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Anyone going out to vermillion Bay tomorrow? Ill prolly be heading out there in the mernin.

I think calcutta37 headin out Sunday in the new Everglades. Hey Speck-chaser you going fish around the cove or trashpile ect?

I know they have been catching a few in the bay at the usual spots. Have not been paying attention to wind or tides, but it should be salty.

I went for a lil while today,but Ill prolly be heading out farther tom. if the wind isnt bad like today

yea we are going sunday to ride around try out the new prop. probably go offshore check out the waves. etc.

Ten 4 let's us no how u do

Went to the bay today and it was rough. We caught two really nice specks and a couple undersized reds. Anytime now it should turn on.

Hhey guys caught some realy nice reds in fearman lake thursday fishin the banks from bayou bob back to the cutoff,,,good place to fish if the wind is kickin ....high tide starting to go out. I dont fish on weekends .

They had some guys next to us catch about 7 or 8 specks with live shrimp. They left in a hurry for some reason.

we went to hog bayou this afternoon caught 3 nice reds. caught a bunch of rat reds and a few croker. all caught on shrimp with a cork. winds were high.

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Caught 3 reds over 19 inches today near Weeks Island. All on shrimp. Two on bottom 1 under cork. Caught ton of croakers

That is 3 pretty redfish...nice color to them...

caught alot of wind and "sails" today and a few reds. Really got hammered in the pass and the outside, shoulda went inside today.

Not bad,going to hit it in the morning...probably weeks bay area.

Great catch guys......

Sunday 9/19
 

Caught 2 reds near Weeks Island. wind picked up so we picked up the boat and drove to Delcambre went to lake Peigneur caught a 18" drum. Two other boats caught a couple of reds in the lake also.

How is Lake Peigneur? ive heard some decent reports from there and have been wanting to check it out..its only about 20 min from my house. do the yellow mouths ever go that far inshore?

You can catch reds and some nice cats in the lake but you won't catch specks in the lake.

I have caught trout many times in the lake,around october on a slow outgoing tide,water has to be salty in the bay for a while before some decent water will get in the lake.

Yes, if everything aligns just right you can catch some in the lake but I was talking about right now you won't catch any. Just don't want him to get confused by our mixed reports :spineyes:.

What part of the lake is productive? I know they got a spot that drops off over 100 foot,but never fished in there.

That's where the old salt mine collapsed. There's whole barges in that hole.

I figured that...people fish in that deep hole?

Not really man, it's wayyyy too deep.

my depth finder goes to 800' and that hole is deeper than that.

I foind the area around the hole from 4 to 20' is the best.

Really? Thats crazy.... I know it got deep where the salt mine blew up but did not think it was THAT deep :eek: I was watching a tv show about it a while back and they were saying that the whole canal and vermillion bay was flowing backwards. !

I believe people were working a little more than 1500 ft down in the salt mine.

It happened at shift change, so there were no people in the mine when it got flooded. Two people that worked for me a few years later.....had been working in the mine on the day shift.

I think max depth was more like 1100 or 1200 feet. It gets hotter the deep the shafts are dug. I have been down to ~ 900 feet in a salt mine, and it was fairly hot.

Texaco was drilling a well. Either the rig was in the wrong place or the mine shaft was not where they thought it was located. When the well drilled into the mine shaft......all hell broke loose.

Yes, the canal flow backwards for many hours. Several barges were sucked down into the mind. When the mine finally filled up.....some of the barges "floated" back up. I think 2 barges never came back up.

That is wrong information, there were people in the mine when it started flooding but everyone was able to get out. My mom's uncle was working there but was off the week that it happened.

Also, the lowest level of the mine was right around 1,500 ft., the second to lowest level was at around 1,300 ft.

Here are a couple links with some really good information about the incident.

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_...Louisiana.html

Did neither of you see Ryan's post?

get em Tim .... lol

I'm gonna go somewhere Friday afternoon... Should I drive all the way to big lake or do y'all think the bay will be good?

