On Dec. 23, 2010, Mark, Jason and I set out on a fishing trip to Delacroix. Recently, this has become our routine fishing location. Therefore, this should have been a routine trip for us. But, it was anything, but routine. Jason showed up to my house at the normal 3:30am. This was the only thing normal on this trip. However, he was feeling under the weather suffering from a stomach virus. So, he moved into the back seat of his truck and did his usual, went to sleep. As I started to hookup my boat to his truck, I noticed I had a flat on one of my trailer tires. It appeared the tire was flat for some time. I was in disbelief. The day before I “check” over the boat and specifically checked the tires, or so I taught. I didn’t want to risk putting the spare on and make the 5-hour round trip without a spare.
So, I moved on to plan B. I called Mark and told him we needed to take his boat. I proceed to transfer our gear into the truck. Then, I took off for Mark’s house with Jason asleep in the back seat. Once at Mark’s house, we preceded to hook Mark’s boat to Jason’s truck. Once we connected the trailer lights to the truck, the light won’t come one. After some checking, we noticed Mark’s trailer light wiring was frayed in numerous spots. We worked on splicing the boat trailer wires back together for the next hour and a half. We were able to get the turn signals and brake lights work, but not the running lights.
So, we moved to Plan C. We connected the boat to Mark’s truck. Voila, everything is working. At 6:00am, we are finally off on our 2-hour trip to the Sweetwater Boat Launch, 2-hours behind schedule. On the way, Mark’s prophesized that our bad start was the sign of a great trip to come. After making our normal stop for breakfast, we made it to the boat launch around 8:30am. After getting some last minute tips from the always-helpful Capt. Jack, Sweetwater Boat Launch owner, we were on our way.
We quickly notice it was windy, 15-20mph, and the water was murky. As always, we were on the hunt for speckle trout. We started in Four Horse Lake. After an hour or so with only one trout and one red in the boat, we moved to Point Fienne. It was really too rough to fish, but we gave it a try anyway to no prevail. Then, we moved to Lake Batola to a spot Mark hammered the trout the week before. Again, it was too rough. With the dreams of catching a limit of trout fading fast, we decided to switch our hunt from trout to red fish to try to save the trip. Mark wasn’t looking like Nostradamus, at the moment.
So we made our way back to Four Horse Lake around 1:00pm. After about an hour of search for the reds, we finally found a school of nice reds. Within 45 minutes we had our limit of 15. We stayed in the spot catching and releasing them until about 4:00. We had a blast. At which point, we decided to give the speckle trout one more try. We moved to the twin pipeline and started catching the trout fast and furious from the first cast for the next hour. As the darkest came, the bite stopped, so we called it a day and headed back to the launch. Mark’s prophecy came true. We had a great trip. We came home with 15 reds and 40 speckle trout. Check out the video and see for your self.
If you have the bandwidth, check out the HD version.
Below, is from a trip when Jason, Mark, Steve and I located a large school of speckle and white trout out of Pointe A La Hatche, LA on 8/21/2009. Watch the fun we had!
