Clapper Rail at low tide. There was a small splash as my slide rig with a 1/0 hook tipped with a small piece of shrimp hit the water about 8' from the moss covered rocks located just off the beach at Grand Isle. We had anchored the boat just off the rock pile and were lined up just about dead center on the Grand Isle water tower, Almost at once there was a tap, tap on the rod and a quick straightening of my 12lb line on my small spinning rig. I raised the rod quickly and set the hook into a scrappy little fish that was doing his best to get back to his rock pile. My plan was on its way to success, I wanted to catch a mess of the finest table fare fish located in the Gulf of Mexico.