I wasn't sure where exactly where this post should go, & I didn't see any of the old crappie posts from last year around this time, so here it is. If ya'll want to move it someplace else, that's cool too! Around this time every year is when my bass club tournaments are winding down, I get into my crappie/white perch fishing mode. Over the last several years I have been able to pretty much fill the freezer in the months of November, December & maybe a week or two of January. Mostly I have just fished the Red River in community holes, although I did take a few here & there on Caddo. So....since it's getting close to that time, a time which I REALLY love.....I was just wondering if anybody has already been out there catching 'em? I know lots of folks around here fish for crappie year 'round & do pretty good, I'm just not that expert at it. I pretty much have to find them all bunched up before I can do much good. I have never put out any brush piles, but if somebody would be willing to take on a student, I'm willing to learn lo. So....is anybody on the slabs yet??? How about just the pre-slabs or future slabs? ;D Man oh man, I can taste them feeelays already! ;)
Marty
Marty, I normally don't fish for them until April when I can catch them on a bettle spin and a "Hank Parker Rig" with a crappie jig. But I do know that I have missed a lot of action during the winter months. Last winter in December I caught a bunch of good slabs in the lilly pad stems on Cross. Now I haven't been out there yet but I imagine it is too early for that. I would love to follow you around on the Red on day this winter. When I first got stationed here we tried it and had no luck......
This is a great place for this thread but I may change it to Louisiana Crappie fishing, that way we can discuss different lakes all in one thread.
Mike, that sounds good, a place to talk about catching crappie also, sometimes we like to just chill out and catch a few slabs, that's how me & merila got started.....
Marty, I would love to trailer up and follow you around chasing some good slabs, maybe later this year we can get together and try some..........
Ricky aa
If I could learn as much about crappie fishing as I have about bass fishing from this site, that would be awesome!
A buddy of mine tries every year to find them but never does much good. I have been with him several times when we have heard everyone was tearing them up. We would catch a couple if we were lucky.
When it gets going again we will get you hooked up BassAddict. Last year Marty was really on them and was very specific about how to catch them. This year I plan to try a little more we will see what happens....
I can't wait...I always hear all the stories but have never been able to experience it myself.
:toot:marty--i catch a ton of crappie every winter over here in east texas. they get bunched up around xmas when it gets really cold, and i mean really cold. you just idle arond until yoiu find a creek channel and then look for a brush pile on the edge of the creek. then anchor down and start yolking them. the limit in texas is 25/day/man, so the trick is to take 4 or 5 of you in the boat so you can have a haul day. or just keep an ice chest in the truck and catch youi limit and transfer them and go get another limit. i have caught 50 in less than an hour and these are the slabs. 2-4 pounds. hawg mommas. one day i got ouit there early and anchored down and startted fishing and when the sun came up it looked like a post card. there were no less than 1000 boats almost bumper to bumper. youi could probably walk a mile from boat to boat. when they start biting i will definitely get the word and post it here. abouit two months away still, but getting closer. all you need is about 4 rods each and a bucket of shiners. i can show you how to rig up. i have found a way that has been much better for me. just fish strait down under the boat. when they are biting a little slow, i will drift for them and i have done pretty good that way too.
i will keep you posted on the situation . . .
doc ~bb
Doc...I know what you are talking about with the drifting, by late Dec last yeqr that's pretty much all I was doing, & it was producing the slabs. I'm just guessing you are talking about LOP? I have never tried crappie fishing over there but I have heard alot about it. You can expect to be hearing from me in a couple of months, I will definitely take you up on that deal! As far as fishing for them here on the Red, I would be glad to take or show any of you guys but I'm really only just fishing community holes, I don't have any secret spots. I'll post when I find 'em snapping! Hehe...we'll just have a big 'ol convoy going down the river! By the way, Doc....yeah, I know the TX limit is 25 fish, of course you know it's 50 here in LA. I gotta tell ya though, by the time I clean 30 or 40 on a cold winter evening in the dark I have had about all I want for that day. Sometimes I just leave 'em in the cooler on ice & do it the next day, but I really prefer to get it done the same day. 25's a pretty good number if they're all slabs. Thanks for the invite!
