colbyb24 Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 Visiting Toledo Bend last week in April. My first time fishing the lake! Will be fishing the far south part of the lake as we are staying at South Toledo Bend park. This forum has tons of great info. Any tips on where to fish down there? and maybe top 3 baits and colors to throw in that area late April. Thanks guys! Also if your ever in Austin, TX (where I am from) please visit austinbassfishingforum so I can offer some tips and return the favor! 1 Quote
Dougw Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 1st a question then a report. That stuff that looks like clover on the water - is that what's called "duck weed". Anyway - whatever it's called. Fish were crammed up under that stuff last Thursday. All quality fish between 3-5#'s. Bittin' a Netbaits trick stick(5") T'rigged with a 3/16"oz weight. They weren't bashful about hittin' it either! Also caught some quality fish on a lemon-lime 1/4oz. OneKnocker(xcaliber original). Didn't catch anything over 5#s and didn't leave Caney/pirates cove until Sunday. I caught good fish in the north bank coves and also in the back of Caney creek. Some of the fish were all the way back in these creeks/coves. Some were at the mouth of them. Some in the middle. That's the good news. The bad news... There were 14,632 boats on the water starting Friday - All fishing tournaments... all fishing... where I located fish on Thursday... Friday when the front went through all the boats in Caney creek hit the north bank coves. The one I wanted in never had less than 3 boats in it from before daylight until around 2:30. Saturday I spent about 20 minutes in it, with 2-3 other boats, and didn't get a bite - no big surprise. Sunday, after all the tournaments were done, I had a couple of hours in there by myself. But the damage had been done Friday/Saturday. I got three bites. The first one I thought I was hung up on some grass n' gave it a little pop to free'er up. Welp.... That fish didn't like that... I felt it move and bowed up on it but was too little too late. It was a good fish. Front to back I got two more bites but nothing like the first one. As I was coming out of that cove I picked up the 1/4oz one knocker n' give it a fling... Reeling it back in it felt "funny" I stopped crankin' but it didn't stop moving.... Broke out my handy dandy fishing manual. Looked up "stopped crankin' but line still moving" Discounted that it could be the current moving my bait. Got down to choice "B" that said "SET THE HOOK!!! So I did... and started crankin' again. Got that three pounder in the boat. That was in the morning. Early... then nothing... for a long time. Ended up running to 6 mile for no real good reason. Then headed to Housen to make sure the fish didn't set up house keeping on a few spots over there - They hadn't. Then came back to Caney. Wasn't anybody in the cove I caught the early fish in so I went there. Started on the right side going in.... Pitch, pop a few time, crank in and repeat - all the way to the back. Pitch around a tree w/limbs n' such... Felt it move... set the hook.... torpedo came rocketin' out tried to get under the boat then around the trollin' motor. Looked at the net and though "nah" boat flipped it. Went about 2 1/2#s. Got it in the boat and it came unbuttoned. Thinkin' nothing of it put I a cullin' bead on it, put it in the livewell and picked the bait up to re-rig it. Hook never penetrated the plastic. That fish sho'nuff wanted that bait. Or the free ride - not sure which. But that was the last fish of the day. Most of my damage was inflicted with a 5" Netbaits TrickStick. Green pumpkin' w/a tail dip in Chartreuse dye. The two spots came on a color called "Chartreuse laminate" it's chartreuse on the bottom half and watermellon on the top half. The front knocked 3-4 degrees out of the morning water temp and that hurt some but the sheer amount of traffic on the lake had the most negative impact last weekend. What I heard was: Oilman's tournament had over 700 boats. BASS Nation had 280. Then there were 5 other tournaments on Saturday including ours we had 15 boats. I know one of the other had 20 boats. Both Saturday and Sunday ABA winner had 12+ #'s. Saturday 12.75 - Sunday 12.32 or something like that - 5+#er took big fish honors each day. Saturday I had 3.38#s with 2 little spots. Sunday I had 5.19 with 2 bigger largemouth. Finished 7th out of 15 both days. The tournament, don't know who hosted it, that went out of BigBass Marina took 20#s to win. 4 Quote
A5BLASTER Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Dougw1515@aim.com said: 1st a question then a report. That stuff that looks like clover on the water - is that what's called "duck weed". Anyway - whatever it's called. Fish were crammed up under that stuff last Thursday. All quality fish between 3-5#'s. Bittin' a Netbaits trick stick(5") T'rigged with a 3/16"oz weight. They weren't bashful about hittin' it either! Also caught some quality fish on a lemon-lime 1/4oz. OneKnocker(xcaliber original). Didn't catch anything over 5#s and didn't leave Caney/pirates cove until Sunday. I caught good fish in the north bank coves and also in the back of Caney creek. Some of the fish were all the way back in these creeks/coves. Some were at the mouth of them. Some in the middle. That's the good news. The bad news... There were 14,632 boats on the water starting Friday - All fishing tournaments... all fishing... where I located fish on Thursday... Friday when the front went through all the boats in Caney creek hit the north bank coves. The one I wanted in never had less than 3 boats in it from before daylight until around 2:30. Saturday I spent about 20 minutes in it, with 2-3 other boats, and didn't get a bite - no big surprise. Sunday, after all the tournaments were done, I had a couple of hours in there by myself. But the damage had been done Friday/Saturday. I got three bites. The first one I thought I was hung up on some grass n' gave it a little pop to free'er up. Welp.... That fish didn't like that... I felt it move and bowed up on it but was too little too late. It was a good fish. Front to back I got two more bites but nothing like the first one. As I was coming out of that cove I picked up the 1/4oz one