AS SEEN ON:
CATCHING BASS
MAKES BETTER
INSHORE ANGLERS
Our inshore fishery is the greatest in the nation, but it has all of us terribly spoiled. We catch nice
coolers of redfish and speckled trout year round. For those of
us who are used to doing things a certain way it can be hard to
pick up new techniques. Bass fishing helps us overcome that.
I laughed. Not at my friend, but at the
poor redfish who was minding her own business before getting thwacked in the face by a
jighead. Predictably, she shot down the
This particular friend is a
shoreline in terror, spooking a few of her
life long angler of the
friends in the process.
Louisiana marsh and has
We were having a blast, watching all kinds
caught speckled trout
of fish from the vantage point of the platform
and redfish in the past.
and catching them. Alas, my poor friend only
In fact, he has caught a
caught one. It’s not that we didn’t see a good
lot of them. The only
deal of redfish, we saw 34, it’s just that catchthing is that he has aling them from a stand is slightly technical; it
ways caught those fish the same way: using a
popping cork with live or dead shrimp. Some- can be more difficult. A lot of my friend’s
casts were like the one that hit the redfish in
times he would throw artificial lures but althe forehead: they were too close or too far
ways with the same basic retrieve.
away, rarely were they on the money. He was
“There’s one,” I’d say as I subtly pointed
accustomed to cork