Burns today 3-25-16

Followed my cousin out to the Big Burns today, he said he had been doing good on the crappie and that I could follow him so I jumped on the chance! Ended up keeping 12 crappie, 14 bream, 3 bass & 20 goggle eye. Fished some canals that I had never fished before so I learned some new area but I'm afraid the giant salvania and hyancith is getting bad in there so no telling how much longer it will be accessible. I ran 3.3 gallons of gas and I'm running a 25HP Totahatsu so that should give you some ideal of how far we ran. Fished against the grass lines and my best color was a tri color jig with orange top, blue body and chrt. tail, 2nd best was tri color jig with black top, green body and chrt. tail (just like what Jig Rig uses). Here are the pictures.

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Glad to see you ended up with a good mess of fish. Congrats on the catch and thanks for the report.

Nice catch and yes you did some running today.....

​That's a good day fishin'! Nice pics!

A very successful day.......thanks for the sink shot..........

Nice mess of fish there

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Originally Posted by prefers shiners

A very successful day.......thanks for the sink shot..........

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Couldn't fit them all on the counter top Bruce! Plus I knew you liked the sink shots! lol

Looks like some "live action". Is the Big Burns near Sweet Lake?

Y'all not only went fishing, y'all went catching. Very nice, I could use a day like that.
"gene"

I'm glad to see that ya'll caught a good mess of fish. Congratulations Shadow!

Great haul Dwyane! That'll be a couple of meals right there!

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Originally Posted by mermentau

Looks like some "live action". Is the Big Burns near Sweet Lake?

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Pretty close to Sweet Lake. It is Miami Corporation. You have to have a permit to fish there and the motor size is limited to 25 HP. We launch at the Gibbstown bridge and run down the intercostal, you can also cross the bridge and launch straight into the front marsh which is what I usually prefer to do.

So, even though Lacassine raised their motor limit to 40 hp, the Burns has a 25 hp limit? We used to fish Miami corp land years ago just a little east of where you went, and we would see people with big motors. I think the biggest that i seen was a 90 hp out there.

Nice mess of fish.. Great catch and thanks for the pictures & report..

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Originally Posted by jlaughlin72

So, even though Lacassine raised their motor limit to 40 hp, the Burns has a 25 hp limit? We used to fish Miami corp land years ago just a little east of where you went, and we would see people with big motors. I think the biggest that i seen was a 90 hp out there.

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Johnny, yes Lacassine has a 40 hp limit and burns has a 25 hp limit. I know my uncle was the care taker of the burns for years and I believe he ran a 90 but had permission being he over looked all of the burns.

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Originally Posted by mermentau

Looks like some "live action". Is the Big Burns near Sweet Lake?

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It is all that marsh on the east side of hwy 27 south of the Gibstown Bridge to Little Chanere road.

Nice catch. Dwayne you are making me miss my 25hp boat. I use to haul a lot fish out of there way in the back.

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Originally Posted by shadow

Pretty close to Sweet Lake. It is Miami Corporation. You have to have a permit to fish there and the motor size is limited to 25 HP. We launch at the Gibbstown bridge and run down the intercostal, you can also cross the bridge and launch straight into the front marsh which is what I usually prefer to do.

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I used to fish catfish in Sweet and Willow lakes, but that's all. Willow lake at times had the prettiest water I've ever seen in Louisiana. I could pass over the net and see if there were any fish in it. That launch is sure steep and the tugs suck on it hard when they come by. Probably too far for fun fishing.