Marty
marty--i did not intentionally leave out the lake's name. yes it is lake o' the pines. and when they are on, they are way on. and the colder the better. i have been ouit there before when i had ice on my rod tip in a matter of minutes. i have some spots saved on my gps that have been more productive, but the real key is to just find some trash on hte edge of a creek. and hang on. the days where the wind is blowing are a little better (azs long as it is not gail force winds) b/c it keeps you in the same spot insetad of drifting back and forth. my shiner store closed up right by the lake, so i am gonna have to find another place to get shiners. sholdn't be too hard to find the shiners. but i would love to "hook up with ya!!" and anyone else for that matter. this is no secret. there will be over a thousand boats out there when they are ripping lips like crazy.
drop it deep over a brush pile, , ,
doc ~shade
Doc,
How about a jig bite? HAve you done pretty good with jigs? I usually have some minners with me, but if I can get 'em to bite a jig, then the minners can go for a swim, hahaha!
Marty
Doc & Marty,
Please remember us when they start biting, man, that is something I have always dream of and would love to put the wife on some crappie like that. She's learning how to bass fish, but bream & crappie fishing is her love.......Should would like to get on a trip like that for sure.......
Ricky aa
Rickoos, The crappie up here are massive 2-4 pounders are really caught alot. I take it you don't have that down there. We have two good times to catch them here. The dead of winter and then my favorite, the first week of April you can catch them on the shorelines with a bettle spin. It takes some covering water but the bonus is once you find the pack you can catch them cast after cast. I have caught 23 out of 25 casts, when you hit the right hole.
OK, guys!!!!!!! You can sign me up anytime now for the next available crappie trip, OK.... :) ;) :)
Ricky aa
Hey Mike,
This past spring, a friend & I were fishing in the 1st Baptist Church open tournament out of Clark's. Anyhow, we were working down a bank line with lots of laydowns, looking for Mr. Bass, & we got into the slabs, & caught a good mess of them. The reason I'm mentioning it is that we caught them all of junbug lizards! Like I said, we were fishing a tournament, but we didn't mind those big old slab crappie hanging out in the livewell too. I told another friend about them later & he went down & stroked them too. You know they're good sized when they're eating 6" lizards!
Marty
Marty,
you're breaking my heart, buddy.... :'( :'( :'(
I sure hope we can make a trip this winter and catch a few of those nice crappie.....
Ricky aa
Rickroos, don't cry buddy lo! If I'm lucky enough to get on them like last year, then there will be plenty to go around. Hopefully it will be a repeat of last Nov,Dec & Jan & the harvest will be bountiful. I don't mind sharing, heck that's how I "found" them myself. I've always felt pretty good about sharing fishing info, even spots (unless I have a soon-approaching tournament & need to keep my mouth shut)! I would have more fun perch jerking with some friends than just keeping a good spot secret & fishing it by myself. At least half the fun is seeing everybody else catching too. If/when I get on them you are welcome to come up here & partake. I'll be glad to show you what I know, which ain't all that much. Sounds like doc has the ticket over there on LOP. Even with the smaller limits, & the high-dollar TX license for non-residents (that's the worst part!) and a little further to drive, I'd still make the trip because it sounds cool. Hey doc, where do you normally put in at? I'm assuming somewhere close to the dam? I know there's a ramp on the wet side of the dam, I have fished for bass in that area a time or two.
Marty
Rickoos even after the Nov/Dec/Jan crappie bite is done Jan/Feb/Mar is when the white bass start running on the Sabin (spell) River. I missed out on last years run do to my lovely vacation in Iraq. Anyhow, we go out there by the boat load & you can sit on a hole all day long and they will hit, just about everything. No kidding I watched a guy pull them in for over an hour on chunks of green apple. The point? Your more then welcome to come on up anytime & fish, Bass, crappie or white bass, like Marty said the fun is in fishing with friends and having a good time.
Play Nice or Die!
Fogy
Thanks guys for the invite, I will surely take ya'll up on that............ ;)
lloks like we will be trailering up at least once a month for sure if not more..............
Ricky aa
Well............the river's muddy from all that rain we just had but I just had to try it out anyhow. Only caught a couple of dinks in the community hole and it didn't look like the other couple of guys who were there did much better. I did manage to get into some schooling bass later in the afternoon that were chasing shad all around. I saw a few bass come completely out of the water after them. Caught a few of the bass on traps then they quit as suddenly as they started. Nothing real big, up to 1 1/2 lbs I would say. The crappie bite should be getting better with each passing day that the water clears, though. I have heard rumors about a few good catches, but nothing consistent yet. Shouldn't be long now, though ;D!
