Clinton john

Not sure on the totals for today. But the lake is up 4 inches since this morning.

Caught my first one of the season today off the bank infront of my house in about 2 foot if water. Lil 8 are maybe 9 inch fatty but it was still nice to catch one.

I live here so I have close too 3000 pics of San Miguel and the 1215 area from when the lake was very low a few years ago. I just pull out my pic stash and can see what the bottom looks like in areas I want to know where the ditches and finger creeks run.

This is how I look at it. I love to handload for my rifles and the single most important thing to understand, is that all rifles are diffrent and you got to listen to the rifle and let it tell you what it wants. Bass fishing is no diffrent, you can hit the water and have this great plan of where,when and how but if your not listening to what the fish are telling you about what,when and how they want it. Your just going to get frustrated. And then start making excuses why your not catching. I heard someone say once. Sometimes you got to forget what you think you know, turn off the tech and just drop the tolling motor and fish.

Me too. I think I burned out the weedeater last spawn lmao.

That's why the boat is still parked under the car port. I'm ready to fish but it's still a bit chilly, for me too go tryem in the raising water levels. Once it stabilizes it's on like donkey kong.

Works finished, lake is rising. It's up to mother nature to get it back to pool level now.

I don't think so. I live on San Miguel. Hasn't been much of any grass in several years. The bass just adapt to holding on brush,laydowns,stumps to hide and ambush prey. Have to remember bass follow the prey, take a wind blown bank for example. If it has grass the bass will be staged along the grass edges ambushing prey that's blown into it. Take away the grass, they still have to hide to ambush prey and the wind is still going to blow prey onto that bank. So they hide on what's there, stumps,laydowns, buckbrush even just useing the shape of the bottom to lay in wait and rush up from deeper water to ambush prey being blown up to the shallow bank. Like I said San Miguel has very lil grass over the last several years, but my catch rate goes up every year. I just try to keep thinking outside the box and adapt to what the fish are doing. It may look like I'm beating the bank but you can bet 100% I'm doing something totally diffrent then what the next 100 guys are doing. Like others have said, the bass are still there, they are still feeding and mating, they just changed habits and adapted. We as anglers have to do the same.

That's true but then again most people don't even know bassreasource exists. And the types of guts I'm talking about don't troll places like this because they know weekend warriors and people on vacation will post it to facebook. I personally know 5 guys that fish the local tourny's. That troll facebook just looking for intel.

While tech correct the spray in a round about way does kill the other grass. What happens is when they spray it, it dies and then sinks and then the dead salvinia smothers out the grass it settled on. Watched with my own eye's from my dock, we use to have a long thick hydrilla patch that ran from our dock out too bout 12 foot of water. The white perch would come up and spawn in it. They sprayed the salvinia and it died and smothered the hydrilla under it. Now the white perch still come up to spawn but they have changed over too holding on the brush and laydowns on the bottom.

That makes good sense too me. Except I live here and the lake still has grass. And the fact that my catch rate has gone up year after year doesn't fit are line up with your theory. And Catt is spot on about most anglers not understanding they have to change tactics. 9 out of 10 boats I see still only beat the banks. Bass don't need grass, true they like it and true their prey species do to. Bit let's look at the shad in the big pond. they can do just fine with wood and buck brush. In fact I have seen shad spawn on dock pilings more then anything else. And the big pond has a very healthy shad population as well as sun perch and crawfish. I live here so I get to see it year round. Would I like to see more grass in the lake? Sure would. Do I think the lake has to have grass to be a healthy fishery? Nope not at all.

It's one of the worse places to post fishing info. I mean sure if you want guys to bum rush the areas your talking about and have to deal with all the rude want to be pro anglers that lurk on the Facebook page just looking for free intel, then I quess that's ok. I don't see a problem sharing it here because let's face it, the guys on here are a better class of angler, compared too the vast majority on Toledo bend fishing reports. From my own personal experience with guys from that place. If you tell them, you will end up with a snob fishing the fish you found and have to deal with all the mess that comes with that. For some reason that facebook page just seems to draw out the worst people. That's why I don't post fishing reports to it anymore.

I just hope it doesn't end up on Toledo bend fishing reports on Facebook again this year.

More like mid to late spawn. Bass are already trying and doing their thing. Soon as the water temp hits 50 to 52 degrees, they start.

Good catch forgot about the rain gear.

Anything and everything. Bring warm weather clothes. Bring freezing weather clothes. Bring every rod reel combo you have and bring every bit of tackle and lure you have. Depending on the pool level, you could be fishing in 20 plus foot looking at the bank about 100 yards away, knowing it use to be 10 foot deep there. Are you could be sitting in 3 foot of water slinging baits into brushtops under trees that have 3 foot of water behind them. In short bring everything you got and think outside the box.

It has a few drawbacks but the most part it's very nice to walk across the yard jump in my boat and go fishing.

Ohh I wouldn't know. I don't go that far south. I live on Sam Miguel. So Sam Miguel and the 1215/blue lake area is what I fish the most.

No blue lake is out of service at this level. Can't remember the exact depth but it's in the 169 range before it's useable by the bigger bass boats. 167 to 168 you probably could get a small aluminium flat off and on the trailer there. Only 3 places to put a boat in that I no of at this level. North Toledo bend park Barbie camp grounds ramp at the lananna bridge And on the other side of the lananna bridge there is a dirt ramp that is useable right now as well.

Catt is spot on as usual. But the thing is March is a very long ways away. Where is that 10 foot to bank depth going to be? If we don't get anymore heavy rains, it will be bout where it's at now and that will put you 20 to 100 yards from the normal back. If we get enough good rain soon, it could be we will have water in the buck brush for the main spawning runs. And that's what we really need. For what it's worth. I like late January to late February the most for catching pre spawn and spawning fish. Way less pressure on them at that time.

So where is them reports? I know somebody must be catching them with this high water we got lol.

Same thing I did last year, sleep lmao.

We good over here in Z town. Super high winds and some heavy rain last night. But everything is still standing and the coffee is hot. Lake came up bout 2 inches over night.

Well didn't hit the water today. Looks like the boat will stay parked till next week sometime. Looks like a masoon will be hitting here starting tommorw evening.

Didn't go. Got caught up on some much needed work around the house. Going to try and go out tommorw.