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I fished Friday and saturday, first time back in awhile. I started my day in Back of Negreet. It was chocalate milk. Picked up a few in about 6" of water along the creeks. Traveled to Slaughter with not 1 bite, Water was clear here. Left and went to Palo Gauco. The water was chocalate in the back we caught a few in the back and trolled towards the clear water. I couldn't catch a fish in the clear water. Ended back in the button woods in the negreet that evening. We ended up with around 10 keepers. Caught a ton smaller fish around 13". All our fish was on 3 baits Baby brush hog, Spinner bait and Chatter bait (biggest Producer). My step dad hung one about 8lbs (guess), She jump up and spit it after about 5 seconds. It was on a flat about 1' deep (i thought). Saturday morning i went back and found out it was a 8' creek channel running through there. I'm guessing she was staging. All the fish were very close to cover. Most was in the flooded bushes. Saturday I only fished about 2 hrs. Only caught six and not 1 of them was over 14". Don't really understand the water clarity thing. I would have thought cleaner water would have been the ticket but i couldn't buy a bite in clean water. Anyway i'll be up there sunday to stay for a week. Sure hope this colder weather don't throw a loop in my plans.

Lowe's Creek is horrible!!! Housen is where its at yall stay south and north nothing to see midlake!!! From me anyway lol I can't get off work long enough to fish.

Don't feel bad i'm in the same boat in this area my camp is right by cypress bend. Fall and winter has kicked my butt around there. I normally give up and go fish my white perch holes. I'm taking advise on this board but i haven't really had the time to put it to work. Now my son is playing little dribblers basketball and it's every saturday till the end of February so don't look like i will get to spend some time till March. One day I'll figure it out if not i'll have fun trying.

Merry Christmas everyone...... @Catt I try to think of the fishing like i do deer hunting. Deer only move for 2 reasons Food/water or Pressure. I would think the same would apply to fish except temperature comes into play. If a fish could find what he needs in 30' of water closer to his home area i would see no reason to go any further. Now I went out Thurs and Friday last week and pretty well got skunked Thursday. We fished hard and couldn't make them bite. I could see the shad balls all over. They had moved into the creeks 30'+. I couldn't find any that had active fish on my graphs though. All my before spots in the 20'-25' range was not producing. I ended up going and hitting my brush-piles with live shiners and caught some white perch. We actually caught 2 bass on these brush piles on Friday. When i see the shad in the creeks like this how would y'all approach these. In other words how would this affect your game plan. I am assuming the cooling temperature caused the shad to find deeper areas because the week before they was getting hammered in about 25ft and was suspended. Now they are glued to the bottom in the deepest creek in the area.

That is negreet

I believe I will. Lets say i normally fish the area on this with a star. ( random place). When bass retreat for summer and winter patterns. How far will they actually retreat to. As in if a bass is that far in the finger will they retreat to the first arrow or will they retreat all the way out to the larger creek (second arrow) or all the way out to the main lake creeks?

Man this is a gold mine of information. I started reading from the beginning but only made it to about page 50. If i go any further i might get fired, lol. I will work on reading the rest. I have a camp i bought last year around cypress bend. I mainly fish slaughter, bogey, and lowes. I have been fishing this area for some time but always during spawn. I have to say summer, fall and winter patterns are whipping my butt. I'm getting better but this thread really helped me. Thanks to all that has posted here.