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Reserve Your Spot at the Trestles!
 Keith Lusher
It’s about that time! With the severity of the cold fronts increasing, water temperatures in Lake Pontchartrain are dropping and with it the speckled trout bite along the northern shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. Fortunately for anglers there’s still time to take advantage of a great trout bite at the train bridge known as “The Trestles.”
November often signals the final month with a decent speckled trout bite in Lake Pontchartrain.  Speckled trout like this one are drawing crowds at the Trestles
By now we've seen the trout move into the lake and along the Northern shoreline of the lake. In November we see the trout start to make their way back east. Anglers often find schools of trout schooling up in November because of the concentration of baitfish at the bridge. Firebreak 173 is often where the most boats gather to catch trout but don't let it dictate where you fish. Start by trolling one side of the bridge fishing fast. Jig the pylons and when you pick up a few trout, make a note of where you are in contrast to the bridge. Loop back around and hit the same spot again. Trestle fishing is often about grinding it out and putting together a limit slowly. It's important to pay attention to water temperatures in November. Trout get awfully hard to catch when water temperatures dip below 55.
Jeremy Dutsch made a trip to the bridge and was using a sliding cork with live shrimp underneath. Jeremy says the bite was slow before the tide started to move. “I only caught 5 or 6 trout before 3:30, but the bite got good when the tide started to fall,” he says. After that he was able to box 21 specks and a sheepshead. Jeremy says he saw others catching fish on artificial and decided to try that while letting his line with shrimp sit. However, all it took were a couple of missed fish to end that experiment. “That only lasted a little while though after I missed a couple on the line that was soaking,” he says.
Kelly Krieger made an afternoon trip and fished mid-lake at the Trestles and says the bites were hard to come by on plastic. “We spent an hour using several different plastics but didn't get a bite.” He switched over to live shrimp on the bottom and thats when they started pulling in fish. Krieger says while it’s only November, the bite signals the start of cold water speckled trout fishing. “The trout hits were so subtle that I thought it was a gentle line tightening. There was a good amount of these types of soft hits so it was either a lot of trout or crabs,” he says. Kelly was fishing on the west side of the bridge with a strong falling tide. Tournament Results Bass Assassins held its final tournament of 2019 at the East Pearl River. 17 anglers gathered at the launch as the talk centered around the rising West Pearl River. The fishing was tough and anglers had a hard time filling out their tournament limit of 5 fish. Eric Ciko only managed a 4-fish bag but those 4 fish were heavy enough to claim first place with a 8 lbs. 7 oz. Ciko won the big fish division as well with one of those fish weighing in at 3 lbs. 15 oz. Danny Giovingo took second place with a 5-fish stringer that weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz. In third place was Same Jenkins with 5 fish that weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. 
Eric Ciko
Upcoming Tournaments
Liar's & Lunker’s is holding its next tournament at the East Pearl River on November 24. For more information please contact Chad Hartzog at 985-502-3217. |
 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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The speckled trout bite at the train bridge aka the Trestles is hot right now. Captain Andy Jones of Wicked Charters joins the NFR Studio to talk about the recent temperature swings and the speckled trout bite at the Trestles and Lakeshore Estates. The NFR Studio is an exclusive feature of NFR Premium. Sign up today!
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