False River Reports?
 

What's up fellas? I'm looking to make a trip to False River within the next couple of weeks. I've only been there to drink beer and ski so I have no idea what the fishing is like. I know they have to have some good spots that hold some nice bass. Does anyone have any info that might help? Spots? Bait at this time of year? Anything would help. Thanks in advance.

Haha. I'm guessing False River is only good for drinking beer and riding the jet ski?! Well we're gonna give it a shot and I'll let you know what happens.

Yes there is fish there, but that is all I know. I know people that catch stripers and sacs but dont really know where

Try the piers on the New Roads side toward the Middle to North end of the lake. Use white/chartreuse spinner bait early and switch to brushhawg, craw worm, or jig along the piers later in the day. Grew up fishing there and fished there a lot when I lived in Baton Rouge with much success. My brother caught a 10+ pounder at this time of year there on a lizard a few years back.

Thx fellas!

The light house canal near the condos used to be good. Haven't fished it in years though.

Went tonight and walked the piers at the public landing for a couple hours. 7 bass (4 keepers) on plum trick worm small EWG hook and 1/16 oz bullet weight. SLOW dragin was the ticket.

WTG Bob!!!

Heck yea!!!! Don't even need a boat! I love some bank bassin

Just talked to some friends that went last night. Walked the public landing from midnight till 4 am kept limits (5 each over 14") and said they caught 27 fish between the 2 of them . biggest was lil over 4 lbs.

Damn! That's nice!

Dang. That sounds like fun. And all from the piers.

I have a 10.36 lb bass on my wall from walking the piers at false river at night.

LIKE!!!!!!

I have had good luck this time of year beating the banks with a wacky worm on the new roads side

Guess I'll be hitting the docks next Saturday night! Thx for the info guys.

Yeah man!
That's how lil bro Goathead caught his 10+ fishing on Deaton's old pier. Knowing we all caught plenty of em in that area.

Before you get visions of BIG bass . Goathead and i and about 8 other folks i know caught BIG bass ( 10 lb +) from the piers .BUT! it was in the early 90's before the LBV killed a lot of the BIG fish. Now a BIG FISH IS 6 -7 LBS. But there's still a lot of fish to be caught.

I agree. I know a few weeks back they were sitting dead on the bulk heads.
If you threw a jig and it didn't hit the bulk head you would not catch the bass.

I like to hit the brush piles away from the piers due to I am a hardcore crankbait guy.

I agree about the size of the bass they got some big boys, but not like the 80's and 90's.
Caught two over 10lbs one in 1992 near light house and one in 1994 off island side after that the largest I caught was 7lbs.

That's about the last time I really fished there. Had a little 14 ft boat witha 2.2 Nissan motor. All I needed then !

Well, I'll be fishing False River tomorrow morning/day. Thanks for all the input and I'll let y'all know how things turn out. I'll be happy if I catch one... Prolly start on the piers on the North end of river and then fish the undeveloped area near the south side. Any last minute pearls of wisdom are welcome! Y'all have a great weekend enjoying this kick arse weather!

So how did ya do ???

Well, we started at 5:30am on the North end, at the public launch, and fished the the docks with a watermelon hawg and a sexy shad spinner.....nothing. Went to a camp on the south end and caught a couple on black w/ blue RAGE crawfish and sexy shad spinner. Nothing big (only 14-15 inch) but weather was nice. Alot of boat traffic in the afternoon! Met a guy coming in from fishing, as we showed up, that caught 6 keepers that night. About 20yds out from piers, via Carolina rig. Said he doesn't fish during the day bc "False River is only worth a damn at night!" Anyway, was better than changing diapers so I'm happy I went. This trip just reminded me why I love inshore fishing. I'll be going back in a couple weekends with the family so I'll give another report.

I agree w/ "That guy" i don't fish false river during the day ,unless i'm catching cats n bream.

Well I'll be back in a week or two so if you have anymore tips about the "night fish", I'll gladly take it..... Rig up? How far out? Length of Carolina rig? Bait and/or color at night? Ya know...

I only throw 2 baits this time of year. trick worm and french fry. w/ as little weight as i can get away with. once it hits bottom SLOW SLOW SLOW drag it. Only time my lure leaves the bottom is when i hit something and have to twitch it to get it thru .
I am on the bank /piers . If you are in a boat keep a chrome bandit shallow runner tied on and work any pier w/ lights. Hybrid stripers and bass will light that crank up .

Thanks! Also, being that I'm fishing out of a kayak, "that guy" told me I need to "head east on 415 toward the MS and drop into some of those bar pits". Every heard anything about that? Sounds good but didnt know if its worth the trip.

Grew up around there and don't know of the bar pits that you can fish. All the ones behind the levee are posted and watched closely. If you could fish them it would be some good fishing. Used to go when I was younger and always do good.

Unless you have permission ,i would stay out of the pits along that stretch.there are some up around cat island that you can fish.
Like JK said when i was growing up you could hunt an fish the pits an batture land w/ no problems .But just like other areas the litter bugs and yahoos got everybody run out.

That's what I figured. Makes sense. Thx again.