Work / Fish / Learn / Eat journey

Team Jo-Jo Fishing LogDate: Tuesday, July 8, 2025Mission Location: Lake Pontchartrain (Lake P)Vessel: 18’ NauticStar powered by a 115 hp Yamaha Dream MachineCrew:

• Captain: Big Alex

• First Mate: Big Rudy

• Deckhand: Oneofthepack

Mission Objectives & Highlights:

✅ Monday Night Card Game:• Oneofthepack showed up empty-handed at the fish table, so .4 of a “C” note was won, now for new lures for redemption.

✅ Lake P Shake-Down Cruise:• Put Big Alex’s boat through the paces to ensure smooth operation and build confidence at the helm.• Everything ran great — Yamaha Dream Machine purred like a cat!

✅ Intro to Lake P for Big Alex:• Orientation tour around the iconic trestles and the surrounding fishing structure:

• Trestles

• FBs (Fire Breaks)

• Lake P Troll technique

• Tight-lining jigheads

• Anchoring strategies (rising & falling tides)

  
  

  • Tactical demonstration of jigging technique and where Silverwonders like to stage.

✅ Fishing Results:• Boxed (2) NMR Silverwonders and (1) healthy flounder — dinner secured for the Alex family.

✅ Boat Logistics:• Dropped off trailer at Pointe.• Hauled Big Alex’s boat to Dave’s Mobile Outboard Service in Chalmette for 100-hour maintenance on the Yamaha Dream Machine:

• External fuel filter installation

• Fuel gauge replacement.

• Ignition tumbler & key replacement

• Engine control cable swap

• Live well aerator replacement

• Engine run test.

• Full computer printout on engine diagnostics

✅ Lunch Stop:• Rocky & Carlos — Big Alex’s treat! (Food always tastes better when someone else is picking up the tab.)• Stuffed ourselves like a fish on falling tide.

✅ Evening Learning:• Attended CCA’s Angler Night Out — great insight and learning from experienced guides on how and where they fish. Always something new to pick up and apply on the water!

Trip Debrief:All objectives completed ✔️Fun had ✔️Fish caught ✔️Boat serviced ✔️Belly full ✔️Knowledge gained ✔️Back home by 7:30 PM — one for the memory books.

Looking forward to bringing Big Alex’s boat back to his condo, prepped and ready for more Lake P action.

Tight lines, full coolers, and good times ahead!— Team Jo-Jo & Oneofthepack