Slip-Cork the Mallat area, the zig-zag, the start of the Middle Fork area has been really good for the past week or so. With those last three heavy rain in the area, the water will be sub-par for a while but the fish are still in the area. A friend from Pierre Part keeps me posted on the Mallet area. That canal and the Bayou Long area are my two favorate. The bream will be tapering down a little but the Sacs will be good for a while. I don,t know if any of you people out there know of Jim Looney. I had the pleasure of fishing with him a few times. He has a bunch of books or handbooks of the spillway, the places where to fish and when to fish, what baits to use. The works. Those books are really worth the money. He made the books with about 40 years experience of the spillway. I will enter his website later on on this thread. These books are GREAT!!! The website is( www.louisianafishingbooks.com )
Scoot, thats just the information I've been looking for. The only thing is the link to the site works but nothing on the site is active. Whats up? Do you have any others places to buy his books.
"gene"
Made 3 trips in the last few days between heat,rain,lighting the fishing has been very good.Moving water is the key,the fish have been bigger than in the last few years.You can catch 50 to 100 fish a day depending on how long you can hold out in the elements.......Tknight
__________________
The limit is how many you KEEP, not how many you CATCH! Cat. III Jigs/Custom Jig Poles
Scoot, thanks for the report. I'm retired from CF Industries in Donaldsonville and have relocated to Ruston. Currently our new home is under construction here. A very nice town. I was down there in Napoleonville a couple of weeks ago and liked what I saw of the spillway. JLooney is from Dville and fishes about 10 days a week. He has his followers in the Dville area. He is the Donaldsonville version of J.B. Salter. He's a good fisherman and lends reports out to anyone. I've seen him in the Shell cuts many times. I talked to a good friend of mine yesterday from Gonzales and said that my replacement from work and his son stumbled onto a point in the Mallet area and racked up a cool 100 sacs in 1 spot. They just happened to be moving across the point and flipped his jig into deeper, open water off the point and cashed in. Thats the way it is this time of year there. Points, moving water, a little grass, and wa-la.....Just have to find the right point. I like to check the canals that cross the flare canal right before it empties into Mallet and the canal that takes off of the Zig-Zag that goes to Wildcat Bayou. Also areas in a main drag that have had wellheads dug there in the past. They were dug out of the side of the main canal. I call them a "keyway". Often times the fish will stack up there to get out of the harder main canal current. Look for grass patches. It becomes a major ambush point. When our house is complete I'm not afraid to hitch up and come south. I still have a rent house there. I would like at some time to bring some of my nola friends down there to check out the basin. Its as hot as any fishery in the country when mother nature gives it high water like we had in the spring. Check out the area and get back to me....Good Luck
Great post on the middle and lower end of the Spillway,I`ve been fishing the Pigeon area doing quite well,but have been wanting to try the 21"area,I think the fish are bigger in this area,It`s good to hear from someone who knows about the places I fish even though they`ve left GOD`s country.North La. has some of the best deep water fishing in the country and I come up that every chance I get......Tknight
__________________
The limit is how many you KEEP, not how many you CATCH! Cat. III Jigs/Custom Jig Poles
The 21 area has many spots that offer different conditions to consider when trying to find the day's pattern. I generally don't run all over the spillway looking for the pattern. The basin will play with your head because of its massive size (actually similar to Toledo Bend). The middle fork, west fork, and bayou long junction offers the fisherman moving water from several different places. As you know stained water is better than the root beer water of the swamp so you can find good water here from one or all of these sources. Water quality in the basin is a real key because it varies much more than a typical lake like Verret or Darbonne. As with you, I was surprised at the quality of the White Perch. The ones we caught in the April area were the size I used to catch in the Grand Lake area. We had some small fish but the size of the keepers suprised me. How bout this. I caught several fish on a chart/blk hair jig. I guess some people use em in the basin, I just haven't seen any. The goggle-eye and small bass really loved it. Keep us up here posted on the basin. I plan on coming down later this fall for a few days. From Ruston its such a long trip, I may have to split the trip up by staying at Larto for a couple days. (lol) JN
Spillway rolling
Linear Mode
