Gonna be meeting up with my Dad at some point in the next couple weeks to get my motor back. Vicksburg is right around the half way point for us. We were hoping to find somewhere to ride around. Found a couple small lakes near the river, but looked like small fishing lakes. Didn't want to go put in on some small area and piss off a bunch of locals. Wondering if anyone was from that area or had any suggestions on where to go ride around at. Little bit east or west of there is fine, but preferably somewhere not too far off of 20.

your kind of limiited around that area. u can travel an hr south of vicksburg to the natchez area and theres a few places to ride around there.

about an hour west on I-20 is where im at, a few places here, Darbonne bayou has some shallow stuff hardly any grass or lilies. its the only place close that i go to play.

and theres bayou bartholemew (not spelled right) about 20 miles up hwy 165 off I-20 here in west monroe, wasup there "froggin" the other night and saw lots of grass, didnt find any mud there.

just a few ideas for ya!

darbonne lake is down about foot right now, there may be some good mud and lillies up the lake where the cypress trees start growing in the water. I would stay away from the creek below the spillway right now, all the erosion has a bunch of fallen trees hanging out into the creek and we tore our outboard clean off the transom down there a few weeks ago.

Thanks guys. Thats kinda what I was looking for. That would be an hour shorter for me and an hour longer for my dad, but we'll see.

its a little bit out of the way but i just saw on the news they are draining turkey creek lake if you wanna ride there

Where is that?

turkey creek is south of winnsborro.

Dont waste your time with Bartholomew.

there's no mud, it's pretty, decent fishing, but there are better places to take a mud motor. Check out the Upper Ouachita wildlife area, but that depends on water levels, Darbonne is scenic but probably no mud. Shadow said bistineau is low it's on I-20.

Hey man let me know when you are planning on ridin darbonne I don't live far from there and if I'm off I can maybe go ridin with y'all. Just a warnin there isn't much mud but it is like a mine field with stumps

Like to try to avoid the stumps. LOL. We'll see enough of those bastards during duck season. Both our motors have brand new lower units.

Mud and veggies are fine but not a must. We are both just getting our motors back outta the shops and this will be the first time running them with new parts. Gonna try to get the carbs dialed in. And we have a few props to play with. Trying to see which one is gonna be the best for each boat.

Good info guys.