Marty
Good deal, catching a couple means it won't be long now. Hey if you don't mind where were those school bass?
I went to the community hole yesterday and right away, within less than 10 minutes I hooked into a 7 lb. catfish on my long crappie rod with 4 lb test line. Took awhile, that bad boy did not want to come up from the deeps at all, and with 4 lb line there was no horsin' him either. It stayed on the bottom for what seemed like about 20 minutes, but I didn't really check the time. All I know is it was stripping line more than I was winding back in and by the time it finally got tired enough to let me get a net under it, I was about 60 feet from where I started & had gone down to the last inch of line on my ultralight reel at least twice! 7 lbs ain't a monster, but on 4 lb line & a 10 ft wimpy noodle rod is might as well be a 150 lb tarpon. Anyhow, back to the crappie report: not a single crappie caught! :'( I really thought they would be biting at least a little, but I was the only boat out there & I guess they all knew what I didn't, they're not on yet. I caught a few small bar fish & a bream & that's it! Now my boat's going back to the shop because my motor's still not 100% since getting the powerhead replaced earlier this year. I figured I better get it straightend out while the fish (crappie) are slow so I'll have it when they're on! Oh yeah, last thing, on Thursday I went to the Cypress River, or Big Cypress Bayou at the Hwy 43 bridge in TX with a friend who thought the crappie bite was on. Well....at least for us on that day.....it wasn't :( We must have gone about 10 miles up river & down river as far as the Caddo State Park but all we had to show for our efforts was 2 keeper crappies, a few dinks, a few small stripers & 3 small bass. It looked like a great fishing hole, though & I will definitely be back to try again. He says the fishing is outstanding up that way in general with lots of slab crappie that WILL be caught when they get going.
Marty
WOW thats a monter cat on such a rod, bet it was fun...
Thanks for the report, since they haven't started yet looks like you will be the first to know ;)
I know the red is usually muddy this time of year but right now it is really bad, do you think that will slow them down a bit?
You will have to keep us posted on the Caddo Crappies too. Thanks
Any reports on the white perch yet?
see my post under dock talk and also in the texas lakes reports under lake o' the pines. they will get better for the next few weeks. holler if you wanna go. i am off friday.
Fished the river for crappie today from about noon til about 4:45pm. We were fishing the bridge pilings on 12 Mile Bayou. Ended up with 23 crappie, 3 bass, 1 catfish & 2 gasper gou (for the cats)
All fish caught on silver shiners. Water temp was 56-57 degrees.
Going back in the morning & will post another report tomorrow evening.
Quote from: bassadict69 on January 01, 2006, 07:45:00 PM
Fished the river for crappie today from about noon til about 4:45pm. We were fishing the bridge pilings on 12 Mile Bayou. Ended up with 23 crappie, 3 bass, 1 catfish & 2 gasper gou (for the cats)
All fish caught on silver shiners. Water temp was 56-57 degrees.
Going back in the morning & will post another report tomorrow evening.
Sounds like you did pretty good!, How about that update you promised??
I have a day off this thurs and was thinking of giving the perch a try on the river. I scrolled through some post and thought I would give Caspiana a try but Stoner launch is alot closer. LMK if you think they are still biting there. However I could try chunking a rattle trap at day break if I go to Caspiana. I never do very well on bass in 12 mile. Has anybody been doing any good on crappie arond the bee hive?? I like that lil hole!
I have one day off so I want to make the most out of it ya know.
later guys/gals
Thnx
Clint ~gator
Sorry about that...I forgot! :-\
We fished the Monday after New Years from about 8 til 330pm. When we first got to the second bridge in 12 Mile we caught about 7 white perch right off the bat off the bridge posts, then it quit! We pulled a couple more out just here & there. We ran as far as the low water dam hitting brushtops but did no good.
The crappie had shut down on us so we pulled out the cast net & caught some shad & did a little catfishing. We ended up the day with 10 white perch & 6 cats.
