beauxnarreaux

in the spirit of the amazing level of detail folks on this thread are willing to share: we struggled mightily on Lowes Creek (Mill Creek) on Friday with only one 17-3/4" fish on a white spinnerbait and lost another good one at the boat on wacky rigged Tiki Stik watermelon red with chartruese dyed tail. A friend had 16.1# on the exact same wacky rigged Tiki Stik but in the Indian Mounds coves. Saturday several of us fished the same Indian Mounds coves skipping the wacky rigged Tiki Stiks up to the trunks of the cypress trees and caught better numbers. Friday, trying to locate fish that may have pulled out I went to Housen which I've never been to before, and scanned some ridge edges next to creek channel swings directly out from what I think was Fin and Feather. I did not see a single fish on three ridge ends. There was small grass line at 14-15 ft deep which seems like it would've made a perfect staging area for fish moving up or down, but no other structure down there and no fish. Anyone know where I'm talking about and any thoughts on why there may not have been fish there?

Is the lake level at 172' and are the creeks clear or muddy and do you expect the current conditions to remain through Saturday?

Looking over the lowrance here in the garage I notice something interesting. There is a railroad track that crosses in what appears to be about 8-12' of water near the mouth of Lowes Creek. Is that a good place to find bedding fish or are they going to move further back into the creek?

One of the north creeks in Lowes Creek (longest one it looks like) appears to have a "hole" about 20' deep about 2/3 of the way back. Would you expect more fish to spawn in that adjacent area because it offers close proximity to deeper water?

I'm going to TB the third weekend in March. I don't know any area well but have been around several areas a little. I plan on staying at Big Bass Marina and am thinking I'll try the Lowe's Creek area since its close, as long as I can cross the lake. Is there any buck brush back in there and what areas should I look at? A couple of years ago I went into one of the first little coves on its north side where there are a good bit of camps and found a few fish but they were small and best I recall it was a fairly shallow finger/canal that appeared to get fished pretty hard.