Those 1 day trips 2hr drive.....
 

How many of you take that 2+ hour drive down to cocodrie dularge area for a 1 day trip. Then head back home? I've done it a few times with some coworker but man the drive back home hurts. Lol

How do you judge your trip or do you just suck it up and make the trip. I want to take a trip down there but the winds have been blowing like crazy.

Just wondering

2 or 3 years ago when we had a 3 week red snapper season my dad and I left Lafayette with boat in tow at 2:00 am Saturday morning, launched boat at Bridgeside Marina around 6:00, got back to landing around 3:00 pm, and parked boat back in Lafayette around 7:00. We would clean up sunday morning.

We did this THREE weeks in a row before my wife finally said enough is enough!

I'm still not sure if I would still be married if the snapper season didn't close the same weekend she put her foot down. Lol! Those were some great trips!

It's all about how much you want it! And how much fuel you want to pay for!

I do 1:40 min from New Orleans all the time. Two small kids, sports, ex-wife, GF, when a weather window breaks and the schedule is loose, got to get when gettin's good. Sleep like a log that night...

2 hr drive
 

I did it about a week ago. The wind is my main factor if I'm going to take a day trip. The wind was 5-10 and I was at Jugs Marina for 5:00 am. Limited out on trout by 11:30 am and back home around 4:30pm after washing the boat and gassing up.

I do that mess every weekend. Gotta pay the cost to be the boss

I drive 3 hrs each way from home to CP leave at 3 am fish till dark and head home on my day trips.

Its worth it to me

You are a boss. Lol

Pimping ain't easy but it's necessary.

From my house to Calcasieu Point in LC takes about 1 1/2 - 2 hours. That's with stopping in LC to hook up to the boat and stopping at Cormies for food and vittles. Like said before. Wind is the biggest factor but a lot of times I'll go regardless as long as it's not ridiculous.


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When the fishing is good like it is now, I make trips to grand isle every day I have off. If I have two days off in a row then I try to get a room at the marina. It's about 2 hours in my truck without my boat 2.5 with boat. It's always worth the trip.


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Did it a few time from Erath to Fourchon talking about being burnt out and tired.

Stay overnight do a evening fish then a morning fish.

That's what I'm thinking. 2 plus hour trip I want to stay and enjoy the trip. But isn't there a 2 night limit at some of these marinas

I might do that for the weekend of snapper season

I don't think coco marina has a minimum, I've always been satisfied with my stay too. The covered slip under your room is nice and their prices aren't bad

I like to sleep overnight when I can and make 2 trips out of it. That drive home all in one day is brutal.

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Not exactly sure bro, hopefully sooner than later. lol Alot of times is spur of the moment timing with work and all. My boss dont give me hardly any time off these days.:cool::cool:

The 1 day trip from N.I. to Du Large is a killer but at least I have a better chance of catching than in V.B. & don't have to fight the wind.

Alpha if you are going to make the trip now is the time to go!! I just got back from coco total of 225 trout! All on plastics!

Running long?

Do this very often, leave early get home late. Now I have a place to stay when needed. I like to leave Friday after work from Centerville, then return next day late afternoon. Clean up on Sunday. Better fishing down there this time of year.

I used to leave baton rouge for 2:30am and go to fourchon or Venice . Sometime 2-3 times a week . About 2 weeks ago I woke up at 2:30 to drive to Fourchon ,this is the only time I can remember wanting to hit snooze on my alarm clock before a fishing trip . I didn't snooze and we went but tgat drive home was horrible . I don't have a clue how I used to do those " suicide" runs like that in the past .

You guys must be married to some angels.

Cal-Point is about 20 mins away, and I piss off the old every other trip because we come in later than expected.

(Well later than she expected or was possibly told, you know sometimes you gotta tell em what they want to hear then deal with the fallout later)

I down to do it. Its just like everyone said, The drive home is horrible And can be dangerous. You Start road gazing and dosing off.

I'm done with them unless I throw back what I catch and go back to having a boat I don't care about...

Worst part about living in BR, 2 hours to any fishing. I pretty much have to double any money spent on gas because im going to burn at least a tank of gas in my truck on top of whats burned in the boat.

^^^ truth

Multiple times a year we travel to Grande Isle, Houma, and Cocodrie.... ranging from 3-4 hours from home, bowfish until daylight and drive back! ZOMBIE MODE the next day lol

tell her she has no idea how good she has it, that you know guys that have a 4-6hr commute

So which one of y'all are taking your bay boat to fourchon for some snapper action?

