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“Dey SWARM!” he howled while removing

the hook and tossing the fish in the bucket.

He was yelling out again after his second

cast.

“Yeah, you rite!” Artie shouted. “Gotta be a

double here!”

And Artie looked over with a lunatic grin

as both his fish went berserk on the surface,

one finally pulling off the hook.

Pelayo was in hysterics.

“Geezum!” he laughed. “With all this

excitement, you’d think we’d never done this

before!”

Indeed, a school-speck frenzy still does

that to us. It did while wade-fishing along

the Metairie lakeshore in 1969, and it does it

near the mouth of the MRGO

to d ay.

I chunked out my shrimp-

tipped tandem shad rig under

a cork toward a little swirl,

and again the cork never

stopped. It hit the water and

kept going down.

Again I thought it might

have gotten tangled — then I

felt the lunge.

“Whoa!” I reared back, and

felt another lunge that almost

jerked the rod from my slimy

grip. The drag was loose and

singing crazily when a white

trout went airborne and speck

thrashed the surface with that

gaping yellow mouth.

“Another double right chere!”

And it was, but the speck

dropped off as I swung them

aboard, leaving only the

white trout, which was fine

with me: They also qualify as

“cigar trout” — and are every

bit as delectable as a school

speck.

“Nana Fontaine’s gonna

love these!” Pelayo said while

holding up his latest prize,

another white trout. “Man,

I still love catching school

trout like this.”

Pelayo whooped as he chun-

ked in the box.

“Like we used to do wad-

ing in front of the Lake Villa

pumping station when Honky

Tonk Woman was No. 1 on

the WTIX charts,” he sang

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