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What a day! Saturday the 20th, David, Mark, Jason and I set out on my second fishing trip of the year. We were looking forward to it. It was the first weekend the weather permitted us to get on the water. We had high hopes of this trip. The weather was nice, but windy. We decided to go fishing in the bays of Delacroix do to the 20 mph winds in the forecast. After a long 3 hour drive to the Sweet Water landing, we launched the boat and were on our way. We quickly realized we were in for a rough day. The water appeared to be a foot to foot and half lower than normal. Also, it was muddy. We motored to Lake Robin thinking we would find some cleaner water. Nope, all we found was rough, muddy water. After fishing there for about an hour, we start heading deeper into the bays. One stop after another, we found more muddy, low water. We decided to head over to our honey hole where we caught tons of Speckle Trout on our last visit. As we approached the spot, we notice there weren’t any boats there. We knew that wasn’t a good sign. This spot usually keeps 4-5 boats. After fishing it hard for about an hour and not having one bite all day, we were not ready to call it a day. So, we decide to put the Mercury 200 to work and head over to Backers Bay, about a 20 minute boat ride. Backers Bay was rough, but the water was a little cleaner. Shortly after arrive there; we notice some bird diving in the swallows. We headed over and started casting. Mark quickly caught a 15″ Red Fish. Shortly after that, Jason caught 0ne. We just knew it was on. Nope, that was it. No more bites. So we started back stopping at cuts along the River aux Chenes and Twin Pipeline. I eventually caught a 15″ Red, then David got his. At that point, we decided to call it a day. Everyone caught a fish, albeit we had to throw them all back because they were too small to keep. This was a terrible trip for the fish count, but it was still fun to get out on the water after being sidelined in the house for 6 weeks.