Lake Chicot
 

Any news from Chicot lately or maybe just a heads up about what to look for in September. I've never been bass fishing there, only white perch, and thats been 12 years ago.

its a hard lake to fish gotta be slow with the bass use a brushhog and fish every stump slowly thats about all i can give you info for there

How bout the duck weeds, Ive read that sometimes it gets so bad people don't like you use there boat in it. Anyone know if its alright right now?

Duck Weed has been in check the last couple of years. IMO, the poison they used to kill it also screwed up the water.

Try dynamite!
And then thats no guarantee either

So your saying the fishing is pretty easy over there. lol.

The toughest lake you will ever fish. Should be named Humble Lake. High pressured, Florida strain bass. Its a great combination.:pissed::spineyes:

Should be quiet in Sept, with the hunters hunting. Hopefully a little cool front or two has passed.

My best advice would be to be stealthy. Think quality, not quantity. Chances are you will be fishing for 3 or 4 bites. But one of them may be the bite of a lifetime. Rumor has it that samplings done last year yielded some very large fish. Many double digit fish. As well as at least one record breaking size fish. They just can't be fooled, lol. I have very strong reasons to believe this to actually be true.

Good luck

Thanks for all the help. Couple guys in our club probably would rather go somewhere they are guaranteed a limit of fish, but I'm really excited about this one. One, just for the challenge, and two, it will make me slow down and fish for that one big bite that I normally would miss cause I'm in a rush.

I live near chicot and like the other post says it's a tough place but you may catch the fish of a lifetime there. A co-worker of mine caught and released a bass over 10lbs last spring. Sacalait fishing is ok in the fall,good luck.

thanks for the info

Saw a video with Greg Hackney fishing there and he was pitching a jig he cought several but i dont know how many days he fished to make the show let us know how u do i want to make a trip there also

Will do, but i'm not going untill september 22nd. unless I might make it for a prefish day.

Is this an open tournament?

No. Its a little club tournament. We had a last minute change to Chicot. We were gonna do another Sabine River, but there are to many different rules all on one body of water there, so we decided against that. And people didn't like putting there boats in that salty of water.

I used to fish chicot every weekend. One thing I learned was that spinnerbaits always caught big fish in that lake. I have a few friends with double digit fish caught in
Chicot on stupid spinnerbaits. I know they are a dummy bait, but for some reason in that lake, big fish live them.

I guess thats good for my partner, but dang I hate a spinnerbait. I always have one tyed on, but that rod might not get cast more that 10 to 20 times in a day.

read on LAS that one guy is tearing up the sac au lait there. read it on LAS.

Yeah we used to go there when I was in high school and catch some nice slabs. But I'm looking into it now for bass, cause we just chose it as a club stop.

Haha I hear ya buddy! I see you live in lake Charles? I'll be living in a hotel over there for the next year or so. If you ever want to hook up in the late afternoon and go hit some bass let me know. I should have a couple rods on me, but can't promise I'll have many baits.

Sounds good, but I'm putting a new foot on my motor and gonna sell. My wife started school so I'm selling to help us till she is done. I've been fishing with a buddy for a couple months now. If i get if fixed and don't sell immidiately i'll definately keep you in mind.

Now that we have set the date for our tournament at Chicot, anyone know about the cabins? Are they pretty nice? I think they reserved two of them for us.

The cabins are good to go bud! Park the boat right outside of them

I read today that they will be doing a draw down at Chicot starting after Labor Day. This may be a good thing for ya'lls tournament.
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/35840

They also said they will be putting in some of those grass carp this coming winter.

:-(

IDIOTS

Well so much for planning ahead, got to move tournament to another lake again. They are lowering the water, after labor day, to kill off some of the grass.

oh didn't see your post moe. you think this would be a good thing?

Could be a good thing. But the thing is that that is not a real deep lame to begin with. What they need to do is stock the ever living **** out of it!!!


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To catch fish, yes. the draw down could be a good thing. If I were you I would not change plans.

