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Anybody fish today? Any reports? Water clear south?

THanks

My dad and I fished 1st and Grand Weirs, LNG and Turner's. Zip. I saw one red get caught on the North side of the 1st Weir. Water is muddy and looks and probably tastes like the Atchafalaya River. I should know. I was raised on it.

thanks for the info. Hope to beat the rain on Sunday for a while.

good luck. Maybe try West Cove. That's my plan tomorrow AM.

Talked to about 6 guys who fished and it sucked.........Nothing

I passed over the Calcauieu river today on Hwy 171........not quite as muddy as it was a few days ago...........but still fairly muddy.

Nice to meet you today Deadly figured it be on the water. Toughest day of the past three three. Waded all day today and all the fresh dirty water finally got to me, called it quits right before sunrise. Several places should have held some fish ( saw bait, current,) and still very few trout.

They are spread out big time!! all I can say..

:eek:

i'm going fish for green trout tomorrow, haven't caught one in 3 years.
stopped by academy to re stock my freshwater box ended up gettin all kinda crap 186 bucks worth :rolleyes:

i need help

I need to quit buying corkys and buy some bass gear...

The Bass should be moving into Big Lake in the next month or two, if the water stays this fresh.

Too cold, cold enough to keep my beer cold!! Only good thing about it!

Try them again tomm. good luck on the lake!

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Just got back from the lake and it sucked! We fished from 8 til 2. Could have caught a limit of reds but tried for trout the whole day. We went from the north all the way south also in west cove just finished with 6 nice reds. The water does look good south. But I am lost on the specks guess there real deep. Oh ya and I never seen so many people at the wiers when we passed by there was like 15 boats on top of each other.

Damn expect big specks what's the trick for bringing your beer while wading? That's my only down fall for getting out of my boat. Floating icechest maybe?

LOL

I was out there today also! I saw a crowd of waders (about 5) off in the distance. I was trying to hit some flounder holes... unsuccessful! The flounder are not in yet! We caught 1 red that barely made 16''. The wind sucked! I'm not going back for at least 3 weeks or until the salinity goes up.

I know some boys I went to school with who caught a buttload of Specks last Sat. offshore. There are still a lot of them, just not inshore yet.

Hmmm. Wonder if that rig I burned em up on this past summer southeast of lake is hot?

In 3 Weeks.......The fish will be safe from me........time to be hunting those Thunder Chickens.

Yes sirrrrr!

12 miles SE of Jetties.

Hey Ray how deep is the water 12 miles out from the jetties?

probably about 20 feet

Yep. 20 to 25 ft. They were 12 to 15 miles from the mouth of the jetties, but not straight South.

In my limited experience.......South of Cameron parish.

Water depth = 10 feet + 1 foot deeper for each mile.

So 12 miles = 10 +12 + ~22 feet.

For 40 miles out = 10' + 40' = ~50' deep.

Beyond 40 miles, it drops just a wee bit faster. 50 miles = ~ 65'

The farther east you are......it gets a little bit deeper.

Ray......is this about correct?

Not sure. I fished the 170, 171, 180 and 181 fields for years. They was about 34 miles out and about 50 ft.
I worked 95 miles out at 200' and 105 miles out was 300'.
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/11330.shtml

40 miles was around 65 feet and 55-60 miles in east cam block maybe around 95-105??

it's different out of freshwater bayou tho

Yep prob bout right exactly where I was last summer. They were using plastics? Only reason I don't like going out there is cause we had to use live shrimp most of the time. Water is about 22-26 feet at the rig I fish at.

We fished Big Lake on SAT.....3 of us. We started out at the weirs at Grand and the water was very dirty. We left and went to Lamberts and caught our limit on the 4" Gulp shrimp (new penny). Funny thing was, they had a few boats using dead shrimp and they were mostly catching nothing but drum (small ones). By the time we left, the boats were stacked up. Afterwards we look for some trout and ended up with zero. We only fished for about 1 hour. Decided to call it day and headed back in. It was nice just being back on the water.

Went out in the yak yesterday (sat 20th) didn’t do anything; terrible water each stop we drove and paddled to. Finally avoided the skunk when a red got me excited with a subsurface boil up top right about 11am. Worst water conditions I have seen in a while.