Any Pointers On Fishing Lake Livingston?

[wambalance`]

I have fished Lake Livingston for a number of years but not that often. I have never really been able to figure out the lake and where to fish. The Trinity River feeds in to the northern part of the lake and is very muddy making the lake muddy as well. A couple years back, we did really well on the white bass using red painted little george's. No matter how much I try to use different baits, my dad always puts on the ole roadrunner and catches more fish than anyone. We tried 2 weekends ago. He caught 4 (2 white bass, 1 catfish, and 1 baby largemouth about the size of his palm LOL) using that thing. I caught 2 white bass (one on a spinner bait, and one on a little george). The temperature outside was 56-68 degrees. I tried fishing a fluke for a couple of hours, but took it the fish weren't seeing it because of the muddy water (3" visibility). He got 2 before I even got mine in the water and we thought we were going to slay them (this was all up in the Trinity River). I wouldn't consider 6 fish between 2 people slaying anything haha.

 

I was wondering if anyone has some tips for Lake Livingston, or suggestions on good locations. Most of the banks on the main lake are lined with bulkhead. We are going again this weekend and plan on trying the dam and also over by some of the islands. Note: every time we ask the locals where or how to catch some good fish out there, they always tell us to go trolling, and I really don't consider that fishing or a good time. They are clearly trolling me lol.

 

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I hope to post some success pictures after the weekend.

 

Thanks!

Sam

[wambalance`]

So there are not any weekend success photos. Just a bad fishing weekend. We ran into a guide that said he had been limiting out on dropping slabs down on top of humps around 30-40'. He said that the Lake is about a month behind as far as the fishing goes. Everything is happening a little later this season due to the colder winter. We located humps where he suggested and saw tons of fish suspended on the fish finder, but could entice the fish enough to even get a strike. It's a different kind of fishing than I am used to. Maybe next time?

[fishingtx]

If you want to catch lots of catfish, wait until shad spawn and early in the morning, from about 6:15 to 11:00 fish bulkheads and rip rap with shad that you have cast netted. If you are lucky when the catfish start slowing down and you are on a main lake point white bass will start schooling close by so have a line in for catfish and a slab on for white bass.