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5/26 Bayou Lacombe Catfish Loaded up
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!
