Venice, Louisiana, at its finest: Doubled fly rods and big pelagics around the oil rigs.
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A fat yellowfin tuna skyrockets through a school of bait off Venice.
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**Big tuna like this put even the stoutest of fly gear to the test. **
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Mustad’s Jeff Pierce with a fine Louisiana dolphin.
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A wild dolphin goes airborne trying to throw a tube fly.
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FFSW publisher Gary Jennings takes yet another big mahi off a thick weed line.
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This cobia is small, but plenty of monsters are also willing to eat around the northern Gulf’s oil platforms.
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This whale shark was surrounded by tiny baitfish and a horde of feasting blackfin tuna?
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?Gary Jennings managed to snag one just off the whale shark’s nose!
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Capt. Rimmer Covington and Jeff Pierce display the benefits of persistence and hard work.
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Even the author, here with Capt. Kevin Beach, managed to get in on the action. Yes, his fish was a dink?
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Find out more about this trip and related upcoming feature in Fly Fishing in Salt Waters by reading Mike Mazur’s Editor’s Blog**
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