It has been raining a lot in East Dallas lately. Does anyone know if the Tawakoni Spillway is overflowing or not? Maybe it is time to visit the Spillway again. Thanks.

I hope they release water. That spillway is a wasteland right now.

There are NO MO fish below the spillway

Doesn't matter...as long as there is water overflowing...I am there!

Anyone ever go past the bouys?

Water but no fish in the water makes for a very boring trip.

lake is still 1.5 below spillway so no water should be going over
we did not get that much rain here

Yeah...$500.00 park fee.

Naw...we will hit the lakeside if it is that bad.

Dangit...I need to bring my garden hose and fill the lake back up then.

I once ran past the bouys to cast it as far as I can then ran back lol

Fished the spillway last night. No water running what so ever. Still the same old water all those millions of stripers died in. Caught 12 catfish, 4 had nasty looking yellow bubbles all over thier skin.

ewwwwww yucky!, that means the catfishys got some kooties

i was at duck cove marina a couple days ago and saw the same thing on a few of the catfish.... some kind of infection. but we caught a lot of cats. about 25-30 cats and 6 stripers and tons of sandies. we set up a 2 million candel power light from home depot at the end of the dock. there is an outlet there that we plug it into and shine it in the water and all the shad come into the light and the fish follow them. works every single time.

those catfish had aids lol

i wore protection. im good. dont know about lee though

here is a pic rom Duck Cove a few days ago........

lol, I didnt have protection.

I know exactly where this marina is. We fish there twice in the winter this year for crappies.
Never though to plug in bright lights there. Need to try that one of this day.

You won't get in trouble with the owner for plugging in the light?

Nice Smallmouth Buffalo ! From the look on your face it was a good fight

no they dont mind at all. just clean ur mess up.

that wasthe small one. we caught one 2 times that size, but it was to big to pull on the dock.

Man BIG—15+ lbs Buffalo are excellent fighter. They will definitely wear you out. And, there are tons of them in the Spillway. There are so many and moving sooooo slow on the bottom...many people accidentally snagged them when they retrieve their hook.

I snagged two BIGUNs before, and thought they were BIG Giant 500 lbs catfish from Thailand. Because they would not come to surface for a long time. And, it is hard to pull on them because most of the time I am running an 8 lbs tests line. They will run and run and run. It does get your heart pumping with excitement. I said it is one of the best fighting fish in a lake.