Baton Rouge Advocate: Anglers learn about marsh

Jul 25 Posted by National Wildlife Federation

When Andy McDaniels turned north from Barataria into the marsh near Little Lake early Wednesday morning, he was turning a page in his fishing life.

After a few minutes coaching from charter skipper Nick Rando and a few more frustrating minutes trying to figure out why he couldn’t land the speckled trout that were blasting a new-to-the-market Rapala Trigger X soft-plastic shrimp imitation, McDaniels hauled in a pound-and-a-half speck.

“That’s the first time I’ve caught a trout under a poppin’ cork,” he said.

Read the rest of Joe Macaluso’s column here.

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