Fishing Frenzy on Little River and Flagon Creek

By Sgt. Marcus Constance

The annual draw down of Catahoula Lake leaves low water levels in Little River and Flagon Creek, which creates a fishing frenzy. Every year this annual event brings in fishermen from all over central Louisiana. With the abundant population of fish limited to such a small area, it is almost like fishing in a stocked swimming pool and this usually leads to those attempting to take over the legal limit.

July, 2003 was a very hot and humid month, but it didn’t stop the fishermen from coming out for the draw down. They came and the fishing was also extremely hot. We checked a lot of limits of black bass and crappie. We were even fortunate to catch a few who attempted to come out with over the limit. One Grant resident was nabbed with 18 black bass, eight over the limit of ten. Two residents of Rapides Parish attempted to slip through with 29 black bass and 14 black bass. A LaSalle Parish resident decided that using wire nets would yield a larger catch, but he didn’t know he would be the big catch. The LaSalle man was caught with 176 undersized catfish, eight crappie, and three bream. He said that he had a lot of family and friends to feed. Agents who participated in the cases were Sgt. Marcus Constance and Sr. Agent Kevin Hill.