Successfully avoided the curse of the camera.
The speckled trout action in South Louisiana is the best in North America right now, and that means it’s an ideal time to shoot fishing shows geared toward a national audience. Kevin Ford, host of Louisiana Outdoor Adventures TV, hopped aboard with me Monday, with his producer Joey Bordelon following behind in a camera boat to shoot the next installment of the popular show.
A stiff northerly wind and leaden, leaky skies forced us to break out the heavy winter garb — certainly unusual conditions for mid-April in the Deep South — but the speckled trout were in full-blown springtime mode, vigorously and enthusiastically attacking the soft-plastic lures we threw.
Fishing out of Delacroix, we had to bounce around a little bit in the marshes of northern Plaquemines Parish, but we found good action at most places, concentrating on a pattern that should hold for several more weeks. In addition to speckled trout up to 18 inches, we also caught redfish, black drum and even a freshwater catfish.
We threw limbo slice-colored Matrix Shad soft-plastics on 3/8-ounce jigheads using medium heavy-powered Shimano Crucial and Fitzgerald rods. As discussed in the video, both Ford and I are braided-line fans, but we fish it with fluorocarbon leaders.
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