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re: Why is Lake Maurepas not more heavily hunted and fished?
Posted on 9/5/24 at 12:58 am to Obtuse1
Posted on 9/5/24 at 12:58 am to Obtuse1
Has anyone caught a Redfish in Maurepas? Speckled Trout seems to like saltier water than Redfish as I catch wayyyy more Redfish in Marsh and more Trout in open water.
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Posted on 9/5/24 at 1:40 am to cbree88
I know people who deer hunt it. The same ones have with a few newer guys for longer then I’ve been alive. You have to have a boat and a lot of them always used air boats. It’s the hardest hunting you could imagine and it doesn’t matter what time of year, cottonmouths are everywhere.
As far as ducks, they say in the 70s and 80s it was good duck hunting, now it’s mostly wood ducks. Ducks just don’t migrate and spend any significant time there, no food really. A lot blame the lack of ducks on the spread of sylvania and storms killing vegetation and a lot of others, but it’s just not good duck hunting consistently.
A lot of people fish and dive the lake and rivers that connect to it.
As far as ducks, they say in the 70s and 80s it was good duck hunting, now it’s mostly wood ducks. Ducks just don’t migrate and spend any significant time there, no food really. A lot blame the lack of ducks on the spread of sylvania and storms killing vegetation and a lot of others, but it’s just not good duck hunting consistently.
A lot of people fish and dive the lake and rivers that connect to it.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 2:01 am to cbree88
Dem baws at the Prop Stop don’t even have to fish. Them big mouth women just jump onto the deck over there, yeah.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 2:19 am to cbree88
You can catch redfish when the salinity increases. Like last summer when it didn’t rain for two months. Would have been good for Reds in Lake Maurepas.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 2:26 am to 0x15E
The only fishing I see in Lake Maurepaus is in the pass around I-55.
The Prop Stop is likely permanently closed. I motored by it last weekend a few times.
Word on the river is the environmental wacko bureaucrats are requiring hundreds of thousands of $$$$’s to handle recycled Worm Bucket liquids.
Who knows, maybe Lake Maurepaus will become a fishing and hunting Mecca with so much less pee in the water.
But I doubt it.
The Prop Stop is likely permanently closed. I motored by it last weekend a few times.
Word on the river is the environmental wacko bureaucrats are requiring hundreds of thousands of $$$$’s to handle recycled Worm Bucket liquids.
Who knows, maybe Lake Maurepaus will become a fishing and hunting Mecca with so much less pee in the water.
But I doubt it.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 4:08 am to cbree88
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but no one is going to catch redfish, speckled trout, or any other saltwater fish in Lake Maurepas.
It wasn't that long ago that you could...at the right time of the year...Trout and reds could be caught to the mouth of Tickfaw. Those days are gone now.
Also used to be crab traps everywhere on the Ponchartrain side.
The bass never get big. It seems every storm or flood knocks them back to square one to start over.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 7:11 am to cbree88
Not exactly true. Redfish are caught on the East side more often than you’d think and Speckled trout have been caught on Reserve Canal and at the mouth of Blind River at least once in my lifetime
Posted on 9/5/24 at 7:16 am to Saunson69
I’ve fished caught a couple limits of trout in mauerpas over the years very close to the pass. I’ve also caught redfish. I have bass fished many tournaments over the years out of manchac boat launch and I can tell you that very little people fish the lake itself. Most people are running to a river almost every time to catch decent bass. Tchefuncte, pearl, blind, amite, tickfaw.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 7:31 am to cbree88
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It seems like a large untouched freshwater lake would be an absolute haven for freshwater fishing and duck hunting.
The first Duckmen was filmed close to it
The duckweed in that film has now been replaced by hyacinth and salvinia so much so that you can walk on it in places
Posted on 9/5/24 at 7:57 am to cbree88
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Perhaps there is technically some interchange with Lake Ponchartrain through Pass Manchac wich makes it technically a brackish estuary, but no one is going to catch redfish, speckled trout, or any other saltwater fish in Lake Maurepas.
Ive never done it but my dad tells the story at least once a week of redfish he caught where blind river pours into lake maurepas years ago.
Ive also hear stories of catfish jugs catching sharks. or having their lines cut by sharks I guess. not often but when the water/tide is right
Posted on 9/5/24 at 7:58 am to TigerNAtux
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The Ida fish kill did a number but it’s coming back on the rivers.
It doesn’t take a big storm for a fish kill in the area.
Even the smaller tropical storms can cause fish kills.
And we might skip a year, two, maybe even three without a fish kill in the maurepas area, but the next one is always close by.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 8:43 am to cbree88
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Posted on 9/5/24 at 9:18 am to cbree88
this baw caught a 6 ft gar
Posted on 9/5/24 at 9:33 am to cbree88
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but no one is going to catch redfish, speckled trout, or any other saltwater fish in Lake Maurepas.
congrats on dumb post of the day...
Posted on 9/5/24 at 9:56 am to cbree88
Get a real layout boat, couple dozen diver and kill all the jacks you want
Posted on 9/5/24 at 1:04 pm to cbree88
Just call me "no one" During low freshwater river years the eastern shoreline gets pretty brackish and draws in speckled and white trout. Never anything big, but lots of school fish. It used to be an annual run but has become rarer over the years.
As for hunting there's not much food to hold ducks when they do come down. The WMA that borders it is full of swamp deer but little access and strict rules make it very difficult.
As for hunting there's not much food to hold ducks when they do come down. The WMA that borders it is full of swamp deer but little access and strict rules make it very difficult.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 5:21 pm to supatigah
Wrong on clarity. Depending on winds, one section of the lake will usually be clear. I've been out there and visibility was 10 feet. Week days are much better though due to boat traffic on the weekends.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 10:18 pm to cbree88
Some local will probably blame the Air Products CO2 project for the 5 decades of local destruction of that fishery
Posted on 9/5/24 at 11:32 pm to Chasseur
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eastern shoreline gets pretty brackish and draws in speckled and white trout.
I was party to a 4 man limit of specs at the mouth of the amite river once
Posted on 9/18/24 at 8:31 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
LINK /
Scrollin the tik tok saw this dude cast net a speck at st James boat club haha
Scrollin the tik tok saw this dude cast net a speck at st James boat club haha
This post was edited on 9/18/24 at 8:32 pm
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