Fishing Season 2010 Thread

[marketdawg]

Now that hunting season is over it's time to pull out the rods and reels.
Went to Cross Lake yesterday to try some white perch. They caught them on Sat but I couldn't find 'em yesterday. GOt skunked.

[Choudawg86]

went and bought a dozen more yo'yo's at lunch. looking at putting them and a trotline out this weekend on Darbonne

[marketdawg]

If the weather holds we're running trotlines on one of the oxbows on the Red this Sunday and Monday.

[marketdawg]

Do you have much succes this time of year on the yo-yos CHou?

[Choudawg86]

Do you have much succes this time of year on the yo-yos CHou?

Its been a long time since i had true success on them, mainly because i've been turkey hunting instead. seems like the month of march is usually prime time. most folks set them with the minnow a foot or two under the top of the water. I always set mine where he is on top or as close as I get get it to the top. Always figured the noise he made would draw the fish in. I have set yoyo's out to where you couldnt bait them fast enough because you'd have to go back and take fish off of the other ones. Its a BLAST when that happens.

[AustinDawg]

Its been a long time since i had true success on them, mainly because i've been turkey hunting instead. seems like the month of march is usually prime time. most folks set them with the minnow a foot or two under the top of the water. I always set mine where he is on top or as close as I get get it to the top. Always figured the noise he made would draw the fish in. I have set yoyo's out to where you couldnt bait them fast enough because you'd have to go back and take fish off of the other ones. Its a BLAST when that happens.

Yo-yo's are legal now? My granddad was a Cross Lake patrolman and he used to confiscate them - which worked out awesome for me.

[PawDawg]

If the weather ever gets decent on a weekend and the river begins to fall, I've got about 3 dozen jugs rigged up to take to the river. Doesn't look like we will get another fall in the river for a while. Who knows when the weather will be decent again.

[honker22]

Its been a long time since i had true success on them, mainly because i've been turkey hunting instead. seems like the month of march is usually prime time. most folks set them with the minnow a foot or two under the top of the water. I always set mine where he is on top or as close as I get get it to the top. Always figured the noise he made would draw the fish in. I have set yoyo's out to where you couldnt bait them fast enough because you'd have to go back and take fish off of the other ones. Its a BLAST when that happens.

I , also set the minnow just below the surface. If you wanna catch a bunch of mudcat, set them deeper. I usually run yo-yos in mid-late Feb, and do decent on Darbonne.

[Geaux Dawgs]

Yo-yo's are legal now? My granddad was a Cross Lake patrolman and he used to confiscate them - which worked out awesome for me.

Illegal on Cross Lake, legal on others apparently.

I usually go after the catfish on Cross.....where are the bass?? My 13 yr old wants me to take him bass fishing on Cross.....never tried it. I know where the perch and catfish are, not so much the bass.

Appreciate any assistance

[BulldawgBB]

Yo-yo's are legal now? My granddad was a Cross Lake patrolman and he used to confiscate them - which worked out awesome for me.

There are only a couple of lakes in Louisiana that they are not legal in. Most of the lakes have very strict rules regarding their use which are almost never followed properly.

Most lakes state that you must take them down for certain times during the "day". All lakes that I am aware of state that you can not install them on metal poles... That is one of my biggest peeves...nothing destroys a fiberglass hull like an iron rod.

[AustinDawg]

Illegal on Cross Lake, legal on others apparently.

I usually go after the catfish on Cross.....where are the bass?? My 13 yr old wants me to take him bass fishing on Cross.....never tried it. I know where the perch and catfish are, not so much the bass.

Appreciate any assistance

I haven't fished it in over 20 years, but I would think that the universal rules of bass fishing apply: fish the boathouses and piers on the main lake, or if you can go upstream to the bayou portion of the lake, there is alot of flooded cypress you could fish. That's about all I got.

[Tech77]

There are only a couple of lakes in Louisiana that they are not legal in. Most of the lakes have very strict rules regarding their use which are almost never followed properly.

Most lakes state that you must take them down for certain times during the "day". All lakes that I am aware of state that you can not install them on metal poles... That is one of my biggest peeves...nothing destroys a fiberglass hull like an iron rod.

There's a piece of rebar sitcking out of just about every stump on Lake Claiborne. Major hull hazard.

[Pitcherjlt]

I went to Caney for the 2nd time last week and caught 10. All were nice bass but had to throw back 7 with 4 of those being in the 3 pound+ range because they were in the slot. That was a tough thing to do! I had never fished a slot lake before but had a really good time up there.

[marketdawg]

Ran set-lines this past Sunday PM and did do very well. Had 7 cats on 35 hooks. The 7 were all good eatin' size. I'll be perch jerkin' on the Red this coming Sunday. Might try for a few green trout this Sunday as well but don't care about eating them all that much and really only like catching them on topwaters as their explosive strikes are darn near their only endearing quality...unless you have a pretty, sparkle painted, huge engined boat with stickers all over your shirts/hats/boats proclaiming the mighty green trout as the freshwater king of fishes.:icon_wink:

[shreveportdawg]

Ran set-lines this past Sunday PM and did do very well. Had 7 cats on 35 hooks. The 7 were all good eatin' size. I'll be perch jerkin' on the Red this coming Sunday. Might try for a few green trout this Sunday as well but don't care about eating them all that much and really only like catching them on topwaters as their explosive strikes are darn near their only endearing quality...unless you have a pretty, sparkle painted, huge engined boat with stickers all over your shirts/hats/boats proclaiming the mighty green trout as the freshwater king of fishes.:icon_wink:

Hope u plan on launching at red river south cause everything else is closed