My usual guide out of Venice wasn’t available on the days I could fish, so I booked Capt. Jay to take me out. Wanting to avoid an early-morning drive from the west side of New Orleans, I stayed at a bed & breakfast in Buras, thinking I’d have a 20-minute drive south to Venice the next morning. To my surprise, Capt. Jay texted me we’d fish out of Buras, so talk about convenience! We had to delay a little due to heavy fog, but we got across the Mississippi and into the marshes, where we began. Nothing was hitting, so as expected, we took a 15-minute ride to Capt. Jay’s “secret spot,” a short distance into the Gulf. This was the ticket, and we limited out on redfish by 10:45 am - three of them were very nice sized (see picture of two of them). We also caught some sheepshead and a bonus was four speckled sea trout, not many of which had been caught recently. We even caught an undersized black drum, which we released. Capt. Jay actually called some other boats based out of Buras to tell them where the action was, but none of them would “come out” to the spot. Needless to say, from the reports I heard and the fish I saw back at the dock, we out fished everyone. Capt. Jay told me he fishes out of Venice sometimes, and he’s even gone out of the mouth of the Mississippi for tuna, although that trip is an anomaly. Needless to say, he knows where to fish all over the area south of New Orleans, and I highly recommend him - this is coming from someone who’s fished the area since the 1970’s. The bonus is Capt. Jay is a hoot to chat with while fishing, so it’s doubly fun.

We spent two days fishing with Captain Jay Winters out of Venice La. He put us on fish and we were able to limit out both days with a few bonus species like Black Drum and Flounder. He us well versed and knowledgeable of tge local area with 26 years locally.

We had an absolute blast with Captain Jay. He is a very tentative captain and juggled our continuous catches of fish gracefully and with just as much excitement as we had. He was able to put us onto all the best fishing spots and we will definitely be back!

My wife and I are both teachers and took advantage of spring break to do some fishing with Captain Jay. We had a great trip. Captain Jay was incredibly personable and made us feel like old friends that had shown up to go fishing. He did a terrific job of keeping us on the fish. We caught fish fairly steadily throughout the day and both ended up with our limits of redfish plus a few other fish to round out the box. I can’t wait to book my next trip with Captain Jay and enjoy some more of the incredible fishing action he delivers.

We where not sure we could do 6 hours and Jay let us gauge that.  I was ok paying full day price just not staying there if we ran out of energy .  He was understanding and did a great job of dressing the fish out.  We are over 60 and have taken lots of fishing trips, however we both agreed this was one of the best.  Thank you Jay for an outstanding day!