need some sacalait fishing tips and suggestions please.

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need some sacalait fishing tips and suggestions please.

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I fully expect to be shunned from this board but here goes: use live minnows

Get a long handle dip net and scoop up some grass shrimp. Put them on with a tube jig under a cork and fish some submerged logs.

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French Settlement.

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now we talking, not far from the house. beer and drowning a minner sounds like my style.

Look for a bunch of boats in a wad. Get amongst em till you figure out what they're catchin them on, depth and whatnot. Then you can branch out on your own and look for a similar area. Or you can stay w the crowd. I don't like to do this too much because some find the amount of beer I drink appalling.

Chartruese colored jig with a black tail and red head. Fish around tree tops if you can find them. Depth of the fish depends on the temperature of the water. White perch spawn when the water reaches 65 to 68 degrees.

Lake Bonne Idee, Black Bayou, Lake D'arbonne, and the Ouachita River lakes in NELA are my favorite places to catch white perch when they are biting.

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camp in "Chinquapin",

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you should see some of the "camps" they have there these days.

thanks for the tips so far.

taking oldest to baseball practice. ya'll talk amongst yourselfs so i can get educated on the white perch.

We've also tipped our jigs with a minnow and had success.

Go to Saline/Larto and see how they do it. Most enjoyable method for me. "Spider rigs" with 3 or more jig poles out at once. Drift and catch.

Check out this website: crappie.com

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A few things to know:

1. If you find one crappie you have found a bunch, they move in schools.

2. Crappie will rarely go down for a bait but they will rise for it. Depth is everything. Make note of your depth with the first fish.

3. Crappie like sandy bottom areas with shade and surrounding grass to spawn in so start off at the entrance to coves and inlets with this type of bottom in the back of the cove.

4. Crappie eat the hell out of small shad and minnows. These small fish move with the currents created by wind and river flow as they follow their meals. Fish the wind blown side of the lake first.

5. Crappie winter over in 10-30 ft of water held tightly to structure near their prefered spawning areas. Locate good deep water structure near shallow undesturbed flats and you should find fish.

6. Crappie on the spawn will give off a distinct odor that due to the large #'s in a school is disernable by some fishermen above the surface of the water.

7. Crappie prefer dense cover like tree tops, and old christmas trees as opposed to a single tree trunk many times. Due to this use light wire hooks that bend and pop lose when you get hung up.

8. Crappie often will lift a minnow or jig when biting causing the float to fall over or simply drift in one direction.

9. Crappie have papermouths that tear easily. set the hook with a arcing rod sweep not the typical bone jarring set of a bass fisherman.

10. Since crappie school up so well it is easy to fish a lot of unproductive water. If you are not getting a bite on a piece of structure with live minnows (3 rods) over a 10 min period move.

11. It is hard to cast even a medium deep bobber jig/minnow set up so use a slip bobber. Since other people dont use this, look for bobbers and lines in low hanging limbs as an indication of where others may have found fish.

Hope some of this helps.

we went today on lacassine bayou, but it was too early to catch them....not spawning yet

we normally fish there along the bases of cypress trees

fish about 6" deep using either silver jigs or black and chartreuse (black body, chartreuse tail)