B.A. Steinhagen
FAIR. Water stain; 75 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms.
Conroe
GREAT. Water stained; 82 degrees; 0.02 feet below pool. CCatfish are on fire! Catfish can easily be caught on spawning grounds. Bass have been good on points and structure as well as bream beds. Crappie are fair on brush from 10-25 feet. Report by Bradley Doyle, Bradley’s Guide Service. Hy-brids and white bass are on flats and drop-offs in 14-26 feet of water using live large goldfish or minnows, slabs, spoons, and crankbaits. I have been removing one of the treble hooks to make it easier when action is good. Check the tooth patch to distinguish the difference between the two species. Juvenile hybrids are prominent. Always wear your life jacket! Report by Mike Cason, Fishical Therapy.
Livingston
GOOD. normal stain; 76 degrees; 0.39 feet above pool. White bass are great in 6-15 feet of water on wind blown points and ledges with white and chartreuse slabs. Catfish are in 1-4 feet of water on bulkheads with best action at daylight. Report by Michael Richardson, Lake Livingston Adventures.
Nacogdoches
GOOD. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.13 feet below pool. Largemouth bass are excellent on swim jigs and shallow diving crankbaits. Crappie are excellent on standing timber and small brush leading from feeder creeks. Catfish are fair on cut bait. Report by Cal Cameron, Cal’s ETX Guide Service.
Sam Rayburn
GOOD. Water stained; 77 degrees; 0.45 feet above pool. The lake got almost to pool and heavy rain this week has caused it to rise again. Numbers of bass are shallow in the buckbrush, so flip plastics and jigs. Top water bite around pencil grass and reeds. Grass and pads are coming back slowly. Tar-get bass on points and drains with crankbaits, or with jigs and Carolina rigs off ledges and structure.
Crappie are slowly move out to brush and timber. White bass are schooling off points. Catfish move out to deeper water and creek channels cut bait doing good. Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service.
Toledo Bend
SLOW. Water stained; 81 degrees; 0.61 feet below pool. Bass are good with the best bite in shallow water with topwaters, swim jigs and frogs. The midrange bite been good with crankbaits and Texas rigs in 12-18 feet. The storms and high winds have limited fishable areas on the main lake, but the weather forecast should improve this next week.
Crappie fishing is fair in shallow brush piles and standing timber all with live bait is the best. Some lighted docks reported good catches this past week at night. The bream are starting to bed in 2-3 feet of water in flooded grass and bushes, but with higher water, lots of them are hard to get to. Best baits for bream are crickets. Report by Stephen Johnston, Johnston Fishing.
Tyler
GOOD. Water normal stain; 75 degrees; 0.83 feet above pool. The lake is receiving lots of rain. Crappie are good on brush piles with minnows and jigs in 10-16 feet of water. Catfish are fair in 5-6 feet of water with stink bait and nightcrawlers. Bass are fair on trick worms, spinnerbaits and top-waters. Bream are good on red worms throughout the lake. Report by The Boulders at Lake Tyler. Bass are in a full post spawn, targeting fry balls for aggressive strikes is producing well right now. The suspending fish and offshore bite has not picked up enough to leave the current top water and weightless plastics bite in the 1-8 feet range. Schooling crappie are good in 12-20 feet of water on brush. Individual large crappie are still able to be caught under boat houses if you can reach them. Catfish are great shallow on nightcrawlers and prepared bait. Report by Holton Walker, Holton Walker Fishing.
