172 Louisiana Sportsman^ | April 2015
out. “Only we were using go-go worms and smoky shrimp tails
at the time.”
“And side-winders,” I added. “And Mr. Champs.”
I smirked as my cork plunged again.
“I, for one, am using the same thing I used back then — shad-
rigs!” I bragged.
In brief: If you find moderately clear water, some current, a
little bait action on the surface — not necessarily birds (though
that’s unbeatable), just some pogies, mullet flashing around or
some shrimp hopping along, especially near some current lines
100 yards or so off some point or island — you’ve usually found
some cigar trout.
The trout frenzy switched off as quickly as it had switched on.
I counted 14 fish in the box while Artie raised the anchor.
We’d motored barely a quarter mile along the coast of this little
peninsula that provided cover from the wind when Pelayo pointed.
“That’s them!” he bellowed.
Sure enough, some gulls (the black-headed ones) were hover-
ing, with another dozen or so sitting on the water resembling aCigars & courtbouillonsmall flock of malnourished dos gris.
They were maybe 100 yards off a grassy and wave–lapped point.
Seven times out of 10, beneath these gulls you’ll find feeding
school specks, pushing up shrimp for them. On the other hand,
if you cast around diving terns, the ones that make that creaky,
squeaky sound and smack into the water head first after diving
like a Stuka, you usually catch sail cats or ladyfish, especially
later in the year.
Half of these gulls were sitting on the water. A few others were
hovering and dipping their beaks. A current line formed right
past them. Little swirls and various forms of surface commo-
tion rippled the surface.
Everything looked perfect.
Pelayo killed the motor about 100 yards away, and we drifted
in just as the gulls started lifting.
In seconds the action was as hot as at the first stop. No hocus-
pocus or dilettantism for this type of fishing — and we had a
blast, finishing with another 18 (mostly in the cigar-trout size,
six of them white) from this spot.
“Time to hunt-up some coo-bee-jon fixins!” Artie announced
from the bow.
Which was easy considering the route back through a marsh
flooded by a high tide, which was — perfect conditions again
— falling.
Midway through Long Lagoon Pelayo pointed at a shoreline
with an emptying trenasse that had “cooo-bee-yon” writtenAcreage with improvements near
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