Sportsmans Paradise Outdoors Guide Service

Capt. Ron Ph#-225-445-1010

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                       SPILLWAY SAC-LIAT TRIP

                 Hello fellow anglers. What a great trip into the beautiful atchafalaya spillway. I met my charter at the Holiday Inn at 5 am and we were off on what would turn out to be a great trip. We made the regular bait stop at Dickie’s sports shop and bought some live bait and groceries for the trip and we were off. I met Bob (my partner for today) through my reports on this fine site and he expressed an interest in learning the spillway area and the techniques on fishing this great estuary and I said that was one of my specialties, that is the spillway and I would be happy to teach him  my wealth of knowledge gained in my 45 plus years of fishing in and around the spillway.

                           With all the conditions in line as per the Mississippi river level, the atchafalaya river level the moon cycle and the water temp and clarity the good day was almost a given. The first stop was all it took to fill the box with fish and caught and released 3 times more then we kept just to enjoy being out in the wild and bending the rod. After getting the good trip under our belt we went on a tour of the central spillway with map in hand to show Mr. Bob some of the better canals and sloughs he could try during his future trips to the spillway. although he said he would make several more trips with me before he would feel comfortable to venture out on his own.We caught fish every where we tried on many different baits with the most sacalait coming on  live shiners and most of the bream being caught on Canadian wigglers but we caught bass on plastic worms in junebug with green glitter, spinner baits in white with silver and gold blades  and on silver with black back rattle trap crank baits and several bass on lunker lures in chartreuse early in the morning. We also caught a lott of other fish on 1/32 ounce beetle spins in the craw fish color after we ran out of live bait. The final fish count for the day was 5 nice bass 121 bream and goggles and 35 sacalait.

                  A good time was had bad all and an amass of fish were caught (more than Mr. Bob had ever caught in one trip EVER) and released today. One good thing to see was the amount of small bass that were all over the spillway and that we caught with the bass running from 10 inches to about 3.5 pounds.

                If you would like to make a trip weather it be to the spillway or any fresh water or salt water venue in the state I have fished most of them. But I specialize and am based out of the spillway for fresh water and Shell Beach for the salt water trips. The red fishing is still hot and the speckled trout just started to run with the full moon cycle. I would love to take you fishing.

               Remember our motto RAIN OR SHINE SLEET OR SNOW OR OIL SLICK  IF YOU COME WE WILL  WIll GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               Thanks Capt. Ron