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Hi everybody. This is my first post. I have enjoyed reading the forum and everybody seems nice. Anyway to the question...Has anybody heard about Lake Charles having a lot of the fish die recently. I heard there was a tournament recently and the biggest fish was like a pound bass. Has anybody heard this?
Welcome from Cabot.
I haven't heard anything from there. Fished there once last year and all the fish were really small. Welcome to the board.
My buddy camped there last weekend but didn't catch any fish at all...
Welcome to the board
We will be electrofishing the lake next Monday (4/15/13). I will let you know what we see. The lake temperature is a little cooler than normal for this time of the year so that is likely making the fishing a little difficult. We haven’t received any calls about died fish at the lake. We have received several calls about rumors that people have heard. None of these rumors have been true.
Mojorig -- I look forward to reading your report!
I hope they are just rumors lol. My family and I camp and fish there a few times a year and really enjoy it. We have been going there since I was a baby. Looking forward as well to seeing what Mojorig reports. Lake Charles is one of those places you have to catch just right anyway.
Welcome!
I eat dead fish every day!!
welcome from the south shore of lake conway
A friend has been camped out there for several days,said he wasn't catching many,today only 6 not big rnough to keep.Said water temp today 54 but it was 61 in the upper end,2 1/4 in. rain last night,lake was coming up and no cats on his lines.Said catching mostly male crappie..
The back of his boat was under water this morning from the rain we got last night and wahed all his minnows away.I told him thats why he didn't catch any today they were full from eating all his store bought minnows.
He has said nothing about dead fish,....
We did our annual electrofishing sample for largemouth bass in Lake Charles on Monday night. I have posted some pictures to show that a lot of times rumors are just rumors, lol!! We did not see a decrease in the largemouth bass population in the lake. In fact, it appears the average size of the bass has increased. I haven’t worked up the data because we are still sampling other lakes right now. I did make a rough count and we sampled 369 largemouth bass. Of those 369 bass, 30 of them were 20 inches or bigger. 20 inch bass this time of the year are 4.5 pounds and bigger. Our biggest was 22.8 inches long and weighed 7.5 pounds. All the fish were released and ready to be caught. I have attached a couple of pictures from the samples. These were from the 10 minute runs before sunset where we could get decent pictures. We caught many more after dark. We also saw lots of crappie up shallow as well. Most of them were small (7 to 9 inches) but we did see some decent size crappie (10 to 13 inches). We saw the typical amount of sunfish (basically they were everywhere).
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Awesome job fellas, thanks for all you do in making our fisheries better!
Thanks for the good job guys. I really appreciate the information you post. Why dont you come see us at crappie camp?
How much is one of those shocking machines? Might come in handy at my next tournament. BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Before I get a response from some of y'all, I KNOW IT AIN'T LEGAL!!!!! Just Funnin!!! :)
BTW, welcome corkstop from West Memphis. Home of Big River Marine. Let me know if I can be of any service to ya!!!!
Awesome. A big thanks to Mojorig for sharing this information. We appreciate all the hard work that you guys are doing!
Great, thanks for the report. We are still planning on camping there the last 2 weeks of May. Looks like there is something there to be caught.
Thanks for the info and all you guys do!!! Great fishing just look at the out of state lic on the ramps,duck woods,and trout streams!! Keep up the great work!!!!
Its has been said Lake charles has no fish too be caught!!! Ya Right!!!! Thanks AGFC !!!!!