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re: Bluegill and Crappie Lures?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 5:34 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
Posted on 2/4/26 at 5:34 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
I'm out by Gravette but I have a BV poa card. I think the bream fishing is better than crappie in those lakes.
Eucha (and Grand) over in Oklahoma are better for crappie imo
Eucha (and Grand) over in Oklahoma are better for crappie imo
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 6:36 pm to burgeman
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Can you take a look at my home pond/lake and tell me where I should be looking for them at? I've got an ultra light set up and have only caught 2 or 3 over the years. But I've never been able to get on a good bite over the 30 years I've fished it.
You'd have to share the address or gps coordinates in order for me or awgusta to see it on Google maps.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 6:38 pm to ozktgr
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I'm out by Gravette but I have a BV poa card. I think the bream fishing is better than crappie in those lakes.
I googled some of OP's lakes yesterday, I didn't see any mention of crappie in them when searching for species.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 7:08 pm to deeprig9
More because why not?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 7:14 pm to deeprig9
All those lakes are stocked by the POA, not game & fish so you never really know what you'll catch. I've caught flathead and rainbow trout in one of them. You gave some solid advice for going off maps
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:17 pm to deeprig9
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You'd have to share the address or gps coordinates in order for me or awgusta to see it on Google maps.
After posting I got to thinking, there would be no way for me to explain the depths and different places trees fell into it at. But here's a screenshot from Google maps. It's just outside of Ponchatoula.
But deepest part is about 10-12 feet which is about the middle of of the long side of the pond. It's a mud bottom with a levee on the southwest corner that drains it into the swamp. There's no creek or stream feeding it. We mostly bass fish out of it. It's been stocked in the past but the pond has been around since the 50's when it was dug by the previous landowner. Never fished hard, it's just my family around it. Me and my kids are the only ones who fish it the last 10 years.
This is about the high end of size of the bass we usually catch.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 12:27 am to burgeman
Your lake is overpopulated with bass. Cull every bass under 12 inches.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:18 am to deeprig9
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Your lake is overpopulated with bass. Cull every bass under 12 inches.
This is spot on. That fish is certainly stunted....a bass with a mouth that size should have probaby 20% more body weight (girth and length). All head and tail is a sure sign the habitat is not ideal to support normal growth and health. The best way to correct is to remove some fish....and its damned fun and tasty!
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:19 am to deeprig9
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Your lake is overpopulated with bass. Cull every bass under 12 inches.
Consider them filet'd.
I've kinda figured they were getting out of control just by lack of people fishing it over the last 20 years. We do no pond management other than killing the water hyacinth when it pops up.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:49 am to AwgustaDawg
Thanks for the contour map of Lake Rayburn. I need to drive out there to look at the location you are referring to.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:56 am to ozktgr
My wife would be very happy catching bream. We took a guided fishing trip to Truman Lake in Missouri a few years ago for crappie. We caught our limits plus the guide's limit in about two hours. We will eat the last of them this weekend.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 6:06 am to burgeman
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Can you take a look at my home pond/lake and tell me where I should be looking for them at? I've got an ultra light set up and have only caught 2 or 3 over the years. But I've never been able to get on a good bite over the 30 years I've fished it.
Unfortunately the pond you shared a picture of is not on Navionics or the i-boating map I linked to in another post. It is possible to get an idea of contour by toggling on the contour lines on Google Maps or Google Earth but in that part of the world contour lines set at 1 feet are several inches apart LOL...like drawing contour lines on a table top. That said there are some pretty typical areas that should attract fish like the mouth of the cove north of the big point with the house with the swimming pool. It looks like the pond drains to the swamp in the back of that cove and the points at the mouth of that cove should provide a good ambush point for predators, assuming there is more or les some flow through the pond to the swamp. The west side of that cove looks more promising than the other side BUT the entire cove looks like it be a good spot for bream and bass both to spawn. In a pond that size just about the entirety of the shoreline is going to be used for spawning. If it isn't bowl shaped any significant change in contour will be a good spot to fish....without electronics people used to use a window sash and a piece of rope to "map" those areas. If it is bowl shaped without significant changes in contour shoreline cover (docks on this one it looks like) should be productive. If its only a few of you fishing it y'all ought to build some structure....cutting some bamboo and tying it to a concrete block in a pond that size without much cover and bowl shaped is a fish magnet.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 8:33 am to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
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Each year the small town (Bella Vista) puts old Christmas trees in the five lakes. I need to check to see where they put them at.
This year the old trees were only put in Lake Windsor.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 10:28 am to burgeman
Nice looking pond.
I would consider consulting with a fisheries biologist.A pond that old it might be best to kill all the fish with rotenone and start over.
I might be full of crap but if it was me I would get an expert to assess it.
The Home& Garden forum has a thread going concerning ponds,where to get advice.
I would consider consulting with a fisheries biologist.A pond that old it might be best to kill all the fish with rotenone and start over.
I might be full of crap but if it was me I would get an expert to assess it.
The Home& Garden forum has a thread going concerning ponds,where to get advice.
This post was edited on 2/5/26 at 10:33 am
Posted on 2/5/26 at 12:28 pm to LSUA 75
I forgot to add, we had a very bad salvinia issue around 2005. We broke the levee, drained and killed it all with pesticide. Then re did the drainage for the levee, let it come back up and stocked it. So it's came back over the last 20 years.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 5:39 pm to AwgustaDawg
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This is a link to a contour map of Lake Rayburn.
Can you share the link to Ozora Lake at Tribble Mill Park in Gwinnett County?
Posted on 2/7/26 at 10:25 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
Mepps spinners with a bit of bacon. I must have caught a million bream that way as a kid. Second only to crickets, IMO.
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