Weekly Fishing Report Week of May 21, 2025
Sam Rayburn
GOOD. Water stained; 77 degrees; 1.18 feet above pool. Fish are slowly moving out to summer patterns. Bass are good flipping brush and trees with high water. Pencil grass and hay grass are good with topwater frogs and poppers. Spinnerbaits and crankbaits are good on the points, humps and structure. Carolina rigs and jigs are good on the ledges and creek channels. Crappie are moving out slowly to the brush piles. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait in creek channels and ledges. Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service. As we enjoy a weekend of fishing we salute and honor our Nation’s heroes this Memorial Day. Anticipate increased recreational boater traffic this weekend.
Toledo Bend
SLOW. Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.13 feet above pool. Shallow bass bite is good with frogs, topwaters and swimbaits around the flooded bushes and hay grass. Bass are showing up in 12-18 feet on Texas and Carolina rigged big worms, with a few coming on crankbaits. This has been slow fishing at best. Crappie are fair in 10-16 feet of water on standing timber or brush. High winds kept angels off the main lake ridges. Most of all the crappie are out of creeks and off the grass. Report by Stephen Johnston, Johnston Fishing. As we enjoy a weekend of fishing we salute and honor our Nation’s heroes this Memorial Day. Anticipate increased recreational boater traffic this weekend.
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Sabine Lake
FAIR. 78 degrees. Before sunrise limits of slot speckled trout, with slot redfish mixed in with live shrimp under a popping cork rock breaks at the jetties. Very nice drum, with some sheepshead mixed in free lining shrimp on the rocks. Sabine channel rock piles and redfish for redfish and trout. Drag the bottom for flounder with live shrimp on Carolina rig. Sabine Lake South Levy is good for speckled trout with a popping cork with live shrimp near the rocks. Trout and redfish can be caught making long drifts near Pleasure Island Points long drifts in 4 feet of water over shell and mud flats. Freshwater is coming in pushing the fish south, so focus efforts on South Levy and reef. ICW is good for trout and redfish with live shrimp Carolina rigged. Report by Captain Randy Foreman, Captain Randy’s Guide Service Sabine Lake. As we enjoy a weekend of fishing we salute and honor our Nation’s heroes this Memorial Day. Anticipate increased recreational boater traffic this weekend.
Bolivar
GOOD. 78 degrees. This week will be windy and cloudy with lots of sun this weekend for great fishing! The tides and water levels will be changing from two tide days to three and four. This should produce awesome fishing activity with the weather changes expected. Another week of big 25 inch plus trout running in the surf. Chances of using your trout tag are high. Water levels are back and forth per normal with a lot of sargassum washing in. Redfish can be caught everywhere. There are more keeper speckled trout being caught along with sand trout, black drum, sheepshead and crabs caught along the jetty. The flounder are here for the spring but mostly 16-20 inch fish. The bigger stingrays and sharks are here and the real action is starting. We saw plenty of sharks while shrimping in the gulf. The surf is producing numbers of redfish and huge black drum, huge speckled trout and a lot of sharks along the whole peninsula with more activity towards Gilchrist and High Island. Anglers are using cut mullet, big menhaden or shad, and stingray chunks for bait this past week with awesome results. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp. As we enjoy a weekend of fishing we salute and honor our Nation’s heroes this Memorial Day. Anticipate increased recreational boater traffic this weekend.
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