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From 2009:

Yeah, there are stripers and tarpon in Pontchartrain. Let's take the latter first.
Generally, tarpon move into the lake during summer and stay until the first strong outgoing tides in Sept./Oct. They are most commonly found in a deep hole out from Lakeshore Airport and are caught (Mostly) on dead mullet fished on bottom. And typically, they are pretty big! Can you catch (Hook?) a lake-tarpon from the bank? Probably not, but never say never.
Now to stripers.
The Pontchartrain Basin was the westernmost part of the natural range of the striped bass. Habitat destruction and alteration destroyed the entire Louisiana population in the late 1950's, and subsequent stockings have been only very marginally successful.
The problem is the lack of cool water. High temperature is deadly to adult stripers, though smaller fish can and do survive in it. Indeed, I have caught a bunch of stripers to five pounds in the Mississippi River at Buras. However, I have seen exactly one 10-pounder, and since I was working on a striper project with the USF&WS, I was looking for them.
There are some decent-sized stripers in the Pontchartrain Basin, but during summer they primarily stay in the northshore rivers, moving into and through the lake occasionally during winter. So what I'm saying is fishing for the largest available stripers from the bank of Lake Pontchartrain is not a viable opportunity.
Try the Bogue Falaya - deep!!!- above Covington.
Sorry, but I am not a pessimist - I know.
And I hope you crappie-slayers will forgive my dissertation.

There are a ton of strippers in the Lake Ponchatrain area. You can find them on the north shore all the way down to the main population on the south shore

Pete