  I’ve always been strictly a Don’s, Best Stop and Sausage Link customer.
    These balls from Billy’s are a fucking game changer.


    Welcome to the family.


    Also - green onion sausage is a winner.
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