Lacassine Bayou

[cgoods17]

Anybody ever fish Lacassine Bayou? If so, how is it?

and what would be the ideas of "stocking" the bayou like the recently did else where, cant remember exactly where they did it, but i remember seeing that they released like 100k bass in a river system somewhere to try and bring them back...

what would be your thoughts on something such as this on the bayou?

i am not real familiar with the bayou, but as far as i know barely any bass are caught there. unless there is a secret that i am not aware of....

[noodle creek]

Why you wanna fish in chocolate milk?

[sledgehammer]

There is a secret that you were not aware of and the river they just stock was the Mermentau and I know some guys that drop some around Streeters so there is bass that they stock in that bayou When the water is right you can catch them in there pretty decent

[cgoods17]

Originally Posted by noodle creek

Why you wanna fish in chocolate milk?

im sure it is not always chocolate milk... go to some homework or something

[seachaser250]

I'm pretty sure it is.

[BassYakR]

Cgoods when you wanna to give it a shot lemme know... Ive been wanting to go myself... Ill be living like 10 mins from lorrain bridge by next month!

[cgoods17]

Originally Posted by seachaser250

I'm pretty sure it is.

why would the bayou always be chocolate milk when the bell city ditch is not always dirty?

[cgoods17]

and to my second question, what do yall think about trying to stock the bayou, as they did in the Mermentau?

[Duffy.yyz]

I have seen people have great trips out there. Bass and sacalait...Mostly south of the Lorraine Bridge. And I know it gets decent around Streeters Canal when the water clears up. There are also two long canals that run from the east side of the Lacassine Pool that clear up too, and I have heard of decent reports there as well. Stocking wouldn't be a bad idea...even if it doesn't help, I don't see it causing any issues.

[BassYakR]

Yeah stocking it def couldnt hurt anything... WLF will likely provide the fry to stock it with... Get a few ppl together to go spread em out.

[meat killer 86]

Chris, catfishing is good. I have also fished the white perch during the spawn and caught a few on the cypress trees. And also bassyakr said they recently put 100000 or 500000 fry on the west fork.
They also just did the mermentau. I'm sure there is bass. I have seen the water clear clear out there. Call me when you wanna go I'll fish it with you.

[cgoods17]

Originally Posted by meat killer 86

Chris, catfishing is good. I have also fished the white perch during the spawn and caught a few on the cypress trees. And also bassyakr said they recently put 100000 or 500000 fry on the west fork.
They also just did the mermentau. I'm sure there is bass. I have seen the water clear clear out there. Call me when you wanna go I'll fish it with you.

just think it would be cool to be able to have another place to be able to catch some nice bass since the bayou is such a neat place

[Duffy.yyz]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

just think it would be cool to be able to have another place to be able to catch some nice bass since the bayou is such a neat place

They are there to be caught!

[mallardhead]

The fish are in lacassine bayou have caught many out of there. Water will clear up give it another month

[kibb]

^^^what he said. I do water quality monitoring on the Lacassine watershed and so far have noticed higher turbidity levels from around mid-February to mid-May. During the rest of the year the numbers are actually pretty low. There are fluctuations here and there due to rainfall. I'm basing this on information gathered at my most southern site on the new Hwy 14 bridge crossing the bayou.

[mallardhead]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

Anybody ever fish Lacassine Bayou? If so, how is it?

and what would be the ideas of "stocking" the bayou like the recently did else where, cant remember exactly where they did it, but i remember seeing that they released like 100k bass in a river system somewhere to try and bring them back...

what would be your thoughts on something such as this on the bayou?

i am not real familiar with the bayou, but as far as i know barely any bass are caught there. unless there is a secret that i am not aware of....

No need to stock the bayou seen many of bass pour out the pool when water gets high enough to pour over north and east rollers.

[saute86]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

why would the bayou always be chocolate milk when the bell city ditch is not always dirty?

BCDD is surrounded by marsh and Lacassine Bayou is surrounded by agriculture.

[saute86]

They are fish there. The locals are just tight lipped.

[cajunduck man]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

Anybody ever fish Lacassine Bayou? If so, how is it?

and what would be the ideas of "stocking" the bayou like the recently did else where, cant remember exactly where they did it, but i remember seeing that they released like 100k bass in a river system somewhere to try and bring them back...

what would be your thoughts on something such as this on the bayou?

i am not real familiar with the bayou, but as far as i know barely any bass are caught there. unless there is a secret that i am not aware of....

When I was a child back in the 60's and into my teens in the 70's I saw plenty of sac-a-lait pulled out of Lacassine Bayou by Murphy Cormier, "Blanco" Bourgeois, Clyde DeRouen, and probably the best of them all..."Cobby" Landry. Cobby, Blanco and Murphy all had camps south of Lorraine Bridge and fished the bayou several days a week. Clyde fished with them but was also a great bass fisherman, taking several over 5 lbs. and one over 6 on a fly rod. They knew how to fish it in just about any conditions. I think that is the trick. Get out there and learn it. I have fished it over the years and have done pretty good on sac-a-lait but never like these guys did.

[cgoods17]

Originally Posted by saute86

BCDD is surrounded by marsh and Lacassine Bayou is surrounded by agriculture.

so the "BCDD" doesnt get its water from the ag fields around it? i would bet at least 90% of the water in that ditch is from the surrounding ag fields. the entire Illinois plant is drained into the BCDD. and i am willing to bet all of Sweetlake property to the west is just the same... Hints the name Drainage Ditch