Lake Kincaid(cenla)

I grew up there and although I didn't fish people did well with sacaliat, crappie, bluegill...whatever you call those yummy flat fish. You basically get into the stumps and fish just off of each boat dock. My dad used to sink dog food cans after he punched holes in them, and the occasional Christmas tree.

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motor up to tunks and get some oysters.

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Pretty much this.

You can find fish schooling occasionally out there. You can also throw a crank bait/jig in the stumps on the NE side of the lake. But it's pretty damn void of fish

Weird thing about the name, you reversed it (no big deal), but I have always wondered why some lakes are named with "Lake" first and others with it last. Anyone got an explanation?

Examples

Kincaid Lake
Cross Lake
Caddo Lake
Lake Dauterive
Lake Ponchartrain
Lake Palourde

Is it a North/South Louisiana thing?

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Blame that on the coonasses

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I would, but then there is:

Lake Texoma
Lake O' The Pines
White Lake
Grand Lake
Calcasieu Lake
Lake Claiborne

It almost seems random, maybe it is.

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We Cenla folks call it the "Dead Sea". That says it all!!!

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Not all Cenla folks!

I live near Kincaid and Cotile. Years back I had a conversation with Mike Woods of LDWF. He told me those lakes - including Indian Creek and Valentine - were "sterile". I asked why. He said "low water hardness" - about 20 ppt CaCO. Water hardness is a big factor in aquatic production, the higher the better.

So I researched. The waters he rated against the "Kisatchie lakes" - Cane River, Concordia, Bruin, Wallace, Black Lake, Toledo Bend, Red River, Larto, Saline - all had 4x the water hardness (or more) of Kincaid. HOWEVER... because catfish and rough species need high water hardness to spawn successfully, the game fish populations of those lakes was only twice that of Kincaid.

Further, the clear water allows the fish to feed by sight all the time. And become very wary. There might be 20 bass in an area and if you can get more than one of them to eat, you've done good!

I'm not complaining. Kincaid is GREAT flyfishing water. If you don't care about putting lots of fish in the ice chest but want a better-than-average chance to catch fish on flies, this is your spot. I've fished alongside guys that were throwing every lure imaginable and outcaught them on flies. Not many places can claim that.

Yeah, I now use totally different stuff when fishing IC and Kincaid vs a lot of other lakes, especially bottom land lakes.

It's been a mud pit for years.

I see a lady all the time who shows me pics of all kinds of bass caught at cleco

They just bang the bank with spinnerbaits, Seems crazy

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