Sorry Mr Timmy, I thought I posted a different video. It'll never happen again Dinkie :p

That's right!!! Keeping y'all in line!!

Pasted from www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom


As the whirlpool was forming on the surface, Junius Gaddison, an electrician working in the salt mines below, heard a loud, strange noise coming down the corridor. Soon he discovered the sound’s source, which was rushing downhill towards him: fuel drums banging together as they were carried along the shaft by a knee-deep stream of muddy water. He quickly called in the alarm, and the mine’s lights were flashed three times to signal its immediate evacuation. Many of the 50 miners working that morning, most as deep as 1,500 feet below the surface, saw the evacuation signal and began to run for the 1,300 foot level, where they could catch an elevator to the surface. However, when they reached the third level, they were blocked by deep water.
Clearly, the salt dome which contained the mine had been penetrated by the drill crew on the lake. Texaco, who had ordered the oil probe, was aware of the salt mine’s presence and had planned accordingly; but somewhere a miscalculation had been made, which placed the drill site directly above one of the salt mine’s 80-foot-high, 50-foot-wide upper shafts. As the freshwater poured in through the original 14-inch-wide hole, it quickly dissolved the salt away, making the hole grow bigger by the second. The water pouring into the mine also dissolved the huge salt pillars which supported the ceilings, and the shafts began to collapse.
As most of the miners headed for the surface, a maintenance foreman named Randy LaSalle drove around to the remote areas of the mine which hadn’t seen the evacuation signal, and warned the miners there to evacuate. The miners whose escape was slowed by water on the third level used mine carts and diesel powered vehicles to make their way up to the 1,300 foot level, where they each waited their turn to ride the slow, 8-person elevator to the surface as the mine below them filled with water. Although it seemed to take forever to get out, all 50 miners managed to escape with their lives.
http://www.damninteresting.com/wp-content/barges.jpgMeanwhile, up on the surface, the tremendous sucking power of the whirlpool was causing violent destruction. It swallowed another nearby drilling platform whole, as well as a barge loading dock, 70 acres of soil from Jefferson Island, trucks, trees, structures, and a parking lot. The sucking force was so strong that it reversed the flow of a 12-mile-long canal which led out to the Gulf of Mexico, and dragged 11 barges from that canal into the swirling vortex, where they disappeared into the flooded mines below. It also overtook a manned tug on the canal, which struggled against the current for as long as possible before the crew had to leap off onto the canal bank and watch as the lake consumed their boat.
After three hours, the lake was drained of its 3.5 billion gallons of water. The water from the canal, now flowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, formed a 150-foot waterfall into the crater where the lake had been, filling it with salty ocean water. As the canal refilled the crater over the next two days, nine of the sunken barges popped back to the surface like corks, though the drilling rigs and tug were left entombed in the ruined salt mine.
Despite the enormous destruction of property, no human life was lost in this disaster, nor were there any serious injuries. Within two days, what had previously been an eleven-foot-deep freshwater body was replaced with a 1,300-foot-deep saltwater lake. The lake’s biology was changed drastically, and it became home to many species of plants and fish which had not been there previously.

Thanks for the correct info.

I was relying on what I was told ~ 20 years ago and my memory, which can get me in trouble. I don't remember being told there were some people in the mind.

Ask your Mom's Uncle if he remembers a Black man named "Ironman". He was strong as an ox and a very good worker.

I have/did not look at the above videos.......I will do that later.

I know what you mean man, sometimes I can't remember what I did this morning and I'm only 26!!! My mom's uncle passed away quite a few years ago.

meaux fishing the winds been blowin the water in v-bay might be nasty but u dont know till u go.

I had hired a Guy awhile back......name of john......we used to introduction him like so........this is john, he's strong as an ox and twice as smart........sometimes its not good to be known as the strong one.......