Live Shrimp Kill in May
 

LMAO...heard that boats were so thick lining up for live shrimp last two days

A good friend had his limit of 45 trout on plastic before most were done getting crickets

Shrimp Beware ..they are coming for you!!!!

Shrimp taste too good to feed em to a fish.

Word.....I heard they almost had a fight at Cal Point over the last few left yesterday
And truth to that???

thats too much hastle man.... way too much hastle. i aint knocking it just not for me.

Got a Text pic from my buddy yesterday...he passed by spicers going to black lake...he said it was like a welfare depot....lmao.....when he came out with his limit they still were getting shrimp

Crickets and beers=watch out wiers...

What was the lake record caught on again?:grinpimp:


Good to see all these fishermen buying bait and spending money at Calc Point and other places;)

Lake record was caught on a glow/chart sand eel jr out of Steve Bono boats.....he don't use live shrimp
http://www.bayoucharterservice.com/

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/zz...ecordtrout.htm

:eek:, but the question still remains...

















































who cares what people use to catch a fish? You yourself use live bait:grinpimp:

Do you buy crickets for bream, shiners for white perch?

Hell no.....you ever had one get lose in your boat????? Ill shot myself before I buy crickets


Use tube jigs son

Nope crappie nibbles....

I think dub is trying to say hes got more skills with artif...in other words if you use crickets you dont have skills...what ever you wanna use is cool....ill throw em on occasions

I've used live shrimp before, but i've had equal or better success fishing with topwater/ sparkle beetle. When i fished big lake religously if i wasn't catching trout on topwater which is my favorite way to fish it was with a sparkle beetle. Them things are deadly.

I'm saying if you have to use live shrimp in May....your skillzzzz must be very low

How bout AUGUST :) LOL

U need them for most. Mullet is better but last year I never stopped catching on plastic

i'm sorry, but imo the best live bait for trout are croaker or cocahoe minnows.

or pogys ... if you can keep em alive

I aint never had luck with croaker...never had a bunch to use but a few years back we had some and they were killing the mullet better, but I'm not much of a pro to live bait just use maybe 3 times on channel in August

that too

:p

Ha .....NOT......

Now I know how to cast net.....I might soak all month of Aug. This year

Now with my 11yr old if they catching them on live shrimp i will go get some to make sure he has a good time, and puts fish in the chest.

you got you a 4 foot net with the easy open ring? lol

yep when I got kids and women on the boat I just want them to have fun. So I give them the option of live bait if they want it

Hell no son...5ft...I'm a semi pro....Mullet beware coming this Summer to a csstnet near you

I don't fish saltwater like i used to i'm more of a green trout man now. My little boy loves to fish saltwater, but i really don't know the lake like i used to and don't have a bay boat to really be comfortable. I really don't like fishing the lake in my marsh rig.

Here we go again.

Its not about what you can catch on artificial, its what can the client can catch with artificial. You try to increase there chances of catching fish. Some people are very inexperienced.

I hear a lot of talk about sparkle beetles.I would like to know how ya'll use them cause I never have any luck with them. Don't appear to have any action to them.

Best plastic of all time..... Use on jig head or under a pop n cork (u east side guys)

Why does a 1/8 jig head work better than a heavier one? Is it bc they don't drop as fast?

Yes

Use 1/4 oz when water gets warmer. And sometimes in the winter I even use a 1/16 oz

Yep

A guy who really knows what he is doing took me on a trip where we used plastics. It was my first time and I had no clue what I was doing. I kept reeling down when I had a bite like I was rippin pickles in lacassine. We used 1/8 oz and he said he liked them the best and he uses 1/4 when fishing the channel in the summer

1/8 is good all summer long in the lake....I use 1/8oz until july ..... Now if your fishing with more tide or winds is blowing you might need to go heavier but 1/8oz is plenty for fishing in 3-5ft of water

Now if you get on channel with strong tides u might need 3/4 and 1/2 oz

Good info. Thanks. I just need a lot more experience to know what I'm doing

I remember when right before the limit change we had bought 100 croakers to go to the near shore rigs one august afternoon and made a stop at the jetties. You could see 4ft down and bait was every where tried croakers for a hour and caught 2 bull reds. Switched to a sand eel glow and chart on 3/8oz (strong tide) and had 100 trout in the boat in a little over an hour 4 rods doubled every cast all over 2#s then we started reeling in half of a fish. managed a few sharks , spanish ,and 2 pompano. Any of you guys ever caught pompano out there before?

moral of story was they wouldnt touch a croaker but in grand isle they seem to love em

love me some pompano. Great on the grill with light smoke.

Pogys are the best by far.

Big Lake Trout don't eat croker

I'll bet you $10,000 they do...

Hell I'll double that

Boy I knew I could get the closet croaker soakers out !!!

You got me! But, I did have an 8 pounder, and 10 trout over 5 lbs. last week. I had a couple from Arkansas, and they needed all the help they could get. And I got pics in case y'all want em.

Let's see em...everyone likes looking a pics

Damn son you soaking in May..... Were some mullet schooling I'm going soak too

I soaked when the the damn wind blew 25 from the south.

And yes, mullet are showing up.