Sport Fishing Magazine Editor Doug Olander provided this special report from the Gulf of Mexico—

Oil on the Gulf? Not here. Rows of commercial fishing boats, commissioned to skim oil, show no oil staining of the still-clean booms with which they were outfitted after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April. What about offshore? Capt. Tommy Pellegrin out of Houma, Louisiana, had insisted he'd seen virtually no oil off western Louisiana and few anglers but in regular forays offshore - beyond the sizeable federal closed area - the fish were snapping.

So four leaders of the recreational-fishing community joined me in Cocodrie recently where we fished the Gulf with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. The images that follow offer some idea of just how true Pellegrin's assessment proved to be.

Photo by Ted Venker