![]() ![]() ![]() “16-20’s,” Jack said of the beautiful bait. The boat sheds were shaping up, the bait shed was rebuilt and he had a tank full of beautiful shrimp. ![]() Jack Payne was hard at work putting it back together again. Sweetwater took a significant beating, but owner Capt. The damage resembled what we saw in Hopedale and Shell Beach: lots of marsh muck and grass, stairways blown down, sheds and other such structures torn apart, and marinas hit particularly hard. It was my first drive down since Hurricane Isaac swept through, and evidence of its passing was still piled high on the sides of the road. With arrangements all set, we climbed aboard his 24-foot Skeeter Bayt just after daylight at the Sweetwater Marina in Delacroix. Chris Pike to see if he could put us on some trout and redfish. I was ready to jump into some of Delacroix’s great fall action, so I arranged a trip to fish with Capt. But it doesn’t change the fact that Delacroix Island is usually red hot when the weather cools down. Unladylike lady fish stealing your bait, banana fish, crab crunchers, snapper and spades. Seuss couldn’t imagine: fish called sheepshead and fish called drum, gaff-top, croaker, cigar or runt. There certainly are red fish and black fish and bluish-colored catfish, and long fish and flat fish and spotted seatrout fish. Seuss could have been counting fish in Delacroix Island when he penned those words about the wide variety of fish in the sea. ![]()
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