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Loved to go fishing in Chicot! Good bass and some big crappie.

Steve


Are you nearby?

I grew up on the "banks of the lake", though I'm now in Lafayette.

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I lived in Lafayette for six years, off Maryview Farm road at the tracks.
Rented a country home from Dr. Martin, a veterinarian. It was actually half
way between Lafayette, and Carencro.

I loved the swamps, and was all over the place, and knew it much better than
many of the local Cajuns I talked to. Actually, a lot of them didn't even
venture out into "da wooooods" as they called them.

On the program Swamp People, I have been to EVERY spot where they have
filmed so far. The Atchafalaya is immense, and beautiful. Chicot is
quaint, and getting back up into those sloughs in a pirogue is about as fun
as it gets when you hook a bass that's pulling you around.

I miss the food, the fishing, the culture, a lot. I miss being able to stop
by most any Mom and Pop store for some fresh boudin, gratons, or just a $5
all you can eat plate lunch, special du jour. Fresh oysters were a dime
apiece in Abbeyville, or Breaux Bridge during the season. We'd eat a sack a
day at work out in the shop. $6 a sack, IIRC. Coming home from offshore,
shrimp were $1 a pound for nice ones, and $1 a dozen for huge clean blue
crabs. They gave away flounder if you spent more than $20. Shrimp stuffed
flounder ............ mmm, mmm, mmm .........

Many a fond memory of frogging down around Meaux, fishing around Pierre
Parte (Troy Landry's home on Swamp People) Lake Henderson, hunting in the
marshes (sometimes the mosquitos were bigger than the ducks), just a really
cool place to live. I'd like to go back there for a good six month stint
from the start of spring to the end of fall. Do nothing but fish, and eat
and drink those little Miller bottles of beer.

The commercial diving offshore was one of my fondest lifetime adventures,
too.

AAAAYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Steve