re: Fishing LSU lakes

Truth

I've had good success in the cottages lake if you're looking for another fishing spot. Success with both catching bass and spotting babes

You are correct Wick. LDWF stocked the hell out of them with Floridas back in the eighties. The forage base in those lakes is astounding. My fish's girth almost equaled her length.

Size isn't the issue. La. has no smallmouth bass.

I know their range, but this had smallmouth coloring and a small mouth. Maybe they stocked them back then, idk.

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La. has no smallmouth bass.

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Not a native year round species and certainly not in the LSU lakes. I've heard of a few caught in an oxbow under the Huey Long Bridge in Harahan. Only when the river is very high and cold in the spring.

It is possible, just like a few snook have been caught out of Venice.

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Not a native year round species and certainly not in the LSU lakes. I've heard of a few caught in an oxbow under the Huey Long Bridge in Harahan. Only when the river is very high and cold in the spring.

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You have also heard of black panthers. If smallmouth exist in La. they would be in some north La. streams coming out of ar-kansas. But, they don't. Some ignorant citizens refer to spotted bass as smallmouth. That's as close to Harahan as a smally will ever get.

If you've got time, get a 50 pound bag of cattle cubes (range cubes) from a feed store ($10) and chum up a spot for a few days. Go at the same time of day if possible.

When you go to fish, throw out a can of corn in the same spot and use a few pieces of corn on the smallest hook you can find.

Lots of eater catfish (maybe not from those lakes) and carp should result.

Catfish using a cork, carp on the bottom.