The Concordia Parish Police Jury will have a special meeting Tuesday to discuss problems at Lake Concordia.

As many of you know, a meeting took place last week to allow residents and concerned citizens to ask the lake committee questions.

That did not go too well. At one point a very red-faced committee member stood up in front of everyone, looked right at me and told me I was a liar and all I write are lies.

Needless to say jaws dropped.

An elderly Concordia Lake resident, Mr. Smith, said it best.

“There is no reason in this world why full grown adults can’t approach and correct this problem like adults should,” Smith said.

The same committee member said as far as he could tell from watching the lake from his pier I had not been on the lake since 2006!

Again, jaws dropped.

Just a quick calculation, including testing boats we serviced as well as fishing year-round, I can safely say I have been on Lake Concordia at least 150 times since 2006.

Then the committee member went on to say he didn’t care about the fish in that lake or us fishing the lake so why should we care if he rode up and down the lake in his pontoon?

That puzzled me.

People riding around on pontoon and ski boats are what lakes are for. I have never objected to that at all. A huge percent of my business comes from pontoon and ski boat repair and keeping the rigs maintained.

That was just strange.

Well that’s enough about who said what, and there’s no use throwing rocks back so it is best to look forward and not backward.

The Department of Environmental Quality and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will be on-hand to ask questions Tuesday night and hopefully we can move forward and correct this problem and have a nice lake to fish in the next 3 or 4 years.

Please make plans to attend this meeting. It will be at the police jury room on the second floor of the courthouse in Vidalia at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

I check the weir on Lake Concordia every two days. The outflow began to really slow down this past Wednesday.

The water is so horribly low there is not water depth left around the weir.

Now let’s just go fishing

The best reports on the big slab white perch were coming from Larto Lake this past week.

I heard numbers of 40 to 60 slabs in a day of fishing.

Most anglers said the fish didn’t have eggs so I would think the white perch on Larto Lake are pulling back off-shore a bit, so check the many man-made brush piles in 8 to 15 feet of water.

The perch tend to suspend over the top of the structure. If you can’t get bit, just fish about 8 feet down over a bottom of 12 to 15 feet around the brush piles.

I was also told you could pick off a few remaining bank runners (fish that stayed shallow after the spawn) by fishing visible shallow cover.

That’s what’s going on down at Cocodrie Bayou right now.

From Kemp’s Landing to the bridge you can catch a limit of slab perch by fishing the brush piles and mainly the tree tops.

Just start shallow on a lay-down and work your way out to the deep end of the fallen tree to establish a pattern.

Next week on May 7 we’ll be on Okhissa Lake directing the third annual Okhissa Lake Big Bass Challenge.

The Homochitto Heritage Club of Franklin County hosts this event annually and Eddie’s Marine of Vidalia conducts the weigh-in and awards.

So come join us next Saturday.

The lake is in great shape and I look for some big bass at the scales. Good luck to all!