Poling Louisiana's redfish flats with C.A. Richardson

C.A. Richardson is revered nationally for guiding action-hungry anglers within casting distance of trophy snook, rolling tarpon and, of course, line-stripping redfish. He also takes viewers along with him weekly on Flats Class TV, a show as educational as it is entertaining.

Richardson's base of operations is the west coast of Florida, but for two months every year, he pulls up the stakes and sets up camp in Buras, La., where the world's thickest redfish crowd water that seems entirely too skinny for them to swim upright.

I connected with Richardson last week while at a media event housed at Capt. Ryan Lambert's Cajun Fishing Adventures. Seaguar's Brian Evans and I manned the front deck of Richardson's Hell's Bay Marquesa while his 6-foot, 5-inch frame towered over us on the poling platform.

A full moon the previous night conspired with dirty water and an intermittently cloudy sky to make the fish tough to see, but still we had plenty of opportunities and made several connections on fish that tournament anglers would like to have captured.

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