Yea.. I'll chime in...I've fished from SW pass to west of the Mermentau offshore...

I fish out of PI ALOT.. 15 miles So. of Rollover U will be in 47-50' of water.

I also know the farther west U go the deeper is gets faster. Verm. 119 which is 32 miles out PI you will be in 74' of wawa. I've stood on the bottom during Snap season while spearfishing there..

You don't know

Make sure you have actually looked at a chart before you defending this statement. Deeper west???
Wow.

Sailfish 25 miles outta Cameron???? Yea! And grizzly Adams had a beard!!!

Entirely believable. I know of one caught just SW of Ver119 while trolling along a grass line looking for dolphin. It was probably about a 10-15 lb fish. It hit a feather jig and by the time they realized it was a fish on top and not a wad of sargasso it was dead. The only picture we had was destroyed when Rita "washed" our camp at Acadiana Marina. This happened in the late 80's.

I've caught lots of times Mai in 30-40 of wawa right out of rollover under grass mats. A friend caught a 75-85# sail in 70' of water many yrs ago on a drift line at old Verm 101 out of PI.. Water was blue from a having a drought that summer.

The important thing that we can conclude from this thread is this:

- No one knows anything about the water depth along the LA coast
- No one knows anything about what species of fish can be caught in certain depths
- Everyone is lying about everything
- No one is lying about anything
- Everyone knows everything about all of these things as well

Good talk.

Congrats on the fish (and the story)!

I'm thinking the fish was caught 50+ miles out and brought in to 25 miles rehooked and released. They just let it free swim until the camera was up and rolling and then the fight was on. All of this was done because they knew it would make a good salty cajun thread for the weekend. That's just what I gather from all of the evidence.

clearly!

I've heard some whoppers in my day but this one tops em all. Especially comin from a Vidrine.

I have personally tagged 2 sails in one day on a color change (green to cleaner blue green) N of Vr 119. the first was taken on a tinsel duster that i was trying to catch fresh cut bait on to snapper fish with. I looked back in the spread and saw the bill swatting at the duster. Dropped back twice and the fish ate. Long run and lots of jumps on a Shimano TLD 20. Fish probably would not have been hooked had it not been spotted and dropped back to. The second fish was caught on a Callcutta soft plastic ballyhoo, also fed with a drop back after fish rose and swatted bait. I know of 4 other sails taken in this area over the last 20 years. Sails aren't like blues and do frequent shallower water. If you check tournament records, mrs Babette Odum caught sails regularly off the coast between Cameron and Vermilion Bay. Decent water and abundant bait make it happen. We had a sail checkout a slow trolled large hard tail last year near the Ouida Rocks in about 90' . Hard tail was too big for fish to eat, but he shadowed it long enough for us to,cast a ballyhoo, which landed too close and spooked the fish. Lots of opportunities on sails probably go unnoticed if it's not really calm and folks aren't watching baits closely. Most won't crash a trolled bait like a white or a blue. They eat when the bait is sinking after being dropped back more often than when the bait continues to be pulled. I've fished a lot out of Port Eads, Orange Beach and the deep areas of Vr, Sm and EI. I've been a part of catching quite a few blues, whites and sails. Whenever you are in clear water, green or blue, with lots of bait, you could run into a sail. We catch wahoo every year slow trolling for kings, why would anyone doubt there were sails in the same area? Congrats to the guys who caught the sail off Cameron. Hope it was released after the photos.