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Inshore Fishing in Fourchon / Grand Isle in Southeast Louisiana
One of several I had to turn back because I already had one 30' fish in the boat!

BlueShamu

One of several I had to turn back because I already had one 30' fish in the boat!

One of the new Uncle-J Custom Boats rig. 18' x 54' bottom, 24' sides

BlueShamu

One of the new Uncle-J Custom Boats rig. 18' x 54' bottom, 24' sides

Another of the big reds I was having to turn back! Check out the mud on his tail. That was mud the n

BlueShamu

Another of the big reds I was having to turn back! Check out the mud on his tail. That was mud the n

New Boat - Big Fish!

Just had a custom aluminum center console boat built with a Prodrive surface drive motor and put it through the rigors at Grand Isle after picking it up.

The 24' sides made crossing the bays nice when the weather turned bad. The flat bottom was nice for getting through the duck ponds on falling tides. BIG reds and even BIGGER drum were holed up in the duck ponds working oyster beds. They were pretty tight lipped at times. But, easy to spot against the edges and tailing in the middle of the ponds. When they weren't tight lipped, they were hitting spinner baits. When they were tight lipped, a live cocahoe minnow usually pried their jaws open. Hardest thing about this trip was getting fish in the boat under 27'! The second hardest thing was keeping the fish from breaking me off on the oyster beds!
August 05, 2012 at 8:59am
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jls
Posted August 05, 2012 at 12:19pm
Bayou Blue Trip Reds on Markets Shrimp under Poppin Cork Love that Acton!!!!!

Joe

Bayou Blue Trip Reds on Markets Shrimp under Poppin Cork Love that Acton!!!!!

Duck Ponds

Awesome Man Nice Boat too whats the Lenth?

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Posted August 05, 2012 at 2:24pm
18 x 54

18' x 54' bottom. 1/8' sides, 3/16' bottom.

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jls
Posted August 05, 2012 at 3:35pm
BIG  SHRIMP!!!!!!

me

BIG SHRIMP!!!!!!

New Boat

Cool what was the Price Tag?

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Posted August 05, 2012 at 4:21pm
Not Bad

Boat, motor, aluminum trailer, paint and hydroturf was right at $20K.

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jls
Posted August 05, 2012 at 4:33pm
New Boat

Not Bad!!!!! i got All Weld 09 Alum Tracker Bass Boat 18 ft, w/ lil 50 hp on when it should have 75 on it but that year Merc stopped the 75&went from 50-90 Now they make 60&75 go figure lol I like it but limited room, I want center console thats what i should have gotten if i knew then what i know now got one mo year left on it so we'll see I'd like one like that just higher sides like 30' 18 ft w/ 72' bottum i can do w/o camo nice Beige or Olive green be cool

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Posted August 05, 2012 at 4:59pm
new boat

Nice boat. After a work day on my lease this Saturday I am convinced that you made the right choice in motors. I saw just why reverse is so important. Not the outboard type either. FPR works.

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Posted August 05, 2012 at 5:59pm
Fear No Mud

I took it out today to Arkabutla Lake...or what's left of it. Lake level extremely low right now. I got up into a tributary and realized it was getting shallower so thought I would try and turn around. Flat bottom wouldn't bite and was just sliding sideways. Finally had to take it off step. It settled into the packed mud pretty hard. I used the FPR to 'trench' my way backwards. Then put it in forward and had just enough room to get up the speed to break it over on plane and get out of it. No outboard would have done what I did today.

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Posted August 07, 2012 at 12:04pm
WYAT?

Cool stuff here! If you don't mind, what area where you in near G.I. No specifics, just area would be real helpful. Thanks for the report and any light you can shine would be appreciated.

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Posted August 07, 2012 at 8:24pm
Go North by Northwest

Plenty of fish out there.

Go northwest out of Gulfstream marina until you hit marsh!

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Posted August 09, 2012 at 10:19am
Boat

Nice Boat!

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jls
Posted August 09, 2012 at 4:57pm
@Bass Pro New 2012 Gator Trax

me

@Bass Pro New 2012 Gator Trax

Boat

I looked@one today@Bass Pro 18 ft long 70' bottum 150 Mec Camo 'GATOR TRAX'

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Posted August 10, 2012 at 10:10pm
Mercury for Mud

LOL...I used to use a Mercury 150 as a mud motor on a pretty frequent basis. It powered me out of some shallow water situations many times! You just have to remember to pull the thermostats and clean all trash out of them...and know how to change out your impeller!

Seriously, the Prodrive takes that to an all new level...minus the speed.

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jls
Posted August 11, 2012 at 11:49am
Mud Boat

Yea, Blue Shamu But lil slow i guess for some Now as far as Haulin Azz it'll do just that Nice rig tho worth Lookin@@@@

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