Because of the warm temperatures, bream, bass, sac-a-lait and catfish are biting in Lake Des Allemands, Bayou Guache, Lake Salvador and Lake Cataouatche.
“We have been fishing the Lake Des Allemands and Bayou Gauche area a lot. The bream have been biting really well on earthworms under a cork,” Alex Dufrene, a Hahnville High School student, said. “We also caught a lot on black/chartreuse, red/white/chartreuse, blue/white mini jigs, and the 1/32 blue beetle spin.”
Good spots in Lake Des Allemands have been Humble in the Lake, the Providence Canal, Humble in the Bayou and Tauzin Bay. In the Bayou Gauche area, fish Four Corners, the Mecom Canal and the Gheens/Company Canal.
In the Salvador Management area good spots have been in the shallow waters between the Fontenot Canal and the Fence. Find shelled bottoms with good drop offs and the bream will be there. Other good spots have been Baie Des Chactas and the cut leading into The Alligator Pond and the North Canal.
Violet Teekel and Henry Badeaux like to fish the canal and the end of the road boat launch in Bayou Gauche. Both like to catch catfish. Using earthworms on the bottom, Teekel reeled in six nice catfish last Sunday afternoon.
“This is one of the best canals around. It doesn’t matter if the water is moving in or out, as long as it is moving,” she said.
Badeaux said the two have been catching plenty of catfish in recent weeks.
“I like to use the 3-hook rig, that way I can fish at different depths to find them,” he said.
On Monday afternoon, I decided to hook-up the Kenner and head to Lake Cataouatche. The winds were blowing 15 to 20 mph out of the south.
My first stop was the first cut before the La. Cypress Canal. Fishing with earthworms on the bottom, I used a Carolina rig with a ¾ ounce weight and a No. 3 catfish hook. Within an hour I put 30 catfish in the live well.
I moved to the West Canal off of the La. Cypress Canal. At the end there are two cuts into the marsh.
Along the banks before and after each cut, I picked-up 12 big sac-a-lait using the red/white/chartreuse under a cork. From time to time, small bass would hit the mini jig.
Picking-up my worm rod, I began throwing the watermelon/red baby brush hog and caught several 2-3 pound bass.
So, I went back to the mini jig.
Bream, goggle eye and chinquapin began devouring the bait. At sundown, I called it a day with a live well full of fish.
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