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I am thinking Shirley Bay might be very,very low.

i doubt you could get a boat in portia. water is probably below either boat ramp. it's almost dry.

Dang that stinks. What about the launch into black river over near Shirey? Does anybody know about Monterey launch?

Since all our spots are too low to launch what is my best chance at fishable water and some vertical jigging within an hours drive of Jonesboro?

probably poinset lake

or lake charles for big 6 inch crappie

Well, our plan is to head toward Lake Charles and we are just going to look at Portia and Shirey on the way. If they are too low to launch or fish, we will head on to Lake Charles for some monster 6 inchers

i don't really care, I just am so glad to be back and spending the day with my grandpa.

Wanted to report on Shirey Bay guys.

Water was of course very low, but my small boat launched without any issues. Deepest water fished was 6 ft. All crappie were caught in at least 4 fow on cypress with other debris around. Cypress also had to be out from the bank in 4 fow or higher. Surprisingly all fish were caught 2 ft deep or less though; I think I fished too deep most of the morning thinking the fish would be on the bottom. Had to put the jig right next to the tree and jig it for 10-15 seconds and then just hold it as still as I could; that is when I would get the hit. The crappie that did strike hit hard. I caught 12 crappie in all with only 2 keeper size; one of the 2 was fairly decent


Used standard tube jigs and only tried 2 colors: Black and White (did best) and Cart.,Black,Red tri-color.

I fished from 7-10:30 and had the whole place to myself. It was a great morning to be out on the water.