lafitte

[justwant2fish]

Anyone fish Lafitte? Wife wants to try somewhere new . Havent heard much about it but seems like a good place to try.

[redfishman]

Fished there Saturday because Hopedale was shut down. Water was nice. Wind is always the problem there. We had to move up into the Texaco canals which was heavily weeded about 11:30. Periods of heavy rain seem to push alot of freshwater thru Lake Salvador into Bayou Perot and Bayou Rigolettes trashing water clarity. Lower ends of Bayou Perot into Little Lake usually holds some fish. You can run thru the "Harvey cut" and east along Bayou St Denis working the broken marsh IF you don't have a heavy S or SE wind. We picked up alot of 16-18" drum along with several nice reds early in the area before the wind blew us off the water. If wind is an issue and you can't get out ,you can always work the "rocks" on the Barataria waterway just south of the "pen" opening. You can always get a few reds/drum/flounder keeping you from a busted day.....

[meaux fishing]

ive heard in the summer the reds stack up in Little Lake to the south... you could try to run to manila village in northern part of barataria bay... use google to find gps coordinates it is just a buch of pilings now but there is a shell bottom

[YellaBlazer]

They just opened the Davis Pond Diversion full blast to help combat the oil. It's bringing a ton of fresh, dirty water into the west side of Lafitte. I would focus on fishing the marsh east towards Myrtle Grove and the upper portion of Barataria Bay. The redfish have been on fire along Bayou Dupont in the duck ponds and the trout are starting to show up on the oyster reefs in the bay.

[justwant2fish]

Thank you for your replies we usually fish leeville and know that area very well and always do good there but due to closures wife wants to try lafitte this next month or so until things settle down. Appreciate everyones response gave me enough info to do some scouting and find areas to fish.

[hardball]

We fished Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th. Tore up the reds on spinners and spoons southeast of the pen in the duckponds. Fought the wind but ended up with 12 nice ones. Saturday, we were blown off the water so we just bounced from Three Bayou Bay, Long Bay, Turtle Bay, and Little Lake. ZERO....I guess that's why they call it fishing, not catchin'....

But, I just found out that little lake "may" have oil showing up in it....That's a direct report.