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re: Duck boats in Venice....
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:21 am to Redfish2010
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:21 am to Redfish2010
moral of a story, keep a few of these in your boat.
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Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:24 am to MWP
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After reading this thread, if I was forced to hunt Venice or quit duck hunting, I think I would pull the plug on it. I am not mad at them enough anymore to go through this kind of life or death misery for a duck
That's the truth
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:19 pm to Chad504boy
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Duck boats in Venice....
moral of a story, keep a few of these in your boat.
affirmitive
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:25 pm to LSUengr
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Don't construe that to say you would get one from our camp because that is not our style. We would just shout you down. However, there are some guys down the way that may take the liberty just like the guy upriver did. I never believed it would happen up there either, but it did.
I remember back in the early/mid 80s.. When Marcinko had his boys staying and training in Belle Chasse and Stennis - they were doing some ops in the Pearl and some single digit toothed guy with dickiedoo disease was at one of the launches crawfords i think - saying he was gonna whip those guys in the rubber boats asses........
Then some other similar ilked clown convinced him and a few others to get in his boat with him and go show those soldiers how them "coonasses did it" ... red neck in a boat does not make one a coonass...
from what I understand they rounded a turn about the same time two boats were unleashing hell fire from Saw's into the woods and shoreline.. and they went straight back to the launch....]
FWIW that story is widely verifiable - especially for anyone in SBU 20 or 22 back then as they were participating as well. I wanna say it was in early october...84 or 85 ...
they devils with green faces were indeed throwing huge wakes all over the place...... but many houseboats and a few camps were in an area they were no longer supposed to be in.
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:45 pm to Da Hammer
I lost a close buddy of mine in Venice a few years back. He was in a big bay boat traveling a small curvy bayou when a small work boat came upon the same turn. The work boat climbed on top of his boat crushing his chest. The other fisherman with him are all okay. It was a woman driving the workboat and I don't even think she was an employee of the company whom the boat belonged to.
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:51 pm to CootKilla
Coot I knew him also, Kimbel and Emmeline are some of the more dangerous passes due to the blind curves, amount of traffic commercial and recreational and the fact radar is pretty useless in the canes in those type of situations
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:53 pm to CootKilla
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I lost a close buddy of mine in Venice a few years back. He was in a big bay boat traveling a small curvy bayou when a small work boat came upon the same turn. The work boat climbed on top of his boat crushing his chest. The other fisherman with him were all okay. It was a woman driving the workboat and I don't even think she was an employee of the company whom the boat belonged to.
Was this in flaboat pass?
Those small curvy canals are dangerous. No where to go but in the roseaus. And that is only if you see them.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:54 pm to WHODAT514
Whodat and Bluemoons text me I'll be down Thursday evening until Sunday unless I have to reschedule a procedure utnil Friday afternoon. Either way worst case I'll be there Fri-Sun.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:58 pm to JasonL79
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"Brad's 24 foot bay boat collided with a 28-foot oilfield crew boat in Flat Boat Pass"
Yes, got this from an old article. Not sure where that pass is though.
I played soccer with Brad since we were in junior high. We had an alumni soccer tournament this weekend and he was discussed and missed dearly.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 1:00 pm to JasonL79
Talking to my uncle who lives in Venice this past weekend, he was telling me some stories about people he rescued. He has cattle down there and has airboats. A few times he was called to help with his airboat. One time, he rescued someone, he said when they moved the guy he felt like a block of ice. They had gotten wet trying to get their boat off a flat in a hard north wind (worse than last Saturday) and couldn't get off of it due to the wind. My uncle told his son who was helping him during the rescue, that he didn't think the guy would survive. He ended up dying in the ambulance. Those hard north artic fronts can put you in a bind several ways.
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 1/10/17 at 1:03 pm to CootKilla
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Brad's 24 foot bay boat collided with a 28-foot oilfield crew boat in Flat Boat Pass"
I'm very familiar with it. It connects from cubit's gap and octave pass. It is basically filling in and getting a little narrower each year. I try not to run it now. It used to be a very popular canal to take to get out to the gulf and the main pass 69 rigs.
Sad someone lost their life like that.
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 1/10/17 at 1:51 pm to JasonL79
Shows how bad my memory is I could have sworn it was Kimbel where it occurred there have been a few bad accidents there also.
Flatboat is for all practical purposes done now, I explored it in late August to see if it was useable it's SHALLOW in several spots, TOO SHALLOW!!
Flatboat is for all practical purposes done now, I explored it in late August to see if it was useable it's SHALLOW in several spots, TOO SHALLOW!!
Posted on 1/10/17 at 3:30 pm to CootKilla
Brad was a great guy, worked with him at the tackle shop before he started running boats. People who think their experience and knowledge will keep them safe down there need to take a look at his resume and realize how quickly shite can go wrong and how little control we actually have.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 12:03 am to Whatafrekinchessiebr
Just came across a link to this thread on another forum that I had forgot about. This thread should be required reading every year for those planning to run the river no matter how much experience they have.
Rip Brad!
Rip Brad!
This post was edited on 11/12/17 at 12:20 am
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