Lake Palourde fishing: Striped Bass, Blue Catfish, White Crappie
Target species: Striped Bass, Blue Catfish, White Crappie, Redear
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Bob Thibodaux, 20 lanes.
The lake
Lake Palourde covers 10,758 acres in Louisiana, across 3 counties: St. Mary, St. Martin and Assumption. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 10 feet (3 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 10 ft (3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 4 depth contours for this water, drawn from 73 soundings.
4 target fish, led by Striped Bass
- Striped Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Redear — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
Also recorded here: Threadfin Shad, Inland Silverside.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 82°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.7. These readings span 2017–2022. The latest reading is from 2022, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.
- Bob Thibodaux — 20 lanes. Morgan City. Hwy 662, Morgan City
- Lake End Park — 2 lanes. Morgan City. 2300 Hwy 70, Morgan City · phone 985-380-4623 · website lakeendpark.net · email [email protected]
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 10,758 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Only 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA BlueTopo: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA National Bathymetric Source (S-102 ed3.0.0) — NOAA S-102 bathymetric surfaces: contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
