river: 

31.223681,-94.313079

 

mouth of ditch: 

31.229979,-94.304904

31.231593,-94.301760

31.231669,-94.298167

 

mouth of creek/intersection:

31.212877,-94.294645

 

end of creek:

31.253219,-94.300879

 

flats:

31.234613,-94.295545

31.236457,-94.301048

31.238426,-94.308645

points:

31.223505,-94.290948

31.222512,-94.341025

 

ridge:

31.228870,-94.283613

31.136981,-94.214332

31.112143,-94.208762

heres the coordinates to look on google earth, web app doesnt do coordinates anymore for some reason, or i havent figured it out yet

How's the water looking ? Is anybody seeing fish on beds?

What do y'all think this little cool snap we have gotten today, how will it effect the fishing?

I know it's not a massive front, but the barometric pressure changing, just curious how it will effect things

Thanks

Rob

Fixing to get up there tomorrow afternoon and fish tomorrow Saturday and Sunday. Weather looks fantastic the next few days.

Any reports? Heading there Tuesday. Last I heard it was almost six foot high.

The lake is a little over five ft high.

Which makes the area they spawned in last yr, about 6-8 ft of water now. And getting to the "shallow" water now, is tough, at least the area I usually fish.

Water temp varies, main lake 58

Back part of creeks 60-62

I have noticed that around 64 or better, is the magic number, to get them into a better spawn.

That's just me though, could be wrong.

The few fish I caught, still had eggs

Maybe this next full moon will get them going a little better.

It was tough fishing for me, bluebird skies after that little front on last thur.

Fished fri an sat, only caught a few.

Caught one on a ribbit frog an the others on a jig

Good luck

I did hear they was catching them with a tex-rig lizard

Didn't work for me, same as the brush hogs, I tried them both. May have just been in the wrong spot??

roblo pretty much had it right for us as well.

 

Being up 5.2 feet over the weekend, all the spots we wanted to seek out were significantly deeper water due to the lake being up so high, and that made it a lot tougher to get into the shallow stuff in certain areas.

 

That being said, we did ok and caught a few small fish in some grass up near needmore point, and then down south in some coves there seemed to be a decent amount of fish back beyond trees if you could get your boat back in there. Spent a hell of a lot more time fighting the wind on Sunday than we wanted. Ours were caught on some Watermelon Senko's, and another soft plastic as well.

 

The fish are there, but it just wasn't as good of a weekend as we were hoping. Now I may not be able to get back up to Rayburn until the 18th of April. Really hate to miss the next 2 weekends. The water temps are perfect for some great fishing. Now that the lake level is settling in, as long as there's no big rain, it should be good fishing.

 

Good news about the rain is that being up 5.3 feet in March bodes really well for the summer, in case we have a dry spring.

 

If you can get shallow, get SHALLOW. That seemed to be where most of the action was across the lake based off what we heard.

The boys fished the high school tournament saturday. We caught 30 or 35 fish, 20 of which came from a small area in 12' of water. Of those 20, only 4 were keepers and barely legal at that. But having 4 in the box by 8:30 was nice. Moved to another area and began picking up a couple of better ones but they were scattered and hugging real tight to cover in 7' or so. They got their 5th fish, and I had to release a 3.5-4# since I had caught it. (I threw up in a hole they had already fished.) Water temps were 62-65 through out the day, water clarity was pretty stained. I think all our fish came off worms and brush hogs.

 

G

I'll be on Rayburn for the BCB owners this Thursday and Friday. Haven't been out there in awhile. I know the water is way up, I'd appreciate any help anybody can offer as I won't get to prefish at all. Going blind and hoping to get lucky!

I went last fri. To get away from toledo lobi,went out of Harvey and north,not much was happening.Water dirty and high.2 small bites all day.

I'd stay south, heard water was better.

I was fishing out of Harvey, last weekend also.

Maybe try south as Bullet20 said

Good luck Bass_Fanatic

Let me know how things went

Will be after Easter weekend before I get back over there

Take care

Well, just got back from the basscat owners invitational. Didn't do so well. Had 3 fish for 10lbs on day one with a 7.02lb big fish. Got a good check for big bass day one. Figured I needed 25lbs+ to have a chance of coming back to win on day 2 so I stayed 15-32ft deep all day and only managed 1 fish. The fish have spawned out already, but apparently haven't made the move deep just yet. The water is super high and most fish caught in the tournament was caught in the flooded pine trees. Seemed like the bigger fish were a little deeper (still shallow IMO) from about 6-8ft.

Fishing was tough for sure during the basscat tournament. I caught a lot of small fish shallow. Found a few beds but they weren't locked on them. Great time though. I can't wait to actually see it a normal level to learn it some more. Caught most of mine on flukes and spinnerbaits. Good luck to anyone going. I didn't look at a gauge but I think it may have been starting to fall a little. Lot of fish caught fishing parallel to the bank line in 7-10 foot of water.

Thanks for the reports, seems like when the weekends rolls around, the weather throws us a curve ball. Small fronts, rain or bluebird skies!

That's part of it I suppose.

Anybody been fishing Big Sam??

Fished a club tournament Saturday. Came in first with 15.68lbs. Caught fish all day long. Look for haygrass and Shad and Bingo. Don't really matter what you throw as long as it looks like a shad. Example (here is a list of baits I caught more then one fish on Saturday.) Magnum Yellow Magic, Willow leaf spinnerbait, Colorado blade spinnerbait, floating rapala, suspending rapala, 3.8" Swimbait, 1/2oz swimjig, 1/2oz jig, series 5 Stike king crankbait.....all in shad color or a variation thereof. Caught probably 40-50 fish all day. Lots of keepers in the 2-3 pound range. Lost one about 6lbs at boat that would have put me closer to 20lbs. Good luck

flipping black/blue plastics looks to be good around the black forrest right now.....

 

http://www.flwfishing.com/news/2015-04-12-top-10-baits-from-sam-rayburn

 

http://www.flwfishing.com/news/2015-04-13-top-10-patterns-from-sam-rayburn

these pros give away all the little things like this.....

 

http://images.flwfishing.com/images/00/01/52/000152633_original_1024x1024.jpg

That's the first time I've seen a beaver rigged like that. Looks like beavers dominated Rayburn

Can somebody tell me where easly flats are I've looked on map and haven't found it

Look on the branch furthest east. Easley flats are almost as north east on the lake as you can go, there is an old road running through the flat,

And devils Ford creek empties into it..... devils Ford creek is where 96 crosses Sam rayburn

Thanks shaneus I'll check it out