Bass Fishing
The Great 8: Lake Fausse Pointe’s trophy bass
Louisiana’s Lake Fausse Pointe showed out as a trophy bass destination in 2020, with eight bass weighing more than 7 pounds.[…]
Lake Fausse Pointe
Bass Fishing
Greg Hackey’s favorite June bass baits
Don’t be afraid to tie on a crankbait around heavy cover. Greg Hackney’s go-to lure for June is a Strike King KVD 1.5 or 2.5. Baits with two treble hooks.[…]
Big Bass
The biggest Lake Fausse Pointe bass of 2020
Wesley Verret Jr.’s Alabama bass fishing tactics paid BIG dividends on a trip May 16 to Lake Fausse Pointe, the lake he grew up bass fishing.[…]
Big Bass
Lake Fausse Pointe gives up another hawg
Travis Meche Sr. hooked an 8.82-pound bass on May 2 in Sandy Cove at Lake Fausse Pointe. It was the fifth 8-pound class bass reported since mid-February.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fourth big bass this month from Lake Fausse Pointe
Andre Weber of Jeanerette is having a heckuva month. The the Catholic High School junior caught three lunker bass in Lake Fausse Pointe.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fausse Pointe produces another big bass
A big bass made New Iberia’s Jarrod Derouen’s day when he caught it on March 7 in a borrow pit in Lake Fausse Pointe while fishing with Troy Laviolette.[…]
Bass Fishing
Baton Rouge angler bags lunker on Lake Fausse Pointe
Joseph Martin of Baton Rouge set the hook and landed a “hawg” on Feb. 15 in Lake Fausse Pointe with the help of his fishing buddy, Austin Whitaker.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Fausse Pointe slabs
February and March are great months to catch early spring sac-a-lait at hotspots like Lake Fausse Point and Lake Dauterive.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lake Fausse Pointe Borrow pit hawgs
More and more big bass are coming from the borrow pits along the West Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee from Lake Fausse Pointe State Park south along what is locally known as the Borrow Pit Canal.[…]
Bass Fishing
Sizing things up on Lake Fausse Pointe
Lake Fausse Pointe is a 17,000-acre system located in Iberia and St. Martin Parishes. Contiguous to the Atchafalaya Basin, the lake is essentially a catch basin for northern runoff and as a result is somewhat shallow when compared to public systems north of Interstate 10.[…]
Bass Fishing
Little-known lake is bass hotspot
Lake Fausse Pointe flies under the radar, for the most part. Most people in South Louisiana know there’s a state park on the banks of the lake just north of Cherenton, but you don’t hear a lot of talk about its bass fishery.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fausse Point Frolic — Bass fishing tips for Fausse Point Lake
I sat quietly in the boat in front of the camp on Bird Island Chute. The swamp smelled fresh in the winter air. I thought about how good the caviar was the previous night.[…]
Bass Fishing
Apparent bass tournament cheating attempt discovered at Lake Fausse Pointe
A cage, or basket, of big, live bass was discovered in Lake Fausse Pointe’s Sandy Cove the week before the Children’s Hospital Bass Classic held March 1 out of Doiron’s Landing, Stephensville.[…]