Keith Lusher 05.09.24
Because the bass involves an finish right here in South Louisiana fishermen are a bit perplexed as they’re left attempting to determine the complicated post-spawn sample. Because the bass make their method off of the beds and again into their extra regular confines, the transition there’s a problem. Add to it the barometer stress shifts and temperature swings and it’s no surprise so many bass anglers wrestle in Might.
Daniel Sissac has been fishing a waterway referred to as Bayou Bonfouca. The identify “Bonfouca” is French for good folks and originates with the Bonfouca Indian tribe that after populated this space that’s situated in Slidell, LA. The freshwater bayou acts extra like a saltwater marshlined canal due to its lack of bushes and brackish water from Lake Pontchartrain.
Sissac made a bass fishing journey along with his buddy, Dat Tran. On the journey, the chums found out a way of utilizing a Texas Rig in an unconventional method. “We tried casting over the grass line with a Texas-rigged plastic worm,” he mentioned. “As a substitute of letting it sink, we had been burning it throughout the grass on the floor of the water.”
In Bayou Bonfouca, there’s a line of submerged grass that grows about 10 toes from the shoreline. Sissac mentioned the bass have been reacting properly to the quick motion and the bullet weight works the identical method it does when fishing on the underside.” The form of the worm weight is used to drag the bait by construction with out it getting hung up on the wooden or grass,” Sissac mentioned. “The burden works the identical method on the floor because it cuts by the floating grass.”
As summer time nears, the Louisiana warmth typically sends bass into deeper water, however Sissac mentioned these fish are nonetheless within the shallows and nonetheless reacting to colours that usually work throughout the spawn. “I like to make use of crawfish imitating lures throughout the spawn. Crawfish-colored worms normally work for me throughout the spawn however this 12 months the crawfish colours are nonetheless working into Might,” he mentioned.
For these fishing Bayou Bonfouca this month, Sissac recommends focusing on areas which have produced fish throughout the spawn. “After the feminine bass drop their eggs, they’ll must eat and replenish their vitality misplaced throughout the spawn,” he mentioned. “Proper now they’re nonetheless biting in the identical spots they did throughout the spawn so there’s no must look anyplace else.”
