CANEY LAKE – Bass are beginning to move to the coves and starting to hit a variety of lures with top billing going to soft plastics, especially the Wacky Worm and Shaky Head. Should the water warm up a few degrees, the crappie will be making their way toward the shallows where they’ll hit jigs or shiners. You’re likely to still catch some deep but they’ll begin to hit in more shallow water. Yellow bass should still be hitting jigging spoons bounced off the bottom in deep water.
LAKE CLAIBORNE – Depending upon the weather and water temperature, the crappie will begin making their move into the coves and creeks. Look for some to begin staging off the deep points as they wait for water temperatures to approach the high 50’s when they’ll start moving in to spawn. Bass should be roaming around the brush in the coves and should hit spinners or soft plastic lures. There could also be some action below the spillway in the creek for crappie, stripers and bream.
LAKE D’ARBONNE – Crappie fishing should be starting to kick into high gear in the channels and deeper sloughs with the spring spawn just ahead. Some will still be deep in the channel but others will start moving up and hitting jigs and shiners. The bass are beginning to cruise around the button willows and buck brush in the coves and sloughs with jigs and lizards being best bets to entice strikes. Catfish are biting cold worms fished off the banks.
OUACHITA RIVER – No fishing report; the water is still quite high.
LAKE POVERTY POINT – Crappie fishing is up and down with better results coming from the cut offs at the lower end of the lake while some are being caught around the boat slips during late afternoons. Catfish are biting on cut shad and night crawlers. Bass are slow to fair.
LAKE ST. JOHN – Both crappie and catfish are biting on yo-yos baited with shiners. Bass are slow to fair.
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