Nick Church On this Pond Hopping expedition I brought along my wife, my daughter and my youngest boy. This pond is on the service road on I-10 in between Fremeaux and Gause Blvd. If you are from the Northshore you have passed this pond many times in your travels through Slidell. It is a nice sized pond with a few houses from some local neighborhoods. The neat thing about this pond is there is an actual launch where you could put some kayaks in and get out into the deeper water. After fishing this pond and talking to a few local people about it, some one shared that they middle of that pond is actually pretty deep. I believe there is a post on the Forum part of Northshorefishingpreport that says someone actually had a depth finder and it was around 30’ deep. Anytime I am fishing a pond the first thing I do is scope out the layout since most of these are just driving up to them and fish them. In my video below you will see that there was a great access point that I tried to fish but as I was walking there I was greater with what seemed to be a home for somebody or some people. My guess is that this was probably the place of living for the people we see on Gause by the overpass asking for money. So since I was with my family I didn’t want to bother with that so we went over the the launch area where you will find most people feeding that ducks. While we were there at least 3 cars stopped by to feed the ducks so that is a popular place for people in Slidell. The point of this adventure was to have some family time with my wife and kids. They had a blast. We stopped and got some crickets from The Bait Store on Front Street and we started with putting them under a cork and hoping that the kids would get a few bites with those. But nothing was bitting that day and so the kids just fed some ducks with some bread. My wife was the only one that caught something as she was throwing a Beetle spin and she caught a Goggle Eye. I am sure that the pond gets lots of pressure from fishing so we must have caught it on a bad day. But the time spent with the wife and kids was what this adventure was all about. Watch for the next post as next time I head to some ponds in the Mandeville/Covington area where some buddies are catching some giant bass.
