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Rusty Old H&H Spinnerbait
 Keith Lusher
For those born and raised here in South Louisiana, it’s not hard to think back to the good ole’ days when choosing a fishing lure often took a grand total of 5 seconds. Sure, there wasn’t much to choose from, but with the lack of selection, there was less doubt as to if you were using the right lure..
John Gibby of Slidell made a fishing trip to Bayou Lacombe in which decided to go “old school” and try using a lure that he’s had in his tackle box for over 10 years. It’s a lure that is familiar to many native South Louisiana fisherman — The H&H Spinnerbait. “I grew up fishing the Dundemona River in North Louisiana and my favorite bait was an H&H Spinnerbait,” he said. 
It was a Friday afternoon. Gibby launched at the end of Lake Road in Lacombe and headed into the marsh in order to try and escape the wind. “The forecast didn’t call for those kind of winds but luckily the spinnerbait had some weight to it and cut right through the wind,” he said. “I was making some bomb casts even when casting into the wind.”
He began casting the orange and brown colored spinnerbait into small cuts as he meandered through the marsh. He came up empty after 10 minutes of fishing, but then came upon a trenasse with a mixture of wind and tide that caused the water pour out of it. “I found a little bayou where I could reel in with the current,” he said. “The swift current allowed me to real the spinnerbait in slowly without it getting bogged down in the grass.” Gibby made a cast into the cut and after a few turns of the reel handle, set the hook and landed his first fish of the morning: a 1.3-pound marsh bass. Before releasing it he tagged the fish. “I fish here a lot so I tag them. I want to learn if these fish stay here all the time or move around,” Gibby said. 
Gibby reels in a 2-pound bass caught on an H&H Spinnerbait
He made three more casts and as he was reeling in he spotted a bass swimming after his lure. “I saw the whole thing. He swam after it and hit it by the boat,” he said. After that fish he finished out the day with another three fish with one of them measuring 15 inches and weighing 2 pounds. Gibby said the water was surprising clean despite all of the rain we’ve been seeing. “The water was crystal clean and full of eel grass,” he said.
At the end of the day the Bayou Lacombe bass fisherman accomplished what he set out to do, and that was to catch bass with a lure that he used as a kid. “It just proves that you don’t really need to go fancy to catch fish.” he said. 
Gibby tagged this bass in order to learn more about bass migration in Bayou Lacombe
Tournament Results
The Florida Parishes Bass Anglers fished the Tchefuncte River on a cold, overcast day. Out of the 21 teams that fished the event, nine teams caught a limit of 5 bass. In the end it was the team of Trenton Pittman and Chase Damare who came out on top with a limit of bass weighing 14.07 pounds. In second place was Robert Eddreman and Patrick Gordon who brought in a 13.41-pound limit. Wendell Meyers and Melvin Meyers came in third Place with 5 fish that weighed 12.59 pounds. Team Meyers won the big fish pot with a lunker bass that weighed 5.05 pounds. 
Trenton Pittman and Chase Damare
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 Keith Lusher
I created NFR.com in the spring of 2012. Since then it has helped link Northshore fishermen to valuable information and has filled the void of absent information on the web about fishing on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Northshore Fishing Report has morphed into a brand name and can be found not only on the web, but on radio and newspaper. As NFR grows I will continue to work hard at keeping NFR local focusing on local anglers, reports, seminars, and fishing tournaments in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parish. I hope you enjoy the website and If you have any questions please email me at: Keith@NorthshoreFishingReport.com
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