shaneus Posted March 23, 2015 Author Posted March 23, 2015 river: 31.223681,-94.313079 mouth of ditch: 31.229979,-94.304904 31.231593,-94.301760 31.231669,-94.298167 mouth of creek/intersection: 31.212877,-94.294645 end of creek: 31.253219,-94.300879 flats: 31.234613,-94.295545 31.236457,-94.301048 31.238426,-94.308645 points: 31.223505,-94.290948 31.222512,-94.341025 ridge: 31.228870,-94.283613 31.136981,-94.214332 31.112143,-94.208762 Quote
shaneus Posted March 23, 2015 Author Posted March 23, 2015 heres the coordinates to look on google earth, web app doesnt do coordinates anymore for some reason, or i havent figured it out yet Quote
fishcaller Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 How's the water looking ? Is anybody seeing fish on beds? Quote
roblo Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 What do y'all think this little cool snap we have gotten today, how will it effect the fishing? I know it's not a massive front, but the barometric pressure changing, just curious how it will effect things Thanks Rob Quote
Tonto Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 Fixing to get up there tomorrow afternoon and fish tomorrow Saturday and Sunday. Weather looks fantastic the next few days. Quote
kking Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Any reports? Heading there Tuesday. Last I heard it was almost six foot high. Quote
roblo Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 The lake is a little over five ft high. Which makes the area they spawned in last yr, about 6-8 ft of water now. And getting to the "shallow" water now, is tough, at least the area I usually fish. Water temp varies, main lake 58 Back part of creeks 60-62 I have noticed that around 64 or better, is the magic number, to get them into a better spawn. That's just me though, could be wrong. The few fish I caught, still had eggs Maybe this next full moon will get them going a little better. It was tough fishing for me, bluebird skies after that little front on last thur. Fished fri an sat, only caught a few. Caught one on a ribbit frog an the others on a jig Good luck Quote
roblo Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I did hear they was catching them with a tex-rig lizard Didn't work for me, same as the brush hogs, I tried them both. May have just been in the wrong spot?? Quote
Tonto Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 roblo pretty much had it right for us as well. Being up 5.2 feet over the weekend, all the spots we wanted to seek out were significantly deeper water due to the lake being up so high, and that made it a lot tougher to get into the shallow stuff in certain areas. That being said, we did ok and caught a few small fish in some grass up near needmore point, and then down south in some coves there seemed to be a decent amount of fish back beyond trees if you could get your boat back in there. Spent a hell of a lot more time fighting the wind on Sunday than we wanted. Ours were caught on some Watermelon Senko's, and another soft plastic as well. The fish are there, but it just wasn't as good of a weekend as we were hoping. Now I may not be able to get back up to Rayburn until the 18th of April. Really hate to miss the next 2 weekends. The water temps are perfect for some great fishing. Now that the lake level is settling in, as long as there's no big rain, it should be good fishing. Good news about the rain is that being up 5.3 feet in March bodes really well for the summer, in case we have a dry spring. If you can get shallow, get SHALLOW. That seemed to be where most of the action was across the lake based off what we heard. Quote
TxGator Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 The boys fished the high school tournament saturday. We caught 30 or 35 fish, 20 of which came from a small area in 12' of water. Of those 20, only 4 were keepers and barely legal at that. But having 4 in the box by 8:30 was nice. Moved to another area and began picking up a couple of better ones but they were scattered and hugging real tight to cover in 7' or so. They got their 5th fish, and I had to release a 3.5-4# since I had caught it. (I threw up in a hole they had already fished.) Water temps were 62-65 through out the day, water clarity was pretty stained. I think all our fish came off worms and brush hogs. G 1 Quote
Bass_Fanatic Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I'll be on Rayburn for the BCB owners this Thursday and Friday. Haven't been out there in awhile. I know the water is way up, I'd appreciate any help anybody can offer as I won't get to prefish at all. Going blind and hoping to get lucky! Quote
bullet20 Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 I went last fri. To get away from toledo lobi,went out of Harvey and north,not much was happening.Water dirty and high.2 small bites all day. I'd stay south, heard water was better. Quote
roblo Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 I was fishing out of Harvey, last weekend also. Maybe try south as Bullet20 said Good luck Bass_Fanatic Let me know how things went Will be after Easter weekend before I get back over there Take care Quote
Bass_Fanatic Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Well, just got back from the basscat owners invitational. Didn't do so well. Had 3 fish for 10lbs on day one with a 7.02lb big fish. Got a good check for big bass day one. Figured I needed 25lbs+ to have a chance of coming back to win on day 2 so I stayed 15-32ft deep all day and only managed 1 fish. The fish have spawned out already, but apparently haven't made the move deep just yet. The water is super high and most fish caught in the tournament was caught in the flooded pine trees. Seemed like the bigger fish were a little deeper (still shallow IMO) from about 6-8ft. Quote
kking Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 Fishing was tough for sure during the basscat tournament. I caught a lot of small fish shallow. Found a few beds but they weren't locked on them. Great time though. I can't wait to actually see it a normal level to learn it some more. Caught most of mine on flukes and spinnerbaits. Good luck to anyone going. I didn't look at a gauge but I think it may have been starting to fall a little. Lot of fish caught fishing parallel to the bank line in 7-10 foot of water. Quote
roblo Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 Thanks for the reports, seems like when the weekends rolls around, the weather throws us a curve ball. Small fronts, rain or bluebird skies! That's part of it I suppose. Quote
TheRichInc Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Fished a club tournament Saturday. Came in first with 15.68lbs. Caught fish all day long. Look for haygrass and Shad and Bingo. Don't really matter what you throw as long as it looks like a shad. Example (here is a list of baits I caught more then one fish on Saturday.) Magnum Yellow Magic, Willow leaf spinnerbait, Colorado blade spinnerbait, floating rapala, suspending rapala, 3.8" Swimbait, 1/2oz swimjig, 1/2oz jig, series 5 Stike king crankbait.....all in shad color or a variation thereof. Caught probably 40-50 fish all day. Lots of keepers in the 2-3 pound range. Lost one about 6lbs at boat that would have put me closer to 20lbs. Good luck Quote
shaneus Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 flipping black/blue plastics looks to be good around the black forrest right now..... http://www.flwfishing.com/news/2015-04-12-top-10-baits-from-sam-rayburn http://www.flwfishing.com/news/2015-04-13-top-10-patterns-from-sam-rayburn Quote
shaneus Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 these pros give away all the little things like this..... http://images.flwfishing.com/images/00/01/52/000152633_original_1024x1024.jpg Quote
Bass_Fanatic Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 That's the first time I've seen a beaver rigged like that. Looks like beavers dominated Rayburn Quote
fishcaller Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Can somebody tell me where easly flats are I've looked on map and haven't found it Quote
shaneus Posted April 14, 2015 Author Posted April 14, 2015 Look on the branch furthest east. Easley flats are almost as north east on the lake as you can go, there is an old road running through the flat, Quote
shaneus Posted April 14, 2015 Author Posted April 14, 2015 And devils Ford creek empties into it..... devils Ford creek is where 96 crosses Sam rayburn Quote
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