Fishing Reports
209 Fishing Reports
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Blade Baits
Structure
Docks
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
85°
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 7'-12'
Structure
Pilings
Water Temperature
78°
Burning cranks down to submerged bridge at Caney Creek and speeding up and slowing down. Striking depth was around 8-10 near the top of the bridge. Biting window was from around 8:30 to 10:30 AM. Caught six or seven total, biggest was 3 1/2. Came back later that day and caught a 2 1/2 first cast.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 7'-12'
Structure
Rip Rap
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
77°
Threw everything in the tackle box and they still would only bite a crankbait. Quite a few undersized and only one keeper. Lost a really good one on a drop shot that definitely would’ve helped. Caught two small ones cranking the dam and got the keeper on the rocks on main lake by the boat ramp. All were sitting up pretty shallow. 6-9ft crankbaits. Wouldn’t let me select it for some reason. Googan recon kosmo Shad
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Laydowns
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
77°
Hit both river and rip rap on the lake today. 6 Sense Whale swimbait tore it up. 4 inch in white and electric shiner. Greenbacks were swallowing them. We also threw swank 66, hybrid hunters, crush 50. Best bite was in the river around wood. Work them lay downs and stumps.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Reeds
2nd cast swimming it slow across the bottom
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Stumps
Water Temperature
81°
Water clarity is low, 1-3ft. Found bass hiding around submerged stumps.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
87°
Fishing was tough but managed to catch them up against the reeds tossing a tackle HD hi-def Louisiana red soft plastic crawfish. I would also rip a Bill Louis Rat-L-Trap Rayburn red through 7-8’ of submerged vegetation making sure to rip it through some grass was the key. The bass were spitting up bright red crawfish so they are going to town on the red craws, I caught 9 bass by doing these techniques. 🥵 🥵 🥵
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Open Water/Basin
Forage
Shad
She followed a jig at the surface made a small wake then threw the Texas rig and she bit
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
53°
Fishing the river on the north end. Grass is thinning with low night time temps and water clarity is improving. Fish slow early close to the bank Texas rigged stick baits in black and blue have been hot. When the sun is overhead still having success with Hybrid Hunter over submerged grass and wood. Keep a square bill handy with the grass thinning and bounce them off submerged stumps. Some monster fish still hanging around the wood.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Shakey Heads
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
62°
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Reeds
Such a great trip. They were short striking the mini max and i ended up putting the 3" zako on the jackhammer and it worked great! I put a video on youtube on this trip if you want to see how i fished it. https://youtu.be/2c4Nobkd3l0?si=qXMMeejOsLZjMJwX
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 13'+
Structure
Boulders
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
68°
First of all the lake is muddy from our past storm. Water temp was 68.4. Shallow fishing was a bust for me. Water visibility was poor. A lot of schmuck while trying to skip shallow docks. I fished deeper docks with cranks and skipped a senco. Not a lot of fish caught but it was a nice peaceful day out on the water. I used a Irod Quercus wild card deep Crankin rod paired with a revo winch and Berkley big game green 12#. While skipping I used a Irod Genesis III IRG714C-H paired with a revo zeta using 50# power pro braid. I pegged a 3/16 oz sinker with a 5” green pumpkin senco. All my bites were in deeper water on rock piles or skipping deeper docks.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 13'+
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
62°
Bass have been slow but the big bite has still been on deeper rock piles and boulders throwing deep cranks. Bass were tucked more into the rocks this week following the cold front that brought water temps down 8 degrees from a week ago.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 13'+
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
69°
Bass were chasing shad around the lake. Best chances to catch size were on deeper rock piles around 15-20’. Caught an 8.24 for my biggest while crashing the 6xd into the rocks swimming with the wind deep to shallow.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Boulders
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
69°
I fished the lake from 10/25/23 through 10/29/23 for the Team Trail Outdoors TX Championship tournament. It was basically cold and rainy all week, with 4 out of the 5 days being below 65 degrees and raining all day long from sunrise to sunset. The water temperature on the lake ranged from 67-72 degrees fahrenheit and the water clarity on the lake ranged from 2 feet of visibility to about 7 feet of visibility. During the three official practice days prior to the cold front, we caught several good fish, including 3 in the 7-8 pound range, on spooks, drop shots, and glide baits. However, when the cold front rolled in during the tournament, that bite went away and the only way we could get bit was throwing a wacky rigged senko weightless on banks with big boulders in the many different marinas on the lake in anywhere from 2-10 feet of water, and working them as painfully slow as we could. On day 1 of the tournament, we had a limit that went 10.43 pounds with a 4 pound kicker (pictured with the report) which had us sitting in 37th out of 106 teams. However, on day 2 with the massive cold front the bite slowed way down and we only managed to catch 2 keepers for 2.85 pounds, bringing our two day total weight to 13.28 pounds on 7 keepers, which got us 41st place out of 106 teams in the event. The cold front that came in really made the fishing tough, as there were only 4 bags over 15 pounds brought in on day 2 of the tournament. The front dropped the air temps about 25 degrees overnight between day 1 and day 2 of the event and dropped the water temps a few degrees as well, and brought heavier cold rain and strong north winds with it as well. One key adjustment we made on day 2 that helped us get our bites was to add a little bit of weight to our wacky rigs instead of going weightless, either by using a nail weight or by using a weighted wacky jighead. It was definitely a grind of a tournament and not exactly the way we wanted it to go but we were super grateful to be out there fishing the championship and to have a decent limit on the first day of the event! Thank you everyone for reading my reports and tight lines!
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Docks
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
73°
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Soft Jerkbaits
Structure
Baitfish
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
80°
Two flukes was the technique today. Two owner switch lock hooks, one ball bearing swivel. I place my second lures a 1” from the tail of the first fluke.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
70°
Fish were hanging shallow in the rocks and ledges flipping white jigs into the rocks were the ticket.