Cocodrie Saturday (5/22)

[BayouTiger]

I'll be in Cocodrie tomorrow in my boat. If anyone else is planning on being down there tomorrow and wants a mothership or runs into probs feel free to call me 225-776-5446.

I'll post a report, good or bad, tomorrow evening.

David

[jallen355]

Headed that way in a little while. Catch an evening fish and then hit it again in the a.m. 24' Blazer Bay - yellow & white.

[BayouTiger]

Well we hit the water a little after 800 launch at sandpiper. Got a later start than I had originally planned. Winds were steady at about 5 mph out of the southeast with scattered clouds.

Got into bayou terrebone and headed south, went through a cut and out into lake barre and fished along the western edges, picking up three trout and 10 reds. We saw 5 dead hardheads floating out in the open water and I recalled Don Dubuc talking this morning about reports of a fish kill of hardheads in Plaquemines Parish.

All were caught on cocahoe minnows under a cork. Wishing I had stayed down there to fish again in the morning.

[Mung]

Looks like the northern edge of Barre is about the only thing left open down there.

[BayouTiger]

Looks like the northern edge of Barre is about the only thing left open down there.

Where I caught those fish yesterday is definitely closed now. Everything south of the 29° 21’00” line in that area is closed. Google Earth's grid give a better understanding of the closure than the wlf map. It was a really eerie feeling yesterday knowing that it may have been my last trip in that area for a while. I'm glad it was a good one.

As a side note, the fella I brought with me is damn near blind and his vision has progressively gotten worse over years due to a degenerative eye disease (hence the reason for the boat and not the yaks!) He is going to Houston on Thursday in a last ditch effort to save what little vision he's got left. He was saying this may very well be his last trip for both reasons, but I'm thinking he can still manage a cane pole or a trotline. It was pretty cool watching him catching some fish yesterday.

I'm wishing I had brought my camera with me to take pictures of the dead cats floating. I don't think they were dead due to the oil spill or the dispersants, but then again I'm no biologist. They appeared very bloated. With that being said, there wasn't any sign of oil on top of the water where we were.

[jallen355]

We saw oil in alot of places scattered all over Lake Barre and the Eastern side of Lake Pelto. It really hit home as we realized that we were not going to be able to fish the areas that we've fished often in the past.

22 specks and 1 red Saturday evening.
Gave up on the specks with 4 in the box and headed to the marsh north of Lake Boudreau to chase tail Sunday morning.

[backwaterboy]

do you fish madison up by the slits camp?

[jallen355]

We made the run from close to Terrebonne Island back up through Bayou Terrebonne to get to Boudreaux's canal and Lake Boudreau. We past the Schlitz camp, but that was my first time trhough there. My bud has had a camp down there for 35+ years, so he's pretty familiar.

[backwaterboy]

i have grew up fishing there and have always wanted to fish cocodrie in a yak