Thanks for the report BA and you catch your own shad too ~c~ ~c~
Well I took off work thursday @230pm when I saw that front coming in and hauled butt home and hooked up and ran to bacons bought some shiners the owner was telling me it was perfect weather for fishing and I should smoke em if I could get on em. So with a big head now I ran to 12 mile bayou to look for these perch. I went to the second bridge and saw fish all over the fish finder and said this must be the spot he was talking about. Threw out 2 rods and kicked back. With in a couple minutes one cork took a dive. I was like wow he was right! jumped on the road and pulled up a small blue cat, sigh. chunked him back in and tried again. Couple minutes later went by and the same cork went down. I was like lets see what this one is pulled up a pretty good size blue. Well dang. threw him in the livewell and tried again. 10 mins went by and I was tired of that spot. went further up 12 mile and came across a few more bridges. But no fish around them. I did see some fish balled up around some pillings they had on the right side of the bank. So I tired there for about 20 mins with no luck. I tried a few other spots with no luck so went back to the first spot and nuthing then tried the very first bridge and nothing, by this time it was allmost dark so I gave up. Better luck next time. I think tomm (sunday) I will give caspiana a try.
Hi Whatcam...I was in Caspy this morning bass fishing and there were several boats in there perch fishing...Some in the bamboo and other around in other places...
The bite was slow for the perch and bass...kinda expected that with near full moon last night, clear bluebird sky, and not much wind..
I may be in there again Sunday so holler if you see me...I'm in a 17' Alumaweld with 70 horse Yamaha...
Scottie
willl do scottie, think I might join yall tomm. Im dying for a fish fry. I will be in a 17' Javelin with a 115 johnson. Im hoping that with the rain coming monday maybe the fish will behave better. We will see.
Clint
whatcam ya should have stayed there and caught you a mess of dem Blue Cats :roll2: :roll2: Sorry you couldn't find the spot with them perch in them though :'( :'(
Hi Whatcam..wondering how ya'll did in Caspy today...Saw you comming in and meant to come back around but followed some other boaters to another area..
I may try for a few perch in the bamboo Monday depending on when the rain may come in..
Scottie
Hey Scottie. Was that you I waved at? You had the carhart coat on right?? Anyway I kinda beat you to the post but I guess it didnt work. It was a long post too. Oh well here goes again.
Well today wasnt very good at all. It started out pretty good. Everything was right on schedule and was at the boat launch right before light. I was in high hopes with the weather as nice as it was. Perfect day to fill the boat up. At safe light we left out of the s'port launch off Hwy 1 and headed to caspy. I didnt see very many boats so I stopped off to try the first bamboo point as you come in for bass. No luck. So I motored on back there thinking we would get a pretty good spot but as you saw they had it lined up with like 4-5 boats, sideby side allready. I dont know how they got there so fast! So we tried to the outside a lil from them however bottom was to mucky though. after 30 mins or so with no bites I tried on the inside of them in a good looking hole, clean bottom, 10-14' deep, cover, no fish though. But I felt a lil better b/c they wasnt doing all that good either. I only saw them put 2 or 3 fish in the boat out of all of them. They must have been doing pretty well b/c one guy was there from dark till about 1130 when I left in the same spot. I did leave caspy around 10ish to go look at the beehive. That was a wasted trip, its like 6-8' back there. Went back to caspy and tried another spot for about 45 mins. Then gave up. I didnt do much bass fishing b/c I had my girlfirend and my best friends wife with me and figured it would be kinda rude for me to be doing alot of bass fishing with them sitting there so I will try that next weekend. It was a great morning though we had alot of fun. I hope you did better Scottie, was the bite as slow for you or am I just that bad?. Oh and one more thing. I got a brand new XPS softsided tacklebox for xmas from my dad It was great too. I had it loaded down with eveything I owned. It was the big $80 one. All my spinners, worms, cranks, everything. Well the bag was so heavy I have been leaving it in the boat. Well I went for my needle nose pliers about 10am and relized it wasnt in the boat!!!!!!
It blew out on the way there some how!!!! I am devistated to say the least. How would you like to start over and have to buy all your tackle over again. I mean the only baits I own right now are a chrome 1/4 oz rattletrap and a baby brushhog thats on my pole now. Its gonna take some time to get it back like it was.
I am gonna have to get a replacement so when dad ask me hows it working I can say great. Oh well somebody found them selves a nice treat huh.
