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http://www.omniture.com --> Mail Tribune Blogs --> --> « The demise of Oregon’s Sports Action More Mardi Gras musings from La. » Mardi Gras Posted by Mark Freeman As we ramp into Mardi Gras, I can’t help but harken back to my last visit to Cajun-ville, which turned into one of the most memorable fishing trips I’ve ever had. Headed to Lake Charles, La., for an Outdoor Writers Association of America conference, my friend Pat Wray of Corvallis organized a pre-conference fishing trip out of Houma, La. We flew into Houston and drove seven hours literally to the end of the road in the Bayou … a marina, a few motel rooms and a bar. We boarded a 24-foot boat the next morning and hauled 32 miles into the Gulf. Fishing around oil derricks, we hammered five species of fish … real red snapper (not the stuff people pretend are red snappers off Oregon) mackerel, barracuda, amberjack and tasty cobia (like a warm-water lingcod). We caught hundreds of fish. Constant action, eventually killing 270 pounds of fish we shipped home. The last package of red snapper will be dinner on Fat Tuesday. Check out this mackerel. Not very tasty, but it fought like a 30-pound steelhead on crack. How about those teeth. Oh, I’m the one on the right. This entry was posted on Monday, February 19th, 2007 at 1:33 pm and is filed under Outdoor Journal . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Mardi Gras” Renegade Says: February 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm The fishing down here is AWESOME!!! We go offshore or marsh fishing 25+ weekends out of the year. Happy Mardi Gras! Check out Renegade’s BS Leave a Reply Mail Tribune Blogs is proudly powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) .