Big Lake info needed

I'm in the same boat as far as it being the closest spec fishing to my area. If I had the option I'd fish Dularge over Big Lake 100x out of 100. With that being said, we always launch out of Calcasieu Point at the North end of the lake. It takes us right at 2 hours to get there from Alexandria.

North or South end being better just depends on tide and time of year. This time of year you should be able to catch fish in every part of the lake depending on where they are biting that day.

I still haven't learned the patterns all that well, and I've fished it a lot in the past 2 years. I guess that's because the damn place has no patterns (or I'm just a shitty inshore fisherman)... Probably the latter.

Growing up on Moss Lake (just north of Big Lake) I found the two major things that changed the patterns was (a) the salinity and (b) the mud line. I never had any luck fishing dirty water.

I've done good at the old jetties as well as Turner's Bay. Just depends on the conditions and tides. I've always done good fishing the birds...when the birds were working...it was a fun day.

Salty Cajun is a decent big lake forum you may wanna check out.

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