Bayou Bartholomew

[jdouthit]

My dad and I fished Bayou Bartholomew this weekened. It was our first time fishing this bayou. We put in next to Walmart in Pine Bluff. We didn't have any luck and the 4 other boats we talked to also got skunked. I figured the water was a little too cold still. Has anyone else ever fished Bartholomew up around PB. Is it worth hitting up a few more times when the water warms up?

[rieve]

there is at least one crappie in there. i went for about an hour sunday afternoon and caught one. never really tore them up there but caught 6 or so there one day last year.

[TreeMyDog]

Some folks do good on Bartholomew down around Star City close to the dam on Cane Creek lake.

So I'm told.

[blairarnold]

If the Bayou is like our bottomland streams here, it's high and muddy. At least maybe the rain will warm it up.

[Southern Chuter]

As a kid I stood on my front porch and watched aligators swim in Bayou Bartholomew in Louisiana. I used to fish it a lot late in the summer for yearling bass; you could walk down the middle and fish both side with a motor oil colored worm and do real well. You could tie a tube to a belt loop and when you got to a hole just float across. Ben a long time LOL...............

[bayrat]

Next time go around to the bridge and get into the little lake/pond on the north side of the bridge, there is a boat trail thru the weeds, troll in a circular pattern starting as near the middle as you can determine, I have probably put 50 christmas trees in there over the last three years, when you catch a fish or get hung, mark the spot till you have 5 or 6 marked and troll between them. We call it Lake Walmart.

[jdouthit]

About how deep is it in that little pool by the interstate?

[bayrat]

Maybe 6 ft at normal level, doesn't seem to have any deep holes in it, but I haven't had a depth finder in it either.

[Jasonlboyd]

Where is this boat trail at? I motored as far as it looked like I felt comfortable going. Trolled back to the ramp and didn't get a bite on different jigs, beetle spin, or a minnow casting bait either.

[arkansasbowhunter]

They are in there!