Spillway bass on great time to bring the kids fishing

As in Atchafalaya spillway? Adams landing, etc?

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johnnyrocket

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Thanks Johnny... this is exactly what I have been looking for with my 8 year old. We've been doing so much baseball and its coming to a close with the state tourney this weekend.

Need some fishing time as hes gotten pretty good with his new baitcaster and this type action is what he needs.

Pop R usually less than 7ft and ML or M rod. Typically 6’6” or 6’8” as you are trying to cast under brush this is not distance casting.
For 8 yr old even 6ft would be fine.
Something you would use for speckle trout jig that flexes would be good.
You want to rod to flex so you give time for the bass to take the pop r and not let him spit it out or come out flying toward him.
Frog of course want heavy action to set the hook.

I would have spinnerbait, worm, frog, and pop r on the boat ready to tie on a rod. Right now you can do well on pop r as they are eating what is coming out of the swamp.

My grandfather taught me a 6 yrs old to throw old school Abu Garcia 5000. Then at 8yrs old I learned to throw right or left at old river fishing island side in a 15ft La traveler my grandfather owned. He was old school hard blank. It helped me a lot over the years.

SHHHHH, there's already going to be too many boats out there this weekend. I'm about to head to the camp in a few.

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Drove through there last weekend and you could’ve walked across from boat to boat.

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Truck and trailers on top and back side of the levee at Pigeon last Saturday. Glad I have a 30 send drive to the landing, gonna have to get up extra early in the morning.

I learned on a huge arse Ambassadeur in the backyard with a nut tied on the end when i was a kid. Got it for Christmas and spent all spring throwing it determined to be able to use it when dad and i went to the annual spring break trip to Toledo Bend.

Learn how to throw one of those and the low profile baitcasters are a piece of cake. That Revo I have is a fantastic reel.

You just need to learn how to adjust the reel properly. A well adjusted reel won’t backlash much at all. I haven’t gotten a backlash that took more than 5 seconds to get out in 10 years but I’ve been throwing baitcaster a since I was 5 and I’m 34 now. I also fish 2-3 times a week. Get with a buddy that knows what they are doing and get them to adjust your reel and you’ll be throwing it no problem pretty quickly.

Agreed.
Bayou Sorrel backwater backup not really good flowing water like further South.
Then water gets right in Pigeon.
Then the canals around Adams Landing like 16” canals and shell cuts.
Then Flat lake.

There no best spots. It is learning how to put a pattern together.

You know the shad spawn x time of year, in these spots, and this triggers the bass. That a good pattern theory and you go out to build on that. They could still eat crawfish also. When you catch one feel it’s stomach. If it is hard they are eating crawfish. If it is soft typically shad. The bass I caught had belly’s full of crawfish. I think they were stacked at runouts chasing anything and crawfish were up in the water column flowing out of the runout.

You see a bass suck a shad in scaling it and the shad jumps out of his mouth swiming off. They are on a shad bite. I would go with a shad pattern in the area I saw the above.

Right now they are eating anything coming out of a runout. Start at highest land and work to lowest to build a pattern. Start high topwater or spinnerbait and work down with jig or worm. I even swam plastic tubes on the top of runouts slamming bass after 3 guys passed the spot throwing jigs. It happens like that sometimes.

Water drops out in the fall and you know ledges or structure towards the flowing water holds fish. You fish that pattern. Late summer toward the fall into toward river and natural bayous that flow into the river. I caught Kentucky bass that fight similar to smallmouth in the Atchafalaya river and mouth of upper grand river in the fall and water was super clear. My worm would flow backwards toward the river following the current and then you would see it move toward deep water. That was fun. This only good when river is low. Way way too much current to do it now. I seen a huge tree pop up out of no where running the Atchafalaya river from Sorrel landing to the Phillips canals across the river. That when you learn to respect the river.

Fish are like fat chicks they like to eat following the food.
Do you study the hawk or what the hawk wants a mouse to catch a hawk?
It is pretty simple.