First offshore (Fourchon) trip of the year was "kind of" successful (no pics)

Was hoping for a good day Friday, but we had a lot of work to do around the camp and getting the boat ready. We weren't able to leave the dock until 4:30 in the afternoon. We shortened our run and ended up at a block of rigs about 25 miles out of Fourchon. We hit one and had a couple of nice red snapper on board within 15 minutes, but it quickly died off. After trying unsuccessfully to hook up to another rig, I talked everyone into hitting a little satellite rig. Sure enough, the red snapper were thick. We caught our quick 4-man limit (plus 1 mangrove) then headed back in before dark. The sunset on the gulf was pretty awesome.

So, Saturday was a real joy. There were tons of boats on the water. The more boats, the more total assholes you encounter. Getting out of the pass was silly. We had a late start looking for live croaker (to no avail) and when we finally got to the rig we found them at Friday, there were boats everywhere. We ran out to about 35 miles and there were still boats on every corner you could easily tie to. We ended up finding one rig that had a corner. The current wasn't in our favor, so we had to use the motors to keep us off the rig. Anyway, I was struggling to tie up, so I was making a racket. Doesn't take long before I'm hooked up with a lemon. Decent one, but we lost it on a busted gaff. Finally saw some boats leave my favorite rig and pulled up to it. Quickly caught our 5 man limit of reds and were able to land one nice grouper. Others were just not getting the hook for whatever reason.

Right before we left, we tried one last time for a big grouper on the boat road. Well, as we're dropping the line, LWF shows up and is asking each boat what they've caught. They didn't check anyone, but reminded everyone about the landing permits.

It could have been a better weekend, but we had some projectile vomiting that we needed to end.