Big Lake Sunday

[Ray]

I fished the Old River a lil while ago. Muddy, but very calm winds.
5 boats caught around 100 small Flounder.
They would not hit artificial, so we chunked a cast net and fished with live bait, about 2 ft. under a perch jerkin cork. They are not on the bottom today. They are all over the river, but high up.

[Ray]

They are all small, not like 3 weeks ago when the last big front came thru.
We didn't leave them on ice long enough before cleaning. They were super
slimey and hard to scale.
My boat caught 30 in less than an hour. On live shrimp and what ever fish we could catch in the cast net.
We had to come back to Lake Charles pretty quick. My cousins husband had something to do with getting some horses brought down here from Bossier City due to a levee that might bust at any time by La. Downs Racetrack.
It sounds like North La. is catching heck from all the rain in the past 3 days.

[all star rod]

Ray......perch jerkin cork.....seems that is someones favorite SECRET Weapon!!!!!

[jpeff31787]

Originally Posted by Ray

They are all small, not like 3 weeks ago when the last big front came thru.
We didn't leave them on ice long enough before cleaning. They were super
slimey and hard to scale.
My boat caught 30 in less than an hour. On live shrimp and what ever fish we could catch in the cast net.
We had to come back to Lake Charles pretty quick. My cousins husband had something to do with getting some horses brought down here from Bossier City due to a levee that might bust at any time by La. Downs Racetrack.
It sounds like North La. is catching heck from all the rain in the past 3 days.

Good catch! That was probably fun. You can launch in Big Lake and still get there? Did you happen to look at the water in the lake. Thank you ray

[Ray]

The winds are almost flat. The water pretty stained and moving out fast. Water isn't as high as yesterday, but still a little high.
We launched by the old govment docks in Cameron. That launch is really bad. But it is right close to where we fished. I won't launch there again after a lot of rain. Got stucked pretty bad.
We caught some West of the shrimp barges close to the lake, some just South of the old Russian ships they are tearing down and some also by the old McDaniel docks.
We caught our bait by T-boys weirs.

They didn't fight too hard.

Most of the guys were almost finished before we got there. There was 4 boats still fishing when we got there and a commercial crabbing boat came out to fish some too.