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Capt. Jerry Fishing Report
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| Oil spill response - Friday, June 25, 2010Sorry it took so long to respond. On the way to get the boat, BP called and put me to work. I just got off a 10 day stretch and will be off for five to ten days, then I should be put back to work for another ten days. I don't know for sure as every day is a new day and they are making it up as they go. At any rate as long as there is hope for me assisting in the clean up/ prevention work I will stay in Venice and try to help.
The good news is that BP is doing a VERY GOOD job of trying to fix the mess. They have hired just about every boat in the area. Charter boats, air boats, shrimp boats, and flat boats, they have them all. The clean up/ prevention effort is VERY WELL organized and a tremendous amount of work is being done to try to minimize the effect of oil coming ashore. Booms are in place, booms that have washed up into the marsh during previous storms are being recovered and being redeployed into areas in need. Isolated pockets of oil that is washing up is being immediately cleaned up. Shrimpers acting as skimming vessels are doing there best to clean up pockets of oil before it ever hits the marsh. All in all I think BP and all of the workers should get a gold star. The day before I came home my team recovered seven shrimp boats full of boom and if I had to bet I would bet that it has already been redeployed. To bad the media wasn't around to video the effort that went into recovering all that boom. Our boat, four airboats, three flat boats full of workers that hit the beach and dug up the boom, and seven shrimp boats to haul it back to the dock where it was decontaminated, repaired and redeployed.
More good news is that the river is high and every pass in the Delta is blowing water out into the gulf, thus pushing the oil away from us. The bad news is that the river is dropping every day. In couple of weeks it will get low enough that we will begin to get tides again. The Delta will breath in and out every day and bring with it the oil.
As long as I am allowed to help I will stay and try to do my part.
Please continue to pray for us.
Capt Jerry |
| Pecan Island update - Sunday, May 30, 2010 Fished out of Pecan Island yesterday. INSANE!!!
Mangroves on every rig, the endangered Red Snapper also on every rig, loads of AJ and the sweetest thing of all are the number of Wahoo. I only had time left to pull 3 rigs out of a field of about 12 in 160 feet of water. We went 3 for five on Wahoo all of them around 70lbs
I think this place will be to Wahoo fishing what Venice is to Tuna fishing.
I am working on getting a fuel tank set up in the Marina until they get there's working and getting an ice distributor to set us up with our own ice box until the marina gets there's. I should secure one of the camps for people and captains tomorrow. Lots left to do but I hope to be running trips next weekend?
I'll try to call you soon and as soon as I get the pictures downloaded i will send them to you.
I forgot to mention that the first drop I made to see what kind of Snapper they had I caught a 50 lb Warsaw!!
I hope they don't extend the no-fish zones because I think we can do very well here.
God bless!
Capt Jerry Allen
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| Fishing report - Thursday, May 20, 2010What a crazy week!! Started off in the middle of last week with several trips to run and most of the spots that we like to go were open for fishing,but as the week grew on the Feds continued to expand the "no fish" zones. By the first part of this week those "no fish" zones had expanded to the point that 100% of the areas we like to fish were "off limits". The really sad thing is that the fishing was RIDICULOUSLY GOOD. The Tuna where all over the place and hungry. The chicken Dolphin where all over the place, and we ran into a nice school of Bull Dolphin that was interrupted by about a 300lb Blue Marlin which we hooked and had on for a few minutes un till he landed on the 60 lb Flouro leader. The craziest thing about the ever expanding "no fish" zones appear to be moving South and Southwest, and there is no oil in site!!! We would run through a little tiny bit from 3-7 miles out of South Pass and never see a hint of it again. The Satellite images Show the oil to still be off to the East and what little movement I am seeing is East and North East.
Our plans are to stay AND FISH IN VENICE, at least for now. Green Canyon is still wide open, and there are 3 spots just West of Innovator,the furthest spot that is in the closed zone. I think we will need to plan on primarily run 24 hour trips, leaving about 2:00- 3:00 in the afternoon and returning the following day. This would allow us to get bait on the way and be in Green Canyon for the evening and early night bite, both of which hasto be witnessed to believe. The morning bite is equally impressive.
I thought about moving to Cocodrie, as we would have access to Cobia, Grouper, Snapper as well as have about an equal distance to Tuna land as we would have out of Venice. I spoke with the owner of the Marina in Cocodie and he told me that BP had taken over the Marina, Restraunt and lodging facility's
The only other option is Pecan Island, and I am still working on that for the inshore species, but with the TOTAL LACK of infrastructure I just don't really seeing that happening, but there is still hope.
From Venice we still have Lodging even if we have to resort to putting everyone in my camp and we still have a place to get food and fuel, and if your brave enough to make the run to the canyon you will NEVER forget it. It should be illegal!!!
Keep praying that they plug the hole.
As a side note I was digging through the Bible the other night and came across the 16 chapter of Revelation. It said something about "the second angel poured its bowl out on the sea and it turned red like that of a dead man and every living thing in it died."
God bless!
Capt Jerry Allen
Poco Loco Charters
PS
Hunter Graduates from High School this weekend and at the end of summer he'll be going to Baylor!!
