08/20/2024
Hey gang, I haven’t posted on the page in quite some time
Many of you have fished with Peter and myself and the rest of the group going back to 2009.
We’ve had some amazing adventures in Panama 🇵🇦 and Costa Rica memories & friendships that will hold dear forever.
I know for me personally I’ve probably spent more time with most of you than I have with cousins nephews and other family members, and it was quality!
Peter and myself would certainly like to keep it going.
Many people have reached out to me recently and asked when are we going back. I know that the boat ride out to Hannibal Bank is a real ball buster it gets tiring fast đź’¨
Therefore, I would like to propose a different adventure for our group.
Recently and I’m sure you’ve seen the posts I have learned of and just fished personally down out of port Fourchon. It’s an amazing fishery down in Louisiana.
It’s a very different type of trip than going to Panama. There is no nightlife whatsoever. There is nowhere to eat. There is a gas station that serves as a hotel motel breakfast and lunch restaurant @ campground style sh*tty fishing store and 7-Eleven but they are friendly enough and the coffee and breakfast 🍳 sandwiches are 👍 .
This place is extremely easy to get to you fly into the New Orleans international airport, which is very small, but it’s new modern and very efficient far better than most airports I’ve experienced
At the airport, we rent several suburbans. You need a four-wheel-drive vehicle where we’re going or a pick up truck.
The lodge is floating in Port Fuson itself. It’s clean comfortable has a nice wet bar washer dryer but very basic. Don’t expect anything too fancy. They have a large commercial quality kitchen where we can cook for ourselves or we can hire a Local Chef to come in and cook for us. The guy I’m thinking of is actually a great cook. He wears a lot of hats. He usually runs a little bit late, so I would probably say we do breakfast ourselves. Let him make the lunches and the dinners.
The trip is a 36 hour trip on a Freeman 37s with quad 300s. The average running speed of the boat is about 44 miles an hour. On the way out they try to keep it to about 38 or 40 miles an hour to conserve fuel.
Each boat has six beanbags and holds 25 gallons of freshwater for the shower. Everybody will get to take a military style shower if they so choose.
We shove off at about 9 AM and it’s a three hour ride to the first drop. We fish until sunset and then set up for swordfish bite and drift at night for swords and get a few hours. Sleep in the beanbags.
At daybreak, we pulled the lines and go searching uncharted waters for the big grouper.
There is more bottom than you could explore in 10 lifetimes. Every drop we fished was virgin bottom the fish had never seen a jig and reacted to them very well almost immediately.
You will need a combination of manual, jigging rods and reels as well as light electric rods and reels the boat supplies, batteries, and has plenty of outlets if you have the right cord.
I would budget $2000 to $2250 for the fishing, the lodge, the food, your share of the cleaning and tips
You need to fly to New Orleans and participate in equal share of the rental vehicle for example, if the rental ran $300 for a big enough grand cherecee 4x4.
Flights from Newark to New Orleans round-trip are less than $300 direct on united.
Additions would be stopping at a supermarket in route to get snacks, special beverages, adult beverages, etc. all the loge does not include liquor
Fishing 🎣 is great virgin bottom so trip will target the following species, various groupers, including marble grouper, kitty Mitchell grouper, yellow edge, grouper scamp grouper. we will spend time in the deep jigging for the queen snapper that’s the big orange one that looks like a goldfish. Those are fun to catch cause they fight all the way up to the top. Well, my group was not successful on the swordfish. We did get the bite and he hung up around the boat for a good 10 minutes. We just couldn’t coax him back into it but most groups pick up a swordfish to the limit is four swords. ⚔️
Lodge has several commercial grade vacuum machines for a small tip. The chef will take care of that for you. The captains will cut all the fish. You just need to make sure it gets up to the lodge kitchen if you wanted it to be vacuum sealed.  every supermarket down there sells dry ice we found it very easily so I took my fish home fresh only the piece of that was at the very bottom closest to the dry ice got frozen solid. I had no problems with the airlines with the dry ice, they ask if it’s less than 5 pounds you say yes that’s it.
Gulf of America Outfitters
Palmarius Fishing Tackle