The lake is basically a boat lane, which is normally 12-14ft deep and every wheres else is a huge flat that is 7- 9 ft.( north) and 5-6ft(south) There is more cover in that lake than you know what to do with. Lots of places for fish to hide that are inaccessible. With the draw down it could get interesting. Low fishing pressure, cooler weather, fish getting forced out of their normal hiding spots may make it more favorable for the fisherman.
I've seen some extremely nice fish come out of that lake in the fall time.

Stay in middle of boat lane when you run and you will be ok. every wheres else is stump city.

Just not too wild about grass carp. They need to leave that lake alone for a few years.

Has anyone been there recently? If water goes down 2' will the grass be laying across surface of water so bad that you can't fish at all?

One more week till I'm heading to Chicot. Has anyone heard anything since they started releasing water? Hope we can find something to tug on the line.

Suggest you call the park and talk with someone that works there.

We didn't catch alot but I did catch one that went 5.6 lbs, good end to a very slow day.

How did the lake look grass wise? I live in Ville Platte but my fishing is mostly limited to Verm bay. I just bought a kayak though and thinking of fishing in the afternoons afterwork. Just haven't heard too many reports from people around town since hunting season started up.

I was really happy with what I saw as far as the grass. Everyone had me thinking that it was gonna be bad, definately with them lowering the lake two feet. But I didn't fish anywhere that I thought was hard to fish because of the grass. Sad thing is I didn't really look into fishing directly in the creek until the last few minutes. We found that the entire creek, mostly on the bends, was filled with active fish. I don't think all of them were bass, but I used a DD16 and got one fatty. Wish I would have started with the creek, it could have been a really good day.

when you talking aboou the creek where is that in the lake

Boat lane

I was in Chicot this weekend for a family gathering. We stayed in the cabins that are on the water (Cabin 13 to be exact). The weather was perfect and the lake looked perfect. I fished an hour or so on Friday with no luck (brush hog, chart spinner/buzz, plastic worms, frog). Fished all the stumps and grass that I could find, an nothing. Did the same thing on Saturday for a few hours with the same result! I thought it might be good with it being right in front of a cold front but it wasn't. It's the most beautiful place to scratch that I've been yet though. Very humbling!

Yeah you really feel like you're gonna catch one on every cast. Looks awesome.

i use to catch so many bass there when i was a kid but havent had any luck there in quite some time i have taken it off my places to fish it is a beautiful place but fishing is not what it once was

Any catfish in there? If the Bass aint biting that would be a good alternative for me.

I use to fish it in late 1990's and fished it recently.
What I never liked all the gators.
The reason why I stopped in the 1990's I was on some nice bass in blue Springs and looked around I was surrounded by huge gators basking in the sun.
That was back when they had the contest if you would catch a tagged 13 lb bass you would win money.

Then came back to fish it recently and hasn't changed much.
They got some nice bass in there, but you have to deal with gators and wasp nest when water up.

I done well off white spinnerbaits, crawl baits, jigs and true floating worms by Haw River.
Biggest bass recenlty was 9 lbs came off white spinnerbait.
Biggest bass in June 1996 right after a nice rain storm. The bass weighed 11 lbs came off riverside lure 5" crawl worm red claws.

It was a Darboone that had the record for a short time. Wanna say it was 13. Then wildlife an fisheries netted a 15...


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Chicot had one tagged back in 1990's I wonder if someone ever caught that bass and got the reward.

Place is beautiful just a pain to get around trees, gators, and wasp nest.

At one time I had it cracked where I could catch a limit not counting fish I caught in the slot limit.
Used H&H white microspins and throw it under the tree roots due to it is like an umberlla. Microspin small and looks like smaller shad around the trees.
I caught alot of fish doing that and pattern worked. Fish are tight under those trees.
They use to be a pretty green and healthy.

Have fished it a few times recently and that pattern still fairly close just bass is not as plentiful as it use to be.