Big lake
 

Heading down to big lake at the end of the week for the first trip of the year. Does anyone know if the water on the South end and the beach area is clean right now. Thinking about trying this area first. I was thinking about trying to carolina rig some cocahoes near the beach. Any advice on what part of the lake has been the most consistent would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

well there is going to be a ton of people on the lake friday and saturday due to trout shootout. south end looked horrible on Tuesday of last week. may have changed since then

Friday.....the south end had ~6" visiability.

The water at Jetties and the beach depend on the wind direction......South usually means muddy. North + maybe ok.

Shrimp boats tend to keep the water a little muddy.

We are going Thursday and it looks like the winds "should" be 8 mph out of the south west. Has anyone fished the beaches lately?

Beach is MUDDY!!!!! South Winds

my dad is off friday, he wants to hit the lake

west cove water was pretty but fish were small this weekend

they are small this time of year

Heading out from the house in the early a.m.. Anybody have advice if I should fish the North lake (Turners area) of south Lake?

If you want birds hit turners... i havnt been on the lake in a while but i know that this time of the year the fish are off the jetties and along the beach

I would really like to fish the beach, just dont know how muddy the water is right now?

havnt been on the lake lately so idk how muddy water is

I'm going to be driving by it in a few. I'll get back on later and let you know.

south wind water is gunna be little rough and prolly muddy.

go down by the pogie plants... thats near the beach

Yeah south wind is kicking butt right now down here

then i would fish reefs on the south end of the lake

Thanks fellas. I have oly fished here one time. I typically fish Grand Isle and Cocodrie but I have the day off tomorrow and wanted to fish something a little closer to the house so chose to try Big Lake. We will se what the day brings and hopefully land a few.

DONT FISH MUD BOTTOM!!!!!! you hardly ever catch trout there... unless its under birds. thats a different story

i wouldnt even fish south end of lake.


i'd stay north alot calmer. south wind kicking butt= dont fish south end.

fool. there is structure that blocks the wind on the south part. If you go north that wind has nothing to block it, its just wide open water

structure? sure the jetties will block a lil bit of chop. other then that you may get a few islands.


but you wanna say turners bay gets rougher then the south end of big lake when there is a south wind blowing?????????

FWIW the wind is supposed to switch to North West early in the morning. Of Course weather underground is also saying Big lake only has 2 mph south winds right now?

if your along the bank where the reefs are yea its calmer... Go out tommorrow morning, i bet you all the guides are going south

north wind i think is blowing in the morning so no joke they are going south

the marsh grass on the south end blocks some wind

Kevin ford is out on big lake w/ two guides from big lake guide service. both guides got out their bonoculars.
1st statement is what is that boat over there doing?
Guess the weekend warriors aren't the only ones?

ain't that what yall call potlicking

fool has some expereince with potlicking lol

Is that the cats the other site was talking about guides green boats??

Well made the First trip to Big Lake yesterday and did not do terribly well. Left out of Calcasieu point at 5:35. Pulled into turners bay to only see 3 boats. All 3 boats were on 3 seperate groups of birds so we went around them towards the North. Saw a group of birds working and trolled towards them. First cast with a tandem rig and boom reeled in a 3 and 4 lb. trout. We caught 15 more int he next 20 minutes but only had 3 more keepers. We fished here for another hour but headed south with 5 in the box. Needless to say that was the last trout we caught all day. Ran towards the cut that goes into west cove and caught nothing. Did watch a boat raking in some mule trout on a point near the cove but we kept our distance. Guess the fish were stacked in one spot b/c no one else around was really catching. All in all everyone seemed to be pretty respectful except from the one jerk that decided to just fly through the flock of birds we were trolling up on.

Hey Cajun man where in Avoyelles Parish are you from. I was born and raised there.

I'm from Bunkie