Red River Summer Bite: Bass, Crappie & Catfish at Shreveport - Early and Late Light Rules

About this episode

The episode provides a detailed fishing report for the Red River in Shreveport, focusing on bass, crappie, and catfish activity during the summer.

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Red River, Shreveport fishing report. No tides to worry about on this stretch of the Red – she’s a river, running a little stained to muddy with that typical early-summer level: enough flow to keep a little current on the edges, but not pushing so hard you can’t fish the main channel. Water temps are running in the low to mid‑80s, with visibility around a foot, maybe two in the backwaters. Weather today is classic north Louisiana summer pattern: warm and humid, light south wind, and a chance of pop‑up thunderstorms this afternoon. Sunrise is right around six in the morning, sunset near eight‑thirty in the evening, so you’ve got long low‑light windows. That first hour after sun‑up and the last hour before dark are your best bets for a real flurry of action. Bass activity has been decent early and late, slow in the middle of the day. Folks fishing the Shreveport–Bossier pool and the cuts around the I‑220 bridge and down toward Stoner have been reporting small numbers but solid quality: a handful of 2–3 pound largemouth with the occasional 4‑plus mixed in. Numbers aren’t crazy, but if you grind, you can put together 8–12 bites in a…

People in this episode

Host: Name’s Artificial Lure

Topics covered

• fishing report
• bass fishing
• crappie fishing
• catfish fishing
• weather conditions
• Red River

Keywords

• Red River
• Shreveport fishing
• bass
• crappie
• catfish
• fishing report
• summer fishing
• water temperature
• fishing tips

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Artificial Lure

Places: Red River, Shreveport, north Louisiana, I-220, downtown, Stoner

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