FISHING REPORT

7/18/2024

BLACK BAYOU –Lots of moss and pads. Bream hitting on crickets. Contact Honey Hole Tackle Shop 323-8707 for latest information.

BUSSEY BRAKE – Big bass to 12 pounds continue to come in on jigs and oversized plastic worms with topwater lures best early. Crappie fishing has been good fishing around deep brush. Bream fishing has slowed. For latest information, contact the Honey Hole at 323-8707.

OUACHITA RIVER – Bass fishing has improved fishing shad imitation lures in the cuts. Crappie fishing has been quite good fishing shiners or jigs in the sloughs. Some bream are being caught up the bayou. For latest information, contact the Honey Hole Tackle Shop at 323-8707.

LAKE D’ARBONNE –. Bass have been best early morning on topwaters. swim baits and square billed crank baits fished around the edge of the grass. Soft plastics, swim baits and crank baits working best later. Crappie are good on the flats and along the edges of the channels and hitting shiners and jigs. Bream are off the beds and scattered. Catfishing is good fishing cold worms off the banksFor latest information, call Anderson Sport Center at 368-9669 or Honey Hole Tackle Shop at 323-8707.

LAKE CLAIBORNE –Bass fishing is best at night fishing soft plastics and dark spinners and crank baits. Some have been caught early mornings on topwater lures. Crappie have moved deep and are best around submerged brush on shiners and jigs. Better fishing has been late afternoons. Bream are fair around shallow bedding areas and hitting worms and crickets. No report on stripers or catfish. For latest information, call Kel’s Cove at 927-2264 or Terzia Tackle at 278-4498.

CANEY LAKE – Bass fishing has been good at night on oversized plastic worms and deep diving crank baits with some big fish reportedly caught. During the day, deep diving crank baits and soft plastics fished on underwater humps is producing. Bream fishing is beginning to slow down as the weather and water temperatures are heating up. Crappie are best fishing jigs or shiners around submerged tops. For information contact Caney Lake Landing at 259-6649, Hooks Marina at 249-2347, Terzia Tackle at 278-4498 or the Honey Hole Tackle Shop at 323-8707.

LAKE POVERTY POINT – Bream and catfish are biting best on the south end of the lake. Bass and crappie have slowed. For latest reports, call Poverty Point Marina at 318/878-0101.

LAKE YUCATAN – The water is on a slow fall and overall, fishing is slow. For info call Surplus City Landing at 318/467-2259.