Southeastern Louisiana, north of Interstate 10/12, has some nice sandy bottom creeks that can be alot of fun to wade fish for spotted bass. Due to the sandy bottom, they need about a week without rain to clear up enough to allow for successful fly fishing. I have only recently discovered this fishery, with my first attempt being in March of 2020. With a trip to Colorado around that time postponed due to “that whole covid thing” I found myself on the Comite river north of Baton Rouge. The conditions were great and I caught several spotted bass. I had found my new favorite fishing hole! Unfortunately, as I came to find out, getting a dry period long enough for the Comite to be fishable is rather rare. I was lucky in 2020 to have some good trips, but in 2021 I didn’t catch a spotted bass at all, as we had a very wet spring and summer. In my experience, it takes a good 10 days without rain for the Comite to get right. There had to be a better option.

This year I have scouted out some new creeks that are much farther north, and drain alot less land than the southern end of the Comite river. I have made a few trips already in 2022, and have caught spotted bass each time. One trip was only 3 or 4 days after a good rain, and the creek was a little higher than ideal that day, but I still managed a bass near the drop in. It seems that a 5 day stretch with no rain is just right for these smaller creeks, which is much more common than the 7 to 10 day stretch I had been waiting on before. On my most recent trip, in early April, I spent 4 good hours fishing and explored further reaches of the creek than I had before. I landed 3 spotted bass, all nice in size, and a few other fish as bycatch. Not a hugely productive day, but in hindsight I probably fished alot of water that wasn’t really holding water for spotted bass as I was exploring the creek.

Below are some photos with commentary in the captions.