Hi Clint...yep...that was me in the lt. brown carhart...trying to stay warm..ha...I was going to come back around but followed a couple of other boaters from work to another area I hadn't been in..
Some days are better than others in the bamboo....It was slow again today.....Clarks was closed so couldn't get any minnows so went over there about 10:00 to try to jig some up..but no luck and the other guy had been there since daylight only had 6..
Thought you were in a little shallow to start.....I know there were several other boats there and that's where most try to get...right where the bamboo kinda curves back....also right out from where the other boats were there are about 3 underwater stumps right before the channel droppes on off...got to find them on the graph but usually there are a few perch there also...
Bass was slow again but still managed to catch 11 and kept 7...but they were all pretty good fish...mostly on white spinner early and then rest on rattle trap..
Real bummer about your box... I bought one of the XPS softsides also but I believe mine was the smaller one...I realy like it too..first time I've been somewhat organized...sort of..ha....
I guess you know but I would be real surprised that that box blew out of your boat...Did you stop anywhere or leave it out where some bumb could steal it? I do hope it turns up...
See you out there again,
Scottie
Yeah that first spot I tired was too shallow. I was gonna let the girls fish off the back where I thought it was gonna be deeper and I would just play a little up front. But we didnt stay there very long before I got the point and tryed moving around some to the deeper water. Oh well thats the first time I have been back there. I will get the hang of it. Have you ever tried using one of those fan rigs where you slowly troll in the open when you find them on the depth finder using about 4 or 5 poles with about a 1/4 weight on the bottom of the line to keep it tight and 2 or 3 hooks a foot or so apart with shiners hooked through the mouth? Seems like that would be a good spot to try that as I saw alot of fish in the middle while idleing around. It would probably work pretty fair on 12 mile bayou also.
Congrats on the good haul today BTW I was thinking all day at work that I wish I had off. They are biting today as I dont care if i get a lil wet. It never rained that hard, just enough to keep all the traffic down on the river.
I told a few guys at work about the tackle box and they said the same thing. No way in hell that thing just blew out, did I go to a gas station or anything. Well I loaded the boat about 530am while my gf cooked breakfast, I noticed a car drive by and thought whats this wierdo doing up at 530 on a sunday morning. hes not fishing thats for sure!!! lol but blew it off. In hindsight I remeber the thought going through my mind well he just saw me put all this stuff in the boat thats not good. But forgot about it. Well a lil while later I heard another car, however I assumed it was the other girl showing up that was due at any moment. But she never knocked and I was so busy gettiing stuff going I didnt think much about it. Now I wonder if that SOB made the block and came back, not seeing me in sight hopped out and snagged it and drove off as I ate breakfast. I dunno for sure of course but thats the only time it was left unattended was while we ate breakfast for 25 mins. either way stolen or blew out it sux big time. Even when I get all the baits back it wont be the same. As then I will just have a tackle box full of new baits. they wont replace the gold/orange belly rattling rogue my deceased mom bought me for easter when I was 18 or the spinner baits I have had since I was in highschool that have had about 4 sets of skirts through the years and all the memories of fishing trips, and assorted crankbaits my dad passed on to me when I took up fishing as a kid. I guess I will just have to make new memories with the new baits.
Sorry Mod, I will try not to get as caught up next time, lol ~xyz
Well Scottie, how did the fishing go today???
No trouble here PoPo
Thanks for the reports & hope you find your tackle. :'(
Hi Clint...nope...didn't get to go today...back to work till Saturday then I'll be back there again...
I'll probably start there then move to the White House area....haven't really fished there much so need to learn a little more about the Red..
I think you are probably right abut your tackle box and the car you heard.....I do hate a thief!!!
Anyway...I be looking for you on the Red..
Scottie
Sorry for the week late report guys but i just found this site last night. Last week my best friend and I went out to the Red River for a little bass fishing, little did we know what we would get into.
We worked our way down a deep part of our favorite oxbow, my friend throwing a white spinner bait and myself throwing a shad colored crank bait. We were close to the back of the oxbow when my friend called out to me that he had a good one on. When he got it to the boat it was a 2.5 pound White Perch, two cast later i caught one close to the same size and then he caught another shortly after.
