Fishing Reports – Grand Isle, Venice La

I've had a great couple of days last week.  We started off Thursday morning pretty early and headed out in search for some yellow fin tuna; had a hard time finding bait on the way out.  An hour and half later we arrived at our destination and started chumming; got a few fish up-landed 1 and lost 1.

The next drift the sharks started showing up.  We went to start our thrid drift and an old friend Capt. Billy Wells showed up and offered me some incredible live bait.  I can't thank him enough-he really saved my day.  We put out the live bait and it was "fish on" one after another.  We boated 10 more yellow fin and decided to start fishing for some amberjack.  We caught a few nice ones on live bait and a few on jigs.  We started making our way back to Grand Isle and ran across some black fin  jumping.  We boated 2 black fin and then headed back to the dock.  We had a great trip and I was looking forward to my next trip with Warren the next day.  We all took off early that morning and managed to put some live bait in the live well.  We spent a lot of time catching bait then we headed out back offshore.  When we got out there we went 3 for 5 for yellow fin and then it was back to more sharks.  We grabbed some bait again from Capt. Billy Wells and spent the day catching sharks.  We headed to go try for some amberjacks and caught more sharks and few jack crevalle. We managed to catch a few amberjack also.  We decided to head for some mangrove snapper but the water ended up being really dirty and it had a lot of current all around the river.  We decided to call it a day and talked with Warren on the run in, about our upcoming snapper trip for June.  The fishing has been hot and we are not having to run very far out to catch some days.

Give us a call for the trip of a lifetime!  

We Leave of Bridgeside Marina in Grand Isle, La.  Grand Isle has a lot to offer- beaches, restaurants, bars, and lots of wonderful Deep sea fishing in Louisiana.

Capt. Lance Walker
Fish Commander Guide Service
Charter Fishing Louisiana
Grand Isle, Louisiana
225-445-1005

Hunting season is over and it’s time to get back on the water.  I spent the last few months hunting all over the country, including Alaska with my buddy Clark Dixon.  We have been filming for a new show that we are part of called “The Syndicate” which will air on the Sportsman Channel this fall.  We were able to take some incredible animals including a giant grizzly bear, wolf, caribou, and some giant rainbow trout.  Alaska was the most incredible experience I have ever had. I was also lucky enough to take 3 whitetails over 140 with a bow and 1 over 160 with a gun.  It was an incredible year and I will never forget it!

I made my first Charter fishing trip out to the Midnight Lump yesterday.  We left out of Bridgeside Marina in Grand Isle at 5:30am and we arrived at the Lump around 7:00.  It is right at 50 miles from the marina to the Lump.  We chummed most of the day.  There were only a few times during the day the fish came up in our chum slick.  3 out of the 4 times we hooked yellow fin tuna, 1 weighing around 140 pounds.  We fought the fish for over 2 hours.  He fought like he weighed well over 200.   We also got a few black fin and a couple of amberjack.  I tried dropping down deep a few times and all we caught were red snapper and a giant shark.   The big yellowfin tuna   are at the lump right now.  Seems like the chances of catching a big fish are better during the week. There was a 237 pound yellow fin tuna brought back to the dock earlier this week that was caught at the lump.  What an incredible fish!  That was only a few pounds away from the state record.  Call us today for Deep Sea Fishing Guided Charters in Grand Isle,  Louisiana,  I can still fish most of the areas that I used to fish out of Venice  And, I can still have the option to fish the  Green   Canyon , which is an incredible fishery.  Check me out at my websitewww.fishcommander.com or give me a call today to book the trip of a lifetime! I also have lodging available right across from the beach.  I am very passionate about the outdoors.  I’ve spent my life hunting and fishing year round since I was a kid.  Check out Trev Gowdy’s Monster Fish’s episode called "Monster Wahoo!” featuring  Capt. Lance Walker out of Grand Isle, "Louisiana's Best Kept Secret".

Thanks,

Capt. Lance Walker
Fish Commander Guide Service
Charter Fishing Louisiana
Grand Isle, Louisiana
225-445-1005

I’m about to leave on another overnighter and had a few minutes to post a quick report.  This past week has been some of the best fishing I’ve had all year.

The yellowfin tuna fishing has been on fire.  We are loading the boat with yellowfin tuna on the night trips and still managing to pick up a couple good ones on our day trips.

The biggest Yellow fin Tuna we caught last week was 130 pounds.  We have also been catching tons of giant blackfin tuna.  The rip lines have started to form up and we have been catching tons of bull dolphin. We have also been catching a nice limit of red snapper everyday, with only a few days left in the season.  We are heading out today in hopes of catching some more 20 pound red snapper.  We have been averaging 15 pound per fish limit of red snapper this season.  There’s more red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico than I have ever seen my entire life. The mangrove snapper have been easy to catch when targeting them.  The cobia fishing has been pretty good too; we are still catching them daily.   The weather looks great for the week; I will post another report this weekend.  The yellowfin tuna fishing has been incredible, hopefully the action will last the rest of the summer.  I still have a few openings left, so give us a call soon.

 If you’re interested in 100 plus pound yellowfin, book your Charter Fishing trip from mid-September until the end of October with us.  We normally catch our biggest yellowfin this time of the year.  My calendar is filling up fast, so don’t miss out on a trip of a lifetime.

Thanks, Capt. Lance Walker

Fish Commander Guide Service,

Grand Isle, La

225-445-1005   Or 985-630-8496

Hey Gang hope you been fishing.

I havent but i have been diving and shooting underwater scenes for Paramount.

For shark scenes i was in charge of shooting the bait fish for Manny to hand feed the sharks along with using for chum as well.

All i can say is the rigs i dove were slamed with grouper snapper cobia and giant amberjacks.

Also hired Kevin Beach,LANCE walker Darryl Couvillion and Leon for two days of offshore shoots and as expected the highly advanced captains made my job much easier.Capt. Kevin landed a monster 60 plus AJ along with four other monsters within thirty minutes time,now thats hardcore.

Along with the airboats that we used everyday and offshore vessels i spent close to thirty thousand on the local guides and they were worth every penny as their professional manner in which they presented themselves gauranteed them future work with my company along with major movie makers.

Being under contract i can not display photos or releasing certain imformation about the movie but it will be out in september.

The shark scenes are unbelievable for example Manny and i were in the water with Mako's,hammerheads,dusky's,spinners at one time,it was crazy as all these sharks were on fire and taking free shot after free shot.For example i lifted my head out the water to speak to LANCE and no sooner than i put my face underwater the mako rubbed his nose on my mask and was eyeball to eyeball with me.

Another subject i would like to address the issue of spearfishing yellowfin is banned for now.I want to let the public aware that spearfishing is the most enviromentally sound way to harvest fish.The art goes back for a couple thousand years and you are limited by your personal ability to spear dive.The diving community is very small compared to the fishing community so we dont have a loud voice,but we are going to address this issue with 100% factual statements.

For Example i know for a fact that not more than twenty tuna for total of all divers during an entire lump season....where is the threat to yellowfin with those numbers.I believe we will win this one after they review the facts.