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| Oil spill in the Gulf - Tuesday, May 11, 2010I am sure everyone is aware of the oil spill in the Gulf, but what you may not be aware of is that the Tuna fishing is INSANE!! The Feds closed fishing on the East side of the river, but we can still fish out South and Southwest and it seems that there are Tuna everywhere and they are eating everything. Poppers, live bait and there newest bait of choice the man of war fish.
Everything in Venice is as usual except for about a hundred media people that are hanging around hoping to get a shot of an oil soaked bird. Other than that you really can't tell that there is a problem in the Gulf. No odor, no sign of oil. I don't know if the Feds will ever decide to shut us down South or Southwest, but un till then we are still running and praying that BP will fix the problem
I had the good fortune to run a few trips last week and really can't ever remember a time when the fishing was better. It wasn't just that we had the "hot hand" as every other Captain that had the good fortune of making it out did equally as well. Captain Eddy picked up nine Yellowfin one day and Capt Michael and Captain Peace both had twelve on another day.
This oil spill is really a bad deal, but sitting around worrying about it wont fix a thing. The fact is that the fishing is as good as it can get, and it seems to me that you really should get in on isomer of it while you can! If you want to get in on the action, give me a call.
Thanks and God bless!
Captain Jerry
Poco Loco Charters
409-651-0765
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| Spring is here! - Thursday, April 22, 2010Spring has sprung!!
What a way for spring to start off! The tuna seem to everywhere. It doesn't seem to matter which direction you run or how far you run there are Tuna EVERYWHERE! The fish are only 30-50lbs, but lots of them. Most of them are being taken on TOP WATER baits. Gotta love that!
Grouper season opened a couple of weeks ago, and if you can get through all the endangered Red Snapper there are plenty of Scamps to be had along with a few Gags and the occasional Warsaw. A friend of mine went bottom fishing opening weekend and had to release a 30lb plus Red Snapper. They don't know the exact weight because it bottomed out the 30 pound scale they had on board!
There is already a nice rip forming up out to the west that is full of little flying fish so the big bull Dolphin can't be too far away. Capt Beach already caught two Blue Marlin and the good news just keeps rolling in!!!
Snapper season is set to open June first, but it looks like they may close it mid July if you can believe that.
Spring is here and before we can blink this summer will be gone. If you haven't already claimed your spot on the Poco Loco hurry up and do so.
I have a few open days coming up that may be of interest. Friday April 30th and Sunday May 2nd. Let me know if you want a ride.
Capt Jerry
Poco Loco Charters
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| Fishing Reports from 03/22/2010 - Monday, March 22, 2010
The good news is that the Tuna showed up last week with a vengeance!! One of the guys made it to the new spot Tuesday and was rewarded with 7 Yellowfin! Thursday some of the boats made it out in really nasty seas but still got the Tuna. Friday was the day. Warm flat calm waters brought lots of Tuna. Peace had the best day with 7 Yellows…. one weighing as much as 190lbs. The other boats had 3 to 5 Yellows weighing in at 100 -150lbs. The high point of this report is a 731 lb. catch of the day by that James Peters. Good job James!!
The bad news came Saturday with a different story. With a powerful cold front on its way dropped the pressure and drove the Tuna to vacate the area. Josh Howard had the only Yellowfin of the day. A couple more pulled hooks and broke off 150lb at the side of the boat as the first bait was sent down. On a better note, we still had none-stop action with Kings and Bonita.
My crew finally realized that the tuna had no plans to show up and decided to make the best of things, so they got the spinning rods out and started throwing poppers. The Kings really put on a show!! Some of them were coming out of the water 20 feet!
We stopped on the way back home and grabbed our Amberjacks and went back to the house
I think that the Tuna will turn back our way once we get some warm weather and higher pressure for a few consecutive days.
The Tuna fishing is still hit or miss but if you hit it on the right day you'll be VERY GLAD you were there!
I forgot to mention that there was a 798 lb. Mako weighed in on Saturday. Sunday due to high 30 knot winds we decided not to fish.
I have this Friday and Sunday open if anyone wants to give it a try.
God bless!
Capt Jerry |
| Good News Bad News - Friday, March 05, 2010Good news and bad news.
The good news is that the Tuna finally showed up again. The bad news? Well after 2 weeks of nonexistent Tuna action and weather reports that looked like we would get our head handed to us… I canceled trips for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You guessed it, the weather was good and the fishing was even better!! The Tuna weren't there in big numbers but the ones that showed had BIG NUMBERS when they weighed in. Most of the fish were 150lbs. and up. A few were over 200lb. The Wahoo finally showed up as well, as a matter of fact they showed up in pretty good numbers. I guess that's what I get for trying to be straight with my people… Guess I should have just let everyone come on down like planned…..cause the fishing was great… but NOT!! I just can't do that to my customers. One group was coming from Tennessee and the other a bunch good guys from Mississippi, both groups fish with me every year.
Oh well, some days your the bug, some day’s your the windshield.
It looks like the feds have finally settled on the opening day of Snapper season and wait for it …..wait for it….the big day is June 1st. If you don't know, Poco Loco Charters has the hard to get and insanely expensive reef permits. Yes!! I am so ready. So claim your dates NOW!!!
The winter Tuna bite should remain good through the end of March so if you have the "itch" give me a call or drop me a line.
I wish you all the best of luck on the waters, be safe and God bless!
Capt. Jerry Allen
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