Meet the Guides
Captain Crickett
He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1945. At the age of 5 years old, his father, a New Orleans Fireman, would take young Crickett fishing on his days off of duty. This gave him the love he has for the sport of fishing...
Captain Bobby B
He grew up in Marrero, Louisiana and has been fishing the Barataria Basin since the 60’s as a young boy spending a lot of time with his family at a camp they owned out in the marsh...
Captain Darrin
He was born fishing out of, the home of Bourgeois Fishing Charters, Barataria, Louisiana. He gives credit to his father for influencing him to start fishing from a very young age, and Captain Toe (Theophile) for inspiring him to make it a full-time career in 2001...
Captain T-Wayne
He was born in 1971 and raised in Westwego, Louisiana, where his father supported his family as a commercial fisherman. As a young man of 15, he made the decision to end his schooling and begin working as a deckhand on a commercial trawl boat, following in his father’s footsteps...
Captain Kevin
He was born in 1977 living in Westwego, Louisiana. He was 12 years old when he and his family moved to the small fishing community of Barataria, Louisiana...It was then, that he got his first fishing boat, he explained, “that’s only because my dad was tired of me taking his boat!”
Captain Dave
He was born in June of 1955 and was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has fished his entire life, spending nearly every weekend as a child and young adult at his father's camp...
Captain Steve
He grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. His passion for fishing wasn’t realized until he and his family moved to the small fishing community of Lafitte, about a 30-minute drive south of the City of New Orleans, where he fell in love with the sport...
Captain Camille
He was raised in, "The best place on Earth... Lafitte!" Located across the bayou from Barataria, Louisiana, the home of Bourgeois Fishing Charters. Being kin to the legend, Captain Theophile Bourgeois, Camille explains that in his family there was never an option of not having a passion for this lifestyle...