I got to thinking there has got to be something to this so we put down the bait casters and picked up the spinning reels, set up a jigging cork and a pink/white perch tube on a black jig head. then in 3 feet of water we caught Perch on the next 25 cast we made. We caught 100 white perch in no time all of them being from 1.5 pounds to 2.5 pounds, they were the biggest i have ever caught in my life.
I don't know why in the world they were in 3 feet of water right by that deep spot, we catch some this time of year but it is always in 25 feet of water and they are not half this size. This was the best day of Perch fishing I have ever had. I know they have moved out now because of the weather, that day it was 74 degrees and water temp was 59.4. I can't wait to go back but I may never have another day like that one, it was truly a magical day on the water and why fishing is the greatest.
Took a quick shot but sadly only half of the fish were in the pic and you can't tell a whole lot from it.......... :'(
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Way to go Rangerboats05! ~c~ Nothing like a day on the water, unless its a great day on the water!
WoW awsome job man!!! Congrats on the perch haul!!! Must be nice to come across em like that. Maybe one day I will hit the mother load like that!!!
have fun cleaning them. :toot:
What is the easiest way to get into Caspiana?
I have followed someone in there a couple of times & have always went through a stump field going over one stump after another.
Is this the only way to get in there?
bassadict....Come out of Clarks and go north up the river.....A little ways up you will se a cut thru in the rocks......There are rock pilled high on either side of this break so you know you are at the right cut....note...further north there is another break in the rocks, but you will hit if you try to run thru that one..
Anyway...go through the break and continue north.....on up probably a quarter mile or so look for a reflector stuck on one of the stumps...take a left at that marker heading toward the far bank...look closely and you will see another marker on a stump closer to that bank...Seems like it's a coke can stuck on a sucker rod..ha
When you reach past that marker turn left heading south till you see the main Caspiano area and you will also see a break in the stumps entering into Caspiano..
This way you will be in pretty much open water all the way in..
Hope that helps..
Scottie
Thanks Scottie...That should help!
That is the main reason I never go in there...because it was such a pain to get in there both times I followed someone in. Evidently they didn't know there way in either.
Hey Scottie, I have looked on my map and the only place even close to being named the "white house" is some place called the "pink house" which shows to be just down from clarks past "dozer point"
Is this the same spot? Anyway, what about the stump field around Mcdade area, anybody fished it lately? Or Lil ninock? Just tryin to think of another spot to go since Caspy is so popular on the weekends. I might have sat off unless they call out. If they do I will go sunday for sure, rain or shine. I have $300 worth of new tackle I have to break in.
Hi Clint...well glad you got all your tackle kinda back together....Tough way to have to start over..
I believe what most people refer to the White House is north, on up-river from Clarks and on past the Entrance to Caspy...It's on the same side of the river as clarks...
It's a little harder to explain how to get into also.....I haven't really fished it that much either...just kinda hard to get away from Caspy.. :)
Haven't fished Dozer or Lil. Ninock in a long time either or the McDade area you mentioned at all...
I'll will likely be there Sat. morning also so if we do decide to run to the White House I'll try to look you up...
Scottie
Sounds good Scottie LMK if you go I would like to follow you in. I have had some good luck in the Mcdade area. One time I sat in the same spot from daylight till 11am and caught about 10 or 11 bass. Anywhere from dinks too 3.5# on a junebug brushhog. Im sure its either too low or choked up right now. I might have to make a run down there to check it out if I have time.
whatcam
Are you talking about in the mcdade oxbow itself or just in the sump field and rocks out from the entrance?
The white house is just north of Clark's. There is an opening in a long rock revetment running parallel with the river on the Clark's side of the river BE CAREFUL when you go through the opening it is shallow with rocks on the bottom. Enter into the opening as far North possable with your outboard trimmed up high until you go through. Good fishing in there last summer.
Kent
Quote from: TB44 on January 20, 2006, 09:51:35 AM
whatcam
Are you talking about in the mcdade oxbow itself or just in the sump field and rocks out from the entrance?
Both, depending on the vegitation and waterlevel. It has been a year since I have fished back there so alot can change. There used to be a small creek mouth that had a big bouy by it that held some fish. Dunno if I can still get back there. BTW I finally found the white house on the map. Thanks for the tip on getting through the mouth!!!!
Looks like I am off tomm for sure so I will be going fishing. A guy at work said there will be a fish ternament this weekend with the boat show. I guess that will add some pressure to the area.
