Louisiana Council of Underwater Dive Clubs

Rodeo dates are May 31 thru June 3, 2012 with the weigh in and party taking place on the 3rd. Weigh-in location is "The Pavillion" at Kenner City Park (Corner of Vintage and Loyola).

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This years Sea Tigers Garfish Rodeo will be February 23rd-26th 2012.
ALL proceeds will go to support the FRA. Last years rodeo raised $1500.
We would like to thank all who supported our efforts. A special thanks to all of
our sponsors, including JBL, MAKO, RIFFE, TRIDENT and TEMENTO'S.


Please join us in the " COOLEST EVENT OF THE YEAR ".

Scales will be open Sunday Feb. 26th 2012, 12 noon till 3:00 in Westward Park. ( 15mph,, WATCH YOUR SPEED )

FREE Refreshments, GREAT entry PRIZES and Rodeo HAT to all who enter.

Sea Tigers Spearfishing Club
Matt Thomas
President

Largest Fish - David Dauat 8.4#

1st Sheepshead - David Dauzat - 8.4#
2nd Sheepshead - Scott Cameron - 7.1#
3rd Sheepshead - Louis Rossignol - 6.4#
4th Sheepshead - Vincent Leblanc - 6.4#
5th Sheepshead - Robbie Schmitt - 6.3#
6th Sheepshead - Ryan Brady - 6.1#

Venice, LA – October 14th & 15th, 2011

1) Tickets are $50 each. This includes Rodeo t-shirt, Beverages Sat. night, SHRIMP boil Thursday night, as well as SUPPER Friday and Saturday night. You may commit by phone. Voice or TEX to Darren "Gumby" Bourgeois @ (504) 914-9551, e-mail @ toohawaiin4u@yahoo.com, prepay or payable at the rodeo site. All divers must be known before 6:00 AM on Friday, October 14th, 2011. Council Derby Board Rules applies. 2) ALL LCUDC fish are eligible. No fish that is out of season, banned or not allowed under State and/or Federal Regulations.

3) Cash Prizes for TOP TEN DIVERS. There will be Awards for King, Champion Skin Diver, Queen, Jr. Diver, Club, and Boat. The 3, 2, 1 points system will apply for all awards. No ties, early entry wins.

4) Boats can leave no earlier than 6:00 A.M., Friday, October 14th. Boats must come in on the 14th and go out again on the 15th no earlier than 6:00 A.M.

5) All Boats and Divers must be committed before 6:00 A.M., Friday, October 14th.

6) All dive boats must display a dive flag while diving. The Sea Tigers request that all boats and divers have fun, dive safe, and have dive insurance (DAN). We hope that all divers enjoy themselves in Venice and use good common sense with dealing with the Oil Rig workers, Marinas and fishermen.

7) Weigh-in closes at 8:00 P.M. on Friday, October 14th and at 7:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 15th. Weigh-in may start when the first divers arrive at the rodeo site on Friday and on Saturday with awards and party to follow.

8) Ports for the STIR will be limited to the Empire/Venice area.

9) A $50 Calcutta (optional) for the largest fish shot. The Winners gets the cash. Money must be paid before 6:00 AM, Friday, the 14th.

The STIR, as all of our competition is based on the honor system. The goal is for Council members to have a spirited competition and get know each other (a little bonding), and enjoy each other’s company. As those who participated in the past can testify that it is a lot of fun.

The STIR site is located at Venice Marina. Motel ph# 504-534-9357.
The Sea Tigers have reserved cabins that sleep 5 people each and will be on a first come (commit) bases. Boats may be left in the water at the dock at the Hotel each night below or near rooms. Parking will be available for trucks and trailers. It is requested that divers stay over to Sunday to drive home or have a designated driver.
The website for the marinas accommodations is http://www.venicemarina.com/10_accommodations.htm
NO DUI or DWI allowed. Please e-mail all donation request to Steve Hartley ; (504) 495-2818. Donations may also be brought to the rodeo site.

