Hi Bill,
This is a cool site. Zach does a great job. I lived in Lafayette for a while as a boy. My dad’s family are spread across the state: Maringouin, Baton Rouge, Chalmette, NO, New Iberia….LA is a beautiful state and offers some great fishing.
I bought my first hand held GPS six years ago after a red fishing trip with one of my elderly uncles. He motored us miles into the middle of some bayou, and would pull up to a clump of grass and say, “We caught lots o’ fish here last year.” We were sidling up to one such bank, he mopping the sweat from his forehead when he told me that if he had a heart attack I would have to get us back. We had taken some Candy Land path to get where we were. For as far as I could see there was nothing but saw grass and mosquitoes. I decided then and there that $120 was a pretty cheap price to pay for some measure of assurance.
Sorry for being long winded.
Bryan