I went fishing at Cedar Creek over the weekend. The water was extremely hot. Some parts showed 104 degrees on depth finder. I tried a combination of spinner baits, soft plastics, crank baits and jigs. I caught fish on all of those, but they were all dinks. Can anyone recommend anything to catch bigger fish?

Lures I used:

1/2 oz chrome blue rattle trap

bandit 200 series Tennessee shad

1/4 oz war eagle white spinner bait

3/8 oz terminator black spinner bait

5 in watermelon black flake senko "TX rigged weightless with 3/0 gammy g lock worm hook"

kvd 1/2 oz black and blue jig

TX rigged watermelon candy brush hogs "5/0 gammy ewg hook and 5/16 oz tungsten mega weight"

Bomber fat free shad,DD22's, Bandit series 700 and 10" or bigger worms. Oh and I am really liking my 10" Strike King Iguana's on a c rig.

CCR Fayettville Texas????   are you from Fayettville?

CC is great lake, learning it can wear on ya.

thanks bigtimfish.i bought a couple dd22's.wow them guys are big.whats the best # line to use.i have a new citica and an old bantam curado 200bsf.the citica is on a castaway 6'6" wrm rod(15# big game).the curado is on a castaway 6"10" carolina honey rig(20# big game).the dd22's are the biggest cranks  in my boy now.any tips on fishing these monsters?i've read alot of guys swap out the treble hooks.is this remomended?my local acadamey was limited on colors.they had 2 in the dd22 model.i got 1 of each - sexy shad and texas shad/chart belly.are these good colors?

Matt, i fished cedar creek for three days, middle of last week, are the docks the best pattern on the lake? i did pull a 3lb'er off hump in main lake, but only 1, i'm going back in about three weeks and wonder if the humps will produce in the fall? i caught the honey hole show that focused on ccr and they ended up going ALL the way back in clear creek to really get on 'em, and in august, just not what i'm used to, lol

I worked CC the past couple of years.   Not as much this year.

If you noticed, hardly any vegitation away from the shoreline.

  There is tons of brush piles that hold good fish in the summer.

Currently, wind is one of the best indicators on CC in locating active bass once past the morning bite.

  Has both types of shad, threadfin and Gizzard shad.    Most of the threadfin will be on the retaining walls early morning eating the growth off the walls.

Lake hasn't turned over yet for the year.   Thats something to watch for, it will change fishing for a week or so when it happens.

 Early mornings, unless visible clues present them selves, I'd  concentrate on top water early along the walls with some spot remover finesse jigs or anything scaled down.   Anything, minus -1, traps, spinnerbaits, topwaters, frogs along the walls is best producer early morning.      

    I have the big worm mentality if possible, this is one lake I found 10 inch worms seem to work late summer around the bridges, other than that, downsized worm seem to be the ticket.

    Anything green with dipped tail is majority opinion.    I have some favorites.

Last year, I found BR member in FortWorth who wanted to team up.

   We decided on the Hwy 31 Div.  Averages over 50 teams per 6 events.    

       By the way, we have had 8 guys who fished this same tour, Media Bass who have fished the BASS Elites.      

     We had to learn CC against the Jackpotters, we ended up in the top 10 in points, and qualified for the Championship against 8 states.

  We took sixth at the 2 day championships, was 18th day one.

Ask any questions, To me, this isn't your basic bass lake, it don't always conform to the norm as we see it.

LIke..........................

   I have always thought bass went deeper in the winter, but catching bass in 18 inches of water on 30 degree days and upper 40's water temps has happened more than enough to do it regularly in the winter..    

   Throwing anything bigger than 8 inches rarely gets a bite except late summer.

Its my opinion, that late summer, the bass start moving up from the deep 20 ft brush piles due to poor oxygen.  Lakes timber is old, no vegitation, thus nothing to replentish oxygen levels late summer when the lake is super heated and the normal no rain summers to help.

   Thats why I concentrate soley on the wind blown retaining walls built out of big rocks.    The waves crashing the rocks do two things, it knocks food loose and agitates new oxygen into the water.

IF you have any specifics, areas, just ask.   I'm 30 miles from the lake.    

      I have some great days on Fork the majority of the time.    I started going to CC because she kicked my but a few times and she intrigued me.    I like solving puzzles, specially when the results from others are known, so you know what she's capable of.

         I really put the time on her for the majority of a year, I fished cold days, wet day, any day I could to learn CC in 2007, for 2008.  

