Bass in Bayou Lafourche?

I grew up along Bayou Lafourche in Raceland. As kids, my brother and I were in that bayou all the time. We used to catch bass and bream a lot. Nothing huge, but we caught some. I remember one year they opened the locks and let the Mississippi flow through it for a while. The water cleared up and the bayou actually got really pretty. We destroyed the bass in there during that time.

Every time I go back home I can't help but think that it looks nastier than I ever remember it looking. So, I don't know what the fishing is like in there right now.

I'm talking about south of Larose, before Golden Meadow. Looking at all that vegetation makes me think there are a bunch of bass in there.

So it's not just me? We have family from Thibodaux and the Raceland area and we spent plenty of time in the area as kids and I was telling someone not long ago I don't remember Bayou Lafourche ever being that dirty.

Quick CSB: When the Classic was in New Orleans back in 2003 Skeet Reese fished Bayou Lafourche for the tournament.

Yeah it's always been a little on the muddy side,but it looks horrible right now. It could use a good flush.

I live on the bayou and it is definitely more muddy now than usual. I know down in Lockport around Bollinger they catch some good size bass. The bayou now takes a lot longer to drain since they put locks all the way down. The bayou is 130 feet wide by my house in Raceland and there is a lock in Lockport that funnels it down to 40 foot.

There's a big drainage ditch that comes from the sugar mill. It comes out on the 308 side right across the bayou from Nick's Seafood. That used to be me and my brother's spot back in the day. Always caught some fish right there. Sometimes we'd go up in there and catch some. Never went too far past the train tracks though.

Grew up in Larose along the Intracoastal. Always caught bass in Bayou Lafourche. Especially when they had the old pontoon bridge before they built the new lift bridge on the north side.

I believe they are still dredging near napoleonville. That's why it has been so muddy.

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Water has been really high too. Anyone remember a few years ago when people were pulling 10-15 sacks of crawfish out of it. 1 year it was just above Thibodaux and another year behind Adams Fruit stand.

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Man that was a fun year. I heard so many things on why it happened. The most believable one was there was a crawfish pond somewhere in Labadieville that the levee broke. The water flushed out the drainage ditch into the bayou with all the crawfish.

Sure was fun catching 6 sacks in less then 2 hours.