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Fishing Help - Breaux Bridge Area
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:33 am
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:33 am
I am a bit embarrassed but come hat in hand looking for some help.
The short version is once a year we meet a group of friends from Texas/LA/MS and their kids in Breaux Bridge and stay at some cabins for the weekend. We bring the fishing rods and have never caught anything...not even a bite for 2 years running! (Well technically last year we caught an oyster somehow, the line got stuck in its shell and we pulled it up).
I do fish, but not often and never in that area, and am looking for any insight for what we might throw out there and maybe get some bites to keep the kids entertained.
I believe it is Bayou Teche we are fishing, but the address is 100 W Mills Ave, Breaux Bridge, LA 70517, so it is that little bayou that is running right there. We have tried crickets/worms/soft plastics/"Power bait"/all sorts of rattle traps and other artificials and never had anything even nibble.
Any words of wisdom from folks in that area? I really don't care what bites, but it would be fun for the kids if we could hook something besides twigs.
Thanks for any advice!
The short version is once a year we meet a group of friends from Texas/LA/MS and their kids in Breaux Bridge and stay at some cabins for the weekend. We bring the fishing rods and have never caught anything...not even a bite for 2 years running! (Well technically last year we caught an oyster somehow, the line got stuck in its shell and we pulled it up).
I do fish, but not often and never in that area, and am looking for any insight for what we might throw out there and maybe get some bites to keep the kids entertained.
I believe it is Bayou Teche we are fishing, but the address is 100 W Mills Ave, Breaux Bridge, LA 70517, so it is that little bayou that is running right there. We have tried crickets/worms/soft plastics/"Power bait"/all sorts of rattle traps and other artificials and never had anything even nibble.
Any words of wisdom from folks in that area? I really don't care what bites, but it would be fun for the kids if we could hook something besides twigs.
Thanks for any advice!
This post was edited on 3/31/23 at 11:59 am
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Posted on 3/31/23 at 10:00 am to LSU Delirium
IMO, that area of the Bayou Teche is not a very good estuary for catching fish.
You're better off staying at one of the local stocked pond places that have cabins such as Poches
You're better off staying at one of the local stocked pond places that have cabins such as Poches
Posted on 3/31/23 at 10:17 am to LSU Delirium
Pick up a bag of raw shrimp tails from the frozen section of the grocery store. Tie a 1/0 hook on your line and bait with a defrosted shrimp tail. Let freeline drift to the bottom of the canal. Get ready, you’re catching something this time!
Posted on 3/31/23 at 11:45 am to LSU Delirium
There are fish in Bayou Teche but some areas hold better due to current/cover. I live on the Teche most of my life and have had good luck catfishing with cut bream/sunfish and chicken gizzards weighted to bottom. Just have to have a little patience and that's sometimes tough with young children. Live worms or natural baits will work much better than plastics or lures and I would try and target bottom feeders and catfish.
I always use cut pogys with a chunk of powerbait in my wire net and depending on season can catch an ice chest full occasionally when set long enough and conditions are right. You may want to try to set a line and leave it in place long enough and check it periodically or if you see it get tight.
Keep in mind the bayou near there is a real shallow mudflat for the first dozen feet or so and then drops off quickly towards the middle where the current is. My Dad lives about an eighth of a mile upstream from your camping spot and to set a net there behind his house we have to get it at least 15 feet out from the bank and weight it for proper flue orientation for it to fall deep enough to catch well.
I agree with Got Blaze that the ponds at Poche's fish-n-camp would be easier for kids to catch at, but they have been hit and miss also when we have stayed there. The pond up front closer to the highway has produced better results than the one where the cabins are located. There also used to be a place called Catfish Haven that has stocked ponds headed away from Breaux Bridge towards Lafayette but haven't been there in decades since kids are now grown.
Although not as convenient as fishing from your cabin wharf, keep in mind that Lake Martin and Henderson Lake are just about 5-10 minutes from Rocky and Lisa's cabins and offer many good spots to bank fish with better results than Bayou Teche would. For the easiest fishing with small children, I'd try in Butte LaRose canal at Dick Davis Park with crickets or shiners under a cork or along the Henderson Levee near the old pontoon bridge location.
Hope you guys have better luck this year and the kids can hook a few!
I always use cut pogys with a chunk of powerbait in my wire net and depending on season can catch an ice chest full occasionally when set long enough and conditions are right. You may want to try to set a line and leave it in place long enough and check it periodically or if you see it get tight.
Keep in mind the bayou near there is a real shallow mudflat for the first dozen feet or so and then drops off quickly towards the middle where the current is. My Dad lives about an eighth of a mile upstream from your camping spot and to set a net there behind his house we have to get it at least 15 feet out from the bank and weight it for proper flue orientation for it to fall deep enough to catch well.
I agree with Got Blaze that the ponds at Poche's fish-n-camp would be easier for kids to catch at, but they have been hit and miss also when we have stayed there. The pond up front closer to the highway has produced better results than the one where the cabins are located. There also used to be a place called Catfish Haven that has stocked ponds headed away from Breaux Bridge towards Lafayette but haven't been there in decades since kids are now grown.
Although not as convenient as fishing from your cabin wharf, keep in mind that Lake Martin and Henderson Lake are just about 5-10 minutes from Rocky and Lisa's cabins and offer many good spots to bank fish with better results than Bayou Teche would. For the easiest fishing with small children, I'd try in Butte LaRose canal at Dick Davis Park with crickets or shiners under a cork or along the Henderson Levee near the old pontoon bridge location.
Hope you guys have better luck this year and the kids can hook a few!
This post was edited on 3/31/23 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 3/31/23 at 11:58 am to Classy Doge
Thank you everyone, fingers crossed!
Posted on 3/31/23 at 12:21 pm to LSU Delirium
Lake Martin is not far from there also.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 6:35 pm to LSU Delirium
You’ll only get catfish on that stretch of the Teche. Go to Lake Martin.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 10:15 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
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You’ll only get catfish on that stretch of the Teche. Go to Lake Martin.
Although there ain't nothing wrong with catching catfish.
Posted on 4/1/23 at 1:06 pm to LSU Delirium
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maybe get some bites to keep the kids entertained.
I would find a spot on the levee and lake Martin for catfish.
Beautiful lake, tons of alligators and wildlife to take in.
Posted on 4/1/23 at 8:53 pm to bobdylan
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I would find a spot on the levee and lake Martin for catfish.
Beautiful lake, tons of alligators and wildlife to take in.
Yep. All of this. But there's something to be said about casting a line from the back porch of your cabin also.
OP - I'd get some nylon twine and tie to an old brick then tie in a few drops with hooks. Bait it up, throw it out and check it every so often if you decide to stick with fishing from your cabin.
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