One word of warning for anglers here this time of year. Night-fishing is also good on Grand Bayou Lake throughout the summer. These are DeWolf’s picks of J6 jigs for Grand Bayou Lake’s summer crappie. DeWolf suggests a slip cork set-up with a hair jig that will stay about 2 feet deep. If you just want a mess of fish or don’t have fancy electronics, you can fish under boat docks using a slip cork and catch plenty of crappie. He likes a sturdy, ACC Crappie Stix rod that allows him to flip the fish.Īll crappie aren’t deep on Grand Bayou Lake in June, just most of the big ones. Minnows work well on the lake, too, but DeWolf sticks with hair jigs most of the time. He said it needs to look like a little minnow, but be just a little off-color. James Parish and also an ACC jighead and Bobby Garland plastic trailer in red/silver or chartreuse. He fishes a J6 jig made by Jeffery Rodrique in St.
His favorite jig colors are gray or gray with a little touch of chartreuse or silver. I know it sounds crazy, but if they can see it, they’ll bite it.” I mean, it’s almost like a hook with just a little fuzz on it.
“We have caught them here on 1/32-ounce jigs and like just three strands of hair on the jig in the hotter months when they get finicky. “If they aren’t hitting the regular-size jigs, you have to go smaller,” he said. That’s the pattern through most of the summer.”ĭeWolf said that the heat will occasionally start to stress the crappie, and they can be slow to bite, so he switches to smaller jigs and slower presentations. A lot of times, they will be on the bottom, but if not, they will be pretty close to the edge of that channel. “At Grand Bayou, they will move down that main channel toward the dam or one of the other deep channels. “We are getting to the time of year when the water temperature is in the high 70s, for the most part, and those bigger fish are going to go as deep as they can,” DeWolf said. The lake has the old bayou channel and several smaller creeks running off it, and those are good crappie neighborhoods to check out this time of year, especially on the spillway end of the lake. Kelly Grand Bayou Reservoir the 2,700-acre lake is outside of Coushatta, formed when the old Grand Bayou was impounded in 1996. Right now, Grand Bayou Lake is a “buyer’s market” - a good time to bait your hook and make an offer to some big crappie.
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