Rigolets and Mulatto Bayou

[Sam]

Last night I thought about fishing the Rigolets area and going out into the Mississippi Sound and Biloxi Marsh via Pearl River so I looked up the areas on Google and Google Earth.

 

i know it has been over 55 years since I have revisited the area and I was amazed at how much it has been built up. 

 

We would leave New Orleans on Highway 90 and go over the Rigolets bridge and turn left to the camps. We had a place to stay and all the live shrimp we could put in our skiff's live well. The 25-horsepower motor got us out of the camp area and into Lake Pontchartrain and then the Rigolets Bridge area.

 

I think I found the camps lined up, at least that is what I think I found, and the areas we used to catch redfish, speckled trout, drum, sheepshead and croakers. Every now and then we would hook up with an alligator gar or big catfish.  Lots of great memories.

 

As for Mulatto Bayou off the Pearl River, I found the location where my uncle kept his 42-foot Chris Craft. The area is now sprinkled with many homes (or camps) but the big boat house and dock are still there. I also found the train bridge as you left the Pearl and headed towards the Gulf.

 

Fantastic fishing unless we had to shrimp all weekend. I still have scars on my fingers from the shrimp.

 

Anyone out there that can add to this please do so. I know Slidell has blossomed into a very nice place to raise a family and has spread out in all directions from what I remember Slidell used to be.

 

Thanks in advance for any details about the Rigolets area and the Pearl River.