Jeffrey D. Abney's Comments

YEP YOU ARE LUCKY and look forward to seeing some more of your pics to Jeffrey. Thanks for all your previous comments on my bugs. When you like what you do it's not work at all >

la ke perris ca 2010 I'll get you a pic as soon as i can  looking foward to spring hae lots picks of monster gills I'll down load to pc as soon as possible nice to see so many gillers

Yeah shocked the heck outta me, I was just wanderin down the bank with my Fly Rod and I looked down and noticed that there were beds down there! After that I started noticing that all the Bream I caught were in their spawning colors. We have had a really short winter down here, it's already climbing into the low 80's during the day! I'll try and get some pics for you.

   so far weather wise OK  ----- but can use some rain 

      2 years ago I  went fishing out that way in Bayou Lacombe ----- caught a lot of big bream / goggle-eye and small bass on the fly rod.

Hey Jeff,

Yeah, I found it and it looks like a great site! I will be sure to check it often. I try to hit a boat ramp when I pass it to put business cards on trucks, yours is not safe either! They are starting to catch speckles at Indiantown Creek!!! Stop in any time!

   Yeap know where all that's at.  Have a brother-in-law that lives in Covington.  Goggle-eye is my favorite bream ---- especially catching them with a flyrod.  I live in Lutcher about mid-way between Baton Rouge and New Orleans on the east bank of the Mississippi River.

   My  prime bream fishing place is the northern part of Lake Verett water tributaries and bayous and a close 2nd is the spillway.   Blind river and its tributaries is closer for me but the bream are a little smaller (just the right size for frying whole) but the seenry more than make up for it.         About  20 years ago I had a sailboat ( J 28 ) at Marina Del Ray in Madisonville, LA.   Gave up sailing  ---- switched to bream fishing  and crabbing.  Other hobbies --- like woodworking and gardening.   

Well, think I'll skip fishing today, with this wind there's no way! The bait would be more like a kite...

Man, I'm dying to go fishing. I may take my son out to Merchants and wet a hook just to see what happens.

Thanks for the direction to the thread. I would love to catch a bluegill anywhere close to that size.

ive seen some good stringers from the savanah river. i'm seriously considering a clarks hill trip in early may this year...ive heard stories of the most beds ever seen in one spot...that excites me! happy holidays to you and yours as well.

ok Jeffrey, i got a little info on agusta yesterday from my friend. he spent all his spare time there on clarks hill lake chasing trophy shellcrackers. he said it was outstanding. he mainly fishes small rivers and farm ponds like me so for him to spend that much time on such a large body of water it must be fairly speacial. i did a little research myself and found out clarks hill is considered one of the top shellcracker fisheries in the state, possibly the country. i might hafta make the 2 hour drive to see for myself this spring!

thank for the welcome bud. my best friend spent some time in agusta recently. im sure he found the fish. i'll see what kind of info i can find on the area

any where near bushy park?  I've hauled some monster bream out of there.

Hi Jeff, Great to be friends!  I retired from Norfolk Naval (NEPD)  in Jan. 2009. Maybe we can get together for a fishing trip someday.