Spillway@Belle River Reports

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Went today, Water was coming in, muddy in some places not too bad further back. Had a little green tint. Fished 9:30 to 1:00 caught 3 that all measured 13 3/4" on watermelon red baby brush hog. Also threw black/blue jig and chart/white spinner. Started in 21" canal and then went to West Fork. Didn't have many boats there, 2 boats said they had 2, don't know if they were keepers.

Fished club tourney @ Belle River Saturday, 7-22. HOT!! Water temp was 93-94. Duckweed everywhere...was very interesting running old river as there were no boat trails through it, just solid duckweed in spots. Since I had never been, this was a little white knuckle ride for me. Anywho, ran up into a dead end off zigzag, and it was 'dead' alright...went into zigzag itself and caught a 13" on a white buzzbait..left there and fished reed canal and had one on a redshad worm about 12". Boat traffic started muddying up reed, so went into big pigeon @ reed. Fished down a ways towards the blue camp, and hooked a big gar on a crankbait. It was about 6ft long, 8 inches around.
The 'beak' on this thing was about 3in across...it came up out of the water and looked like a tarpon; it was silver and irridescent. That was the highlight of the trip. Caught a goo after moving into postillion. Water was moving in places, fish were not co-operating. First place (2 people, allowed 5 fish each) was 3 fish for 5.95lbs. Not many fishermen out there..ones I talked to weren't catching much either. Seems like the trees you can fish only have 2-3 ft of water around them, so I guess the whole thing is a little low. Winning stringer was caught around 'west fork' (wherever that is!) Had the hot horn come on after maneuvering through postillion at low speed. I guess the 94+ water doesn't cool that well.

Dang, sorry to hear that.

The spillway has not impressed me a bit this summer. http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/crying.gif

At what level of river stage is the spillway considered ideal as far as amount of water? What stage is it considered 'high' or 'low'?

I like to catch it around a lil below 3' on the morgan city gauge falling (slow). Anything around 3 is ok for the areas i fish.

Went scout the area for my next club T............gonna be a long tourney day.... http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/ohwell.gif The spillway looks like chit. It ain't what it used to be.... http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/eyes.gif

Yea, fished a club tourney two weeks ago. Started in Old River, fished up through zig zag, reed, pigeon cuts, etc. Did not catch one bass all day! Terrible!

Has anyone been lately? Doin' any good? I want to make a trip next week and have not been there in a while. Thanks http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/smile.gif

Don't waste your time dude.... http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/ohwell.gif

That bad huh, I haven't been there since May.....

any new reports lately??

went to belle river today, had 4 keepers that weighed around 11.5 t0 12.5 pounds, water was alittle low and muddy, only caught 7 fish

Went to the 21 inch canals today,and all around the square canals caught 5 keepers 2 that were 19" inch 4 lbs the rest were 14.5" 1.5-2.5 lb. only picked em up on the bank couldn't find any on stumps or points. Water was pretty clear I'm new to that area but it looked high to me.

thanks for the updates