Calcasieu River 5/21/22

[Jared LeBlue]

Well after almost a two year hiatus we had our LJBC tournament on the Calcasieu River this past weekend. The river took a direct hit from Hurricane Laura and not much survived. The bass are coming back strong but they are small right now. An 11 inch fish is hard come by but man you can catch a ton of 10 inch fish. In the next few years the river should be producing some good stringers. As for this tournament, well we didn't have many limits but we sure had a good time. 5 lbs and some change won the event. There was one nice fish brought in for a little better than 4lbs. The water conditions were stained to muddy with water temps running in the 80s. We caught fish on almost everything we threw. Speed craws and baby brush hogs were what the majority came on but I did catch a few on a spinner bait and a frog. It amazed me how those small fish blew up on that frog and would inhale it. I fished in Goss Bay, Calcasieu Cypress, and Hecker, and caught fish in each one of them. Bait fish are everywhere right now and if you fish south of the 171 bridge you going to see a lot of crabs. The lack of rain must be allowing the salt water to push up the river for quite a ways. Anyway if you want to go out and catch a lot of small fish the Calcasieu River is the place to do it.

[Donald Garner]

Jared, tks for sharing the trip with us. 

[Mike Cork]

Thanks for the report Jared. Great to hear there have been good spawns the last two years and them reds haven't been in their eating them. I know they don't get to far up there but still...

With a bunch of bait and a bunch of smaller bass, it won't be long and the Calcasieu will be a great place to fish!