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!!!

Had Mr. Clarke Van Sickle and his wife Kaye down to Venice this morning. I spoke with Mr. Clarke yesterday and told him that they had their choice. Either we could go look for trout, or I could take them to go CATCH some reds. I hardly got the words out of my mouth before he responded, "Reds? We like to catch reds." That is all I needed to hear, so I got them to the dock this morning around 5:00 with the hope of beating the Saturday rush. As we headed down river from Venice in the pre-dawn darkness, I could tell that there was already some pretty ominous clouds building to the south, and I was hoping that we did not encounter any rain before we reached our destination. It's no fun running into a wall of rain in the dark!!!

When we got to our first stop, the wind direction was perfect so as to allow me to position the boat so that Mr. Clarke and Kaye could cast straight down wind off the bow. I did not even have the anchor set before Kaye hooked up with the first redfish of the morning. After that, it was ON!!! They filled their limit of 10 reds before any of the other boats who have been fishing in the area even made it down there and they caught and released upwards of 40 more in the same spot. No telling how many fish my crew could have pulled out of that spot, but another guide friend of mine was having a slow morning, so we moved out to let him and his clients have it. It did not take long for us to find some reds in another location, where we caught several before we decided to head in at around 10:30 ahead of what seemed to be the next big thunderstorm of the day. The only bad mark on the report card today was that I forgot my rain gear at home this morning and was soaked to the bone before the sun even got up over the horizon. Can you say Dummy?

For the second day in a row, it did not matter what we used. Deadly Dudley Terror Tails, Spot Removers, Stink Crickets, they all worked. If you want to get in on some of the best fishing in the world, give me a call at home (504) 392-1700, or on my cell (504) 382-2711. July is booking up fast, and you do not want to miss any of that hot topwater or night fishing action. With the river falling more and more every day, July should be awesome as usual in Venice. I Guarantee Fish and Fun!!!

And remember, when fishing with Adventure South Guide Service, you will catch your own fish. I will not catch them for you. Think about it. If you come in with 100 trout, and your guide caught 70 of them, how much fun is that for you and your party? Did you pay him to put you on the fish, or to watch him catch fish? Until Net Time, Catch Em' Up!!