Keith Lusher George Seymour and his grandson Gabe Meche, made a trip to Bayou Liberty in search of speckled trout and launched at Bayou Liberty Marina at a time that he though was early enough to beat the crowds. “We hit the boat launch at Liberty early, I thought, only to find 8 trailers already in the lot,” he says. The team made their way out to the mouth of Bayou Liberty and started fishing on the bottom with shrimp. After an hour of not catching anything George pulled up the anchor and began to drift out into the lake where the other boats were. “The flotilla was out! We joined the fleet and anchored up again when we got out to the lake,” Nunez says. Finally the team started catching white trout and croaker on the bottom. George says they could have caught more but their trip was cut short because Gabe had to get on the road to get back home with his parents.
Bayou Biloxi Redfish
Blake Hoyt of Madisonville decided to make a run to the Biloxi Marsh in search of redfish with some friends. They were greeted with light wind which made the run across Lake Borgne easy. The friends arrived at Bob’s Lake but all they could manage was undersized redfish. He next moved to Lake Eugene and again struck out. But persistence payed off in the end. “Not ready to give up just yet we stopped on the west side of Lake Borgne and trolled the shore-line near Chef’s pass and finally we caught our first keeper red. For the next hour we caught 14 redfish. We called it a day with one shy of a 3-man limit,” Blake says. All the fish were caught using dead shrimp 2’ under a cork.
Bayou Lacombe Manatee
Miriam Davey and her husband Rex recently made a fishing trip to try their luck at catching speckled trout in Bayou Bonfouca and Bayou Lacombe. Miriam says the only fish they caught were ladyfish, croaker, and few undersized redfish, but the couple did get to witness a manatee on their way back to Bayou Lacombe. “About a quarter-mile east of the mouth of Bayou Lacombe we were drifting about 100 yards off the bank, when I spotted a big boulder down in the water. Then it moved! It swam up to the boat, I leaned over and started talking to it as if it were a dog. It put its muzzle up out of the water as if to sniff me!” Miriam says. After rolling around near the boat Miriam says the manatee blew a puff of air and swam away. “I've never seen a manatee in the wild before! It was huge! “ she says.
Sac-a-lait Seminar
The 2018 NorthshoreFishingReport.com Sac-a-lait Seminar was held at Fat Jack’s Food and Spirits in Slidell Saturday. John Guillot was the guest speaker and covered a wide variety of topics including techniques, what to look for, and the best tides to target when pursuing crappie. But the most talked about topic of the night came as John brought up lure colors. “When deciding on what color jigs to use, you want to divide your colors into two groups - Rivers and Lakes,” John said. River water is more murkier than lake water so this dictates what color lures work better in each category. John said the best color combinations for fishing for crappie in rivers and lakes are as follows:
River:
Florescent orange and chartreuse
Black and chartreuse
Electric Chicken
Lake:
Hot pink and blue
Black and pink
White and pink
Blue and white
Bayou Biloxi Redfish
Blake Hoyt of Madisonville decided to make a run to the Biloxi Marsh in search of redfish with some friends. They were greeted with light wind which made the run across Lake Borgne easy. The friends arrived at Bob’s Lake but all they could manage was undersized redfish. He next moved to Lake Eugene and again struck out. But persistence payed off in the end. “Not ready to give up just yet we stopped on the west side of Lake Borgne and trolled the shore-line near Chef’s pass and finally we caught our first keeper red. For the next hour we caught 14 redfish. We called it a day with one shy of a 3-man limit,” Blake says. All the fish were caught using dead shrimp 2’ under a cork.
Bayou Lacombe Manatee
Miriam Davey and her husband Rex recently made a fishing trip to try their luck at catching speckled trout in Bayou Bonfouca and Bayou Lacombe. Miriam says the only fish they caught were ladyfish, croaker, and few undersized redfish, but the couple did get to witness a manatee on their way back to Bayou Lacombe. “About a quarter-mile east of the mouth of Bayou Lacombe we were drifting about 100 yards off the bank, when I spotted a big boulder down in the water. Then it moved! It swam up to the boat, I leaned over and started talking to it as if it were a dog. It put its muzzle up out of the water as if to sniff me!” Miriam says. After rolling around near the boat Miriam says the manatee blew a puff of air and swam away. “I've never seen a manatee in the wild before! It was huge! “ she says.
Sac-a-lait Seminar
The 2018 NorthshoreFishingReport.com Sac-a-lait Seminar was held at Fat Jack’s Food and Spirits in Slidell Saturday. John Guillot was the guest speaker and covered a wide variety of topics including techniques, what to look for, and the best tides to target when pursuing crappie. But the most talked about topic of the night came as John brought up lure colors. “When deciding on what color jigs to use, you want to divide your colors into two groups - Rivers and Lakes,” John said. River water is more murkier than lake water so this dictates what color lures work better in each category. John said the best color combinations for fishing for crappie in rivers and lakes are as follows:
River:
Florescent orange and chartreuse
Black and chartreuse
Electric Chicken
Lake:
Hot pink and blue
Black and pink
White and pink
Blue and white