knocker n' give it a fling... Reeling it back in it felt "funny" I stopped crankin' but it didn't stop moving.... Broke out my handy dandy fishing manual. Looked up "stopped crankin' but line still moving" Discounted that it could be the current moving my bait. Got down to choice "B" that said "SET THE HOOK!!! So I did... and started crankin' again. Got that three pounder in the boat. That was in the morning. Early... then nothing... for a long time. Ended up running to 6 mile for no real good reason. Then headed to Housen to make sure the fish didn't set up house keeping on a few spots over there - They hadn't. Then came back to Caney. Wasn't anybody in the cove I caught the early fish in so I went there. Started on the right side going in.... Pitch, pop a few time, crank in and repeat - all the way to the back. Pitch around a tree w/limbs n' such... Felt it move... set the hook.... torpedo came rocketin' out tried to get under the boat then around the trollin' motor. Looked at the net and though "nah" boat flipped it. Went about 2 1/2#s. Got it in the boat and it came unbuttoned. Thinkin' nothing of it put I a cullin' bead on it, put it in the livewell and picked the bait up to re-rig it. Hook never penetrated the plastic. That fish sho'nuff wanted that bait. Or the free ride - not sure which. But that was the last fish of the day. Most of my damage was inflicted with a 5" Netbaits TrickStick. Green pumpkin' w/a tail dip in Chartreuse dye. The two spots came on a color called "Chartreuse laminate" it's chartreuse on the bottom half and watermellon on the top half. The front knocked 3-4 degrees out of the morning water temp and that hurt some but the sheer amount of traffic on the lake had the most negative impact last weekend. What I heard was: Oilman's tournament had over 700 boats. BASS Nation had 280. Then there were 5 other tournaments on Saturday including ours we had 15 boats. I know one of the other had 20 boats. Both Saturday and Sunday ABA winner had 12+ #'s. Saturday 12.75 - Sunday 12.32 or something like that - 5+#er took big fish honors each day. Saturday I had 3.38#s with 2 little spots. Sunday I had 5.19 with 2 bigger largemouth. Finished 7th out of 15 both days. The tournament, don't know who hosted it, that went out of BigBass Marina took 20#s to win. Solid report. Sounds like you seen what I have been seeing the last 3 weeks. A constant day light to dark boat parade throw every inch of bank on San Miguel. We normally have some good amount of fishing pressure up this way but it was off the charts this year. Most days I was sharing a cove with 4 to 6 boats. That and the weather change put a huge hurt on the spawn in my area. It's going to be a slow year next year I'm thinking. 3 Quote
Amateur Hour Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 I always thought duckweed was those little green specks that float on top of the water. Is what you are referring to a plant that grows from the bottom? Are you referring cabbage grass? 1 Quote
Dougw Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 Yup duckweed is as you described it and not what I saw. I've been to a couple of plant identification web sites and can't definitively say what it is. Could be water pennywort but that's just a guess. Between what I saw and what I remember that I saw well.... kinna hard identifying it. But... whatever it was/is.... fish were liking it last week! 2 Quote
Super User Catt Posted March 20, 2019 Author Super User Posted March 20, 2019 Well two days in & only 3 fish ? But one was tagged BassCashBash which I was registered in, it won me a 2019 Dodge Ram! 8 3 Quote
RCCA Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 That's awesome! I need to borrow one of them horse shoes you got! 2 Quote
ranger392xt Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Wow! I need to sign up. Of course I would need to actually have a bite... Congrats. 1 Quote
Super User Catt Posted March 20, 2019 Author Super User Posted March 20, 2019 What was weird it was only about a 12" fish! 2 Quote
A5BLASTER Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, Catt said: What was weird it was only about a 12" fish! Lol good thing greens jeans didn't check yall. Lol. You know how they can be lol. Congrats Catt. 2 Quote
Corkpuller Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Holy chit ! That is unbelievable man. Congratulations I am hoisting a frosty beverage in your honor right now Catt. ? What a man, lucky as a 2 peckered goat. I stick my my head in a barrel of titties and come out suckin my thumb. 2 3 Quote
Scot Ferguson Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 1st thing. Congrats Catt!!!! My daily report. Fished 1215 area. Landed 6 today........had a good 3 pounder come off right at boat. Had a BIG fish roll on my frog with not much line out.......bout took rod out of my hand! Got a poor hook set because of the craziness. It got off. The 6 I did land all came on frog.....or trick worm if they missed the frog. Water in 1215 looks lots better than San Patricio. Lots of grass too. I'll try again tommorow 3 Quote
Pierce LaFleur Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 went to toledo bend this past weekend, caught a decent amount of fish, all in less than 3 foot of water. I was surprised to have caught some pretty decent ones. I caught my PB (6lbs 11oz) on a zoom finesse worm wacky rigged. and my buddy caught a decent one that weighed 5lbs 7oz on a weightless fluke, and many 3lbers. overall a great weekend. I fished in housen fishing in the clearest water I could find. I am going to try to fish mill creek this weekend with my same fishing buddy, I've found a 14' hole surrounded by a 4' flat, hopefully they will be in there, if not im going to fish Yocum! 3 Quote
Dougw Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 When it’s your turn.... it’s your turn! Good deal Catt! 2 Quote
skeeterzx250 Posted March 21, 2019 Posted March 21, 2019 Anyone know what kinda grass this is 2 Quote
Global Moderator 12poundbass Posted March 21, 2019 Global Moderator Posted March 21, 2019 Congratulations @Catt that’s awesome! What is the minimum size for bass on Toledo Bend? Here in Michigan that 12” would be too small to keep. 1 Quote
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