LMK where u are starting out Scottie I might try to find ya tomm.
I launch on the S'port side tho.
I am coming armed with a white spinner and a chrome rattle.
Clint
Hi Cliint...I'll launch at Clarks and head for Caspy...Not sure how long I'll stay tomorrow but I'll be there at least till 11:00....Front comming through tonight so may make things a little tough....We'll see..ha
Where do you lauch 0n the Shreveport Side?..
Scottie
OK guys if your interested in Red River White Perch, now is the time to be hitting them hard. I went today, and fished around 4-5 hours. My friend and I caught 88 nice perch, not as big as the last trip we had, the one's today were around a pound or very close to it.
They are in 3 feet of water, FULL of eggs and hitting a Orange jig head with a tri-color tube jig in red/green/char. tipped with Berkley Crappie nibblets. I am fishing in the very backs of the big oxbows, I am not getting hit by the banks, but out in the open water away from the bank, around select stumps, when the wind is blowing you don't need to work your jigging cork just let it sit and they will take it. If the wind calms down then twitch it a little working it back to the boat slowly. if you find a spot they are hitting in, keep your hook in that spot, the fish today wouldn't hit for anything after you were a certain distance out of their strike zone. most times in was as small as a 3 foot circle. Most all of the fish i cleaned today had eggs, so looks like unless the weather changes big time in the next few days they are going to start moving in even more than they are now. Water temp was 58.5 on my Lowrance. If you need any other info just let me know.
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Wow...you are really on the perch...Think I'll ease on back the backside of where I'm fishing also......
I've caught a few here and there, but not anything like the action you are having..
Thanks for the report..
Scottie
whats the latest on the perch? Me and Scottie tried the backside of Caspy with no luck last sat.
I haven't been lately but last I heard they were still catching em up in 12 Mile bayou. Fish any downed tree or brush you see & hit the bridge pilings
I see most of you guys are from the Shreveport area and fising up there. Is there anyone closer to Alexandria that could give some tips on the sac-a-lait on this end? As you probably know, there are no "backwater" areas here. Just the main channel. How do yall fish from the main channel?
May be much help, but it you have the rock jetties, many fish those up here in this area and do well...They are usually deep like 17' but guess that could vary...
They try to locate them on the graph near the rocks and either fish minnows or jigs..
Scottie
Do you have any bridges around your area? If you do the Perch like to stack up on the no current side of the bridge post this time of year, your best bet would be to drop-shot for them, or use a spoon. Just like Scottie was saying also, you can use your graph and follow the rocks along until you find a school of shad, then just start fishing that spot. when i fish the main river for Perch I always look for the no current areas first and for most though.
any reports? The red is known for its huge perch however this post is allways slow. I want to take my gf fishing tomm and put her to work reeling them in. Other than the bamboo hole back in caspy any other places I might pick up a few?. Rocks and rock jetties are a dime a dozen around clarks, but I will try to troll around some of them also, any area that might narrow it down? like the rocks across from dozer point?. Thinking about trying 12 mile bayou again. Not sure yet tho.
Need help deciding
:help: :surrender:
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Well I tried for crappie again today, this time up 12 mile bayou. Hit the second and third bridge up and didnt catch anything, then tried some brush a lil further back with nothing. My girlfriend did catch a 5.4 lb blue cat tho on her crappie rod, that was interesting to watch. Then I caught a smaller blue. After that nothing. We fished from dark till 11:30am. They had a dang triathalon at the stoner launch ~xyz, I dont think I was supposed to launch but oh well, I dont think they should be closing a public boat lauch for some frenchy poo runners. They had cones all blocking it off but I just went around em, apprently I started something b/c when I got back there were 4 more boat trailers parked, hehe. Oh well I just about give up on the crappie, I dont think I am meant to catch them. I have never been able to catch more then 2 or 3 a trip. Maybe I should try drift fishing @ cross.
Well Clint...Sounds like your doing pretty good with the catfish...so go catfishing and hang a shinner off the side of the boat...trick them perch... ;D
Heck...I grew up drifting for cats on Cross...lots of fun too..
Scottie
Well heck, lets get some night crawlers, catalpa worms and an ice chest full of beer and head out after work one day ~beer~ :-*