there's a little trough right here where the fish are cruising the shoreline. So hopefully
we can get these spinner baits in there and get them to bite. >>Wherever there is the
saw grass like this it's the only place I've ever caught fish, actually redfish using the
spinner bait. Something you really don't do in salt water much is spinner baits, but they
absolutely do the trick here. >>They put out great vibrations. >>I love doing spinner baits
too man because you can sit there and watch that and then you see the big gold flash you
know. >>Another thing too with it being windy like today, you can constantly feel the line.
>>Yeah. >>Long as you are swimming a little jig or something. So much slack comes into
it. When them redfish do hit them. They smoke 'em. ♪♪ Fish on! speckled trout. >>Trout
on a spinner bait. ♪ Let's see if he's got a big brother. How about your trout limits
here, what do you got for trout limits? >>Twelve inches and twenty five a person. Pretty liberal.
Maybe a little too liberal. ♪ Fish on! >>Fish on there he is! Sitting right there where
he's suppose to be. >>Yeah textbook. >>Oh fish off. ♪ Maybe he's got a brother there.
Oh, there he is that's a good one! He's trying to get back in there. Come on dude. >>How
does that one feel there Blair? >>That one feels a little better. >>That's a pretty one.
>>He's a pretty one. Oh he likes the bottom of the Skeeter. Come here dude. Hey that one
would almost weigh in a tournament. >>Come here little guy. Back on you. >>That tail
is lit up too. Good job. On a windy day here out of Buras, Louisiana. And it is blowing
today. About blowing me over.
[laughs] Are we gonna keep all those for the lodge tonight? >>Yeah I believe so. >>Your
limits are pretty much the same here as they are in Florida right? >>Yeah pretty similar,
we are sixteen to twenty seven inches and five a person. You are allowed one per person
over twenty seven inches. We can keep a few more and... >>Yeah y'all don't keep them big
bulls though do you? >>Nah, them big ones are trophy fish. That's your breeders, we
let them go. We want to keep the population healthy. >>Same thing in my neck of the woods
except we're only allowed to keep one. Which is good. Some parts of Florida you can keep
two. For the most part you're keeping one fish. But that one there would be a keeper
about anywhere. Florida or Louisiana huh? >>No doubt, that's a good eating size fish
right here. >>I can taste that redfish on the half shell right now. Y'all stay tuned,
we're going to be right back with some more addictive fishing. Captain Ross from Cajun
Fishing Adventures right here in Buras Louisiana. We'll be right back. (Play it) Addictive
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♪♪ Come on fishy, fishy. Should be able to see them if they are cruising.
♪ Well welcome back folks. It's so windy today I know it's tough to tell on the camera,
but it is blowing. So what we're doing is we're kind of staking off fish a spot and
about the marsh here, I haven't fished here in two years. And I hardly recognize any of
this marsh and I know I've fished if I had my old tracks and stuff in my Humminbird I
know I had run across some of these bayous and some of this marsh. >>Oh yeah you probably
have and today riding out here we rode across a lot of stuff that was land within the last
two years. It's subsiding pretty bad. Very rapid actually every thirty eight minutes
we lose a football field of land. It's just, it's a bad deal for the state. We're losing
land and land is storm protection it's estuaries for the fish out here and huge to the way
of life in Louisiana. We can't afford it. There he is! Fish on! >>Boy that looks like
a good one too. He's making waves on the waves. Oh yeah! A grown one. >>Little bit more shoulders
than the last couple that I've caught.
[laughing] ♪ >>He's all rolled up. ♪♪ So what's the lodge bet going? What do you got
fifteen or twenty people staying in the lodge and last night they were talking about the
biggest fish under twenty seven inches you might have it. >>Yeah I might be in the money.
>>I think they said they were going to pay a thousand bucks. >>Ha, well they have the
good luck. >>I don't think he's going to quite make the twenty seven inch limit though. >>No
he might be a little over that. >>Might be an over size. That's a pretty redfish there.
Let me see if I can still land one. >>I think you got it. >>I've done it once or twice.
