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Good Luck & come fishing with us,
Mark & Barbara Stevenson and A R Sachtleben
903/765-3120
903/765-3619
email:
stevensn@peoplescom.net
sachtl@peoplescom.net
The fall spurt of grass is growing and the bass are starting to move along the edges, but more importantly the shad are really running up and down the grass beds.
Lots of schooling bass in open water and on some days they can even be caught! It's really shaping up to be a good fall. The water is only seven (7) inches below normal, so there's lots of water in the back of the creeks, where a lot of active topwater fish will be before long.
Barbara had two (2) really good days this week on Carolina rigs around the grass. Her group had 6 over the slot with 2 over 8 pounds.
The lake level is holding up well. The grass is in fairly good shape for the heat, surface temps can sometimes run as high as 92 degrees or more in the daytime.
Best baits - Day Early & Late topwater action on Pop-R's. Fish are schooling early & late.
Best baits - Night
Black spinner baits.
5/16oz Jigs w/Pork Trailer
10" Power worm
Bends of the creeks are producing good night catches. No giants, but we have been happy with the numbers.
Right now the lake is brim full. Fish are coming out of shallow water (hard to believe) on top waters, Texas rigged worms and light Carolina rigged lizards.
Best baits:
1. Watermelon & Pumpkin lizards
2. 7" & 10" Blue fleck Power Worms
3. Zara spooks, poppers ( chugger ) and sluggo type baits
There are some good spots deep and they are producing best in the afternoon. Deep points with brush and bends in the creeks are the best structure.
There are still more catchable fish shallow, but the deep water will really kick in pretty soon. Night fishing is really starting to hit it's stride with July & August being 2 of our best months.
We are catching most of our fish off of the grass
edges with:
1. 10" Power Worms.
2. 1/2 oz. black spinner baits w/ a single Colorado blade
just ticking the grass
tops.
3. 1/4 to 5/16 oz. jig with a Bo-Hawg frog. This
bait seems to work best when
the fish have gotten tight on cover just outside the grass edges.
In the last 2 weeks Barbara has kicked A. R & my tails with big fish. One of her customers caught an 11.1 and she caught a 10.08 both out of 4 feet of water. We've all caught a lot of 5-7 pound fish. It seems about every 4th day the fishing gets tough, then kicks back in.
Good Luck & come fishing with us,
Mark & Barbara Stevenson and A R Sachtleben
903/765-3120
903/765-3619
email:
stevensn@peoplescom.net
sachtl@peoplescom.net
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