I live in the high desert of New Mexico and my son lives in Salt Lake city, which also is in a high altitude desert city.  Both of us are well traveled but have not experienced the Bayou fishing.  Captain Jay Winters took care of us and made us fans of southern hospitality and great fishing.  I can’t express our fantastic experience with Captain Jay Winters and catching Red Fish.  We’ll be back!!

We dropped into Venice to hit a quick day trip and Capt Jay got us onto some big Reds and kept us on fish all day. The conditions were not ideal but that didn’t stop Capt Jay from finding our limit of Redfish and we landed 8 species of fish.
We take 3-4 guided trips a year and this one was our best day in at least 5 years.

Thanks, Capt Jay. We’ll be back.

First thing is Jay Winters is one hell of a great person to be with. It was like fishing with my brother, lots of back & forth, good natured kidding, really enjoyed being with him & hope I didn’t talk his ears off. He worked very hard to get my limit of speckled trout. Would have been easier but we had to go thru a TON of too small throw backs & gafftopsail catfish (dangerous toxic slime on their fins). I finally gave up & let him take us in out of the ridiculous heat. We did luck out & catch this 22 lb. redfish. We doubled up but mine finally cut thru the line with his tiny sharp bottom teeth but Jay immediately handed me his rod to bring that one in for quick pics then revival in the water & away it went. Again there are no guarantees in fishing but he will ALWAYS work his butt off for you! If I get back down there I guarantee I will book with him again.

I booked this trip with Captain Jay because my ten year old daughter wanted to go fishing for her birthday.  She had never been fishing in the Gulf before. I also took my dad who is 85 and he had always wanted to go to but had never been. Captain Jay was awesome! He knows the fish, the waters, his equipment and how to handle his boat. Best of all he is an amazing guy. He helped all of us catch fish. He was very patient with us. The very first time I casted I caught a big red fish! My daughter caught a red fish that was 31inches long! Seeing the smiles on my daughter’s and dad’s faces made fishing with Captain Jay the best fishing trip in my life.

Under very challenging conditions Captain Jay never gave up on finding the fish for my 14 and 11 year old sons and me and provided a very fun day in the process. Overall it was a slow day of catching fish due to the high water and windy conditions, but we caught enough along the way to keep us motivated. We finally hit a jackpot at the very end of the day with very little time left on the trip. Captain Jay kept us out longer to make sure we got all the fishing we could out of that spot.  He did everything possible to put us on fish, even a bumpy and wet ride to a spot further out - undoubtedly my 11 year old’s favorite part of the day (other than catching the fish of course). Along the way, Captain Jay had a great attitude, a fun personality, and is great with kids. I would highly recommend Captain Jay and book with him again myself.