They biting around shreveport?

Hello old friends! I used to be on here all the time when I lived in north Louisiana. Then I moved south and started charter fishing coastal species. Then I fell in love with a german girl and now I straddle the Atlantic and barely get to wet a line. Heh but that’s another story….

I get one week in Shreveport,la coming up here the 7th-14th of January. I want to go perch fishing with my Pop. We are gunna do one trip every three months or so. So I can’t stay on them like I used to.

I have my sights on about three lakes;

1. Grand Bayou res.
2. Bistineau
3. Caddo

(LOTP, the bayou below clear lake below black lake, darbone, Claiborne are also on the high point list)

Those are my go to spots. Any of them biting right now? I would say lake of the pines but I’m trying to keep it in Louisiana. We also got live scope and want to play with that. And I find at LOTP this time of year it’s just flat too easy to drift with an sock and drag bottom rigs so I don’t want to do that as much as find and work brush.

I’ll put up a post with pictures and full detail after the trip like I used to do every week on here. Shout out to all my old crappie friends I hope y’all are doing good!!! Hey Shadow/Dwyane! Sorry I been out of touch man I’m all over the place these days.

~Fishin’ Magician~

Good luck but going with your pops will mean a lot more than fishing or catching.


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Welcome back to the site, great hearing from you. I like your plans especially since your Dad is in them. Wishing y’all luck

PPG

I very well remember fishing with you at Larto and y’all turned me into a popsicle.


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Welcome back to the site, great hearing from you. I like your plans especially since your Dad is in them. Wishing y’all luck

PPG

I very well remember fishing with you at Larto and y’all turned me into a popsicle.


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Lol it was cold. I remember sleeping in those little huts in my entire bag of packed clothes! ;D

Hi Markham!
Glad to have you back in the state!! I haven’t been fishing around Shreveport in a while. Around Ferriday, they have been kind of slow. Most fish on the bottom in 9-12 fow. I have been using hair jigs with gold or silver nibble. Good luck!! Tell your dad I said hi.

They are biting at LOTP. There are still fish on the flooded timber in front of Watts Island. Live scoping the timber there is fun. Launch at Johnson Creek COE launch and bear to the right a little when you hit the main lake and you should see boats on the far side. Generally 30-35 FOW.

Good Luck!

I don't fish for crappie very often or even bass lately for that matter. But I have been to Grand Bayou a couple of times recently and done OK. Brought home a dozen nice ones about 6 weeks ago. A couple of weeks ago I had 18 with several 1 1/2 lb. and up. Used shiners down toward the dam. Water depth was 16 to 19' and fish were 10 to 14' deep. I'm not good with Livescope but many times when I got within 20' to 25' of a group of crappie, they would scatter.

I've heard that they are biting on the edge of the Sabine River above Circle Drive on Toledo Bend but I haven't tried there in several years.

GREAT to see you back on here Markham! You know I don't really fish any of those spots so I can't help you there. Tell Ines and the family I said hi! We need to get together soon man!

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GREAT to see you back on here Markham! You know I don't really fish any of those spots so I can't help you there. Tell Ines and the family I said hi! We need to get together soon man!

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I will tell them. :D

I got a new phone number I’ll txt ya so we can reconnect. I’m trying to get my head around Venice,LA fishing now. I moved the focus down that way. I’ll holler and maybe we will get to wet a line together sometime man. :)

Also thanks guys for the heads up on Grand Bayou and LOTP. I will most likely hit one of them or both while I am here. If so I’ll put up some posts. :)

~Fishin’ Magican~

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Also thanks guys for the heads up on Grand Bayou and LOTP. I will most likely hit one of them or both while I am here. If so I’ll put up some posts. :)

~Fishin’ Magican~

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I heard someone say they were catching some around Johnson's Ranch too.

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Also thanks guys for the heads up on Grand Bayou and LOTP. I will most likely hit one of them or both while I am here. If so I’ll put up some posts. :)

~Fishin’ Magican~

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I have a buddy that’s been doing good on LOP
He puts in at Hurricane and usually drifts the flat’s between the channel and boat launch.



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Thanks for the intel guys!!! It’s funny I was focusing on these two lakes. I called Johnson’s yesterday and they said they were really getting them until the water got stained. But also a boat came in when I called and they asked them how they did they said “1 limit”. So it must have been on fire and then slowed a little. It hasn’t rained in a few days so I might go that way and hope the water is clearing up. My day to fish with my Dad is tmro, so might be in uncertain at 6:30am :D. The other option is we hit LOTP because I’m pretty confident with that choice too. The wind changed from 5-10 for tmro to 10-15 and I like it calm out there with the open lake. Leaning towards Caddo now but Heh we will see. One way or the other I’ll put a post up of which one we go to.

~Fishin’ Magician~