No Yak but had a blast!
 

Packed up the family (Wife, Three Year old, and Three Month old) and handed to Dallas and New Orleans to chillax with some friends and family. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

New Orleans Off Shore Fishing.
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This is the smaller of all of the amberjack, I hooked up two that broke 250lb lines! The captain lost three on 500lb lines.

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This guy was around 7 floot. Yes that sinker is a soda can filled with lead :D Fishing in about 900 feet.

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Dallas white bass fishing... Limited out the 25per angler limit within 3.5hrs.

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And the fruit of my labor..

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Butter fried amberjack

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Vietnamese Red Snapper sour soup...

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oyster and Amber Jack sushi
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How do Gulf Amberjack fight compaired to Yellowtail?

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What a nice family vacation. :D


Those Jacks look like they would fight real nice. Never got one.

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Ohh and this is guy you dont put your finger inside a red snappers mouth

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This is two days later after the bleeding stopped.

Very nice looks good...New Orleans is definitely on the bucket list...Cool trip thanks for sharing.

oooooKiLLed EMm!! Char-Grilled Oyster is a must out in NEw Orleans!

Dam. How do you break off 250 or even 500 pound line?? Good vac!


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Awesome report thank you for sharing.

Making me hungry !!:drool5:

Wow awesome! Thanks for sharing!

No idea I've never even seen lines that big before this trip. If you look at the shark picture in the water that's the 500lb line. It had no problem bring up that estimated 350lb shark in about two minuets from 240 feet.

Nice! I was gon ask if you were asian with with the picture of the hot and sour soup. Love that stuff! When we make it with catfish, I dont touch the fish. I have to try to make it with other fish. Thanks for your post from the gulf!
Havent seen those red snappers in awhile. When I lived in Houston, I worked on a Vietnamese commercial fishing boat. Go out for 5 days, come back unload our catch and go back out for another 5 days.
Very easy fish to bring up, it was a Vietnamese boat, so we brought them up by hand. No fishing poles needed. Just heavy line, a curved metal bar with two lines and hooks and anchovies. double hook up all the time. :cheers1:

Awesome! :cheers1:

Yes very little fight but I wouldn't say easy; pulling those things up from 800+ feet was back breaking work. The amberjacks on the other hand are monsters...

Yup I'm as Asian as they come... :) snuck into this country on a boat and everything. Hahah

One of my diver used to work on a vietnamese fishing boat out of Hawaii. Black guy on a vietnamese fishing boat= lots of great storied.