♪ Come here dude. I don't know he might go at uh, twenty eight inches? That ain't
a bad redfish there. >>You could get your ruler out that your momma gave you. >>That's
a nice one there. That is a grown one. >>That's a healthy one. >>Oh man did he swallow that
thing. I got it. Check that out the old Morning Glory with a Trokar jig head in it. On a spinner
bait. He bent your spinner bait completely up. >>Yeah he mangled it. >>It is amazing
how these redfish can get lures back in their crushers and just totally smash them. He's
got a cool little spot on his tail don't he? Looks like an eye ball. Just what it's supposed
to look like. >>That's exactly what it's supposed to look like. >>I haven't said it on the show
in quite a long time but when they are little small fish it looks like an eye and most other
fish when they attack and try to eat prey, they go after the eyeball and you see his
eyeball up there is not really that big but that is a more pronounced looking eyeball
right there. It helps them get away. Absolutely beautiful fish. This one is going back to
the lodge tonight have us some blackened redfish there at Cajun Fishing Adventures. Y'all stay
tuned we are going to be right back with Captain Ross Montet right out of Buras, Louisiana
catching these beautiful, beautiful redfish. Awesome.
♪ Come on. Really looks fishy right in here. >>I don't think there are too
many places in Louisiana that don't look fishy. >>I know, tell me about it. We are so spoiled
we don't even know it.
[laughing] >>Welcome back folks, we're still plugging away on what I keep calling a blusterous
windy day I know you guys can't tell how windy it is out here, but a lot of the spots that
we normally fish are so blown out we can't even fish them today. We're taking our spinner
baits and just knocking out the points anything that looks good where there might be a fish
and hopefully there's gonna be a few more around today. It is definitely challenging.
So Ross how long have you been there at Cajun Fishing Adventures? >>Going on seven years
now. It'll be seven this fall. Started right out of high school and did this part time
through college and now it's a full time gig for me. Enjoying every minute of it. ♪ Blair,
Blair, look right over there. >>Oh yeah, yeah. ♪♪ Is it a red? >>I'm not sure. I just
seen it's tail come up and a little swirl. I would imagine it is. But it could be our
elusive black drum we were looking at. There's a red! ♪♪ >>Another little guy. That's
the size you all love to eat though isn't it? >>He's got a tag in him. >>Sure enough
does. You gonna turn it in? >>So what I would do with this guy here since he is under sized...
I'd get the numbers off of him, get a weight, a measurement, and then a gps location. >>Now
is the state tagging these fish from the hatchery or what? No this could be CCA, this could
be anybody. State tag will be a green tag which is Wildlife and Fisheries. Any fisherman
down here can get a tag kit and tag a fish and this is one of them right here. >>Yeah
I use to tag the redfish back when I was guiding back in Cocoa Beach and I probably tagged
about a thousand fish and never did get hardly any of my tags back. I think I got like three
of them back. >>It's definitely rare. It's like shooting a banded duck. >>My mom is gonna
be happy.
[laughing] >>She bought me this duct tape she was watching a show not too long ago and
I didn't have anything to measure them by. There we go. Right at sixteen inches look
at that. >>Let's see what we got. >>Go all the way to the zero there. Fifteen and- >>Three
quarters. >>Thanks for the tape mom!
[laughing] ♪ >>Louisiana. It's the sportsman's paradise. It's one of the best places I've
ever fished in my entire life. And every thirty eight minutes there is something pretty tragic
that happens out there. It's the erosion that's going on in Louisiana. It's a very tragic
story that's going on. Captain Ryan Lambert. I stay down there in Buras, Louisiana at Cajun
Fishing Adventures and he knows the marsh like nobody that I know. There is no one else
better to tell the story of what's going on down there, than Captain Ryan Lambert. >>Essentially
we've lost two thousand square miles of land in Louisiana. To put that in perspective,
the grand canyon is nineteen hundred and seven square miles. We've lost an area larger than
the grand canyon and we're losing a football field every thirty eight minutes. So now we
are going to have to return the river back into these marshes to bring back the sediments
and the nutrients and take that salt and push it back out to the Gulf because when the salt
comes in It kills the fresh water aquatics, the root system goes away and next thing you
know, your land. That was six point three miles of land across there. >>Fifteen years
ago was my first time here and we were coming across the Empire Bridge there and out just
beyond Joshua's Marine there was land on the other side and it was almost as far as you
could see and you told me, Blair in ten years this land is not going to be here it's going
to be four foot of water and there's actually six foot of water there now. >>Yeah its one
time in my life I wish I wasn't right but, it's mostly due to the levee on the Mississippi
River for navigation and flood control. We did it back a hundred years ago and now we've
lost all that land. People need to get involved in this. This is the largest environmental
disaster in the country, in the world and no one knows about it. That's incredible.
