bayouXpress

absolute must...

very south la here.. i fish a lot of the same areas cataouachie, bayou black, des allemands, and some further south places like clovely and the yearly trip to toledo

this is what I wanted to come back and see. I'd love to see some pictures. What general areas do you have pics of if you don't mind me asking

i started 6 years ago recording, but only in the last 2 did I get in all the information that I wanted to record. I just recently finished building an online program for it. I like keeping it in a database so I can search and sort and print custom reports. I need to one day rewrite for multiple users and maybe get it out to the public

i started 6 years ago recording, but only in the last 2 did I get in all the information that I wanted to record. I just recently finished building an online program for it. I like keeping it in a database so I can search and sort and print custom reports. I need to one day rewrite for multiple users and maybe get it out to the public

i started 6 years ago recording, but only in the last 2 did I get in all the information that I wanted to record. I just recently finished building an online program for it. I like keeping it in a database so I can search and sort and print custom reports. I need to one day rewrite for multiple users and maybe get it out to the public

We just got back. could not believe how high and stained the water was. We stayed at Shady Oaks lodge in cabin 1. It is located on the LA side on the south side of La nana. We had 3 boats with 2 anglers in each. None of us have ever fished this area before, but armed with some of the info in this thread I had somewhat of a game plan. It took a lot of taking to get them to get off the bank first. We are bank beaters and i just could not change their thinking. We actually ended up splitting up towards the end. Day 1 Weds Wed morning we all fished in la nana. I decided to fish the north creeks of la nana because of the creek channels that ran through them almost all the way to the back and because of the distance of them from shallow flats. On the map its just called Back of creeks..its has the 1215 bridge going over it and its a couple creeks before Beech bay. I noticed on the map the big flat point in 12 feet of water in the front. Made a couple drifts with the wind tossing spinners and traps. Move to the back and began targeting secondary points. pulled 3 non keepers on 1 point in about 9ft of water off of a creek bend on spinnerbait and trap. After pulling a 4lber and another keeper of the next point it starting to look like we might have a pattern going. after the 3rd point and 2 more keepers 15" fish. I was excited. Other boats called and wanted to try another area. They fished the creek over and had only a fish or 2 per boat. So wanting to stay together we picked up and left for another spot for the afternoon fish. I thought we would just apply this pattern to the next spot, but when we looked at the map to get a gameplan it was mud lake and not a creek so we could not hit the secondary points. Launched at mud lake and with a south west wind it was muddy and windy. didn't stay long 30 minutes and decided to throw in the towel for the day. totalled about 8 keepers and water temps were around 57-60 Day 2 Thursday weather was strange. Pressure was so low I thought the weather website was wrong. I remember seeing 29.56 at one point. Anyway we all left for carrice creek. This was the area we fished the most previously. Also had the best looking water. We targeted the ditches running to the back the creeks. Water temps were in the 60s' so we began moving closer to the shallow areas since we were not really hitting on anything. Picked up a couple non keepers on spinnerbaits right near the launch. Move back in carrice and lost a keeper after he took the spinnerbait home with him. We did see a couple 3-4lb fish cruising the flats but not interested in anything. We continued south out of carrice and hit a couple more creeks without much luck. Mainly spinnerbaits, traps, flukes and the occasional jig on the outskirts of the buck brush. That afternoon we decided on patroon. we all fished corsey creek and things started looking better. We did best when we were in about 16-17 feet of water and had some cypress trees in about 6 feet of water out about 10 feet from the bank. We actually got into flipping our spinnerbaits up against the tree letting it fall then reeling. all other boats just beat the bank mostly with spinners totalled about 10 keepers a 4.5lb, 3-13, and another 4 or so 3lbers. Day 3 More weird weather. Too me it seemed like a high pressure.. blue bird, dry, wind changing, but the pressure was still very low. we all decided to fish in beech bay creek in la nana on the north side. We took little beech creek and the other 2 boats went right. Had a few boats in there and we went further to the back. We noticed buck brush everywhere, in the middle on the bank. It was very different from what we were fishing before. So we took the same approach. Followed a creek bed into the bank and started working the buck brush with our flipping the spinnerbait technique. It ended up being the best action to that point. Had about 8 fish with 5 keepers and 2 were in the 4lb range. All on flipping the spinnerbaits in the brush. if you were not getting tangled you were not in enough. Got together with other boats and they also had some good keepers from the other side but they were fishing over some hydrilla. We decided to go back to the creek a couple over from little beech and attempt the same pattern, but it was very slow. I think we had 2 keepers and 5 fish. Could not get the fish to bite on anything but spinnersbaits. And we actually got these fish on the same point as day 1. Other boats in party went to carrice creek again This day we ended up with about 25 total fish with 12 keepers. Biggest was 4.5lb mostly on spinnerbaits, couple on plastics. Day 4 same weather as the day before. We all went back to beech bay and tried to duplicate the day before. It was very slow for us. Lots of boats with some Tx anglers. only boated 2 non keepers and other boats had 1 keeper each. They decided to hit carrice creek once more and we decided to stay in little beech creek hoping the warm water would get the bite going. Temps were back in the 58-59 area in the morning. The day before in the afternoon it was at 63. Slowest of the entire trip. was so tired of casting by none. At 445 I said we are stopping at 5. I decided to get as far into the back of the littlest coves and brush I picked up the ribbit. After about the 5th cast I had a 4lber explode on it. 10 minutes later the same thing. 5pm came up and we pulled up to a tree to pack up and leave and I threw one more time right at the bank. Another explosion, but lost him in the trees. I was so excited I decided to end the trip on that note. AFter speaking with the other boats we probably had about 13 fish with 5-6 keepers with a 6.2 the biggest on a spinnerbait. Throughout the trip we had about 60-65 fish with about 37-38 keepers it was fun but it was slow. sorry for so long. the next couple weeks should be great. I was at toledo tackle and someone was bringing in a 10.1x something for the lunker program.

