Hi Ben!!!!

 

Sincerely.

Jim

 

Great report and awesome way to finish the season Eric!

Stoked for you!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Paid for this trip in 2019 with plans to go in summer of 2020…then covid happened and it got cancelled.

In 2021 there was an issue with the captain/boat and it got cancelled.

In 2022 I got covid right before the trip and was too sick to dive.

Finally this year I was able to make it happen.

Three days of diving off a siiiick 37 foot VH Freeman with quad 350s, staying at a sweet houseboat down at Venice Marina, home cooked meals each night from the houseboat owners.

Captain Brandon Hendrickson (amazing diver and all around great guy) and his crew went above and beyond to get us on fish and make sure we filled the coolers.

At least 70% of fish donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank in New Orleans. My family has benefited from their charity in the past after hurricanes so I know they do really good work.

Conditions were excellent, we had great viz and found fish super close to shore.

Highlights for me were my PB Cobia, Amberjack, Mangrove Snapper, Red Snapper, Dog Snapper and Tripletail.

At the end of the trip we drove up to the foodbank and donated almost 300 pounds of fillets.

Very happy to have finally been able to make this trip happen, and stoked that I got some good pics and video to help me remember all the good times.

If you are looking to shoot some fish for a good cause you should check out DFAC, if you want to go offshore in Venice I highly recommend Brandon, and for inshore and lodging right there I can’t say enough good things about Donny Duke and Tigers Den.

https://www.divingforacause.org/home.html

https://instagram.com/spearobrando?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.tigersdenvenice.com/

Here are pics and a little vid.



 

Sincerely,

Jim

Welcome to NCKA!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Quote from: JoeDubC on July 12, 2023, 05:20:41 PM

I often fish close to Mavericks when I go to HMB.
At our neighborhood lake in the Sierras a girl was attacked by otters last week with multiple wounds and had to be rushed to the hospital. Now they have warning signs.

Otters can dicks, river or sea.

If they aren't biting Scott Thornley's boots at Elk, they are clawing kids in the Sierras or biting surfer's boards in Santa Cruz...

X 100

Fuck otters.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/24/5640890/otters-rape-baby-seals-monsters-bad

"But there comes a point at which rational people have to put adorable hijinks aside and recognize otters for what they are: disease-ridden, murderous, necrophilic aqua-weasels whose treachery knows few bounds. They are not "wonderful animals,"...They're merciless hellspawn who use their intellects for great evil."

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Funny that you ask. A diver just popped up when approaching the landing. He said visibility wasn’t good. He was at 23 FOW in front of MBK

Thank you!

I went anyway. It was good enough in patches here and there. 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Welcome!!

Most of my family is still in Louisiana and I get back there once or twice a year.

Here's a few pics of some fish I've taken there in the last few years.

 

Sincerely,

Jim