The consensus among bass and bream fishermen about the past season at Lacassine Reserve, which closed for the year last Saturday, was that it wasn’t one of the better ones.
It started off good ,but by midseason vegetation had taken a good hold and by the closing day it wasn’t easy to find open water.
“I would say that the odd thing about this year,” said refuge manager Richie Meyers, “is that we had a maximum of water the entire year. The fish were scattered everywhere.”
The 16,000-acre fishing pool, which also serves as a duck refuge, took on more water from the recent flood and Meyers said the refuge was above or at full pool level and that vegetation was everywhere.
It may have been the earliest that heavy grass had taken a good stand in the pond, that brought on by the fact that there was no hard freeze last winter.
“If we can get a nice cold winter, that would help out (next season),” Meyers added, noting, “All of this water will be a great opener.”
He also said no drawdown is planned for the impoundment in the coming year.
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Mike Authement, who keeps in direct contact with the majority of the bass fishermen in the pond from his business in Hayes, said, “I think that it was back to the same story. It was not a phenomenal year but a good one. Not over the top, but what you expect out of Lacassine.
“If you are a regular in fishing Lacassine you probably caught fish, but if not you probably struggled.”
He agreed with Meyers that what the pond needs this winter is a good freeze to kill the vegetation.
“Even with a cold winter it will come back (the vegetation) but it will get a little longer to get to that point,” he added.
Authement said the largest bass to go through his store this year weighed 12 pounds, 2 ounces.
“We just took the pictures down. We had a couple of 11s (pounds) and 10s and some eights and nines. A lot of people did catch trophy fish,” he said.
Authement also said he was keeping an eye out on the duck population for the upcoming season.
“It seems that every year the duck numbers are up we’ve had a better fishing season,” he said. “Overall it is still the place that all of us want to fish each season.”
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As for the bream bite, noted fisherman Larry Cinquemano said it wasn’t one of the better ones for him.
Compared to his last four years, he said this year’s catch was not close.
He keeps a daily diary of his bream catch, will make about 20 trips a season and spend five to six hours on the water.
His 20 trips this season had him bringing in a little more than 700 chinquapin and blue gill. Last year the total was 1,400 for the same number of trips and more than that the years before.
“It’s been tough,” he said. “Usually where I like to fish (north lake and little north lake) the vegetation came up quick. For the last month of the season it has been had to find them. What open water I have found (in the Lone Cypress and Twin Sister areas), I couldn’t find the fish.”
He also noted that for the final few weeks, his was the only rig launching at the northwest landing.
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Lacassine will open to fishing on March 15, 2017 and close again on Oct. 15, 2017.
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