BIG FISH… BIG CAUSE

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July 11, 2019
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July 11, 2019

Several hundreds of fun-loving Cajuns gathered inside an air conditioned tent on Saturday afternoon to enjoy freshly boiled Louisiana shrimp and the sweet sounds of Nonc Nu and da Wild Matous.

Outside the tent were hundreds more who were out in boats surrounding that same tent — hungrily seeking out the biggest fish they could find in Louisiana’s marshes.


Oh … and all of the money spent throughout the weekend will be pooled together and given back to the teenagers of Lafourche Parish in the form of scholarships.

What can possibly be better than that?

The Golden Meadow – Fourchon Tarpon Rodeo went off without a hitch this past weekend behind Moran’s Marina at Port Fourchon.


With clear skies and warm temperatures, anglers enjoyed plentiful catches throughout the weekend. Those who didn’t want to fish were also in luck, as the event’s air conditioned tent kept passersby happy while popular local bands performed and set the mood.

“This is just a great week. It always is,” avid outdoorsman, local businessman and former rodeo Admiral Trey Boucvalt said. “And we were blessed with some good weather this year. The fish were biting and look at these people here. Everyone is having a good time.”

Boucvalt mentioned the fish.


There were plenty nice ones caught during the three-day event.

The signature fish of the event is, of course, the tarpon.

And they cooperated and showed themselves at the scales throughout the week. Simone Robichaux, of Larose, won the big prize with a 149-pound, 3-ounce lunker — enough to outlast the other fish of the same species that were caught throughout the week.


Rodeo Board Member and local insurance agent Ashley Barrios joked that all that’s needed to catch the fish is a little bit of a woman’s touch. Barrios’ words may hold some merit. In the past half-decade of the rodeo, several women have now scored the top tarpon.

Rodeo President Eddie Callais said he was happy to see the namesake fish on the leaderboard this year because they’re sometimes hard to catch in early July because of their schooling patterns in the Gulf.

“People always get excited when we’re able to get a few tarpon to the scales,” Callais said. “And this year, on the first day,


The Golden Meadow-Fourchon Tarpon was awesome. With dry weather and light winds, locals were able to catch big-time fish, like the two Jack Crevalle pictured.

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