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Weekly Fishing Report
BLACK BAYOU: Bream fishing has been fair. Bass and crappie are rather slow. For latest information, contact the Honey Hole at 323-8707.
CANEY LAKE: Bass, mostly under the slot, are schooling and hitting shad imitation lures. Some bigger fish are being caught at night on spinners and Shaky Heads. The crappie continue to be hanging around the deep tops with some caught on jigs and shiners. A good many chinquapins are being caught on cold worms. Some are on the beds and hard to find but find them and you can catch a bunch. Catfishing is good on cut bait and chunks of wieners. For more information, call Brown's Landing at 318-259-6649 or the Honey Hole at 323-8707.
CHENIERE LAKE: Bass fishing has been good on topwater lures and Wobbleheads. Bream are scattered around the trees with a few caught on crickets and worms. Crappie are scattered and rather slow. Call the Honey Hole at 323-8707 for more information.
LAKE CLAIBORNE: Stripers are schooling early and late and are hitting topwaters and soft plastic shad imitation lures. Some are also being caught during the day trolling white bucktails with white grub trailers in open water. Bass fishing has been rather slow with a few caught at night on dark worms or spinners. Crappie are slow, bream are fair but catfishing is good on cold worms fished on trotlines or rods and reels. For latest information, call Tim Lofton at Kel's Cove at 927-2264.
LAKE D'ARBONNE: Bream fishing has been quite good with best catches made on cold worms, red wigglers or crickets. Catfish are mixed in with the bream. Crappie are in the sloughs and are fair on shiners or jigs fished 10-15 feet deep in 15-20 foot water. Some bass are schooling and hitting Rat-L-Traps and topwater lures. When they're down, 8 inch June Bug finesse worm are picking up a few. For latest information, call Anderson's Sport Center at 318-368-9669 or the Honey Hole at 323-8707.
OUACHITA RIVER: Crappie are best in the bayou fishing shiners or jigs along the edges of the stick ups. Bass are in the sloughs where there is an algae bloom; this is attracting shad which attracts the bass. Topwaters and plastic worms are working best. For current information, call the Honey Hole at 323-8707.
LAKE POVERTY POINT: Catfishing is good on night crawlers, cold worms and cut shad. Bass are fair on the Threadfin Shad colored Bandit crank bait. Bream are fair while crappie are slow. For latest reports, call Poverty Point Marina at 318-878-0101.
LAKE ST. JOHN: Bass are fair early and late on topwaters with soft plastics picking up some later in the day. Crappie and bream are slow; catfishing is fair. Hybrid stripers to 6-8 pounds are fair to good fishing 15 foot water with a small Rat-L-Trap. Call Ken Mahoney at (318-757-0013) for latest reports and fishing conditions.
LAKE YUCATAN: The water is at a standstill with a little rise and then another fall within the next week. Bream have turned on and crappie and bass are improving. For latest information, call James Lachney at 318-467-2259.
LAKE BRUIN: Crappie and bass are slow. Bream are fair on crickets. Catfishing is fair on cold worms. For latest information, call Colby or Seth at 318/766/0075.