Chicot Lake is a reservoir in Evangeline County, Louisiana.
Stocking records show that the following fish or strains were stocked here. A historical stocking does not by itself prove that a self-sustaining population remains today.
Chicot Lake is a 1,642-acre Evangeline Parish lake with a long history of active bass and vegetation management. Largemouth bass, crappie, blue and channel catfish, bluegill, redear, warmouth, gar, bowfin, buffalo, carp, drum, and shad are part of the fishery.
Published figures put Chicot at about 1,642 acres, a maximum depth near 16 feet, and 13,200 acre-feet of storage. In gallons, that storage is about 4.3 billion.
LDWF has experimented with bass regulations here for decades and has repeatedly managed nuisance vegetation. Hydrilla, giant salvinia, common salvinia, water hyacinth, lotus, and other plants have all required attention at different times.
When hydrilla or other submerged plants are healthy, fish the edges, holes, and points with spinnerbaits, vibrating jigs, swim jigs, frogs, and Texas-rigged plastics. When vegetation is sparse, shift toward wood, docks, shoreline breaks, and any remaining hard cover.
Crappie can be caught with small jigs and minnows around brush, wood, and deeper channel-related water outside the spawn. Channel and blue catfish respond to fresh cut bait, worms, and prepared bait, while flatheads are better suited to live bait around heavier cover.
Check the current vegetation situation before you pick a pattern. If grass is thick, spend more time on edges and openings. If a drawdown or treatment has reduced vegetation, look harder at wood and depth changes. Bass and crappie are the obvious sport-fish targets, but catfish give you a good fallback when the casting bite is slow.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.