Well that’s a wrap! Another terrific week spent down in Louisiana with Captain Jeff Arnold. Jeff’s ability to find the species you want to target, and in favorable conditions is quite impressive.
After pre-fishing the BlackJack Tournament for a couple days and finding a few schools, we felt pretty optimistic about our chances the following day. Well, mother nature had different plans and the morning wind made it hard to spot any schools, and limited on where we could go. A 16’ skiff in 2 ft waves bobbing around the Gulf of Mexico isn’t exactly a good time.
However, we still managed a couple shots and even hooked up, but when the fish finally hit the bag you’d never seem 3 grown men so disappointed. No Jack. Just a very large Bull. Wrong species.
Josh with a very nice consolation prize.
Around noon we all kind of looked at each other and said screw it. With light wind and full sun we decided to take advantage and just go fish. Turned out, this was a good call. We ended up fishing 4 or 5 ponds throughout the afternoon and Jeff found fish in all of them. What an absolute blast.
The following 5 days were more or less the same thing. Jeff asking us what we wanted to fish for, and him putting us on them. Ya know,..Guiding. I could go on and on but here’s a few photos to sum up the rest of the week.
To contact Jeff for Redfish, Black Drum, Alligator Gar or Jack Crevallle, his contact info is:
website: https://www.arnoldsguideservice.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arnoldsguideservice/
