DOWN THE BAYOU · GALLERY

Real fish, real crews, real Gulf days.

Photographs from DTB trips and the waterfront base. A photograph records a past day, not a promise.

OFFSHORE

The Gulf, from fight to dock.

Smiling anglers with a grouper on a DTB trip — A moment worth remembering.This grouper went back in the water.
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Angler bent into a fish during a DTB offshore trip — The moment it comes tight.

Mixed offshore catch laid out after a DTB jigging trip — A full day’s stories.
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Two deepwater catches held up after a DTB offshore trip — Distinctive deepwater catches.
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Two cubera snapper and a black grouper from a DTB offshore trip — Two cuberas. One giant grouper.The larger cubera and black grouper correspond to the June 2026 Louisiana No. 1 catches.
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Greg Smith with his IGFA All-Tackle record blackfin snapper — A world-record blackfin.Greg Smith’s May 23, 2025 catch with guide Joey Maciasz: 11 lb, confirmed IGFA All-Tackle.
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Two dog snapper, including Ella Douglas’s former Louisiana record fish — A place in Louisiana fishing history.Ella Douglas’s 25.80-lb dog snapper: former state record, now No. 3 in the September 2026 list.
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Group with their bottom-fishing catch on the DTB dock — Bring your people.
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Friends with mangrove snapper on the DTB dock — Friends, fish and a good story.
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MARSH & INSHORE

Closer to home.

Young anglers holding speckled trout on an inshore trip — Family time on the water.Speckled trout from an inshore trip.

DTB inshore bay boat on the water — Built for the bays.Our Purebay Blue Wave inshore boat.

Angler holding a speckled trout in the Louisiana marsh — A Louisiana inshore catch.

Guide poling a fly-fishing skiff through the marsh — Find your moment.Poling shallow marsh water on a fly-fishing trip.

Redfish caught on a DTB fly-fishing trip — A redfish on the fly.

Black drum caught in the Louisiana marsh — Another side of the marsh.

THE BASE

The lodge and the docks.

Plated fish dinner prepared at the DTB lodge — Something good waiting ashore.

Lodge landing at the DTB waterfront base — Stay for the evening.

Aerial view of the DTB waterfront base and docks — The waterfront base.

THE FISHING. THE PLACE. THE WHOLE STAY.

Fish the Gulf.
Stay Down the Bayou.

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Offshore fishing, a private lodge and time well spent.

Real photographs from DTB trips. Record catches are listed with their sources.Record catches & sources →