Smokin' Hot Trout

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This morning I just had the feeling the fish would cooperate. My plan was falling into place until my customers were late and we had to wait in line at the bait boat. No problem I thought, the trout should be boiling the water everywhere and finding a spot would be no problem. Onward with 100 live croakers and 100 live shrimp we rode south. I had Capt. Eric Pellegrin running the second boat with my customers as part of a 6 person family trip. When we arrived to the spot I had picked out, there were 3 boats already there. We stayed a safe distance and made some casts away from the platform to see what was up. No one was catching fish and a couple of the boats picked up and left, and we moved in for the kill. One man's trash is another mans treasure, I thought. Not 10 minutes later the reels were smoking and speckled trout were piling up in the boat one after another. All the live bait we bought was slowly dying one by one as our double rigged Reflexion Swimbaits had the fish in a frenzy. The bite went on this way for 30 minutes or so then the tide went slack. We waited it out and next thing you know the fireworks went off again. My customers were steady strokin' the trout and when the smoke cleared I was drenched in sweat and trout slime. Gotta love it! By 10:00 we were headed north with our 100 fish. Capt. Eric and his crew whacked them just the same. Good times in Terrebonne Bay today!