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http://www.LouisianaSportsman.com April 2015 | Louisiana Sportsman 67

Chris Ginn has been covering

hunting and fishing in Louisi-

ana since 1998. He lives with

his wife Jennifer and children

Matthew and Rebecca in rural

Washington Parish. His blog

can be found at chrisginn.com.

Hibbs’ bottom-up approach
puts him on the fish faster,
especially on high-pressure
days when he feels his only
shot at catching them is fish-
ing the bottom in deep water.
He also likened it to learning
how to fish speckled trout in
Lake Pontchartrain.
“Somebody will go out (to
Pontchartrain) and try to
figure it out, but they don’t
catch anything and wind up
leaving,” Hibbs said. “They
probably got a lot of bites but
just didn’t realize it. This deep
sac-a-lait fishing is the same
way: Some people try it once
but head back shallow after
they get frustrated.”
Hibbs also stacks the odds
in his favor by fishing on days
when other anglers might not
even get out of bed.
“Don’t roll over and go back
to sleep just because it looks
like rain or a front is coming
through,” he explained. “In
fact, it’s just the opposite: You
better be getting up early on
those kinds of days.
“Fish until the front blows
through — the nastier the
conditions the better those
sac-a-lait are going to bite.”
Being one who might have
given up had I not been in the
boat with Hibbs, I stuck with
it long enough to figure out
how to jig up some deep sac-
a-lait of my own.
I found the fuzz and got a
Matrix Mini down to the sac-
a-lait.
After that, it didn’t take long
for me to stop paying atten-
tion to Hibbs. ■

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