This year's Sheepshead Shootout will be Sat., Sept. 24. Visit the Helldivers' website for additional information: http://www.helldivers.org

Where: Kenner Lake Town Boat Launch
When: Saturday September 24, 2011
Fishing starts at Sun up and ends when the scales close!
Scales Open: 3-5pm (corrected) (Must let weigh master know you are in line)!
Open to ALL In-Land Waters!
DIVERS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISPOSAL OF THEIR FISH!
First 40 Commitments get a FREE T Shirt!
$25 Entry Fee!
$10 Calcutta for biggest non-sheepshead fish!
Top 5 fish CASH Prizes

Please e-mail your commitments to dive the Council Shootout to: tgmigaud@cox.net - registration is $50 payable at the Shootout site.
1st list send out by Monday. A meal for Friday and a meal for Saturday is included, along with 30 cases of beer. Rafe is ordering the T-Shirts.
Please bring folding tables & chairs. We will set up tents as needed. There is an ice house ice just before Leesville or you
can get ice at Leesville. Don’t forget to pay the toll.

The 11th Council Shootout is now happening on Friday, Sept 16, and Sat, Sept 17.. The location is Chris Moran’s Marina and Motel in Fourchon. (The first place on the right as you turn off HWY 1.) Rooms are available for Thursday, Sept. 15, Friday, Sept 16, and Sat, Sept 17.

Call 985-396-3900 to book your room. They have lots of non-water front rooms available as on now.

For the last shootout in 2009 (remember BP), we had 80 divers.
Can we go for 100? We are set up in the same location as in the past.

All LCUDC Derby Board rules apply. Skin and Scuba allowed. Only one warsaw will be allowed to be weighed off of each boat. Only one Amberjack
and/or Drum will be allowed to be weighed each day per diver. For Lobsters, 24 per boat are allowed and they must not be egg bearers, they must be
3” or longer on the shell, 6 per diver. Good News: NO limits on Lion Fish.

Click Here for the full 2011 Shootout Rules

The donations so far:
Council $500
Git ‘em $150
Hell Divers $150
Snapper Slappers $150
Lick & Stick ‘em $150
Frogmen $150
Aqua Aces $100
WorldSpearfishing.com $75
Terry Migaud – all awards
Robbie Schmidt 6 cases water
Paul Cozic – 20 cases of beer
Aqua Aces – 10 cases of beer (baby bud)
Henry Pacheo- paper products & plastic utensils

Sent check make out to the LCUDC, 3513 43rd Street, Metairie, LA 70001. Divers may commit for Shootout, payable at the site, tgmigaud@cox.net or
504 833-1884 or 504 452-8942.

It is requested a donation of $150 from each club.
Money pays for food, drinks, t-shirts, 3 raffle tickets for each diver ($10), and cash prizes.

Terry Migaud
LCUDC Sec/tre

Where: Kenner Lake Town Boat Launch
When: Saturday September 24, 2011
Fishing starts at Sun up and ends when the scales close!
Scales Open: 2-4pm (Must let weigh master know you are in line)!
Open to ALL In-Land Waters!
DIVERS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISPOSAL OF THEIR FISH!
First 40 Commitments get a FREE T Shirt!
$25 Entry Fee!
$10 Calcutta for biggest non-sheepshead fish!
Top 5 fish CASH Prizes
Several Entry Prizes TBA
Fish Fry and BEER To Follow
To Commit, go to www.helldivers.org click on paypal link or contact one of these HellDivers by Aug 27.
George Ansardi (504) 442-4242
David Dauzat (504) 289-1331
Paul Cozic (504) 481-2225
Rules and more information on website! http://www.helldivers.org

King Skin Diver - Chris Hill

Queen Skin Diver - Krista Hanson



Red Snapper
1st - 19.0 - Chris Hill
2nd - 18.5 - Krista Hanson
3rd - 18.3 - Fred Cardet

Mangrove
1st -10.4 - Henry Pacheco
2nd - 9.6 - Joe Wegmann
3rd - 9.5 - Chris Hill

Cobia
1st - 46.8 - Joe Wegmann
2nd - 46.6 - Jared Uhlich
3rd - 43.1 - Chris Hill

Black Drum
1st - 30.4 - Chris Nance
2nd- 28.5 - Fred Cardet
3rd - 26.0 - Chris Nance

Trigger Fish
1st - 4.6 - Scott Johnson
2nd - 3.6 - Tracy Palmisano
3rd - 3.2 - Chris Hill

