JMW

Made our annual trip to the bend this past weekend, had a great trip fishing was great and the weather cooperated nicely. There was 6 of us that fished Thursday evening thru Saturday, we had a total of 60 that we kept with a mix of large mouth and Kentucky the largest probably around 4lbs. We stayed in negret and fished mostly in Lanan.

I have enjoyed reading this thread. Like I said before I do not get to toledo bend but once a year, but had hoped to change that this year and may still get back up there in the fall. I have no reason to think that the guys that post on here regularly, would have a reason to mislead anyone. I really do appreciate what has been shared on here and I enjoy reading about everybody's trips. I do believe that the lake still has a very healthy population of fish, one just has to go and learn the lake. So thank you to Catt, A5blaster and the others that have been so willing to try and teach others how to fish the lake.

I hate wearing shoes...

That's some nice fish. That helix 7 looks awesome as well.

Had a great trip this weekend, we stayed in negret and fished mostly in that area. The weather was great and we caught around 80 fish total, biggest was 5.14. Caught most of them on trick worms, baby brush hogs and Carolina rig. There were a lot of people on the lake, everyone I seen was very polite. I wanted to thank everyone on here for the advice that was given, learned some more about the lake and how to fish it. I hope to go back at least once more this year.

I will be there Thursday morning, I can't wait. The weather looks like it will cooperate. Hopefully can catch some fish this time.

They are on a top water bite already?

Is that a ribbit?

What is the water temp around mid lake?

I will be there next thursday morning. I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck and safe travels. Hope the fish are biting.

That makes perfect sense, although I never thought about it affecting the lake that way. I would think with the rain water coming in that would keep the water temps down, and with the water level rising will this affect the spawn?

Looking at the hook n line map I see a boat lane named james gaines, is this a marked boat lane?

We will be staying in the negret area, i am looking for areas that i can trailer to because, my boat isn't big enough to run the lake unless it is calm.

Thank you Catt.