The 66-year-old Olivier, an Arnaudville native who has lived in New Iberia 46 years, bought the World Cat in May, just in time for the speckled trout fishing to get red-hot at the near-offshore rigs he likes to fish so much. We always have plastics ready.”Īlso at the ready during the outing were flippers (for catfish), grabbers (for speckled trout and other fish) and pliers, all on a non-skid surface so they can stay out while the boat goes rig-hopping. You throw live bait, and they start hitting again. “You know, we go out there and sometimes we start busting them on plastics,” Olivier said. Olivier and Martin depend on both natural and artificial bait, which is why they have setups for both ready in advance. “You know, when the fish are biting - especially this time of year when the water’s pretty - you’ll have a lot of Spanish mackerel and bluefish, and you break off a lot,” Olivier said. No wonder the Miss Lil returned about 12 hours later with a long icebox crammed with 2- to 4 1/2-pound speckled trout. The leaders and tandem-rigged leadheads were made up the night before. They were loaded on three soft rubber rollers with grooves for the hook points to be imbedded. ![]() Miss Lil was armed to the teeth, too, with 35-40 tandem-rigged 3/8-ounce leadheads for the various soft plastics. 3 kahle hooks for the mullet because, Olivier said, the mullets’ heads are larger. 1 kahle hooks for the cocahoes, some on No. There were pre-rigged 1 1/2-foot-long 20-pound leaders for Carolina-rigging the live natural bait, some on No. There were 250 live cocahoes and dozens of live mullet swimming in two bait tanks at the stern, just in front of the two softly humming 300-horsepower Suzukis. But the fact everything was there in place was a tell-tale sign for a crew that included his good friend Johnny Martin of Breaux Bridge, a local outdoor writer and his son Jacob Shoopman of New Iberia, and the outdoor writer’s visiting brothers Bill Shoopman of Kansas City, Mo., and Keith Shoopman of Belton, Mo. ![]() Sure, Miss Lil was headed to a happy hunting ground for speckled trout - Eugene Island 74. Before one of the dozen or so fishing rods aboard was cast, before one hook was set, the skipper had prepared himself for success.
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