The fish don’t know it, but sometimes they have to outmaneuver two LSU basketball greats. They’re just bass, swimming through a private creek in Baker, where they live on an 18-acre property that juts up against the Comite River.
Seimone Augustus drops in a line every now and then. Sometimes, Mikaylah Williams bobs and drags another nearby. The fish tend to bite here, on the nice-sized swath of land that Augustus’ parents own in the northern suburbs of Baton Rouge. It’s a quiet part of town, which makes it an ideal setting for the two like-minded hoopers to unwind and decompress.
“Those are the moments,” Augustus said, “where sometimes you’re not even talking. You’re just enjoying each other’s presence.”…