Offshore people???
 

Do we have any avid blue water anglers here????

I work offshore and fish off of platforms as much as i can. anywhere from garden banks, vioska knoll, mississippi canyon, eugene island, green canyon. I just drop a line off the side and i usually have good luck with red snapper, trigger fish, amberjacks, tuna, and a very occaisional yellowfin dolphin.

I fish and dive offshore quite a bit, mostly outta Freeport. I wanna make some Sabine trips this year for Snapper.

i used to fish out of grand chenier and cameron, la a lot for snapper, ling, etc. a lot, gas prices and lower limits kinda ruined it for us.

just curious, why travel to sabine for snapper?

LOTS of rigs, not a lot of people hitting them. Greater Houston area population mostly hits Galveston and Freeport. The water is dirtier, there are a lot more stingrays, but there are some big fish out there.

if you want some really untouched stuff try some of the rigs out of freshwater bayou/pecan island.....

we used to run southeast a lot out of grand chenier and at about 65 miles just about every platform held big schools of ling.

I wouldn't call myself avid but, I started going offshore when I was 12 years old and have logged over 500 trips in the 29 years that I've been doing it. It's really my 1st passion........I bought this bay boat because I have too many friends that have offshore boats, so I got rid of mine to fish in skinny water when the weather doesn't permit going offshore.

Not me
 

I've never been offshore fishing, but would love to experience it....hint hint!!!! :D

Dude, I don't even know where that's at! What about Cameron, anybody ever jump off outta Cameron?

i went tuna fishing in febuary for the fist time. we went to green canyon. i was awsome. i thought catching trout on top water was sweet untill i caught a 100# tuna on a live hardtail fished under a kite it was like someone flushed 50 toliets at once when that tuna hit the hardtail on top!

I don't jump:eek: but I fish offshore out of there......You have to run a good way before you get in deep water....

Lovin it!!!
 

I love it!!! But boy it's a long haul................250 gallons of fuel, 36 hours on the water.......all to get 2nd place in a tourny???

east cameron 280 block is the ticket

Bruce, your kidding me right??? GI blocks all the way!!!

he was talking about shooting fish out of cameron parish

Not for you.......:shaking:

lol
 

omg salty stop it....:rotfl:

Now you got me :*****: :*****: :*****: :*****: :*****: :*****:

Ship Shoal
 

I have always did the best with Red Snapper in Ship Shoal.. The trick was to get your bait to the bottom before the trigger fish and terd hustlers robbed you.. we had to use some 2 and 3 pound weights..

[ATTACH]Attachment 286[/ATTACH] here are some pics of the trip to green canyon