Micah Hebert of New Iberia, 7, enjoys a blue snowcone as he shows off the 10.4 lb. redfish he reeled in for the 57th Annual Kay-Cee Saltwater Fishing Rodeo.

CYPREMORT POINT — It’s been seven years since Brady Larive won a title in the Kay-Cee Saltwater Fishing Rodeo.

Larive, 46-year-old commercial salesman at Home Depot, remembers the Boat Captain’s Award well because it was the 50th anniversary of the fundraising event staged every year by Knights of Columbus Council 3425.

On Sunday, after the scales closed on the 57th annual Kay-Cee Saltwater Fishing Rodeo, Larive celebrated an individual title when he walked away with the hardware as Best All-Around Fisherman in the Inside Division. He fished the two-day holiday weekend event with his long-time fishing rodeo buddy, Karl Rouly.

“Every year we go fish the rodeo. This is the first time I’ve ever won Best All-Around,” Larive said Sunday night after he amassed 140 points to finish ahead of Mark Boudreaux, 112, and Keo Khamphilavong, 96.

Larive tacked on a first-place speckled trout weighing 1.78 pounds on Sunday. He also boasted first- and second-place croakers that he put up the first day at .69 and .63 pounds.

Boudreaux, meanwhile, finished with first- and second-place flounder (1.99 and 1.55 pounds, respectively) that he stuck on the leaderboard Saturday.

“With the front coming through (Sunday) and the way the water was, it wasn’t that great. With conditions the way they are, you’ve got to know where to go to find the right ones,” Larive said. 

That clutch speckled trout was caught on shrimp in Marsh Island, he said, noting he targeted that category because there were very small speckled trout on the leaderboard when the scales closed Saturday.

“I guess he was just in the right place at the right time. We did catch smaller speckled trout,” he said.

A second-day surge by Sage Hebert nailed down the Best All-Around Fisherman title in the Kids Division. The champion finished with 234 points, just ahead of Avery Derouen, 211, and Sydni LeBlanc, 173.

Hebert established himself as a contender on opening day that ended with a first-place sheepshead at 1.71 pounds and a second-place croaker at .48 pounds on the leaderboard. On Sunday, he sealed the deal with a flurry of fish and finished with all three sheepshead places — 3.43, 3.15 and 2.53 pounds — first- and second-place croaker of .51 and .48 pounds, and a first-place flounder of .34 pounds.

The Inside Division’s Boat Captain’s Award went to Ronnie Derouen’s Avery’s Boat, which got its impromptu name this weekend. Derouen and his son, Avery, fished the first day with Keo Khamphilavong.

The Derouens and Khamphilavong fished in Derouen’s boat, a 23-foot Key west, on Saturday and Avery fished with Khamphilavong aboard the latter’s 22-foot Blazer on Sunday.

Derouen, who owns Derouen’s Electric, was able to fish Saturday but was on call Sunday. He was on standby, he said, to help AT&T if necessary in Baton Rouge, which is recovering from the Aug. 12-14 flooding that plagued Louisiana. 

Avery, 13, a student at Highland Baptist Christian School, was with one of the best in the area Sunday, his father said, which helped winning the Inside Division’s Boat Captain’s Award. 

The top boat had 307 points to edge out Come to My Line, 234, and Gettin’ Closer, 219.

“Well, Keo, we’re going to give all the credit to Keo. We fish all his spots. He’s awesome, very knowledgeable. He knows what to catch them on and where to catch them,” Derouen said.

Avery Derouen came up short of the Kids Division Best All-Around Fisherman’s title but enjoyed his first-ever fishing rodeo very much, according to his father. The youngster finished with first- and second-place speckled trout and first-place drum after two days of fishing in and around Vermilion Bay.

“Man, he was excited. It’s the first tournament he’s ever fished. He’s looking forward to fishing some more,” Ronnie Derouen said.

“He was excited to get some trophies,” Khamphilavong said.

About the weekend’s outings, the fishing rodeo veteran said, “Saturday we really did good and caught a bunch of fish. Conditions changed today. It kind of rained all around us today. We stayed around Southwest Pass.”