With all the rain last week that flooded the creeks and gave this area of Texas some relief from the drought I just had to go see what the creek fished like.. Thought there might be some whitebass but no such luck.... BUT

First bass of the day is probably a Personal best on the fly rod.. and would break the current lake record on the fly.

You are the man HLS. Thanks for the pic.

Hey, were is the report? Did ya'll go?

did not go. after the skunk trip i had this past sunday we decided to wait and let the water calm down and get back to normal. im hoping to hear something on here to decide where to go next. either goin to somerville or trinity river/livingston. who knows...i guess i better look at the reports on the TPWD.

that is 1 HECK of a bass HLS! shoulda had it registered for a new body of water record!

Water clear; 3.31’ low. Black bass are slow. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are fair on minnows and shad. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.

thats a pretty good change from last weeks reports. who knows...run may be stopping soon...>;[

I am going below the dam at Livingston tomorrow morning. Will let you know how it goes. If anyone is close to Conroe and want to tag along let me know.

matts, PLEASE come back online tomorrow with a wonderful report. after a long hard day at work today and another one tomorrow.(pulling some trees out of the ground..would much rather cut them down) i need a good fishin weekend. if all else fails...we could get out on conroe sat and get some kitty cats.. >;]

Dang...nice pics Guys!

HL&S, I bet that was a nice fight with that fly rod.

Good fight for sure but the creek didn't afford the bass much room to go very far So I just had to hang on until she tired out..

raider, i got the feeling your about to miss the whitebass run this year bud! better getcha some!

well guys how yall been.....richie when we goin fishing again????

im puttin the boat in..along with thomas's boat at carter creek off william fitch tommorrow and headin towards the nasty in search of some bigger gar...yall have a good evenin im off!

where will everyone be fishing tomorrow? suppose to be a decent day.

Lake somerville saturday night where i should be LOL

I was thinking of fishing Sommerville tomorrow. Do yall think that there will be whites or catfish in the creeks or should I go somewhere on the main lake?

Well there was a post on somerville today and this guy had a bunch of cats so he did good.

ThatOne Ag.
Welcome to the Forum.

What? Fishing on Arbor Day/wk. Sacrilidge...

arbor day?! is that like a arborist appreciation day?? haha

I had figured that the whitebass spawn was a total bust for Lake Somerville because of the drought and the rains coming so late... I WAS WRONG! Last week the lake got lots of rain and it flooded the creeks and brought the lake up to near pool (238ft) In normal years the whitebass have finished spawning in the creeks by early April but this year the fish just couldn't make the trip. I really though that the rain was too late to do any good but I was dead wrong. Two fishing buddies and I kayaked up into the Yegua Saturday expecting to catch black bass but the creek is still stained from the rain. We paddled up to the newmans bottom area and on the third cast caught the first of many whitebass. Every deep pool around shallow rapids held whitebass. Between the three of us we caught upwards of 60 fish. Most were smaller males but still real fun on fly gear. We kept switching back and forth between flys and roostertails but if we had stayed with spinning gear only we really could have mopped up.

Stopped at another creek on the way back and caught some nice black bass.

we went out to somerville yesterday morning and caught 2 catfish

Hopefully I don't miss the end of it.

I'll try to get my tail out there. Wanna go mon, tues, or wens?

Nails creek might hold some fish too and it's not so far to kayak.. The wind Saturday really kicked our butts getting back to the boat ramp.. I might walk back into Nails Creek on Tuesday late afternoon if I get the chance but thats the only afternoon I can spare right now..