62 Louisiana Sportsman^ | April 2015
Hibbs began to explain why he was looking for fuzz and lava.
“Back some time ago, I was fishing a cork on a gum tree at Des
Allemands and not catching many sac-a-lait,” he said. “Out in
the middle of the canal, there was a man fishing out of an old,
banged-up boat.”
The boat was so beat up that Hibbs couldn’t help but think the
depth finder the old man kept looking at had to have cost more
than his boat.
“He was smoking the sac-a-lait,” Hibbs said, “and he wound
up telling me a little later to look at my depth finder to find the
fuzz on bottom.”
That was the first time Hibbs had ever thought much about a
fish finder other than maybe using one to find a 20-foot ledge in
Lake Pontchartrain or Bayou Bienvenue.
However, since that fateful day when he got schooled in the
back of a dead-end canal at Des Allemands, Hibbs has commit-
ted himself to learning how to use his fish finder to find deep
schools of sac-a-lait.
“It’s kind of like offshore tuna fishing,” he said, “but you’ve got
to turn your sensitivity way up because the fish are so much
smaller.”If the bait is on the bottom, Hibbs said it will look like a bunch
of fuzz on the bottom of your screen. And if sac-a-lait are
anywhere around the bait, they’ll appear as little boomerangs
almost like little yellow balls.“At least that’s what they look like on a Lowrance,” Hibbs said.
“Depending on how big the school is, they’ll just cover up the
bottom, and look like yellow and orange globs of lava spilling
all over your screen.”Hibbs continued to monitor his Lowrance as he
idled away from the ramp. At least now I knew what
he was doing —even if I didn’t quite understand it.
“Come here and I’ll show you,” he said.
I followed his pointing finger to a spot on the bot-
tom of the screen, and danged if he wasn’t pointing
to a bunch of fuzz on bottom surrounded by what
looked to be a tipped-over lava lamp.
Almost as an afterthought, Hibbs grabbed a small
spinning rod and tossed out 1/8-ounce jigged with a
new, prototype Matrix Mini threaded on it.
Seconds later, his rod tip ticked one time, and Hibbs
was reeling our first fish into the boat.
“When you find the fuzz, the main thing is to get a
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he had not gone to bed until 2 a.m. I forced him
to explain what he was babbling about.
LEFT: Properly presented plastics can be just as effective
for sac-a-lait as live shiners. ABOVE: Ty Hibbs waits out the
speckled-trout bite by fishing sac-a-lait at Des Allemands
and Lake Cataouatche.