Weekly Fishing Report Week of March 19, 2025 from TPWD
Sam Rayburn
SLOW. Water stained; 62 degrees; 0.76 feet above pool. Water continues to slowly drop. 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; 60 degrees; 1.24 feet below pool. Bass are good with many fish in 1-6 feet of water biting senkos, wacky worms and Texas rigged lizards.
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Sabine Lake
GOOD. 63 degrees. Fishing efforts have been focussed in the Sabine Channel due to the high winds. Sheepshead, drum limits, and redfish are good over rock piles on live shrimp. When the channel water became rough to fish we caught fish along the rocks at the jetties. When the wind allows, target the Sabine Lake oyster shell in 2-6 feet of water for catches of slot redfish on live shrimp under a popping cork. Very nice catches of redfish and trout on deeper points and shell banks leading from the bayou. Pleasure Island Point and the North Levy are producing nice trout on live shrimp under a popping cork or Carolina rigged. Very nice catches of drum and sheepshead along the rock piles. There is an influx of freshwater coming into the lake from both rivers, concentrating fish on each side of the lake. This next week fishing should be good on rock piles and points in the intercoastal waterways. Report by Captain Randy Foreman, Captain Randy’s Guide Service Sabine Lake.
Bolivar
GOOD. 68 degrees. Fishing is fair to good with water temperature warming to the upper 60s. 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 still there but 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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