CYPREMORT POINT – Considering the fabulous weekend of fishing and hunting enjoyed to its fullest by Jordan Morgan, he should have bought a Powerball ticket.

“Absolutely,” Morgan responded two days after he and a fishing buddy won $1,000 in the Redfish Rumble of the Iberia Comprehensive tournament Sept. 14, then took the lead in the ongoing Cypremort Invitational Fishing Association tournament when he weighed the biggest redfish from their winning three-fish limit a short while later at CIFA HQ, Dago’s Mobil and Grocery in Lydia.

The 35-year-old Lydia outdoorsman stands to win another $500 if that 8.53-pound redfish stays atop the CIFA leaderboard through 7 p.m. Sept. 28. His slot red bumped young Max Baudry’s redfish into the second spot in the Redfish Division of the tournament that began July 6.

Morgan, an NDT inspector for Tuboscope, which provides premium machining services for the oil field industry, polished off the weekend with an outstanding special teal season duck hunt with 16 others in Gueydan. The hunting party bagged 101 teal, one shy of the limit, on Sunday.

It was one of those blast and cast weekends a true outdoorsman cherishes, something his wife, Bethani, noted at the midway point of the weekend. He took advantage of it, for sure.

Morgan was fishing with a friend from his high school days at Westgate when he caught the game-changing redfish about 1:30 p.m. during the Iberia Comprehensive tournament put on by Reggie Boutte of Grand Marais. It anchored the three-fish limit weighed by Morgan and Travis Thomas of Loreauville, who have spent many hours on the water together.

“We didn’t get on the fish till about noon. By noon, we had, like, five keepers (keeper-sized redfish) in the boat. Between noon and 2, we caught about 20-25,” Morgan said. “It was as fast as we could reel them up and take the hook out …”

The Southern Outcast team was fishing a hole in front of a drain coming from the marsh in Hawkins Cove, he said. Their two best slot reds, however, only measured 25 and 26 inches.

A shrimp fished on the bottom accounted for the biggest redfish, which measured 26 7/8 inches long, the perfect slot size. It weighed 8.55 pounds when it hit the scale under the pavilion at Cypremort Point.

“I thought he was over at first because it was so fat but measured it and it was legal,” Morgan wrote in a text about the 10th redfish they caught in the flurry.

Their limit weighed 21.9 pounds, good enough to top a 28-boat field for a real grand time.

By the time they got to Dago’s, his redfish had lost a fraction of an ounce.

“I got there and asked how big the first-place redfish was. I said, ‘Oh, I think this one’s bigger than that,’ ” Morgan said about Baudry’s 7.49-pounder caught Aug. 2 while the Loreauville Junior High seventh-grader was fishing with his father, Jon Baudry.

“Hopefully, it sticks,” Morgan said. “I’m going to try to get out Saturday and get my name on the speck board (Speckled Trout Division).”

Rounding out the rest of the Top 5 in the Redfish Division are Morgan, 7.32 pounds; Matt Migues, 7.27, and Robbie Champagne, 7.20.

Kyle LeBlanc’s 4.36-pound speckled trout continues to set the pace in the Speckled Trout Division. He caught it July 24 at Tee Butte while riding with DCFishing Services LLC charter boat captain Damein Clement.

Following LeBlanc going into the last 1 ½ weeks of the 40th annual CIFA tournament are Troy Amy, 3.34 pounds; Bo Amy, 3.06; Hunter Romero, 2.73, and Troy Amy, 2.58.