Just got the NOAA notification of immediate fisheries closure in the Venice LA area. I'm so, so, sorry for you Cap'n Hoop. As if you guys haven't had enough to deal with down there in past few years, now this.

I've attached some photos from better days, when Gulf oil rigs served as gathering points for gamefish.. not as mass extinction ecological destroyers.

Now, I look at these photos from our trip out with you, with nostalgia and a tear in my eye. Probably the last of their kind for a very long time to come.

All my best to you Larry..

Russ~