Crappie Fishing Lake Ouachita.
Lake Ouachita Crappie Identification Guide
Brush Pile Locations in Lake Ouachita.
The
Centerpoint FFA
partnered with the Corps of Engineers to build approximately 250 bamboo crappie condos.
These condos will be placed
in Lake Ouachita, Lake Degray and Lake Greeson. This project has already
been approved by the Corp. They will be providing the concrete, while the FFA will provide the buckets, bamboo, and manpower.
All of the spots where crappie condos are dropped will be marked by GPS.
The
Corps will make these coordinates available to the public.
In Ouachita's clear waters crappie will be deeper during sunny conditions. The best
fishing is usually early and late in the day or when the sky is cloudy,
crappie are more active then, cruising and feeding in shallower
water where they're easier for most anglers to catch.
Crappie see better in clear water, and
bigger lines are likely to spook them.Use 6- or 8-pound
line or even smaller. You may also want to use green-tinted lines that are
less visible in clear water."
Ouachita's clear waters offer good conditions for the growth of green aquatic plants
that thrive in sunlight, if beds of aquatic vegetation are
present, you should see if crappie are hiding in the cool
shade around the grass.
Vegetation grows upto 35 feet in portion of Ouachita and crappie will utilize the shade line along the
weeds as the sun moves through the sky. If crappie can get beside a wall of
weeds that's casting a shadow, they'll stay in the shadow.
In Lake Ouachita fish beds of elodea and milfoil around
mid-lake islands. Drift with the wind and fish jigs or spinners along the
shady side of the weeds. Once you catch a crappie, try to keep your lure in
the strike zone and continue along the vegetation line. Early late and on
cloudy days small spinners and jigs worked over the top of grass beds will
often produce large catches.
You can fish jigs under bobbers. The bobber will keep your bait in
the strike zone. On Ouachita use
a clear bobber for a float. A clear bubble is harder for crappie to see.
E-mail Lake Ouachita Corps of Engineers for coordinates of the crappie condos.
Bill Jackson:
Lake Ouachita Supervisory Park Ranger
Lake Ouachita Field Office
501-767-2401 ext. 73040
Bill.C.Jackson@us.army.mil
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