Flounder on Demand : Recap Slamboree Kayak Tournament2016
The Lafayette Kayak Fishing Club holds their largest tournament
Slamboree every year the same weekend as the Grand Isle tarpon rodeo.
This was my second time doing this event and my fourth tournament on La
1. I had yet to catch a fish to weigh in any tournament I had
participated in down there. My goal this time was to at least catch a
fish that I could weigh in to break my La 1 tournament curse. After
scouring the web and reading reports and articles and anything I could
find I came up with three possible plans. We had planned to use the
Friday before bouncing around checking the different areas out but we got a late start on the prefish day and
missed the early morning bite. When we finally got down there at 8:30 we
realized we weren't going to have time to hit everything. I had fished most of the six potential areas already so I decided to
just check out one of the areas I had not fished before. As we
launched the water seemed high and dirty and I knew that might
make red fishing tough later on.We put that on the back burner to
see if we could find some decent trout while it was still kinda early. We pedaled around a while just surveying the new area until we got to a spot that had lots of bait a couple of casts later we both had a jumbo gafftop boated. We kept working this area with more gafftops of various sizes but only one small trout. We kept moving towards the mouth of a large bayou water and bait was pouring out and dolphins were working the opposite side. I knew this would be a good fishing spot but Collin caught the only keeper trout from this spot. We gave up trout fishing to look for some reds we saw lots of mullet and sheepshead but no reds. We headed in at 4 the only thing we learned was that we could scratch that area off the list. We had a lot of decisions to make and not much solid info to base them on.Daily Routine: Simple Fishing LA 23
To sum up this trip I would have to say it was simple. We loaded up the yak trailer and took a short drive to a nice piece of marsh on the west bank of the Mississippi River. We could have come home with a nice mess of fish if we would have kept them. We launched at 5pm and spent a productive afternoon picking off redfish A couple speckled trout and Gafftops that were giving us a little too much love. I threw a lure I gained an affinity for when snakehead fishing the Chatter bait. The benefit of using it over the gold spoon or a spinner bait is it gives off a more intense vibration than the other two. The water is never crystal clear in Port Sulphur so that extra sound gives you an advantage to attracting the reds. The good old popping cork another noise maker was essential in for calling the Gafftops from miles away and allowed us to catch our limit quickly we also picked away at a few specks in between the slime balls. It was great to spend a Monday afternoon in the marsh.
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