Anyone here ever fish Tchefuncte River in Covington?

I do. Catfishing is decent. To put it simply, the bass fishing on the river just isn't that good. There are a couple of guys I know that have them figured out pretty well (I'm not one of them), but the quality of fishing is nothing like other fairly close waters. I fish the river a lot in the spring for sacalait and it can be okay, but again, not like other areas. There are some guys who fish sacalait year round and do well deeper on laydowns. I just fish it after work pretty often because it's close to my house and I grew up hanging out on the river, so I enjoy being out there. It really is a beautiful river, especially upriver from the 4th street split.

It's going to be nothing but houses the way its going.

Fishing for anything other than catfish on there is tough but I still give it a go. My lil bro does fairly well and has caught some nice ones.

I have a few theories but they’re just that. It was much better prior to Katrina. We used to catch a lot of bass on the river.

I think that the amount of lay downs and cover that developed in the river post-Katrina gave the fish a much more dispersed habitat. I also think the river has been really overfished since Katrina as the population on the northshore has grown significantly. The river sees a ton of boat traffic for its size. It used to be the case that the boat traffic stayed closer to Madisonville, but it’s grown a lot up near three rivers. I’ve had some good days out there, but never anything great and I’ve never caught any big bass. Biggest I’ve ever caught in the river was probably 3.5lbs. I do decently well with the sacalait but again I only really fish them during the spawn, which has just started I think.

Best advice I can give you is to try to get off of the main river into the smaller rivers, neighborhood canals, or areas that are close to being oxbows, but like I said, I’m not a super successful Tchefuncte angler.

I’ve done better on the Bogue Chitto, Pearl, and Tickfaw. I don’t fish any of those rivers often anymore just they’re further away and I’m not huge on freshwater fishing like I used to be. 4th street launch is 6 minutes from my house. Anything further, I’d just as soon go to the marsh or fish the pond in my back yard .

It’s a deep water bass fishery. If you fish shallow you’ll struggle but if you fish 12-25 ft in the bends of the river over structure you will catch more and larger bass.

A buddy HAMMERED the sac a lait last three weeks it's slowed down considerably now. I don't claim to know much about fishing it I fish and hunt with a guy that is retired and fishes it or Venice every day when he calls me to go I show up.

Best I can tell you is it's not easy to fish but they are there if you can figure it out and figure out the best times of the year to go.

That was a buddy of mines son, caught along rocks south of the Madisonville bridge. It was a monster.

This is what I’ve been working to get better at. All of the “river fishing” articles that I’ve read seem to suggest the same thing. I guess I need to get some deeper running crank baits and jigs.

Well hopedale is a no go today so will be trying the river again this evening.

I dont have the equipment to fish deep structure so working the edges and grass beds it is for me.

And correct, if you want to catch go to the beau chene pond's.

I 2nd the beau chene ponds as well. Pretty much any pond in established neighborhoods around Mandeville have big bass.

Enjoy Lacombe, i grew up water skiing on weekends and summers there.

When I was a kid we did pretty well on the stretch from Flower Estates down to Old Landing. We used to kill it with fly's and poppers floating and wading from Bush Folsom Rd down to Tantela Ranch.