Weekly Fishing Report Week of June 5, 2024
Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn are full of water and Sabine Lake is seeing a lot of freshwater from the runoff. Here are the fishing reports for this week.
FRESHWATER
Sam Rayburn
GOOD. Water stained; 78 degrees; 5.56 feet above pool. The water is off-colored with floating debris. Bass are scattered from flooded bushes and grass. Target bass in the flooded bushes and trees with soft plastics. Few bass are on points and creek Carolina rigs and crankbaits. Crappie continue to roam in open water. Crappie are best on brush in 12 feet of water, but while the lake level is high the brush piles are 16-18 feet deep. Catfish are good in 20 feet of water off points and creek channels with minnows and cut baits. White bass on deeper points with slab spoons and little George’s. Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service. After the recent rains the water is still on the rise, but we should start to see the lake level off because there is a break in the rainy weather. Bass are shallow in flooded bushes and trees in 4-10 feet of water. Large population of fish off shore on primary and secondary points in 12-18 feet of water in relation to shoreline flooded bushes. Use Texas rigs, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits and topwater frogs shallow. The offshore bite is on deep diving crankbaits, Carolina rigs, and jigs. Report by Captain Hank Harrison, Double H Precision Fishing.
Toledo Bend
GOOD. Water slightly stained; 80 degrees; 0.77 feet above pool. We got another 6-8 inch of rain since last week and the lake level is over full and flood gates are back open. They have five gates open at 1 foot each. It is flooding north of the lake now, so lots of water is still to come. Bass fishing has been fair, lots of fish being caught in the flooded bushes and hay grass from 1-4 feet with topwaters, frogs and spinnerbaits been best. There are still lots of fish out in 10-18 feet, but with water back on rise, they have got harder to catch. Crankbaits and Texas rigs will catch these. We just need some sunshine for a week or so to get it back to normal. Crappie fishing has been hard. Most reports are 12-18 fish per boat. Deeper docks and brush piles are the best with jigs and live bait. Report by Stephen Johnston, Johnston Fishing.
SALTWATER
Sabine Lake
GOOD. 78 degrees. Sabine Channel rock piles and shell banks holding redfish, drum, sheepshead, and trout on incoming tides with Carolina rigs. Flounder are good with live shrimp along the banks. Speckled trout are showing up on the south revetment wall biting live shrimp under a popping cork. North Levee wall is good for trout live shrimp under a popping cork in the morning. Bank anglers doing well for speckled trout, redfish and a few flounders mixed in. Mid lake limits of nice slot redfish under the birds. Grass points, shell banks and drop-offs are holding nice redfish with live shrimp under a popping cork. Some catches of speckled trout midlake now that the salinity is improving. Report by Captain Randy Foreman, Captain Randy’s Guide Service Sabine Lake.
Bolivar
GOOD. 79 degrees. Water levels are fluctuating with tides and wind this week changing back to two tide days. Still lots of fresh water on the bay side but it hasn’t affected the bite. The best bite conditions this week will be on edges of the deeper spots holding saltier water. People are catching plenty of redfish of varying sizes everywhere! Small croakers along with sand trout, sheepshead, black drum, speckled trout, and crabs caught along the jetty with plenty of stingrays and sharks. Pompano and jack crevalle are still running. The surf is producing redfish, black drum, gafftop, lots of stingrays, and bigger sharks along the whole peninsula. The sargassum, seaweed, is thick in spots. People were using all kinds of different things for bait this past week with good results. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp.
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