Had the Whole Place to Myself

Our school district had a two-day “fall break” where we were out of school yesterday and today, so because we held our football practices in the morning, I was able to get out in the basin for a few hours yesterday afternoon. The Atchafalaya River has been really low, so it was pretty hard to get into the place I wanted to fish. There was only one other truck with a trailer at the landing, and when I got through the cypress swamp and into place I wanted to fish, there wasn’t another boat anywhere. Started off kind of slow because the fish were holding so tightly to the stumps, I was having trouble dropping a jig that close under a cork with the wind that was blowing, so I ended up breaking out my 13’ jig pole and lowering a 1/64 oz jig with a black and chartreuse crappie magnet right above their heads, and that did the trick. Caught several other small fish (and a bunch of small bream and goggle eye), but the attached picture is what I kept to clean. Going to give the fillets to a guy at school who’s been asking me “if those fish I catch are good to eat?”…lol. Had at least three that were 14”.