Smallcraft Pilgrim does it again!!

When Don Pilgrim books a trip you can bet the weather will be at disaster levels, Smallcraft advisories, Tornados,earth quakes, volcanic eruptions …you get the picture.
Well today was no different with the winds at 20+ at the dock this morning and not going was not an option for this gang.
Well Don, Dr. George, Levan and Ricky were eager to hit the waves especially Ricky wanting to try out his new rig a mean looking Zebco 808 on an ugly stick.
We headed to where I had been catching some trout lately and the wave action said FAGETABOUTIT!!!
George managed the first and only trout of the spot and the way things were looking I figured I would make it A raidfeesh day and get those lines stretched.
Jumped in a pond and before we were settled good Don was hooked up then George then Levan with reds going crazy all around us.
This was Levans first trip and after a few casting lessons he was swinging them with the rest of the guys.
Then we heard this NOISE unlike I had never heard before sort of a screeching, painful, agenizing sound similar to a cat with his privates caught in an electrical socket if you know what I mean and as we all looked to the back of the boat it was Ricky’s reel being delivered pain by a redfish that had no intention on being brought to the boat by that 808!
Well Ricky wore the fish down and after it hit the net I knew the guys were in for it for the rest of the day !!!
The action continued for a while but as the tide came to a stop so did the bite.
With a bunch in the box we made a run to check some other spots but it was one here and there kind of a bite with reds and Black drum doing the bidding.
Headed back in the same area where we started and on Don’s first cast it was on again with drags peeling and rods folded all around me.
George went to take a picture of Don and almost lost his rod in the process with a red as well as Ricky almost loosing his cell phone after a red slammed his bait while taking a call.
We were having a blast and not just from the wind .
Ricky’s 808 is now legend in Delacroix with people all over the island asking if anyone heard a weird noise coming from the marsh today???
Made it back with a dry but and after 5 minutes on the dock the heavens opened and it poured.
All in all although it was a little windy we had no gnats, didn’t get sunburn, beat the rain and caught a box full of fish and laughed our buts off all day.

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Till next time …Take a trip and rip some lips!

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DELACROIX ISLAND LA
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