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Shreveport Red River Report: Bass, Crappie, and Cats Bite on Shad Patterns, Power Generation Currents
This is Artificial Lure with your Red River Shreveport report.
Red River’s running low and fairly clear in the Shreveport pool, with a light north breeze and crisp morning temps. National Weather Service Shreveport calls for cool, dry high pressure today, light winds under 10 mph, and good visibility — classic early‑winter river weather. That north wind has the current and bait pushed tight to the main river breaks and mouth of the oxbows.
According to FishingReminder’s solunar tables for north Louisiana, the big major feed is right around mid‑morning, with another good window late this evening. Sunrise is right about 7 o’clock with sunset a little after 5, so your best shot is first light through late morning, then again that last hour of daylight.
Being inland, we don’t have a tide swing like the marsh, but the “bite tide” is the power‑generation current and any bump from rain upstream. The river level has been steady, so fish are locked into winter places: outside bends, barge tie‑offs, rock, and the deeper ends of the oxbows.
Recent reports from local tournament boys and the Red River, Shreveport Fishing Report podcast say the largemouth bite has been good on shad patterns, especially out of Stoner Boat Launch and up around Bishop Point oxbow. Anglers are averaging 10–15 bass a trip with a few 3–5‑pound keepers mixed in when they hit the right stretch of rock or wood. A handful of white bass and drum are coming on the same baits.
Best lures right now:
- For bass: medium‑diving shad crankbaits in sexy shad or chartreuse/blue, 3/8 to 1/2‑oz lipless cranks yo‑yoed off the drops, and compact jigs with a small trailer pitched to laydowns. A white or shad‑colored spinnerbait slow‑rolled around wood is still money when the wind hits the bank.
- For crappie: 1/16‑oz tube jigs or hair jigs in black/chartreuse or monkey milk, fished 10–14 feet down on the barge pilings and brush in the oxbows.
- For catfish: cut shad or chicken liver on Carolina rigs in the outside bends, 20–30 feet, doing best.
Live bait: If you want numbers, bring live shiners for bass and crappie and tight‑line them around bridge pilings and brush. Nightcrawlers and cut shad are working for eater‑size blues and channels.
Couple local hot spots:
- Stoner Boat Launch area: work downriver along the riprap and barge tie‑offs. Bass are stacking on the first decent drop and any wood on rock.
- Bishop Point oxbow: hit the outside bend timber and the deeper middle ditch; crappie are suspended, bass are on the channel swings.
Fish slow and deliberate; water temps are down and they’re not chasing far. Let that crankbait dig, pause your lipless, and soak those jigs in the strike zone.
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