I think capt. hoop said it best...."fishing isn't a matter of life and death....it's much more important than that"....hook up that frontier and go slang slime

Lol I tell her all the time she don't know how good she has it. The problem is with all the kids, I don't get as many hall passes.

But when I do get one, I'm like the dog that dug under the fence. He knows he's got an *** whoopin when he gets home so he wrecks shop while he's out.

I'm a fishing commuter as well. We fish the Biloxi Marsh launching from MS so we look at 20 runs across the MS sound. Checking the weather is what makes or break it. We head down when it's sunny. If it's windy we stay in Bay St Louis in MS but if we have decent, calm water we make the run. Having a camp helps but I've made the trip down and back in 1 day numerous times. I feel your pain

It's 2 hours 40 minutes from my house to Rutherford beach. Day trip as often as I can. To make the ride home better for you just stop at Sonic and get a large peanut butter and bacon milkshake.

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debating on cocodrie this weekend, haven't been on the water in tooooo long, 10-15mph ese winds on saturday, long drive, only been there once before, but i NEED to go fishing

No camp and live in St. Landry parish. Every trip is 1:15 + drive, some up to 1:45 minutes.

Would be great to have a camp but for time being we wake up early. Fish hard and long if we have to. It's too much gas not to stay all day if we need to get the ice chest full. Most time we are cleaning fish late into the evening....

We only make one trip a weekend, it's just too much to do that both days.
We try to make our trips count..

I live about 5 min from Cal Point but I hardly ever launch there. I just launch from our neighborhood launch most of the time. I live right off of Prien Lake so I guess im lucky compared to other people. You have to really want to fish to drive 6hrs in one day lol.

I DO!! My boat never sees fresh water. I have also installed a camper top. some times Ill just sleep in my truck

5 minutes or 5 hours. If you don't really want to fish then there's no point in it. It would be worse on me to live on the water. Looking at the water and thinking fish or mow grass fish or mow grass. The grass will die this winter so screw it I'm going fishing. Lol

haha IF I lived 5 mins from the water, I might be divorced:headknocker:

LOL...Hell yeah!

I think its awesome to be so passionate about something. I don't think I'm wired that way. I tend to like a lot of things but not really love any one thing. I have to many interests I guess. Also I just admire the work ethic(for lack of a better term) that people have to persue their hobbies/interests

Those 1 day trips 2hr drive.....
 

Make those 2 hr. drives to fish when you are young. It gets harder for me as I get older. I fished bass tourneys for years and leave at 3:30 or 4 am and fish till 4pm. After weigh in load up and go home. The worst 2 trips I had in the past was a blowout on the boat trailer on the way home. I was pulled up in a spot just south of Jasper and laying up under trailer putting jack under axle and I hear a growl.....look out and a big Doberman was eyeing me in his territory. All I can say is the Doberman realized I was a dog owner and I was not used as a chew toy. Don't do night tournaments anymore.

I don't get to fish near as much as I would like. Last fall was the last time I fished golden meadow. I woke at 3am, loaded 3 kayaks (Jackson big tuna on top of truck cab and two in the bed. Left New Iberia at 4am, drove to Galliano launched and paddling by 630, fished till noon, loaded all up again headed to leeville re-launched and fished hard till sundown (7pm or so). Loaded up and drove back to NI. After paddling and fishing all day on the very warm day, only one redfish and one trout to show, that was a tough trip back home. My body was aching all over, I think I may have had a bit of heat stress. I think I was in pretty bad shape until we stopped in Galliano and got a cold drink and something to eat. On the trip home, I was seriously thinking of giving up on kayak fishing....till I woke up the next morning and remembered that one nice red I caught. But seriously, my fat 51 year old body can't hardly take an 18-19 hour day anymore. But, I'm planning on doing it again next saturday!!! :) HERE'S TO TIGHT LINES FELLAS!!!!

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I felt your pain my entire life... Moved to Carencro and its not much better, but it makes a difference. I did move further away from my northern bass lakes that I miss the shorter drive to though.

I moved to Houston and will travel for good forecast.

Last week I kept getting pics from my padnas hammering trout so I jumped in my truck and headed 6 hours to Cocodrie for a few days. A man can only look at so many pictures before he has to go make his own.

Gbay is right there close. Matty too

I know people that make that 6 hr drive too, trout populations must really suck in big TX

Last Red eye trip i made to G.I. by myself i left br at 230 am was fishing at day break Surf fished till 4 pm . cleaned fish and started home. Made it to hwy 308 and guess i fell asleep. Woke up hours later and everything was green. God was watching over me and i ran off the road to the right in an area where the ditch was shallow and out into a cane field.

Dang eman.....the good old days huh?