With the rising sun turning the dark sky orange, we left behind Port Fourchon, one of the busiest ports in Louisiana and the entire Gulf of Mexico, and ventured westward into Terrebonne Bay, a massive, watery expanse that includes numerous bayous, lakes, swamps and marshes tallying some 730,000 acres. It’s an incredibly fertile estuary teeming with shrimp, crabs and other forage that feed multiple gamefish species thriving in its waters.
On this September morning, we soon spotted a mass of roiling water moving across the surface caused by a school of tightly-packed mullet under attack by redfish. Some of the baitfish leaped from the water in futile attempts to escape their spot-tailed pursuers. My companion and I tossed our largest topwaters in front of the churning cauldron, and both were…
