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Tawakoni Spillway #10879926 05/29/15 05:56 AM
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Hey guys thought I'd share what's going on down there or lack there of.I fished it pretty hard core today & there just not in there.Plenty of water is coming over.Lots of carp& gar is all I saw.Please report if it turns on back there.

Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10880333 05/29/15 02:11 PM
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Is water muddy?


Keep em tight!
Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10880486 05/29/15 03:05 PM
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Ya it's pretty muddy.but to not even get cats is strange.i was getting bites but it was gar stealing the shad

Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10880556 05/29/15 03:21 PM
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When its muddy its brutal man even sometimes with cut bait!


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Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10882786 05/30/15 11:16 AM
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Only 3 people fishing the spillway yesterday afternoon...
Big rain again here this morning

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Hooking a fish is like playing string with a cat. The exact size, shape, color of string matters less than how you wiggle it- and little cats are easier to fool than big ones. John Gierach
Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10885928 05/31/15 11:55 PM
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Wife sent me this on her way to a friends house.


Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: BCJC82] #10886517 06/01/15 05:22 AM
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[quote=BCJC82]Wife sent me this on her way to a friends house.


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Water is actually chocolaty brown, and just like in the picture about a foot of water above top of spillway. Still not enough white water that churn out oxygen to send down stream. Saw one guy fish with surf rod n casting bobber from the bank, did not see any fish caught. One guy with crappie rod wade waist deep, kept getting hunk up, no fish. I fished lake side for 3 hours with 6 other fisherme, no one caught any fish either.


Why do I go fishing? To catch a box of fish and/or some quality time under the sun. Thank Heaven I never fail fishing in Texas, catching box fish or plenty of sunburn.
Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10887367 06/01/15 04:44 PM
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Cool pics!


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Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10890906 06/02/15 10:28 PM
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I went down there today just to take a loog no fishing and the water in my opinion looks great. It is stained but not muddy at all. Not really sure how to fish that area since there is very limited bank access

Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10909406 06/10/15 10:33 PM
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Is the water still coming out and any thing being caught below the dam lately?

Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10918766 06/15/15 08:27 PM
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What's the report????

Re: Tawakoni Spillway [Re: hellbender] #10944930 06/28/15 05:21 PM
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Anyone catching any hybrid down there yet

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I tried to fish there twice, both in the afternoon, my last time there was just before the rain storm hit Tawakoni. The pictures below were taken when rain just started to drop... It's very hard to fish this spillway because the river level just barely cover the overgrown shrubs and trees that covered the river bed for years. The deep dropoff river channel is only a few yards wide... I tried top water poppers, nadda. While I did not see any fish caught both afternoon that I was there, a local angler told me that he caught some nice white bass and catfish just before water spill over the spillway. I tried to sling my bottom catfish rigs to river channel for some catfish but didn't get to fish much between snagging, lost a couple of rigs, then the storm hit, barely had time to get to my suv... caught nadda.


Spillway side water is deep but it's completely fenced off.


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Why do I go fishing? To catch a box of fish and/or some quality time under the sun. Thank Heaven I never fail fishing in Texas, catching box fish or plenty of sunburn.
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Has anyone tried fishing at Tawakoni State Park?

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Thinking about head up to the spillway tomorrow to give it a try. Wonder if anyone have any luck at the spillway?


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