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Hey all. Any help on these park ponds? Im new to the area. Tried El Dorado in Long Beach amd was skunked. Any bass fishing advice would be great.

Basic Info Body of Water: Neighborhood pond (about 5-10 acres) (Del Webb) Richmond, Texas Date: 4/8/18 Time: 5:00-7:30pm Air Temp: Mid 50s Water temp: unknown Sky: Overcast, misting Caught: 1 largemouth (about 1 lb) Notes: So Texas decided to try and ruin fishing yesterday by slamming us with a cold front in the middle of the spawn. When I should've been able to catch fish on topwater, I was forced to resort to alternative methods. Me and my buddy aren't the guys to cancel because of weather, so we decided to test our skills. After what seemed like forever, I finally connected with a healthy 1 pounder on a Blakemore Randy's Swim'n Runner underspin. The pond had a very distinct grass line, and when the underspin reached he edge, it got smoked (about 1 ft and half of water). I missed another fish of similar size in the same way (poor hookset). I've never been so proud to catch a small fish but under these conditions, anything is good. I also managed to get two bites on a jig but failed to connect. Hope this report helps someone out!

Howdy guys and gals! With the Classic coming to my home state and my girlfriends home town again, I have some useful tips for anyone who will be in Anderson/Clemson area this coming week. I recently fished Lake Hartwell last weekend with my girlfriends father for just about the entire day roughly 10 hours. Just thought I would throw in some helpful information and reward those prudent enough to read this post. First off if you dont have any, get a few cranks in Pro Blue. They were nailing Herring colored baits all day. I started with Chrome/Blue Arashi 1/2 oz Vibe(Rat-l-trap) to locate fish, best luck when ripping it through grass near a good current off a bank. They are sitting around 20 ft deep in the mornings until about 10am. Then slowly rising up to around 2-7ft deep as the day goes on. At that time I started using an Arashi 5 silent on some flats up past Clemsux(GO *****) and got a lot of hits. Though I would recommend slowing it down and kinda popping it in bursts once they hit it as I am sure with how cold it is I was reeling too fast. My best technique is hands down soft jerkbaits. Listen carefully, White Pearl Zoom Super fluke with a RED THIN WIRE 4/0. I saw the buggers chase the sucker to the boat with my weighted flutter hook enough to tick me off and change the hook as initially it was too difficult to let the fluke sink to depth with how fast my gfs old man was trolling. Then past 2pm or so, slow and deep pulls on a bass colored Chug Bug in quiet wooded coves caught some nice bass nothing over 3lbs where I was but if I controlled the boat I am sure that I would have produced bigger farther back in some coves. Overall SLOW IT DOWN, if you get a hit stay there for a bit and use slow erratic movements. If you get a hit with a calm cove nearby, check out the 5-10ft depth in the cove. STAY IN THE SUN. Small openings in treelines or cooking flats are where they will be early morning as it will heat up better and as a result the baitfish will pass through. I would test deep problue/Chrome blue/foxy shad(water clarity/sun) hard jerkbaits, a C-rig and various spooning techniques during the practice day(s) as I forgot to do that since I was already getting hits, but I am betting that a deep spoon would probably do better, and the Crig allows you to put a fluke or ribbontail into the strike zone faster and longer. Anyway, best of luck and I hope this helps the few who might skim across this before the tourney. Best regards, Will

I will be going up to lake noquebay in WI a very small lake and I can not find any updated fishing reports on the lake . has anyone been up that way to tell me what species is present?

Hi everyone, Just started fishing at a new lake called Lake Chabot in the Oakland area and was wondering what you guys have had success on in that lake specifically or if you have any tips when fishing a new lake. It is a relatively large lake with deepish water in certain areas. Stocked with trout but has bass and catfish as well. Thanks for the help!

Hey guys Im headed up from South Alabama to Logan-Martin this weekend (3/21-22) for a club tournament. Any reports, tips, help would be greatly appreciated!

Fished some backwater in pool 5 today. Fishing was a little slow but managed several small males and 2 females 4lb+ and 2.5lb. Both Females had spawned out. Noticed lots of fry. Definitely moving past the spawn. I heard a guy crappie fishing say they weren't liking his minnows so they must have been slow today too. We did catch one nice crappie. All where caught on chartreuse, gold willow leaf spinner bait and a craw colored shallow crank around wood cover. Slow but always good to be on the river. All fish released to be caught another day. Conditions were low 70's and WINDY. Water was getting muddy. Flow at a touch over 40,000cfs. Never turned on the DF so can't say exactly what the water temp was. I figure mid 60's.

Well, off to good start on Santee Cooper so far in 2013. We have had a relatively mild winter and there was/is plenty of grass in the lake like hydrilla, eel grass, primrose, floating heart, and hyacintha. Here is a nice one here in Jan and plenty more to come. Lake is down about 3 feet now, so be careful #1 with running boat, but also look for shallow (2-8 feet) of water with structure (grass or wood or both) near deep water access like 10-15 feet. Best patterns right now are using hard cranking style baits like vibrating baits and squarebill cranks in shad patterns. Also, jig and craw and plastics can be good. Some docks are producing with the old wood pillars being pretty exposed with low water conditions. Should have a great Spring 2013 of bass fishing on Lakes Marion and Moultrie. Hope you can come join in on the fun! Capt Chris

Tuesday, June 05, 2012 Went fishing today with my buddy Eric and his little boy. I got skunked! We both did actually, the only thing brought in today were a few small Bluegill. I set up my dedicated el-cheapo Walmart special carp rig with homemade ball bait with a boillie in the center on a hair rig. For those of you who don't know carp you just throw that sucker out and set it down and wait. I add bells so that I can walk the bank with my Ugly Stik hunting Bass. I tried what seems like everything and nothing was working. I used a wacky rigged Senko (wacky rigged with black rubberbands I use for my goatee), Texas rigged Senko's, Zoom trick worms, finesse worms, grubs, I tried a tiny floating long lure and a spinning bait that got no hits. The fishing was horrible today but the weather was perfect for a waterside cookout.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has fished at Rocky Fork Lake in Ohio? I am going to be fishing there in late march and have never fishing there before. If you have fishing there i had a couple of questions... What worked best? Where did you go on the lake? What time of year did you fish there? How did you do? What was the weather like? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks