Two Weeks at Lake Charles

Just got back from a two week camping trip to Lake Charles. The weather was great and a good time was had by all. I caught at least 700 crappie during my stay, but only caught about 30 that had any size to them. My wife, daughter, son and father-in-law all were able to get in on some of the action. Not sure if they were spawning or not, but caught just about everything in shallow water with my jigging pole. Color did not seem to matter too much. I would notice a differnce on a couple of colors, but mostly they would hit anything. Caught a couple in the 12" range and down to around 9" for my 30 bigger ones. Tried trolling to get something bigger, but just small ones there also. Caught some bass and catfish on my jigging pole which got exciting from time to time.

Here are a couple of pictures from our trip.Attachment 127638Attachment 127639

Where is Lake Charles? Guess you had fun and sounds like caught enough for a fish fry or two.:cheers2

Nice fish for Charles. Sounds like a fun trip.

Lake Charles is located near Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. I ended up with about 3 gallons of fillets, which alot them came from jugging for catfish. Nimrod, I did the things you suggested and it sured worked out great. The 1/8 oz jigs with the umbrella tubes caught the majority of the fish. It amazed me how many 5" to 6" fish hit that setup.

Here is a picture of some bream just below the camper.Attachment 127660

that a lot of Bream there. All you need is a hook in that picture.

wished i'd known you were there. i'd have tried to come over and visit a while. those bream would have been fun for the kids.

They sure could have caught all they wanted, crappie too.

Great Job with the Lil Darlins...love the Bream pic to.

Fly rod with a popping bug would work good on those bream. I've done good there in the past that way.

Glad you had a good time! Those bream look like fun waiting to happen.

I actually caught bream and crappie on my fly rod while we were camping. They were mostly on a sinkng fly with an indicator though.

Headed there on Thursday. I hope I can find some bigger fish, I usually only catch small fish there and swear I will never go back.

Don't know if they will still be there, but they were in the shallows on the sides and backs of coves. Caught a decent one from time to time, but not many.