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I had the opportunity to catch a few fish the other day while visiting family.

some reds and a flounder, with the requisite Busse content:

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flew into Florida then drove over the the tip of Louisiana.

a mere 20 miles from the spill and 60 miles from the platform.

no oil whatsoever, but you could see the helos hauling sandbags nearby.

this sign is (more or less) from the very tip of the toe of the boot in the southernmost portion of Louisiana:

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Looks like good times. I have always wanted to go fishing in the Ocean.

Some day!
 
That is very interesting b/c I have been told they stopped all fishing in the intercoastal canals.

There are also reports of oil on various parts of the shoreline. :confused:

Glad you had a great day fishing. :thumbup:
 
Terry Newton said:
That is very interesting b/c I have been told they stopped all fishing in the intercoastal canals.

There are also reports of oil on various parts of the shoreline. :confused:

Glad you had a great day fishing. :thumbup:
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According to the local guides and professional fishermen I spoke with, it's my understanding that the closures vary from day/week to day/week and area to area. And that the oil which had made it to the shoreline was several/many miles East of where I was (20mi out was the figure I heard more than once) - which was centered upon and West of Venice.

While I saw a few of the deployed inflatable barriers (clean ones), and lots of activity related to the clean-up - like a constant back and forth of several Chinooks carrying the giant sandbags to the barrier islands further out, and including a stop by the area (on land) where they're cleaning the birds, I saw zero oil in the areas we were in - which was pretty wide.

Make no mistake, I'm not amongst those who try to minimize the impact of the spill - it's devastating (to nature and the local economies), and the effects will be long lasting, and the people who live down there - even the ones finding supplementary work helping in the clean-up, are having a very hard time, but the oil isn't everywhere and there was none at all where I was.
 
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DowntownDM said:
According to the local guides and professional fishermen I spoke with, it's my understanding that the closures vary from day/week to day/week and area to area. And that the oil which had made it to the shoreline was several/many miles East of where I was (20mi out was the figure I heard more than once) - which was centered upon and West of Venice.

While I saw a few of the deployed inflatable barriers (clean ones), and lots of activity related to the clean-up - like a constant back and forth of several Chinooks carrying the giant sandbags to the barrier islands further out, and including a stop by the area (on land) where they're cleaning the birds, I saw zero oil in the areas we were in - which was pretty wide.

Make no mistake, I'm not amongst those who try to minimize the impact of the spill - it's devastating (to nature and the local economies), and the effects will be long lasting, and the people who live down there - even the ones finding supplementary work helping in the clean-up, are having a very hard time, but the oil isn't everywhere and there was none at all where I was.
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20 miles east of you would seem to coincide with the reports of oil entering Pontchartrain.

When I was on the south side of Baton Rouge I noticed a good deal of nontypical flight activity as well. For example, I saw my first CH-46 which was almost certainly working with the spill in some capacity.

Reports I heard were that hunting camps were being rented to oil companies with a great deal of personnel trying to find places to stay. This is now a common practice since they can't fish or have boils with all this going on anyway.

Thanks for the update. It's always amazing how we can use the "old boy network" to get decent info and the media, with all their technology, still can't get it right. :(
 
Indeed.

I tried to gain access to the inner-workings of the area at Ft. Jackson where they're cleaning the birds but was politely and sternly denied by a gate guard. I could see a large pen where they were keeping clean pelicans - with many inside of it, about 30 yards from the gate where I had to stop, but other than seeing lots of people coming and going and many empty pet crates ready to go in a staging area, that's all I could see there.

I also saw the temporary command post for Plaquemine Parish, and a couple of dozen helos (civilian, Coast Guard, and some of unknown origin) parked at two staging areas - in addition to many I saw flying, and lots of reporters and USCG personnel at the Venice marina and around the area. Unfortunately I didn't have a real camera with me, only my Crackberry, and it wasn't always handy.

I half expected to see James Carville or Anderson Cooper or Billy Nungesser or oil soaked wildlife everywhere and an alarming amount of sludge, but (as I came to find out) the truth is that there are many many miles of shoreline and many inlets and islands and thankfully the spill hasn't (yet) made it to all of those areas.

I'm happy to have had the experience. To have seen and been reminded of the (currently) untouched beauty in some areas, and to have see the reality of the effort associated with the clean-up. After this experience I can definitely sympathize with the state of Florida and all those commercials they're running lately talking about the 800 miles of beaches/shoreline.

Amongst the many forms of devastation, the assumption that the oil is everywhere is hurting the local economies nearly as badly as the oil itself vis a vis canceled vacations. I suppose we can blame the media for that. While it's good to get the attention, their sensationalistic reporting tends to leave out important details such as this.
 
Looks like some great fishing......its good to see another brother having a great time:thumbup:

Its also good to see the water looking so blue:cool:
 
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