[LPfishnTIM]

I headed to Metairie today after work to bring my truck to veterans ford for tires that they owed me as part of me buying my truck there a week and a half ago. I figured since I drove down there from baton rouge I might as well stop at a fishing spot on the east side of New Orleans that I know of, and take a look and see if I can see where the heck all this smoke is coming from! I pass bayou salvauge NWR and don't see any fire or smoke, but everywhere else there's smoke, what the heck! So I make a stop and start walking the bank with my pole, casting to see If I can catch something, after about ten minutes I catch a rat red about ten inches long and I throw it back, the wind is blowing straight toward me as I'm casting into the wind, I finally walk to a spot with some pilings from a camp that was probably blown down from katrina and I cast and catch a bass, my next cast, another bass, it was on like donkey kong! I caught a quick limit working those piling between 7 and 7:30 After I had caught 5 a guy pulled up with a 5 gallon bucket with some live shrimp, I out caught him with plastics, and I was giving him the bass I was catching after I had caught my limit and then I headed home, good day in New Orleans east.