spillway water levels

[frogpond11]

Anybody got any report on the fishing/water levels on the spillway side around Big Pigeon/Grand Lake/Little Bayou Sorrel? I've got a tournament this upcoming weekend out of Doiron's and I saw the river stage @ Morgan City is pretty low...so I was just wondering what some of you may have seen out there lately. Thanks!

Justin


Modified by frogpond11 at 8:42 AM 12/6/2007


Modified by frogpond11 at 8:43 AM 12/6/2007

[RogerR]

Welcome to the boards. Wish I could help but been to lazy to drive that far.

[Mike20xdc]

This should give you water levels just about anywhere If not here look around on the site http://waterdata.usgs.gov/la/n...=flow

[FLIPPINB]

what tournament

[Bassmaster2003]

put it like this...it's low!!!

[frogpond11]

It was a tournament for EASL(East Ascension Sportsman's League). It was their open tournament that they have every year. 22 boats fished, me and my partner finished 6th with 11.54 pounds with a 3.45 lb big bass. There were 3 sacks in the 13 lb + range that got spots 1-3, one 12 lb bag, and an 11.8 pound bag that beat us. We had 3 fish in the 2-2.5 pound range, that one nice 3.45 pounder, and one that barely barely kept. If we could have gotten rid of that one small one and got another 2-3 pounder, we would have finished in the top 4(which were the money spots). It seemed like everyone caught fish pretty good though. Winning sack came from the Verret side I believe...but most fished the spillway side...us included. We caught the majority of our fish on spinnerbaits.

Heartbreaker...I had 1 towards the end of the day that was at least 2.5 lbs and it run me down into a tree and broke me off...had I boated that one, we would have finished in the money. But oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes.

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Justin


Modified by frogpond11 at 1:04 PM 12/3/2007

[frogpond11]

I figured I'd share a pic of my 3.45 pounder from the 12/1 tourney..I thought the fish was a little bigger than that when I caught it, but can't argue with a scale..



Taking em out of the spillway side and stocking the Verret side...

Justin

[Alan S]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by frogpond11 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">..I thought the fish was a little bigger than that when I caught it, but can't argue with a scale.. </TD></TR></TABLE>

My scales lie to me, too.

Nice fish!

Is it just me or is the water REALLY low?

[frogpond11]

Oh yea, the water is WAY low on the spillway side right now. We alternated between two areas the whole day fishing and both were extremely low. We made a pretty long run from Doiron's and it was weird seeing everything that low. Be careful if you're heading out that way, that's for sure. I'll be out there again this Saturday..

Justin

[ZL]

Do you know the name of the guys who won it? Ive been in the EASL Bass Club for the past two years.

I tore my lower-unit up in our classic last month so I didn't get to fish our open tournament. Floating logs suck.

Our scale has seriously been broke and repaired numerous times in the past year, so it may lie seriously.

[frogpond11]

That's good to know about the scale ZL!!

I don't remember the names of the guys that won it, but they had 13.9 lbs. He was in a Ranger I believe, a red one. He and his partner fished the Verret side. That's about all I know. I'll probably be fishing the majority of the EASL events this year though, so I'm sure I'll get to meet you at some point if you plan on fishing some of their tournaments this year..

Justin

[Jeff La]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by frogpond11 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Taking em out of the spillway side and stocking the Verret side...

Justin</TD></TR></TABLE>

Keep on stocking the Verret side, My camp on Belle River should be finished in May or June for some serious fishing.

[ZL]

Sounds like Jimmy Templet with the red ranger. Yep, I plan on fishing again next year, we should have a meeting and banquet type deal at Ascension sometime in January to sign up and vote on the first tournament location. The new format that we are starting next year should make the club alot better. Previous years we drew partners amongst the club members and usually only had 5 to 8 boats a tournament. but now we will fish every tournament as a member guest, only allowing the same guest to fish with you twice in a year, or you can go into a draw amongst others members that don't have a partner in which the members will be paired together, or we probably can put up the $50 and fish alone. We should have a good 15 to 20 boats each event or more if all the new members join that plan on it, and we won't have to deal with drawing a dead end partner. We also take a road trip to Lake Bruin each year in the spring.

[Bayoubandit]

if it was a open tx it may have been David and Derick Mong,they fish out of a red ranger and fish alot of opens out of Dorions.I will check with Larry at the store and find out who won

[DOUGMCGEEFTD]

HEY YALL AINT TIRED OF GARY L WHOOPIN' UP ON YALL YET? I WILL BE GETTING MOVED BACK SOON AND I'M GONNA HAVE TO PUT GARY IN CHECK. GOTTA WATCH JIMMY T HE'S TOUGH IN VERRET THIS TIME OF YEAR. TELL THEM GUYS DOUG MCGEE SAID HELLO AND I'LL BE SEEING THEM SOON. IF THEY DONT WATCH OUT I MIGHT BRING LIOTTA BACK WITH ME.

[ZL]

We just can't hang with Gary, kingfisherman 2 years in a row. Only one guy challenges him, and thats Gonny. The entire club tries trash talking to bring him down off his pedestal, but we have yet to find anyway of affecting his consistency on the water. Come on back!

[DOUGMCGEEFTD]

buy up all the watermelon red brush hogs in town and dont let him borrow any!