So, what area do you want to know about?

hookem

let me preface this with i'm fishing the bass champs this year and that ccr is the championship lake, oct 10th,,,my pardner and i had never been to the lake before last week, we'll be putting in at log cabin,,, i normally fish rayburn and toledo and this lake was COMPLETELY different than those, i've been told that it fishes a lot like livingston (which i have also not fished yet), i trying real hard to think along the lines of structure fishing, thinking a little deeper for better fish but not sure if this lake holds to these thoughts (sorry catt), most of the fish we caught while there came from flipping the docks, might have 12lbs last wed, didn't really go north past the iles, so i'm really thinking mid to south fipping docks but checking humps and back of clear creek during practice

We are talking about Fayette county reservoir, right?  The power plant lake just north and east of La grange?

This one:

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/recreational/lakes/fayette/

flechero, we're talking cedar creek, just 15 min west of athens,,,,matt, i hadn't considered wind blown banks, we stopped at the tackle shop and the man there told us buzzbaits along some bulkheads, of course there are a LOT of bulkheads,,lol..now, maybe that tells me which ones, i want to thank you for your opinions thus far, what would be the telltales of turnover?

BassChamps championship.    I see.    :-/   Better use the secret decoder rings we got in our cereal boxes.

 Pm to follow. : 8-)

 

i am really in trouble now, i didn't get a decoder ring in my box...lol

Sorry, the names get me... fayette county used to be called cedar creek as well... which is why it changed. ...lol

good history lesson,,,i didn't know that,,,lol,,,

Matt, the suspense is killing me,,,i have to ask,,did you send a pm?

that day, You didn't get it?

Hmm?????

Sent on the 10th.    

Matt Fly I'm headed to Fayette county lake in a few hours.Wish me luck.I'm loaded with the grape/white tail worms,and dd22's.They are calling for some rain so if its raining is there any technique I need to try?Your help is always greatly appreciated.Thanks for all the tips MATT FLY.

Sorry, I was working First Monday Trade Days in Canton.

  I like throwing a chartruess pepper 6-8" lizzard Tx rigged.   Always liked the discharge flats on the edge by the fast current.

   They still selling Waterdogs at the general store?   Big waterdogs was the ticket for toads, but it cost ya a fortune, cause the 4-5 like them dogs too!

    Good luck at the Championships.    

i've reread everything you've told me 5 times,,probably will 5 more,,lol..looks like weather will play a factor,,,thank you for the input,,i'll post the results after,,,,looking4structure, how did your weekend go?

Its was good Alwayslooking minus the rain.Got to the lake around 2 o'clock.Light drizzle in effect.Started fishing the grass in the opening of 3 fingers.Shad were flipping around the bank.I was using a weightless Fluke and my partner was using a Wedge plus spinner bait.Caught 12 fish in 30 minutes or so.The biggest was 3.4lbs.Man we were hammering them and then here comes the lightning.We high tailed it to the boat ramp and boy was there a line,maybe 12 boats or so.we turned on bilge and tied to the dock and set in the truck.The rain came down really hard and the lightning never stopped.Waited till dark and finally loaded the boat up and left.I'm going back the weekend of the 16-17th.Thinking about renting a screened cabin.I really love fishing this lake.I'm gonna have to try some Lizards and maybe even get some water dogs.All the fish we caught were in 1-3 feet of water.The lakes water level was really up since i have been there a month ago.Alot of the algae on the boat ramp was gone as well.

The fish in my avatar was caught  @ 3fingers in September on a Grape/White Culprit Ribbon tail worm.(great call Matt Fly)

Thats what this forum is for.

well,,,,had a rough time on ccr,,wind, rain, high water, open gates, etc,,,maybe the weather kept me from being focused,,,pulled 4 keepers in two days,,,man was it rough,,of course, i would do it all again..lol,,,,Matt Fly, i still want to thank you for the effort you put forth,,sorry i couldn't do the info more justice

Was it muddy?

some of the guys said north end was really muddy,,,down on south end, didn't seem muddy to me, friends of ours caught their fish with spinners along "plain" banks, on sun,,,didn't have a dock bite, no bites at the dam neither,,although, some people said they were catching some on shallow cranks,,,some limits were said to be caught by small worms,,but didn't say docks, or shallow or what,,seems the back of the clear and caney didn't get hit to hard, but, really, hard to tell