Jul 15

Written by: Frank Davis
7/15/2010 7:09 PM 

      If you're planning on making a fishing trip this weekend to Delacroix Island, I want to tell you firsthand that the sunny, blue skies, light winds, clear water, and good tidal range that you'll find down there will, in all likelihood, provide you with the ideal and  probably most productive place to catch braggin' size drums and reds not very far from the launch.

      “What you do is head south from the marina for about 13 miles and end up in Bay Lafourche,” Ron “Captain Ahab” Broadus explained in detail to my TV production krewe this morning.  “Then once you’re there, fish the broken grass islands, the points, the flats, the cuts, and the pockets with super-fresh market shrimp on a quarter-ounce leadhead jig about 15 inches under a rattling cork.  And here’s the secret to it all—don’t pop, jerk, or twitch the bait.  Just let it sit.  The fish will find it.  Then all you'll have to do is set the hook.”