Keith Lusher Jr If you’ve watched the news during the past few weeks, I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures of Madisonville’s T-River’s Bar along the Tchefuncte River. Southeast winds combined with heavy rainfall wreaked havoc on the narrow winding road that leads to the public boat launch at the lake. Lawrence Lemoine fishes the Rice Fields Canal in that area religiously and says although the water is still muddy, the canal has rebounded fine from all of the high water. “Although the water was high and dirty, I found some cleaner water flowing out into the main channel from the duckpond,” Lemoine says
Lemoine shows off his 8lb striper After finding the line where the muddy water mixed with the clean water, Lawrence says it was on! “I started throwing Speed Craws and had four bites on five casts. Then I switched over to a crankbait and it was almost a fish for every cast,” Lemoine says. The infamous “bulkhead” has been known to produce loads of bass in a short time and Lawrence says he finally had the opportunity to experience it. “I have read about it, heard about it, and have had dreams about it, and now it was happening! It was literally cast after cast and fish after fish with little let up. I quit counting at sixty fish and I’m sure when I left it was well over 100 bass,” he says. Lawrence says he also managed to catch an 8 lb. stripped bass that the canal has been known to produce.
The November Fishing Forecast
NorthshoreFishingReport.com has released it’s November Fishing Forecast and amongst the big winners for the month of November are Lake Borgne, Bayou Bonfouca, and the Biloxi Marsh scoring 5/5 fish. George Seibert of Fishmeister Charters says Lake Borgne shines in November. “November begins the prime cold weather fishing. The female speckled trout are in their final spawn and as the water gets colder, the fish will start to school up. They now begin fattening up for the long cold winter. As the water cools down with the fronts, the fish will congregate in the deeper holes,” Seibert says.
The Biloxi Marsh has always been known for it’s November fishing and Buddy Hereford says this month will be no different. “The specks in the Biloxi Marsh are plentiful but scattered. The size is mostly small but the numbers are great. They’ll be scattered around in the bays and lakes where deep water flows into shallower water. Interior lagoons are worth a shot, but the better fish I have caught have come from intersecting deep canals. Throw anything yellow under a popping cork,” Hereford says.
For you freshwater anglers, Daniel Sissac recommends Bayou Bonfouca for limits of bass in November. “November is one of the best months to fish Bonfouca. The cooler weather will bring bass closer to the shoreline and put them more in a feeding mode. The arrival of shrimp has triggered bass to gorge themselves while they can, and shrimp can be seen jumping out of the water while being chased,” Sissac says. Daniel says DOA Shrimp and weightless Shu-Shu’s in the Gunmetal color work best when the bass are feeding on shrimp but when there is no action to be seen “Soft plastics and suspending twitch baits should do the job for you,” he says.
The November Fishing Forecast
NorthshoreFishingReport.com has released it’s November Fishing Forecast and amongst the big winners for the month of November are Lake Borgne, Bayou Bonfouca, and the Biloxi Marsh scoring 5/5 fish. George Seibert of Fishmeister Charters says Lake Borgne shines in November. “November begins the prime cold weather fishing. The female speckled trout are in their final spawn and as the water gets colder, the fish will start to school up. They now begin fattening up for the long cold winter. As the water cools down with the fronts, the fish will congregate in the deeper holes,” Seibert says.
The Biloxi Marsh has always been known for it’s November fishing and Buddy Hereford says this month will be no different. “The specks in the Biloxi Marsh are plentiful but scattered. The size is mostly small but the numbers are great. They’ll be scattered around in the bays and lakes where deep water flows into shallower water. Interior lagoons are worth a shot, but the better fish I have caught have come from intersecting deep canals. Throw anything yellow under a popping cork,” Hereford says.
For you freshwater anglers, Daniel Sissac recommends Bayou Bonfouca for limits of bass in November. “November is one of the best months to fish Bonfouca. The cooler weather will bring bass closer to the shoreline and put them more in a feeding mode. The arrival of shrimp has triggered bass to gorge themselves while they can, and shrimp can be seen jumping out of the water while being chased,” Sissac says. Daniel says DOA Shrimp and weightless Shu-Shu’s in the Gunmetal color work best when the bass are feeding on shrimp but when there is no action to be seen “Soft plastics and suspending twitch baits should do the job for you,” he says.
