Sam Rayburn
SLOW. Water stained; 61 degrees; 2.43 feet above pool. Expect the clarity to be muddy after the rain. Water is being released so expect the water level to drop. Male bass are in the hay grass, or on the outside of the buckbrush. Bass are staging on points and stumps hitting Carolina rigs or rattle traps. Crappie are moving up the creeks to spawn. Catfish are transitioning to spawning grounds in shallow water in the creeks. White bass are up river, but should be making their way back down river. White bass are fair on silver rattle traps and tail spins Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service.
Toledo Bend
SLOW. Water stained; 58 degrees; 0.79 feet below pool. Water temperatures are staying in mid to high 50s. Bass are fair in 1-5 feet of water with wacky worms, senkos and Texas rigged lizards. On windy days spinnerbaits and chatterbaits are best. Some bass can be caught on main and secondary points with shallow crankbaits and Carolina rigs. Deeper fish have been hard to find this past week due to high winds, but there are still some in 15-20 feet. Crappie improved to good until this last blast of cold air slowed the bite. Expect the bite to pick back up at the end of next week. Best depths will be in 4-8 feet in backs of creeks with clear water with roadrunners and tube jigs. Report by Stephen Johnston, Johnston Fishing.
SALTWATER
Sabine Lake
GOOD. 57 degrees. The Neches River, and Sabine River are flowing, pushing the trout to the higher salinity water in the sloughs and bayous. Sabine Lake is producing good catches of trout with suspended artificials or popping cork with live shrimp on points or bayous. Pleasure Island Point North Levy is good for limits of speckled trout or redfish early in the morning with topwater, then switch to crankbaits as the sun comes up. Best when there is a light north wind. Bessie Heights is good for sheepshead, drum, redfish and freshwater catfish in the where the water is falling out of the points, drops, or over shell. Lots of surfacing bait. Energy ditch producing catches of redfish with a popping cork with live shrimp in the energy ditch. Report by Captain Randy Foreman, Captain Randy’s Guide Service Sabine Lake.
Bolivar
GOOD. 60 degrees. This is often the season of some wild winds and weather changes. Only two tide changes all this week, changing back to 3-4 tides next week. The best times for fishing are from mid-mornings to afternoons on incoming tides. Water levels are changing back and forth per usual for the upcoming spring extremes. Redfish are being caught all over. Nice speckled trout being caught along with sand trout, black drum, redfish, occasional sheepshead, and crabs caught along the jetty. The flounder are still there but in mixed sizes. A couple small stingrays and sharks are starting to show up, but it still needs to be warmer before the action begins. The surf is producing lots of redfish, huge black drum, occasional speckled trout, and a few sharks along the whole peninsula with more activity towards Gilchrist and High Island. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp.
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