Weekly Fishing Report from TPWD for the Week of March 26, 2025
Sam Rayburn
SLOW. Water stained; 69 degrees; 0.16 feet above pool. Water temperature is in the high 60s and low 70s in the pockets. Bass are on beds in some pockets. Bass can be caught flipping into brush and trees with rattle traps. Crappie are moving shallow to set up on beds. Catfish are in 6-15 feet of water in creek bends and on structures. A few white bass are roaming the points and brush. Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service.
Toledo Bend
SLOW. Water stained; 63 degrees; 1.78 feet below pool. Bass are good with many fish in 1-8 feet of water on lizards, brush hogs, Texas rigs, Carolina rigs, senkos and wacky worms. Bass are good with frogs in the flooded bushes. Crappie bite is improving daily in 3-6 feet on jigs. Report by Stephen Johnston, Johnston Fishing.
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Sabine Lake
GOOD. 67 degrees. Extreme low tides and high winds have determined the fishable areas. Sabine Channel rock piles Sheepshead, drum limits, and redfish are good in the Sabine Channel fishing shrimp on a popping cork over rock piles, and Carolina rigged live shrimp in deeper water. Limits of drum, sheepshead and drum at the jetties with the best bite on liveshrimp with a split shot free lined. Look for surfacing bait for catches of redfish just off the bottom with that split shot. North Levy wall boasts good catches of speckled trout with live shrimp under a popping cork or Carolina rigged. There is an early morning topwater or crankbait bite. Sabine Lake points and drops producing good trout and redfish. Fortunately, nice speckled trout and nice flounder have moved from the gulf to the Sabine Channel. Rainy cold front forecast over the weekend so the bite should be better at the top of the week. Despite the influx of freshwater the salinity is good. Report by Captain Randy Foreman, Captain Randy’s Guide Service Sabine Lake.
Bolivar
GOOD. 70 degrees. This is the season of wild winds and weather changes with some beautiful days sprinkled in for great fishing. Check the daily forecast. The tides and water levels are alternating between two and four tide days this week that should produce some high fishing activity. Fishing is good to excellent with water temperatures warming to the upper 60s to lower 70s. Water levels are back and forth per usual for the spring extremes. Redfish can be caught everywhere. Nice speckled trout are mixed in with the sand trout, black drum, sheepshead and crabs along the jetty. The flounder are sporadic. More small stingrays and sharks are starting to show up but need to get warmer before the real action begins. The surf is producing lots of redfish, huge black drum, occasional speckled trout and a lot of small bonnethead sharks, spinner sharks, and sand sharks along the peninsula with more activity towards Gilchrist and High Island. Check your weather app for barometer changes. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp.
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