Fifty years or a hundred years from now, some geologist will take a core sample and say
wow look in two thousand ten it looks like they must have had a major oil spill. That's
nothing, this won't be here fifty years from now if we don't do something. We have to return
the river back into these marshes and that's what I'm doing. There's doers and there is
talkers, and there is studiers. We got way too many talkers and studiers it's time to
get it done. If I got to do it myself, so be it. I'm not afraid. >>If you happen to
go down there to Louisiana if you've never been out there. Get one of the old charts
that they have down there and compare it to your GPS. This graphic shows what's been happening
basically over the past fifty years. I've been coming here fifteen years and there is
places that I fished then that I don't even recognize now. It's not just affecting the
fishery, it's affecting families, guide businesses, hunting businesses, twenty five percent of
the nation's seafood comes from Louisiana. If we lose it, we're going to have to buy
it from somewhere else and I don't want to buy it from anywhere else. We're just trying
to make you aware of what's going on. Anything that happens that might be able to benefit
the marsh, hope you all can get involved. >>Catch a big gator trout in here. >>What's
a gator trout here? >>A good trout here would be five or six pounds. Get eight, nine, ten,
twelve pounds depending where you're at. Fish on! >>There he is, good one there. ♪ Gonna
go back? ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Looks like a good one. >>Yeah, another good one. >>I don't know
why he didn't want my spinner bait, I had my spinner bait down there ten times. ♪ Come
here dude. ♪ You got some flat mean redfish here. ♪♪ That one looks like it's gonna
be some blackened redfish at the lodge tonight too huh? >>Mm hmm, I'm afraid so. It wasn't
the best choice this fish ever made in his life. >>Not a bad one huh? That one might
go to that lodge measurement right there, he's about twenty six and a half. >>Yeah another
good little fish. >>I'll tell you what you changed over to that morning glory or should
I say you stayed with it. Maybe I should have started with it.
[laughs] I'm gonna change my bait out Y'all stay tuned we're gonna be right back out of
Buras, Louisiana on a nice windy day catching redfish with Captain Ross Montet. We'll be
right back.
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Trust Seaguar when everything is on the line. ♪ That's a fish right there maybe.
Oyster? They bite here too huh? >>I had some guys the other day we were out fishing
and all three of them hooked an oyster and they were like man are they good to eat? I
said well hang on we'll find out. Got a little knife shucked them open and they said this
is as good as being in the restaurant. Perfect salty. About as fresh as you're gonna get
It's enough to keep good fresh water coming through, but it's still low enough that saltwater
can still come in and bring fishing in and keep water clean in places as well. The lower
the river the better. >>I've got to fish it one time when it was like two foot and it
was just crystal clear. Emerald green. >>It's a crazy thing. A crazy phenomenon. ♪ >>Fish
on! There you go. What we both cast there about five times didn't we? >>Finally decides,
hey I want to eat. >>A little guy? >>Yeah he's just a little guy. ♪♪ ♪ >>There
you go, now you can show him off. And I can catch this biggan over here. ♪ Little dude.
>>Another one to take back home to momma. ♪ Rig it right, by Wright and McGill.
>>On today's rig it right segment I'm gonna show you what we were using out there today,
but first I want to talk a little about Louisiana. One of my favorite places to fish in the entire
world. You can go, literally any given day of the week and catch your limit of redfish,
trout, flounder they don't call it the sportsman's paradise for nothing it is one place that
I've seen- I don't want to say it too bad but I've seen it deteriorate just because
the lack of conservation efforts that go on in Louisiana right now. They are losing so
much of their marsh land every single minute it's unbelievable. The fishing this time was
a little off. We did get to catch some redfish. I was throwing the seven-two. Ross was actually
throwing the bait caster this time. First time that's ever been on the show. Throwing
spinner baits. You have to have something in that water, the wind kicks up now there's
no grass to hold all that silt down so it gets real dirty real quick when the wind kicks
up. It gives off great vibration. We were using a DOA Cal we threw a plethora of lures
out there today but this one here was definitely getting the job done. A DOA Cal And that's
the Morning Glory and it looks just like a mud minnow out there. That's one of their
favorite baits to feed on. So if y'all ever get a chance to head down to Ryan Lambert's
place it's called Cajun Fishing Adventures in Buras, Louisiana. I highly recommend it.
His guides will do everything that they can to put you on the fish. Captain Ross did everything
he could to basically make a show that day. We got a show, hope you enjoyed it. We caught
some fish, but most of all you saw what the conservation efforts are going on in Louisiana
right now. Remember one thing though, every fishing season starts right here at Dick's.
That about wraps up today's show. Hope y'all enjoyed it. It was a little bit slower than
I like to bring from Louisiana, but that about wraps it up. We'll see you next week. ♪♪ >>Check