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TEN YEARS LATER
by Trey Reid
The end of a fishing day is a natural
said. “I still love going to work every
crevalle that maliciously herded big
time for reflection. So with the
day. You get to see things that most
schools of menhaden. Things got
evening sun slipping lower and
people go their whole lives and never
more interesting when bull sharks
bathing the Louisiana coastal marsh
see. It never gets old.”
showed up to the dinner party,
in golden light, it seemed fitting
smashing through the middle of
for Captain Mike Frenette to wax
The previous few hours of fishing
the baitfish schools while the jacks
philosophic on four decades of fishing
made Frenette’s point. Our objective
judiciously turned their attention
one of the Gulf of Mexico’s most
was redfish, a species that’s
to the outer edges. At one point the
productive estuaries.
emblematic of this coast and its
entire piscine spectacle drifted under
people—strong, tough, adaptive,
Frenette’s boat to offer an intimate
“I’ve seen a lot of changes, but it’s
and resilient—but we spent most of
glance into the feeding habits of
still an incredible fishery,” Frenette
the afternoon casting flies to jack
large predatory fish.
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