I'm fairly new at Hybrid fish, I have caugth a lot of them bit there are days when I don't catch a single one.

I'm not looking for any one to pin point where the fish are, but I would like to know from some of the more experienced guys what the Hybrids are doing when we have the conditions we currently have.

It appears we have more rain coming this weekend in SE Texas.

I know the water temps were 45 degrees before the heavy rains we recently had. Lake Somerville has received 7 feet of water in 8 to 10 days! Water was 61 degrees last week and 58 to 61 degrees today. In the areas I fished on the north end of the lake the water had zero visibility. Mid lake was better, south end was slightly better!

We caugth a few cats mid lake but never had a tap that felt like a Hybrid. I still don't feel I'm getting a 100%honest reading from my depthfinders either...Garmin Sidescan and their conventional plotter/depthfinder.

So what are you guys thoughts on where they are hanging out at in the current conditions?

I checked off points, 25' flats, 30' flats, humps in 25' and 30' feet of water...never found what I was looking for.

The best I can do is tell you where the fish have been on the lake I fish.

In the last 4 weeks, since all the cold weather come in and dropped the water temp into the 40°s, the fish have disappeared. I’ve heard that once the water temp drops below 42°, the bait cannot survive and it will run to the creeks and get to shallower, warmer water. I would imagine the fish may have gone with them. Recently, with the water temp as low as it has been, there has been a lot of dead bait floating. Im sure a lot of bait has also sunk to the bottom.

Before all of this cold water, when temps were in the mid 50°s, the fish were fairly easy to find. As I would head out into the lake and scan, I could see what depth most fish were comfortable. Some days it was 30ft and some days it was 22ft. Then I would go to areas where the bottom was 3-5 deeper than where the fish were comfortable. This is where I would find hybrids hunkered down to the bottom. Many times they were hard to see on 2D. You could not see them unless they moved up off the bottom. I would dead stick for them with my bait about 1 crank off the bottom.

This was a consistent pattern for several weeks.

Here is a neat pic that I took that kinda details that.

Bouncing off the bottom of late works as well, great caption , good work !

Not sure where your fishing Windbreaker, but the normal cold weather pattern is not what my question is about. That us a great screen shot of your sounder!

My question is about all the warmer rain pouring into the lakes of SE Texas. I mentioned Lake Somerville because it rose 6 feet in less than a week.

The lake I fish was 58 to 61 degrees depending on where you were. Just before the heavy rains it was 45 degrees...

My question is what are people finding with the dramatic temperature change because of all the warm rain water running into the lakes...