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English Lookout is considered one of the test fishing localities along or near the coast of the Gulf. Its surrounding waters—the Rigolets, Pearl River, and Lake Borgne—are liberally patronized by four limited clubs, composed chiefly of Waltonians from the Crescent City vho have, each, separate and commodious club-houses around the railroad station. These organizations are known under the names of the "Lookout," "Pearl River," "Ballejo," and "Bush" clubs. Beside these, hundreds of the citizens of Nev Orleans and other Southern cities and towns visit the place and avail themselves of its splendid fishing facilities.
Types of Fish
The more numerous varieties of fish abounding in the adjacent waters are the Southern "green trout," or the black bass, according to Commissioner Seth Green; croakers and sea trout, which count for nothing in those fishing grounds; sheephead, redfish, the carancke, cavalle. or jackfish, and the justly-celebrated silver-fish, tarpon, or granae ecaile, the gemest fish in the Mexican Gulf, or any other part of the ocean for that matter.
Methods of Catching
The green trout, better adapted to fresh or slightly brackish water than all the other varieties, requires the most alluring bait and the most subtle piscatorial art to capture him. He prefers to kill his own game; hence, the angler who wishes to be successful in getting him out of his element must employ live bait, sea shrimp, cacahao, or salt-water minnows, revolving metal spoons, which simulate frog or fish life, or feather and hair "bobs" that are made to skip above the surface of the water, as if they were water moths or dragon flies dipping for a bath.
The president of one of the Lookout fishing clubs captured one hundred and thirty-nine green trout in one morning by cautiously working along the flag roots and the lily pods of the bayous. The green trout in this vicinity run from one pound to seven pounds in weight. The striped bass, a much rarer variety of fish than the last named, is frequently caught. The largest landed with rod and reel, with a record* furnished, was forty inches in length and nineteen pounds in weight.
The sheephead, one of the finest fish in the Gulf of Mexico, seems to be a reliable and voracious biter in the Lookout fishing region; catches of 50 or 60 a day, by a single fisherman, are matters of such common occurrence as to be considered unworthy of comment. He will rise to the veriest tyro's hand, induced*by no greater attractions than pieces of sea or river shrimp, or fragments of broken crab.