Anyone ever fished Fausse Point around New Iberia? I’ll be down there the next few days with the boat. Any quick tips would be appreciated. Not much info online

Lots of shallow water areas and open enough that waves from the wind can make sometimes holding your boat position difficult working the shoreline off the main lake. Not my favorite place to fish but the people who know it pull out the occasional 8 pound bass. Launching from the state park is the easiest option to avoid the worst of the shallows you pass by from the other landings. Some people love fishing Lake Dauterive/Lake Fausse Point, but despite a number of attempts trying a variety of areas in the lakes and canals, it remains low on my list of favorite places to fish.

 

If you can get in (water may be only a foot or so deep) try Sandy Cove. If the wind isn't too bad you can pitch the cypress trees along Eagle and Mestayer Points.

 

Keep your speeds down due to stumps, etc., and watch your depth finder. Navionics has good charts for the area, IIRC. The maze of canals can be confusing for newcomers otherwise.

21 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

Lots of shallow water areas and open enough that waves from the wind can make sometimes holding your boat position difficult working the shoreline off the main lake. Not my favorite place to fish but the people who know it pull out the occasional 8 pound bass. Launching from the state park is the easiest option to avoid the worst of the shallows you pass by from the other landings. Some people love fishing Lake Dauterive/Lake Fausse Point, but despite a number of attempts trying a variety of areas in the lakes and canals, it remains low on my list of favorite places to fish.

 

If you can get in (water may be only a foot or so deep) try Sandy Cove. If the wind isn't too bad you can pitch the cypress trees along Eagle and Mestayer Points.

 

Keep your speeds down due to stumps, etc., and watch your depth finder. Navionics has good charts for the area, IIRC. The maze of canals can be confusing for newcomers otherwise.

Thanks!!  Was worried about the depth as I know some of the other lakes around are super shallow too. Are there any other public freshwater lakes near Iberia that are better?  Would I be better off going to Martin? I’ve actually been on it before 

I'm not sure about public access to Lake Martin for a bass boat. The property owners of the land where the public launch was located closed off access to the launch March 1 with an eventual goal of charging an arm and a leg for access, all due to expiration of the original agreement and property issues that have been raised by a commercial enterprise located on the lake. I used to love to fish that place.

 

If you don't mind an easy and fairly quick drive, Lake Chicot down I-49 is a heck of a lot more interesting to fish than Fausse Point, IMO. It's my new favorite and I've taken some nice bass and even a couple chain pickerel out of that lake. The northeast landing is the only public landing open at the moment (the park was closed for corona virus housing and I don't believe the other landings on the lake are open yet).

22 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

I'm not sure about public access to Lake Martin. The property owners of the land where the public launch was located closed off access to the launch March 1 with an eventual goal of charging an arm and a leg for access, all due to expiration of the original agreement and property issues that have been raised by a commercial enterprise located on the lake. I used to love to fish that place.

 

If you don't mind an easy and fairly quick drive, Lake Chicot down I-49 is a heck of a lot more interesting to fish than Fausse Point, IMO. It's my new favorite and I've taken some nice bass and even a couple chain pickerel out of that lake. The northeast landing is the only public landing open at the moment (the park was closed for corona virus housing and I don't believe the other landings on the lake are open yet).

Man I hate to hear that about Martin. Chicot is intriguing but a little bit further of a drive than we wanted to go. We are staying at Delcanbre so it’s be an hour and half drive. But I may be able to get out there one of the days especially if we strike out elsewhere 
 

At Fausse would you put in at Dauterive or the levee? Is there any water over 2-3 ft deep? Could I even get a 20 ft bass boat in it?

Options are the launch at Dauterive, the parish launch at Marsh Island Canal or the launch in the state park. The levee launch I'm familiar with is on Bayou Benoit and the opposite side of the levee: when water's high I've followed a GPS trail of breadcrumbs into the flooded bottoms and had a 19 bass day one time.

 

If you launch at Dauterive you can watch your depth finder and wend your way southwest to Fausse Point. You will have to skirt some shallow areas. Don't let yourself get stuck in areas with less than two feet of water...it's hard to get out of the parish landing at Marsh Island Canal for newcomers because there's a large shallow silted in area right at the mouth that has caught me out more than once. There's a narrow stretch of navigable channel either side of the mouth that runs a whopping 3 - 4 feet if you pick your way very carefully.

 

The easiest launch IMO is at the state park. From there you can easily access some main channels and avoid some extremely shallow, silted-in areas that start between Mestayer and Eagle Points and continues to the south and, oddly enough, puts the shallowest water right in the middle of the lake where you'd least expect it.

 

Oddly enough, with the exception of some areas to the west of mid-lake (that Marsh Island Canal mouth in particular and the Samson's Cove area) you will find your most navigable water in the larger canals and along a lot of the shoreline. You should be fine.

 

Hopefully, somebody who's spent their life fishing Dauterive/Fausse Point will check in with some useful info for you.

15 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

Options are the launch at Dauterive, the parish launch at Marsh Island Canal or the launch in the state park. The levee launch I'm familiar with is on Bayou Benoit and the opposite side of the levee: when water's high I've followed a GPS trail of breadcrumbs into the flooded bottoms and had a 19 bass day one time.

 

If you launch at Dauterive you can watch your depth finder and wend your way southwest to Fausse Point. You will have to skirt some shallow areas. Don't let yourself get stuck in areas with less than two feet of water...it's hard to get out of the parish landing at Marsh Island Canal for newcomers because there's a large shallow silted in area right at the mouth that has caught me out more than once. There's a narrow stretch of navigable channel either side of the mouth that runs a whopping 3 - 4 feet if you pick your way very carefully.

 

The easiest launch IMO is at the state park. From there you can easily access some main channels and avoid some extremely shallow, silted-in areas that start between Mestayer and Eagle Points and continues to the south and, oddly enough, puts the shallowest water right in the middle of the lake where you'd least expect it.

 

Oddly enough, with the exception of some areas to the west of mid-lake (that Marsh Island Canal mouth in particular and the Samson's Cove area) you will find your most navigable water in the larger canals and along a lot of the shoreline. You should be fine.

 

Hopefully, somebody who's spent their life fishing Dauterive/Fausse Point will check in with some useful info for you.

I really appreciate the info. Hopefully one way or the other we will run into some fish somewhere!  I just don’t want to get stuck lol