re: Lafayette Area Fishing (Public Launches, Bayous, and Lakes)

I've heard good things about the 13 fishing reels. Their bargain reel, the inception, is junk. Very cheaply made. The concept A and concept C are solid reels, but they're above the $150 price range. You can get a Lews Tournament MB for about $130. It's a great reel. Also the Revo SX retails for $160, but you can find it for cheaper if you look hard enough.

Was just informed that there's a Jr Bassmasters tournament in Henderson this weekend. Estimated to have 80-90 boats. With the water being low, they won't really be able to spread out much. Gonna be fishing on top each other. Looks like I'm avoiding Henderson this weekend.

There's also an open tournament. Gonna be a cluster.

Saturday night. And yes, I'll be heading to Two O'clock on Saturday unless something comes up.

Good. Bring a rope to pull me back to the launch!

Y’all come get beat to shite in the wind with us

Another Two O'clock Bayou video

Even though the wind kicked my arse and caused some equipment damage, I still had a pretty good trip. I got pushed into a tree that ended up snapping one of my rods.


Also got pushed into some stumps that caught my transducer arm. Before I could do anything to try to get off of it, it grabbed my transducer arm and snapped it off the ram mount.


I fought backlashes all day casting in that shite. At one point early in the morning I didn't realize a tree limb was over my head. Went to cast, bait hit the tree limb....... luckily I had an extra spool of string.

Don't care, went fishing. Caught fish.

Even if I would've been in my bass boat that wind would've kicked my arse. After the last trip, I'm seriously considering trying to fish it in my bass boat. I don't think it would be a problem. I figured in the hairy spots I could trim up and navigate through it with my trolling motor. That's just a lot of paddling.

How is the ramp out there for a bass boat? I'd like to try and fish it someday but my towing situation isn't ideal at the moment and steep ramps scare me.

So I'm looking at the Indian Bayou map, and there are "paddle trails" throughout the WMA. The map shows one of the paddle trails going from the I-10 launch up through bayou Fuselier. This leads me to a question:

Obviously you can have a motor powered boat on that particular "paddle Trail". So if you are allowed to take a motor boat along that "paddle trail", can you take a motor boat down the other "paddle trails" throughout the WMA?