The anglers ran to several different oil platforms off the popular Gulf port, finally reaching a spot where big tripletail lurked. That 38-inch “blackfish” later weighed 37 pounds and is touted by Louisiana anglers as the fourth largest tripletail ever caught in the state. The top tripletail brought to the scales was a 34.69-pound fish caught by angler Hayes Cornelius. “Why this area has so many big tripletail is the million dollar question that we have no real answer to,” Dr. Jeff Plumlee tells Outdoor Life. But so are a lot of other Gulf Coast river mouth areas, like the Mobile River in Alabama, the Pearl River in Mississippi, and Texas’ Matagorda Bay.”