Fishing Report For Lake Verret, LA

By Rick Seaman

March 16, 2025

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Fishing Report Lake Verret, LA

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Popular Fish Species Lake Verret, LA

White Crappie

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good

Crappie (sac-a-lait) fishing reports have been quite good lately at Lake Verret. Both black and white crappie reside in the lake, but the white crappie are the featured species. The lake is literally strewn with brush, trees, grass and vegetation, that crappie are virtually everywhere. Spring is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow coves to spawn. Docks, brush, wood and deep vegetation are a good place to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. These crappie move deeper in summer and winter, so locals report following points out to as deep as 30 to 35 feet, as well as ledges near channels at these depths. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal.

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good To Excellent

Considered one of the top bass lakes in the area, Lake Verret is delivering the goods as advertised. Locals report using a wide variety of lures to catch largemouth bass that are already moving up shallow in preparation for spawning. Many tournament anglers are pitching and flipping jigs, or throwing vibrating jigs and squarebill crankbaits with great success. The bass here are fat and healthy with 5-fish limits in tournaments often exceeding 20 pounds or more. During slow times, when the bass are finicky, a stick worm, rigged wacky style, often teases bass to strike.

Bluegill

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Bluegill and redear sunfish, also known as bream, are a primary food source for bass and catfish in Lake Verret. They are also a sport fish which are fun to catch, and they make excellent table fare. Local anglers report good size bluegill being caught with some frequency. An area that continues to produce fat bluegill is the west side of the lake from the Bayou Gannevait, north to about mid lake. Concentrate on fishing around the cypress trees. Small jigs are working well, as are pieces of nightcrawlers on a small hook, tied to light line.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill and redear sunfish at Lake Verret in Louisiana.

Lake Verret is a 14,500-acre lake with nearly 60 miles of shoreline. Largemouth bass, channel catfish, black and white crappie, bluegill and redear sunfish grace these waters, and are all being caught with relative ease. Due to great bass fishing, this home to a significant number of bass tournaments annually.

Primary fish species to catch

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".