Lady fish

[Dags2280]

Are lady fish always this bad during the late summer. They were all over the place this weekend. It's my first time fishing the lake in August and I never caught any ony other rips during hte fall or spring.

[TroutSupport.com]

Seems like they've been denser, but yes, they're always around in numbers in the late summer. Make sure you're fishing over oyster reef and if you get into a bunch of them, it might require a move to get on a school of trout somewhere. Sometimes you can catch them mixed with trout, but I find you'll cull a lot of ladyfish to each trout. Better off just moving.

[ratherbefishing186]

Yeah that was yesterday morning for me...was catching 1 trout for every 4 lady fish.

[keakar]

might be a good thing,

I found higher numbers of ladyfish seamed to coincide with high numbers of trout you catch as well.

I think higher numbers of ladyfish must signal higher salinity or something, but I always have my best trout years at the same time I see increased ladyfish numbers.

[ratherbefishing186]

You know I was thinking the same thing about the salinity. And from reports some people got on them good. I did hear that trouts and reds were being caught in decent numbers at the 210 bridge working the drop offs. I wonder if some of the fish are escaping the high salinity or just enjoying the higher salinity that far north. Who knows...

[lil bubba]

Don't know what lake you were fishing but I was on the western side lake Pontchartrain and there were huge schools of them....They usually in there this time of year but not this bad...

[ratherbefishing186]

Big Lake is there any other?!! 8)

[jl8200]

They have been bad in big lake the past 2 weeks for sure. Those little bastards will hit just about anything you throw it seems like.

[keakar]

you could have fun with them, I have used a fly rod to catch them before and them suckers jump like tarpon and are a pure blast to teach kids to saltwater fly fish because the action gets them really excited about fly fishing