Texas Accommodations

Sportsman's Marina & Cafe (located just north of the 6-Mile bridge)
9848 Highway 87 South
Hemphill, Tx 75948
Ph (409) 579-3292
Boat launch, Tent camping, Restaurant, Rooms/cabins

Lowe's Creek Park & Marina
RR 4, Box 383
Hemphill, Tx 75948
Boat launch, Tent camping, Rooms/cabins

Fin & Feather Resort
255 Fin & Feather Drive
Hemphill, Tx 75948
Boat launch, Restaurant / meals, Rooms/cabins

Fausto's Fried Chicken
Highway 87 N & Fm-83, Hemphill, TX 75948

Fat Fred's Grocery, (great food) 480 Sabine St. Hemphill, TX

Fin & Feather is $75 per night/$450 a week & up from there plus not tent camping.

Sportsman's Marina si $28.50 per night but it is a small room with a bunk bed & bath room, they do have tent camping. It is only a 5 minute drive to Fin & Feather where you can launch for $5 or the 6-mile launch is 1 minute away.

Lowe's Creek Park & Marina does not have any cafe' so either you cook your own or drive to town for each meal.

Indian Mounds Camp Ground is near Lowe's Creek Park & Marina but is wilderness camping only

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Gonna have a lot of company FFD, The Texas Oilman's Tournament is next week.  Over 600 boats entered in that one (mine too  ) Been in Oklahoma, drilling and haven't had much of a chance since Jan to get out.  Next weekend's weather looks nice if it holds.

Some friends and I will be on the Bend Tue thru Fri and was wondering if anybody knows what La Nan and areas around it look like.  We like to fish the areas above 1215.  Probably will hit the Patroon area also.  Any help will be appreciated.  We only make this trip once a year so we would like to make the most of it. Bass are priority but will look for sacalait too.

We just got back.  could not believe how high and stained the water was.

We stayed at Shady Oaks lodge in cabin 1.  It is located on the LA side on the south side of La nana.  We had 3 boats with 2 anglers in each.  None of us have ever fished this area before, but armed with some of the info in this thread I had somewhat of a game plan.  It took a lot of taking to get them to get off the bank first.  We are bank beaters and i just could not change their thinking. We actually ended up splitting up towards the end.

Day 1 Weds
Wed morning we all fished in la nana.  I decided to fish  the north creeks of la nana because of the creek channels that ran through them almost all the way to the back and because of the distance of them from shallow flats.  On the map its just called Back of creeks..its has the 1215 bridge going over it and its a couple creeks before Beech bay.  I noticed on the map the big flat point in 12 feet of water in the front.  Made a couple drifts with the wind tossing spinners and traps.  Move to the back and began targeting secondary points.  pulled 3 non keepers on 1 point in about 9ft of water off of a creek bend on spinnerbait and trap.  After pulling a 4lber and another keeper of the next point it starting to look like we might have a pattern going. after the 3rd point and 2 more keepers 15" fish.  I was excited.  Other boats called and wanted to try another area.  They fished the creek over and had only a fish or 2 per boat.  So wanting to stay together we picked up and left for another spot for the afternoon fish.  I thought we would just apply this pattern to the next spot, but when we looked at the map to get a gameplan it was mud lake and not a creek so we could not hit the secondary points. 

Launched at mud lake and with a south west wind it was muddy and windy.  didn't stay long 30 minutes and decided to throw in the towel for the day.

totalled about 8 keepers and water temps were around 57-60

Day 2 Thursday
weather was strange.  Pressure was so low I thought the weather website was wrong.  I remember seeing 29.56 at one point.  Anyway we all left for carrice creek.  This was the area we fished the most previously.  Also had the best looking water.  We targeted the ditches running to the back the creeks.  Water temps were in the 60s' so we began moving closer to the shallow areas since we were not really hitting on anything.  Picked up a couple non keepers on spinnerbaits right near the launch.  Move back in carrice and lost a keeper after he took the spinnerbait home with him.  We did see a couple 3-4lb fish cruising the flats but not interested in anything.  We continued south out of carrice and hit a couple more creeks without much luck.  Mainly spinnerbaits, traps, flukes and the occasional jig on the outskirts of the buck brush. 

That afternoon we decided on patroon.  we all fished corsey creek and things started looking better.  We did best when we were in about 16-17 feet of water and had some cypress trees in about 6 feet of water out about 10 feet from the bank.  We actually got into flipping our spinnerbaits up against the tree letting it fall then reeling.  all other boats just beat the bank mostly with spinners

totalled about 10 keepers a 4.5lb, 3-13, and another 4 or so 3lbers. 

Day 3
More weird weather.  Too me it seemed like a high pressure.. blue bird, dry, wind changing, but the pressure was still very low. 
we all decided to fish in beech bay creek in la nana on the north side.  We took little beech creek and the other 2 boats went right. Had a few boats in there and we went further to the back.  We noticed buck brush everywhere, in the middle on the bank.  It was very different from what we were fishing before.  So we took the same approach.  Followed a creek bed into the bank and started working the buck brush with our flipping the spinnerbait technique.  It ended up being the best action to that point.  Had about 8 fish with 5 keepers and 2 were in the 4lb range.  All on flipping the spinnerbaits in the brush.  if you were not getting tangled you were not in enough.  Got together with other boats and they also had some good keepers from the other side but they were fishing over some hydrilla. 

We decided to go back to the creek a couple over from little beech and attempt the same pattern, but it was very slow.  I think we had 2 keepers and 5 fish.  Could not get the fish to bite on anything but spinnersbaits.  And we actually got these fish on the same point as day 1.  Other boats in party went to carrice creek again

This day we ended up with about 25 total fish with 12 keepers.  Biggest was 4.5lb mostly on spinnerbaits, couple on plastics. 

Day 4
same weather as the day before. 
We all went back to beech bay and tried to duplicate the day before.  It was very slow for us.  Lots of boats with some Tx anglers.  only boated 2 non keepers and other boats had 1 keeper each. 

They decided to hit carrice creek once more and we decided to stay in little beech creek hoping the warm water would get the bite going.  Temps were back in the 58-59 area in the morning.  The day before in the afternoon it was at 63.  Slowest of the entire trip.  was so tired of casting by none.  At 445 I said we are stopping at 5.  I decided to get as far into the back of the littlest coves and brush I picked up the ribbit.  After about the 5th cast I had a 4lber explode on it.  10 minutes later the same thing.  5pm came up and we pulled up to a tree to pack up and leave and I threw one more time right at the bank.  Another explosion, but lost him in the trees.  I was so excited I decided to end the trip on that note. 

AFter speaking with the other boats we probably had about 13 fish with 5-6 keepers with a 6.2 the biggest on a spinnerbait. 

Throughout the trip we had about 60-65 fish with about 37-38 keepers

it was fun but it was slow. 

sorry for so long.  the next couple weeks should be great.  I was at toledo tackle and someone was bringing in a 10.1x something for the lunker program.

Great report, bayouXpress.
You made me feel like I was in the boat fishing with you!!!!

HomeBrewerDude wrote on Mar 15^th, 2010 at 2:16pm:


190,000 acres I doubt it