5/26 Bayou Lacombe Catfish Loaded up

[RP3]

I know this isn't a crappie post and I apologize ahead of time but if anyone wants to load the boat down with bluecats, now is the time. My wife and I launched the boat at daylight. We ran north of the launch to drop a couple jug lines and then ran back south towards the launch. A quick idle south of the boat ramp at Glockners Place and noticed big schools of catfish on the graph. I dropped the trolling motor and started throwing dead shrimp 3 ft under a popping cork. Just as soon as the lines would hit the water the corks were disappearing. Cast after cast we loaded the box with 13 to 16 inch bluecats. We quickly put 15 in the boat and threw back just as many. We ran back north to our jug lines only to find them slimed up and baitless. The further north we got we noticed a boat with 3 people in it fighting a catfish on our jug line. We ran towards them only to find them with a bunch of our catfish on the deck as we caught them red handed running/poaching our jug lines. After exchanging a few choice words with the 2 guys and the woman they ran off towards the lake with our catch. Thankfully I kept my cool about me because something like this could have gone south pretty quickly. If anyone wants to catch the perfect sized catfish Bayou Lacombe is definitely red hot. Dead shrimp 3 ft under a popping cork. Below is a Google earth screen shot of the area that we found to be slap full of these tasty bluecats. Just be weary of poachers if you are running noodles or jug lines. I hope this helps if anyone is fishing that area. Tight lines!

[Evanrude]

Sounds like it would be a lot of fun! Im to far north to join it but you guys go get em and eat a few for me :P

[shadow]

Man, glad yall got on some nice eating fish. As far as the poachers, they must be stupid! I know if you do that around my area, you are very likely to get shot or at least come back to your boat being sunk! Thanks for the report.

[RP3]

Yeah man, it was crazy because when I rolled up on them they acted like they were offended that hey got caught and that I called them out for being thieves. There's just no respect these days.

[gabowman]

Glad it never escalated any farther than it did with those poachers. It coulda got ugly in a hurry and nobody woulda won. Congrats on your catch.

[RP3]

I agree, it wouldn't have been worth it. If anyone would ask me for fish or ask where they could go to catch a mess of fish i wouldn't hesitate to help them out. Hell, just meet me at the launch and I'll take you fishing with me. I'd rather do that than have someone steal from me.

[DockShootinJack]

It is illegal here to run someone else's gear. A video of them running your gear and TWRA is all over it. Our jugs have to have your TWRA numbers on them. While I was jug fishing Guntersville had folks casting out and hooking my jugs as the fish moved past a bridge they were fishing at. Some folks are just shady.

[RP3]

Agreed, definitely illegal. I have all of the necessary information on my jugs, to the point where there would be no mistake wether they are mine or not and they still ran them in broad daylight. I should have gotten their boat information during the confrontation and made a report. If I see them again ill definitely remember them.

[Sac-a-lait D.A.]

RP…so glad u took the high road my friend..!!! Best thing would have been to call the law and maybe their lives would have been uncomfortable for a time..!!!
Thanks for going high when they went low…u will be blessed!!!


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