Happy fishing from haughton LA

Hello everybody, just joined the site recently. I'm from haughton LA. My main fishing involves live bait or some soft bait with a Zebco. Recently I purchased a telescopic cane pole to venture into a new way of fishin.
I would like any information from others on this fishing technique. I think that I will be jigging with it as I find it satisfying to trick a fish.
Also If anyone in the area ( haughton bossier shreveport ) could help me find some small holes I would appreciate it. Just moved here and all I really fish on is flag lake.

Cypress Lake and Black Bayou south of Benton are good. You need a boat sticker. $15.00 per yr plus $3.00 launch fee, or $75.00 per yr and no launch fee. Cross Lake in Shreveport is pretty good, especially for catfish. $20.00 die boat sticker. Lots of other good lakes close by. Bistineau, Claiborne, Caddo, Black Bayou at Hosston, Black Lake at Campti just to name a few. Good luck

Are you a member of the military? There are a few servicemen that fish Flag Lake and find it pays off. As stated above, there are many good fishing waters in that area but most require a boat. Ask around and get to talking fishing and you'll come up with some answers. Good luck and welcome to the forum.
"gene"

Yes I'm a veteran and my father in law is retired. We fish with a boat. We fish flag and we have caught a good amount of shell crackers. I heard bisteneu is covered in some sort of Algae, is this true? Has anyone done any fishing in red chute bayou? I live right down the road from it and I would like to at least put some limb lines out. Thanks for the information.

Welcome to the Louisiana CDC forum.....glad to have you here.....you can learn plenty here by reading the many threads where our members gladly share their knowledge.....I am in south Louisiana so don't know much in your area.....

You might want to try Ivan Lake sometime. It's about 25 miles from you in northern Bossier Parish off LA 160. I do fairly well there sometimes. I have been wanting to try Bodcau Bayou (becomes Red Chute Bayou further south) but it's so high right now I can't safely fish it.
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Welcome to the forum and thank you and your father in law for your service!

I live in South Bossier and fish the Oxbows on Red River......when Mother Nature allows! The last couple of years, the flooding has not allowed us to fish much on the river, and we have been very successful fishing Grand Bayou Reservoir in Coushatta, both Crappie and Chinquapin Bream. We caught a bunch during the Bistineau draw down last winter in the northern end of the channel. You are also only a little over an hour drive to one of the best Crappie lakes in the world - D'arbonne in Farmerville. Good Luck!!

Welcome to the forum.. Good luck in your quest..

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thanks everyone. I actually don't live too far from Ivan. I live right off bellevue near dogwood so i may give it a shot! Has anyone jigged with a cane pole? I wouldn't call what i have a true cane pole, but it's the same concept. I found a great tackle shop ( bacons tackle ) that sells some nice home made jigs.

Welcome to the best crappie fishing forum in the world. All of the lakes mentioned are good crappie lakes. Most of them are also good bream, bass, and catfish lakes as well. You should have no trouble finding a mess of fish. I used to fish Cypress, between Benton and Bossier City. There are some very good crappie in there as well as bluegills and chinquapins. It is also loaded with lots of catfish. Just bait up some noodles and throw them out. You will be chasing catfish all over the lake. Good luck. Thank you for serving our great country. PM me your address and I will mail you some of my hand-tied jigs. No charge.

Thanks Pastor, I will take you up on that offer. Good to know there's some good people out there.

Another quick question, I'm sure this is a long shot but has anyone fished the pond ( they call it a lake ) in the dogwood neighborhood? I see its a nice size just want to know if anything is in it worth catchin

The dogwood lake dam broke a few years ago and the lake nearly drained dry, I think it's been fixed, but not sure if the fish have recovered.

I live a stones throw from red chute, grew up fishing it. When the water is way up, like now, it can be awesome.
If you walk the levee, there are drain pipes that flow into the bayou. When the water is up to the pipe opening, throw a chartreuse h&h out in middle of the bayou and pull it back right in front of the pipe, sometimes it's every cast.

Not crappie, but bass, we call them red eyes. Not sure if they are Kentucky bass, but they are small, with red eyes, and taste better than largemouth.

I live pretty much next door to the gas station in dogwood so walking the levee would be great. Do you walk the side towards the water treatment or the other way?

Other way

sounds good i'm going to give it a try now. If you drive by and see a comcast bucket truck i'm back there somewhere lol.

Well didn't have too much luck, walked about 1/4 mile Down The levee and saw fish jumping. I threw some red minnows out and a jig but no bites. You could see the cats and gars but they were teasing me.

I'm in the Haughton area, Princeton!!


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Welcome, you need to read read read you can find anything you want to know here. If you can't find it just ask, some good folks here. Good luck!!

I think we might be neighbors. I live on Bellevue as well. I fish cypress, flag and cross occasionally. Welcome!

You might be closer to my in laws, they own the kajun lawncare business down the road. I live down near heatherbrook dr in dogwood. But in the world of the Internet you could call that neighbors lol. We may need to meet up sometime and catch some sacs.

This is a silly question, but I work from the Texas stateline to the red river in shreveport. I'm trying to do some bank fishing while I have some free time so I can fill my freezer some to take a load off the groceries. Does anyone know of some quick spots in the shreveport area to throw a quick line out at?

Right now everything is way high!!! But when things get back to normal, there's C Bickham Park and the wildlife refuge just off the rive! Also the lock n dam


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Some spots I saw are a little difficult because of the water height, but there are others if you can keep the hook out of the grass you can at least get some decent cats. I was thinking about somewhere near Wallace lake to bank fish as that's kind of my area of town to work for my job as maintenance with the cable company. I figured there if my family of four can eat fresh caught fish once a week ( don't want to push it with the little kiddos) that'll equal to about 80 dollars saved a month, which is about $1,000 a year just from one night out of the week.
My father in law has a jon boat but getting it out depends on the weather and days off etc... Seems like it'd be easier to bank and at least get some panfish or some cat fillets. Thanks for all the information, anymore please keep it coming as I'm fairly new to the area. I came from El Paso in the army which....the fishing opportunities is either a dirty public pond or a dirty rio grande lol.

You can hang up Wallace!!!! The giant salvia has had that lake looking like a lawn for years!!!


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I've heard of this issue in multiple lakes around here. Bisteneu , some of caddo, and I didn't realize Wallace. I suppose it'll be narrowed down to asking to fish in people's ponds or cross lake off lakeshore dr.

Go to 12 Mike where it dumps into the river and tight line for catfish or the red river NWR


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I may try that. I heard that bayou is great for bass. Have you had any success with dip bait with cats? I tried some perch from the dogwood pond on limb lines out on flag lake but I think the gators got to it before the cats.

Yea, I use dip baits on the river alot


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