Keith Lusher I had the chance to attend the Spring Seminar put on by the Coastal Conservation Association. And among the speakers was a USCG Diver that inspects the bridge from below the surface. It’s often been pondered by many Causeway speckled trout anglers, just how the speckled trout stack up on the pylons underneath the bridge. Noel Brumfield AKA “Captain Causeway”, told the audience at the Tchfuncta Country Club that he’s never seen any trout stationary near the “poles” or legs” that supports the massive bridge. “All my years of diving I have never seen them hanging out by the poles,” Brumfield says. Instead, Noel says the trout travel along the bridges. “I’ll see a big school pass along the bridge and then another one traveling the other way,” he said. For those that fish the Causeway and are searching for structure along the bottom, Brumfield says he’s never come across any structure on the bottom, even pieces of concrete that have fallen from the bridge in years gone by. “Its flat down there. Anything that drops into the water hits the bottom and keeps on going because of the soft mud on the bottom,” he said.
Dudley Vandenborre Cpt. Dudley Vandenborre also spoke at the seminar. Vandenborre fishes the eastern section of the lake and weighed in on the spring trout season. “It looks to me like its going to really turn on pretty soon,” Dudley said. He explained that what we are seeing is typical for this time of year what with the change in wind directions and the turbulent weather that occur in early spring but there’s a caveat “One problem we’re having is every time we have a blow like we’ve had the last few days, the water dirties up. It used to be it would dirty up and eight hours later you could go back and fish it before the spillway. Now after the spillway you have all that silt in there and it may take a day and a half to clear up,” he said. Dudley also weighed in on the type of tides that he likes to see in the spring. “I’ve always said that we do better with an incoming tide in April and May and the reason why is the little shrimp and the little bait starts to get pushed in there with an incoming tide,” he said.
Tchefuncte River Sac-a-lait
Covington resident Ray Miller calls the Tchefuncte River home base when it comes to fishing for sac-a-lait. But after the torrential downpours that have rocked the Northshore rivers and bayous as of late, Ray hasn’t been fishing the river as much. He made a trip to the muddy, high river and says the conditions are still less than optimal but says it is showing improvement. “The water is still muddy, but it’s starting to clean up in the back of some of the cuts,” He says. Ray has been fishing with plastic jigs 2’ under a cork and on his past two trips he caught a total of 48 sac-a-lait. “I caught 35 yesterday afternoon, and 13 today,” Ray says. It’s no secret that the fishing is better before a cold front comes through and Miller recommends fishing for sac-a-lait before the front as well. “The day before a front is definitely the way to go if you can,” he says.
Tchefuncte River Sac-a-lait
Covington resident Ray Miller calls the Tchefuncte River home base when it comes to fishing for sac-a-lait. But after the torrential downpours that have rocked the Northshore rivers and bayous as of late, Ray hasn’t been fishing the river as much. He made a trip to the muddy, high river and says the conditions are still less than optimal but says it is showing improvement. “The water is still muddy, but it’s starting to clean up in the back of some of the cuts,” He says. Ray has been fishing with plastic jigs 2’ under a cork and on his past two trips he caught a total of 48 sac-a-lait. “I caught 35 yesterday afternoon, and 13 today,” Ray says. It’s no secret that the fishing is better before a cold front comes through and Miller recommends fishing for sac-a-lait before the front as well. “The day before a front is definitely the way to go if you can,” he says.
