About Us
About the Owner
Lee Mclean was born in New Orleans, LA. From a young age, all he ever wanted to do was fish and be in the outdoors. After finishing high school he went on to attend college at LSU and graduated with a business degree, from there he went into real estate on the gulf coast until hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. From there he started and fell in love with offshore fishing out of Venice, LA and eventually started guiding full time. After a decade of guiding he decided to shift gears and get into the lodging business, soon realized that was what he wanted to do full time.
About the Lodge
It took five years to develop and build the Venice Blue Crab Lodge. Building outside the levee system on the Mississippi River is extremely challenging due to the army cores jurisdiction and the fact the river has steadily remained at flood stage. The closest hardware store is 72 miles away, just another component of building a lodge at the end of the world. Through intuition, unique resources, and local connections Lee was able to finally finish the blue crab in March of 2020. After milling the wood himself from his farm in Natchez, Mississippi to shutting down LA 23 for three days in a row, creating this remote paradise was filled with bumps in the road, which makes its success all the more unique.
