Golden Meadow catfish lake

Don't know about catfish lake but I was checking out the house boat docked at Bason's yesterday afternoon and there were four of five boats anchored 50 yards off from the ramp catching trout.

On what? You must have been the only boat that did. It took us long enough Saturday and the wind was worse Sunday

Great. Todd Masson will have a map and GPS coordinates of your spot by the weekend.

In my opinion you would be wasting your time in the main lake this time of year. You will need to find a canal with 5-7 feet of water in the center and fish the deeper water. The bite is very, very subtle when it's cold so corks may be next to useless. You may even want to try by the pipes next to the landing. When the temps drop the specks stack up in the deep water there.
I go small when the wind has emptied the marsh by using a smoke sparkle beetle on a red jighead. I go with a fairly slow steady retrieve and any hit of weight on the line, I set the hook. many times the weight is just grass or a stick but in the cold you can't really tell the difference. The key to winter fishing is to go slow.

Now if you want to catch some reds, market shrimp under a cork, fished from the bank out to the center of dead end canals will produce. Reds seem to be less affected by the cold water. I usually use the sparkle beetle and fish from the banks across the middle of canals and catch reds close and specks in the deeper water.

One note of caution, if the wind is howling, be damn careful on the lake esp. if you have a small, low gunnel type boat. There has been more than one tragedy on Catfish lake due to wind and small boats. When it's cold you don't have a lot of room for error.

All good points to make. We were going to catfish but after I bought minnows we went back north to launch due to wind

we skunked sunday - same area - not a bite.... i did see ONE boat near bully camp catching some fish....

we didn't have live bait........ a rare rare skunk from our house

we shut it down right about noon -

Wow. Good post

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LSU2001

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thanks my man! I think I am going to try the deep dead end canals like you said early, then try to fish some water moving out of the marsh if the sun is out. Ill post results, thanks guys.

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Canal south of mine. Near lake bully camp. Live minnows on a jighead. Lots of throwbacks finished on matrix. 

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Bully camp and the sulfur mines are not catfish lake... that's closer to PAC.