Subject: Venice, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana

Submitted by Captbrandon (ip 65.6.88.100)

• Fished on 3/11/05

• Report received: 3/14/05

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Somebody pour some water on these fish, they're on FIRE!!!

Had several clients call and try to book today, but I wouldnt book them because it was SUPPOSED to be a bad day. Well it was a bad day for the fish!

Spent last night at the Louisiana Sportsman Show in the Dome. While I was there Capt. Jeff and I decided to Make a little scouting run to see where we could find some fish in tough conditions. Eaves dropping on our conversation was the notorious Susan 'trout mauler' Gros. She promptly invited herself(well not really, but that makes the story sound better!). We got ourselves a LAZY start this morning, not even leaving Venice Marina until 8:30am. Ran down the river in relatively calm conditions. The weatherman was WRONG! It turned out NICE! First stop was all it took. WE made 2.5 drifts and we were done! Finished wiht 75 fine trout. The fish even ran slightly bigger today, but still no real sows.

Water conditions were fairly clear, decent movement, and mid 60's. Perfect conditions for some March Madness. Caught our fish in 3 feet of water drifting flats with Old Bayside Plastics under There new PARADISE POPPER. This is similar to the Cajun Thunder, but it has a TITANIUM wire that snaps back into position after being bent. THE FINEST CORK ON THE WATER!

We also got fancy and began trying some new Lures that we aquired from the show last night. Some really nice hard plastics that I'll tell everybody about real soon. VERY NICE LURES. I still need to fish them a little more though. We caught and released quite a few and then began moving around. Found some good concentrations of fish at several other locations as well. ITs as good as it can be right now in VENICE!!!