Thread: Lake Charles, Monday

My wife and I fished Lake Charles yesterday. Caught fish in the mouth of a cove in a about 15 foot of water on road runners.

Also found fish in the off a creek channel in about 6 foot of water.

The good is that we caught about 45, the bad is that the biggest was 8 1/2 inches.

This lake is known for a lot of crappie but the majority of them are small.

Any advice for finding a few bigger ones among all the babies??

Ceb,

They took the length limit off this year. I kept three of the fish just to see if I could get anything out of them and you really can't. I guess some people are scaling them but I've never really been into that. If you went out and caught 30 of them you might have a mess for two people.

This sounds weird to say but they are not just your normal 8 inch fish, they are small 8 inchers. I don't know if that makes sense or not but if you saw them you would know what I mean.

Regardless, we saw several other groups filling thier buckets with them. If a bunch of fish are taken out of there in the next couple of years I hope it will help.

I will be back out there Saturday. I thought of throwing a small crankbait or fishing a minnow just off the bottom. Any opinions on whether this might produce some bigger fish....assuming they are there.