Grouper – No Entries
Tuna – No Entries
Wahoo – No Entries
Mahi Mahi – No Entries

King: Steve Hartley (ST)
Queen: Christy Stone (AA)
King Skindiver: Steve Hartley (ST)
Best Boat: Knot Satisfied
Best Club: Sea Tigers


Barracuda
Steve Hartley (ST) 41.0
Christy Stone (AA) 37.8
Mike Boucher (ST) 34.0

Catfish
(no entries)

Cobia
Mike Boucher (ST) 43.5
Johnny Bernard (ST) 23.3
Chris Ricouard (ST) 22.2

Drum
David Hood (HD) 38-1

Garfish
(no entries)

Grouper
Mark Peart (HD) 37.1
Jon Nemeth (AA) 13.7
Jon Nemeth (AA) 7.0

Jack Crevalle
George Ansardi (HD) 37.6
Louis Rossignol (HD) 34.2
Abe Hebert (AA) 28.1

Sheepshead
Don Scott (FM) 7.4
Mark Peart (HD) 7.1
Cyril Gonzalez (AA) 6.7

Triggerfish
Mark Peart (HD) 6.3
Mark McCloskey (AA) 6.0
Eric Spahn (AA) 5.9

Red Snapper
Jay Quiros (ST) 26.0
Greg Matherne (BB) 25.4
Jay Quiros (ST) 25.2

Mangrove Snapper
David Hood (HD) 12.6
Steve Hartley (ST) 9.2
Steve Hartley (ST) 9.0

Miscellaneous
Mark McCloskey (AA) 33.2 Almaco Jack
Steve Hartley (ST) 23.9 Almaco Jack
Christy Stone (AA) 22.2 Almaco Jack

The most prolific marine ecosystem on earth is being systematically destroyed on orders of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Where the BP oil spill failed miserably, Obama’s Dept. of the Interior now triumphs.

First came the “moratorium” on Gulf drilling. “That’s kicking a man when he’s already down,” said former offshore oil worker (and current country music superstar) Trace Adkins last May in an interview with CNN. The Obama administration itself admits to 8-12,000 job losses in Louisiana from the moratorium. But Louisiana now has 25,000 more unemployed than before the moratorium, which continues de facto in the form of stonewalling and lollygagging on the issuance of new drilling permits. So, that “man” is still down and reeling from federal kicks.

Another kick came last September in the form of a federal “notice to lessees.” “As part of our sustained effort to improve the safety of energy production on the Outer Continental Shelf and strengthen environmental protections,” decreed U.S. Dept. of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last September 15, “We are notifying offshore operators of their legal responsibility to decommission and dismantle their facilities when production is completed.”

Dismantling their production platforms could cost oil operators “$6 billion to $18 billion in lost future production,” according to a report by Mark Kaiser and Allan Pulsipher of the Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies.

The federal government, however, is unmoved by such projections. Production? Costs? Profits?—come on! Where’s the federal “environmental expert” affected by such stuff?

So let’s try this: the most prolific and “diverse marine ecosystem” ever recorded by marine scientists was created by the “facilities” the U.S. Dept. of the Interior is hell-bent on dismantling (offshore oil platforms). Acting as artificial reefs over the past half century, the natural beauty, teeming fish life, coral colonies, and “bio-diversity,” created by these structures is amply documented in several studies commissioned by none other than the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

One recent report by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Minerals (a division of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior) boasts that “fish densities are 20 to 50 times higher at oil and gas platforms than in nearby Gulf water, and each platform seasonally serves as critical habitat for 10 to 20 thousand fishes.”

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Bring the family. There will be prizes for the kids and tons of raffle prizes.

Location: Wally Pontiff Jr. (Metairie) Playground
Rules: 2011 Rodeo Rules

Visit http://www.aquaaces.net/rodeo.php for more information.

King: Keith Love of Texas Blue Water Assasins!
Queen: Abbie Donaldson-Eubanks of Git Em Divers!
Best Club: HellDivers!
Best Boat: ROK Zone of HellDivers!
Champion Skin Diver: Keith Love of Texas Blue Water Assasins!
Senior Diver: Terry Migaud of HellDivers!
Junior Diver: Ryan Brady of Frogmen!

