Henderson Mixed Bag

[Duck Butter]

Fished Bigeaux area Sunday afternoon, tons of boats on the water. Those bull bream in that lake are some giants, found a bed of chinquapin late in the day and was able to pull out a few but they were way in the backwater in some thick stuff so most would wrap me and get away. One nice white perch too, and had chinquapin for supper last night, so a good day I was using a gray hair jig.

[swamp snorkler]

Awesome pic with the little guy, that's about all the perch I would want to clean.

[SaltERedneck]

Solid WP!!!

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

Awesome pic with the little guy, that's about all the perch I would want to clean.

So fun to catch, hard to stop

[BassAssasin]

great job!! what water depth did they seem to be holding?

[bassfisher39]

Nice catch!! We were there Sunday also. We ended up with 27 Sacs all about the size you have. Also in Bigeaux.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by BassAssasin

great job!! what water depth did they seem to be holding?

I caught most about 3' deep in 7' of water, but the chinquapin were in about 1' of water in the backwoods. It was frustrating not being able to get them to the boat, but oh well. I don't know much about how it used to be there, but last year we went twice for bream and we found several beds of them on the cypress in about 3' of water. They were all over the place and huge to me. I tipped my jig with a grass shrimp and probably why I was catching bream as well. Just bring a net with you and find any mats of vegetation and scoop in there and you can catch all the grass shrimp you need, no need for crickets

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by bassfisher39

Nice catch!! We were there Sunday also. We ended up with 27 Sacs all about the size you have. Also in Bigeaux.

I guess I was in Bigeaux, I did some exploring. Wanted to go south of the interstate but man there is plenty of water to explore north. Maybe next time

[shellman]

Lil mann gots his hands full....

[Country Boy]

Nice catch, the bull bream bite is about to get crazy in Henderson !!

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Hell yeah

[BassAssasin]

I'm ready! We are having our third kid in the morning and bout the only fishing I will be able to do for a while will be perch jerkin with my othe 2 kids (3 and 5).
Thanks for the report!

[Armand16]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

I guess I was in Bigeaux, I did some exploring. Wanted to go south of the interstate but man there is plenty of water to explore north. Maybe next time

How did the water look?

[bassfisher39]

The water was a little murky. But that's where the fish were. We fished some clear water with no luck. We caught all our fish in murky water.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by bassfisher39

The water was a little murky. But that's where the fish were. We fished some clear water with no luck. We caught all our fish in murky water.

Yep same here, murky in Bigeaux but rode around a little and went up north of Pelba and it was crystal clear and really dark. Caught a few there but was mostly exploring up there. Pretty place

Like Country Boy said, the bream fishing should be incredible in a few weeks. Last year the two times we went it was awesome