ldwf released poll results today that supports 14" min. for bass in Basin

I support it. Bass do not quit growing at 13 7/8 inches long. They just cannot be kept. You make the limit 12 inch and all you will catch is 11 7/8 inch fish. If you don't believe it go to tickfaw or blind river and try to catch a 12 inch fish. And yes I do tourney fish. And yes I can catch a limit of 14 inch bass in the basin most times. You gotta know your area. You will not just go put the boat in the water down there drop the trolling motor and catch em. Those 1983 days are long long gone.

I don't think I've ever caught a limit of 14" bass in the spillway.

And I catch 12"+ fish in blind river all the time. Sometimes you can't buy a bite but when the fish are biting there are some nice fish down there, just a little harder to find.

I catch 12" and bigger bass in blind river all the time, I did grow up fishing there though, like u said, u have to know the area...I fish tournys also

100% support it. Maybe if the coonasses would stop loading the boat with 10" bass the fishery could develop.


The "kill the last two and crush da eggs" in South Louisiana is disturbing sometimes.

While we're at it; drop the limit on speckled trout to 10 per person. What the frick do you need 50 pieces of fish for?

Why does a poll matter? Shouldn't it be based off of what is best for the ecosystem?

i agree. i think they did it to "debunk" the "myth" that everybody is against the min. size limit. but everybody i know is against it including my father in law who has probably fished the basin over a thousand times in the last 40 years. at least with the Corps of Engineers, I can tell you that the Basin users know better than the scientists.

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Yea. One of the few places you can still got meat fishing for bass, and coincidentally my favorite place to fish.

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I know people who would hate me for saying this, but you can load the boat in Cataouatche, usually with some nice ones mixed in there