Jack Fish
Mark Peart HellDivers 44.4 lbs.
Louis Rossignol HellDivers 41.0 lbs.
Steve Hartley Sea Tigers 34.2 lbs.
Barracuda
Jay Quiros Sea Tigers 45.8 lbs.
Stan Smith HellDivers 44.3 lbs.
Jay Quiros Sea Tigers 43.2 lbs.
Cobia
Lindsey Hurd SwollFest 84.2 lbs.
Damien Drouant SwollFest 53.9 lbs.
C. Nance Sea Tigers 44.6 lbs.
Grouper
Louis Rossignol HellDivers 72.8 lbs.
Troy Donaldson Git'Em 72.2 lbs.
Jonathan Noble Lick Em Stick Em 66.3 lbs.
Jack Crevelle
Keith Love Texas BlueWater Assassins 41.3 lbs.
M. Boucher Sea Tigers 34.2 lbs.
Troy Donaldson Git'Em 31.5 lbs.
Mangrove Snapper
Vincent Leblanc HellDivers 16.9 lbs.
Vincent Leblanc HellDivers 15.9 lbs.
Jared Shuman Texas BlueWater Assassins 14.1 lbs.
Miscellaneous
Heath Charvet King Mackeral 40.4 lbs.
Heath Charvet King Mackeral 35.9 lbs.
W. Ruffino Drum 30.5 lbs.
Red Snapper
Gumby Sea Tigers 35.2 lbs.
Stan Smith HellDivers 32.2 lbs.
Matt Thomas Sea Tigers 31.2 lbs.
Sheepshead
Billy Falgout Frogmen 7.7 lbs.
Billy Falgout Frogmen 7.4 lbs.
Rafe Antil Lick Em Stick Em 7.0 lbs.
Spade Fish
Keith Love Texas BlueWater Assassins 6.5 lbs.
Matt Thomas Sea Tigers 5.8 lbs.
Stan Smith HellDivers 5.7 lbs.
Stingray
Keith Love Texas BlueWater Assassins 16.8 lbs.
Trigger Fish
Paul Cozic HellDivers 8.7 lbs.
David Hood HellDivers 8.1 lbs.
Wil Demuth HellDivers 7.8 lbs.

GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA
Source: http://www.gloucestertimes.com/opinion/x1227548500/Editorial-Bogus-NMFS-report-on-fish-revenues-is-short-on-honesty
May 15, 2011
Editorial: Bogus NMFS report on fish 'revenues' is short on honesty

The National Marine Fisheries Service report on commercial fishing revenues- hailing an increase in gross revenues as a sign that its new regulatory system is helping fishermen, even it fails to account for a penny of fishermen's increased costs - might be considered laughable if it weren't so painfully obvious that it's no mistake.

After all, in his report summary, NMFS chief Eric Schwaab, the former Maryland fish and gamer who's now caddy to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrator Jane Lubchenco, failed to even note a disclaimer in his own report - that the preliminary figures showing purported revenue gains over nine months of fishing under the catch shares format did not include any expense data that can shed light on fishermen's net revenues at all.

That's right; this glowing report, actually picked up by some news agencies as if it were credible, did not touch upon the costs fishermen have had to ante up for sector management while working in those cooperatives. And it didn't factor in the millions fishermen have had to shell out to lease additional quota to be able to make a living under the tightly limited catch.

Given those factors, Schwaab's report isn't worth the paper on which it's printed. That, however, isn't even the most serious issue raised by this bogus report.

That, once again, is the blatant dishonesty that shines through NOAA's and Lubchenco's gang of supposedly "green" supporters in their now-desperate attempts to convince lawmakers and other unknowing Americans that catch shares are a good deal for fishermen, when, in fact, the opposite becomes clearer every day.

What the report also fails to show is the documented concentration of those higher revenues in the hands of fewer big fishing businesses - those who can afford to lease and buy up more quota - while the smaller, independent fishermen and their crew members are forced to the sidelines and the unemployment lines.

Read the full story here: http://www.gloucestertimes.com/opinion/x1227548500/Editorial-Bogus-NMFS-report-on-fish-revenues-is-short-on-honesty