Lake Claiborne - Deep Water Fish Starting to Show Up!

[Darbonne_Guy]

Fish are mostly still on the brush piles and timber but starting to see many big roaming fish out in the deep water around 20ft down

The all-winter crappie fest out there is about to start!

Claiborne will always be special to me as it was my first lake that I caught a Louisiana-limit of fish on (back before FFS was a thing). I did it with a pole in each hand, each with a double-minnow rig and could barely keep up with the bite. The fish were so thick that my little chirp sonar kept thinking they were a false bottom! Also had a double-striper hookup that day that I never thought I was going to land!

[shadow]

Thanks for the report. I have only fished Claiborne once as it is close to Big John's house, who took us in during hurricanes Laura and Delta, I can never repay him for what he did for my family during that time! Anyway, I only caught one small bream. John told me that Claiborne is a cold water lake, which I get because my home lake, Bundicks, is also a cold water lake. I know what you mean about a lake being special to you because of catching your limit there, that is Larto lake for me, the first and only place I have caught a limit! Thanks for sharing.