Weekly Fishing Report Week of September 28, 2022
Sam Rayburn
FAIR. Water stained; 82 degrees; 5.02 feet low. The lake is off-colored and starting to turnover, slowing the bite while the lake transitions. Look for fish to feed on shad in the pockets as the cold fronts start to roll through. Bass are good shallow and the creek channels chasing shad. White bass are schooling on flats biting small crankbaits and silver spoons. Crappie are good on brush piles with minnows. Catfish are good off points with and in the creek channel. Report by Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service.
Toledo Bend
GOOD. Water stained; 76-78 degrees; 4.34 feet low. The water level is 167.7 with no generators running. Water temperature at the Dam is 76-78 degrees with surface temperature around 76.This is the third week with no rainfall. The back feeder creeks are clear in the deeper holes, but the lake is turning over causing shallow areas to look muddy and the main lake remains clear. The best fishing times this week has been at first light to mid-morning. Black bass are still in the summer to fall transition and remain scattered. The bass have been biting and chasing smaller shad profile baits like 1/4 ounce rattletraps in chrome, black or blue back, bladed baits, and smaller crankbaits in shad colors. Another pattern is black and blue football jigs 3/8 – 3/4 ounce with a 3-inch matching color grub trailer, and a green pumpkin jig with the chuck tail dipped in chartreuse color. The punch and frog bite has been producing wherever you can find floating vegetation, Lilly pads or healthy green hydrilla. Crappie bite has been picking up in 6-25 feet of water using small jigs and minnows depending on the cloud cover and cooling night temperatures. Bluegills are still mixed in with crappie in the brush piles and some are now being caught under boathouses and docks. Catfish are holding in 10-20 feet of water and have also been caught migrating up into the feeder creeks. Hey crew, this week is cooling down and will be in the 50s . Here we go, we either go hunting or go fishing. It’s all good. Get out there! Always leave the area better than you found it (no trash, pickup what you can). Good luck and tight lines! Report from Master Captain Steve (Scooby) Stubbe, Mudfish Adventures LLC, Orvis Endorsed Fishing Guide, Mudfish Rod Shop, Kayak Sales, and Rod Repair.
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Sabine Lake
GOOD. 84 degrees. Sabine Pass producing catches of ling running along the buoys. Schools of redfish and speckled trout are feeding on shrimp in the McFaddin Beach shoreline. Trout are good in the jetties with glo chartreuse jigs. Lots of sharks in the jetties. Marshes, Taylor’s Bayou, Texaco Islands and ICW producing redfish and trout in the rock piles with live shrimp under a popping cork. Mixed bags of fish with flounder mixed in from Taylor’s bayou to the Neches River in turnarounds and near buoys biting glo chartreuse jigs tipped with shrimp. The shrimp is like candy to the flounder. Neches River confined to produce bull redfish with gold and silver spoons. Flounder are in the channel biting on shrimp. In Sabine Lake redfish and speckled trout are good schooling under birds biting on �¾ ounce silver and gold spoons fished on the bottom beneath the trash fish. Report by Captain Randy Foreman, Captain Randy’s Guide Service Sabine
Lake.Bolivar
GOOD. 82 degrees. Crystal Beach holding some small shark on squid, shrimp, or cut bait. Rollover Bay holding redfish and a few flounder around the marsh leading to the cut. Bolivar jetty still holding trout and redfish on both sides of the rocks up close on popping cork with shrimp or artificial. Report provided by Captain Raymond Wheatley, Tail Spotter Guide Service LLC.
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