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Bream Bite Heating Up
 Keith Lusher
With the spawn in full swing, the bream fishing on Bayou Lacombe is heating up. Thad McDonald of Baton Rouge made a trip with his friend, Robert, and launched at the Main Street launch in Lacombe. After backing his flatboat down into the water, Robert pointed Thad in the direction of a small canal that fed into the main bayou and that’s where they started fishing. Both of the anglers were using fly rods. Thad was using a floating popper while Robert was casting a sinking fly. It became clear quickly that the bream wanted the popper as Thad caught three breaming a matter of minutes. “Robert is a much better fisherman than I am so when I started catching fish on the popper, he switched over,” McDonald said. The friends caught numerous bream and two goggle-eye in the canal. “That was a lot of fun catching those bream on a light weight fly rod,” McDonald said. The bream bite should continue through the month of April and McDonald adds, “If I’m able to catch fish, everybody should be catching bream!”
A mess of bream caught on Bayou Lacombe
Otter Interruption John Dearie of Folsom was visiting friends at Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville and decided to try for some bluegill in one of the ponds in the park. “I found the pond on Google Earth and decided to make the trek through the woods to find it,” he said. The 68-year-old grabbed his lightweight fishing rod and headed through the woods. He was fishing with a small cork and a Bobby Garland jig in the Monkey Milk color. Dearie started catching bluegill along the shoreline and was up to 7 keeper fish when he noticed a visitor swim up to him. It was an otter. “I tried to shoo it away but it kept popping up in different spots around me,” Dearie said. “After that incident the fish stopped biting altogether.” The Folsom angler didn’t get a bite for another walk hour and decided to call it quits. “That’s not the first time an otter has ruined my trip,” Dearie said. 
 Guy Stegal
Tournament Results
The Double Nickel Bass Club fished the East Pearl River on a very windy day. 16 anglers competed on a river that was high and dirty with an incoming tide. At the weigh-in it was Guy Stegal who brought in a 3-fish tournament limit of 7.64 pounds for the win. Stegal also won the big fish division with a 4.22-pound bass. Ralph Williams won second place with a limit of fish weighing 5.38 pounds. In third place was Mike Marodi with 4.34 pounds. 
 Shane Dunnegan
The Bass Assassins filled up the Heritage Park launch on Bayou Bonfouca. Thirty-two anglers showed up to fish the derby. As the starting numbers were called out a long line of boats made their way out of the long no-wake zone to their first spots. The weather was beautiful and the water temperatures were in the mid 60s. In the end it was Shane Dunnegan who put together a 11 lbs. 3 oz. limit to claim first place. Dunnegan also had a 4 lbs. 14 oz. kicker that awarded him big fish of the day. Hunter Burkell took second place with a 4-fish bag totaling 8 lbs. 3 oz. In third place we find Danny Giovingo with an 8-pound limit.
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 Keith Lusher
I created NFR.com in the spring of 2012. Since then it has helped link Northshore fishermen to valuable information and has filled the void of absent information on the web about fishing on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Northshore Fishing Report has morphed into a brand name and can be found not only on the web, but on radio and newspaper. As NFR grows I will continue to work hard at keeping NFR local focusing on local anglers, reports, seminars, and fishing tournaments in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parish. I hope you enjoy the website and If you have any questions please email me at: Keith@NorthshoreFishingReport.com
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Carl Schmidt of Abita Springs joins the NFR Studio by phone to talk about his numerous trips to Bayou Lacombe where he ran catfish lines and caught trout and bass near the mouth of the bayou.
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