BREAUX BRIDGE – A parking lot crowded to the max and beyond around the boat ramp around 7:35 p.m. March 25 delayed a two-man bass fishing team eager to weigh in a heavy three-bass limit at Lake Martin.
“It took soooo long to pick up the boat. By the time we got up there, I think everybody had weighed in. We kind of cracked the scale,” Zach Savoy of New Iberia said in an understatement a few days later.
Savoy and another local bass angler, Caiden Carline, who graduated a few years ago from Loreauville High School, teamed up to win the Wednesday Night Hawg Fights Bass Tournament Series tournament that night with a three-bass limit weighing 11.43 pounds. They had their two biggest bass in the boat soon after the 5:30 p.m. start.
After his first cast of the evening, the 19-year-old Carline made another one with the ⅜-ounce chartreuse/white Humdinger spinnerbait he had tied on. It landed close to a cypress tree and what proved to be a 5.97-pounder stopped the moving bait in its tracks. On the other end of the fishing line, Carline had no idea about the size of the bass…