re: Camping on Last Island........paging Conundrum

Sounds like you guys covered everything.

I've slept on the island a couple of times, and can say without a doubt, if you're doing it for the fishing, don't.

Mosquitos will overcome you, the coons will open your ice chests, steal your food, and rape your women. Lol

Best fishing is during the day anyway. We tried to set up on the Whiskey Pass side years back, and the tide made us move to the old rodeo weigh in by where the statue is now in Trinity Bayou.

There have been some very nice houseboats in the bayou over the years, but not when I went this year. My dad has talked to several people associated w the Land leaser, and they discourage people from staying on the Island, but don't enforce it.

When I first fished the Island as an 8 yo, it was a mile wide, and 25 mi long. New Pass has come and gone, and you can pretty much cast from Trinity Bayou to the Gulf now. Lol.

People talk about Horseshoe Reef and don't even know it used to stick up out the water five feet high in the shape of a horseshoe.

From Four Point you can run Bayou Sale inside through Mongrel and a Mangrove Bay and only cross about 3.5 mi of open water. I'm not the navigator on our boat, but that sounds about right.