Hi Bayou Express, I'm new to the lake but knew exactly where you were talking about. I have an image just above the 36a starting point you described. If you use a lake maps premium chip you will see one foot contours, this helps immensely. Apparently, bass don't like to swim up and over things they follow the contours at the level they are feeding in I guess, so that's what makes following structure so important to know where the fish are coming from and going to? I just need to understand the why under every condition and day of the season....I have a lot to learn! Best, ~jj anymore la nana underwater info?

I'm pretty far down there.. Currently living in Raceland and fish anywhere from lake cataouache, to bayou black on houma, to lake long in lockport, to clovelly farms in larose, to catfish lake in golden meadow.. Lots of saltwater fishing around dularge and cocodrie and the occasional offshore trip out of grand isle. I buy the majority of my tackle at ***. Thanks.. i'm filling my cart as we speak

i searched high and low for the 1/2 oz stanley wedge double gold willow in chart/white for the last couple weeks. I can't seem to find that combination. Are you able to buy that configuration from a store or do you have to customize either the skirt or blade. I fish nearly exclusively with a spinnerbait made by T and T lures called the humdinger. Anyone from South La will be able to tell you about it. It goes through just about any grass and the skirt "breathes" more than any others I have tried. The problem is they only go up to 1/4oz sizes..

Cat and other guys who frequent the lake.. What spinnerbait blade combo do you rather and color. I almost exclusively fish with tandem with gold willow and silver colorado whether its overcast or sunny. I've read alot about having double willow for the bend with gold for cloudy days and silver for bluebird. whats your preferences and reasons why you chose them.

It seems like this is the exact pattern that KVD, Jeff, Faircloth and the others in beeswax creek for the classic was following to the T.. They were focusing in on some ditches/drains they went towards the back of the creeks. Once the water warmed up the fish moved out of those ditches up onto the flats.

.I would love to see any shots you have so we can relate them to the map. I'm just trying to understand the relation between all of them. Its amazing technology.

i think thats how you take the thread to another level.. thats great stuff ;D

Ok, lets look at La Nana north cove 105 on the hook n line map. Starting to the southwest of it at junction 36a, the main river chanel splits. Continuing on the channel going east into La nana there is a old creek/River bed that goes directly north into the first creek (105). This is what i'm having trouble with is distinguishing the contour lines. I understand that the closer the contour lines the faster the slope/angle. I think i see that on the left of the creek bed after you pass the boat lane that crosses it the creek channel gets pretty narrow. My question would be if the counters lines to the west and east represent the 32ft depth, what depth is the actual creek bed in? Anyway, right where the GPS marker is I see a creek bed in around 32 feet of water with a submerge point in 12 ft of water to the northwest, northeast, and southeast in very close proximety and would seem like hitting all 3 points moving from deep to shallow would be a good approach. I just have problems determining the depth the creek channel. and what do you actually consider a creek/river bed. what would that look like out the water

There is so much information in here, and it seems like most people are finding this thread searching for information on their upcoming tournaments and asking for particulars to their area. I'm more intrigued on the actual map readings. I mean once you learn to read the map you can find everything you are looking for on your own. I'm really curious and would love to see some actual 2D sonar shots accompanied with a certain location on the hook-n-line map. Even better would be some side imaging shots. I would love to just pick a spot any spot on the map and see what you see. I'm still having some troubles separating some of the contour lines and following old creeks.

I can't seem to find the gold black back/orange belly color combination on the trap. I'm finding gold back/orange belly or gold black back, but not the gold with black back and orange belly can anyone direct me to the right spot