Listen up Palestine Hybrid hunters. (huntdux06-Martyk8-sanbasscamp-Mo-Iberia-Parkenstein-ChaseNTheBite-Curly Dog-bb1379-Trump903-Bass Fro chop-rbadley-Buff2 and all other TFF'ers. This is the Fall edition of BIG Hybrids Contest. It will start Sept. 1st and run till Dec. 31. There will be two categories (Length) and (weight)in which we will keep up with the top 25 in each category. You can have as many fish in each category that makes the top 25. It must be caught on rod and reel....you can use live bait also. You must take a picture of your fish being measured or weighed and post it. Its a free contest with nothing but pride on the line. I do not expect someone to say where you caught your fish on the lake. But ask that you say what type of bait and time of day it was. I believe this is something fun to keep up with for all. Im open to any other ideas about this. Its open to all TFF'ers that fish Palestine. Best of luck....Starts Sept. 1st till Dec. 31st

hey, great idea!!! count me in of course.

we should also have a monthly get together too where we can compare stories in person. what say ye? maybe at lake palestine resort, they have nice boat docks, a nice porch and deck in the back, and grill too! maybe once this gets going we could go try out some other lakes together some times.

Lake Palestine resort does have everything. Maybe at some point put together like a Hybrid and Sandbass tournament. Never know......just a thought but something i think would work.

Sounds good to me. I'm in.

Great ideas. I will participate, but will be out of town from Sept 27th, through November 2nd. Kinda puts me behind the 8-ball.
But count me in for what ever I can do.

CD

Iam sure going to do my best to catch some... count me in ! Sounds like fun.

I am in too. You may want to move it to October - January. September normally bites....or doesn't bite.

Sounds fun, may give this a try.

Glad you guys are game for this. (Curly Dog-I see your gonna be out of town for about 5 weeks or so. This is why its 4 months long....to give everyone plenty of time to get some fish on the board. I know you lost a few big ones back in the spring. My gut tells me .... your just due for a huge one. (Parkenstein-I know what your say'n bout Sept. can be kinda tuff. But in the past week myself and some others have been stirring up some nice Hybrids pretty good. (Benbrook Guide- It would be great for ya to get over here and fish for some of these Palestine Hybrids. Would be glad to help with any info ... if ya head this way at some point.

I can't seem to post pictures on this site to save my life...lol so any I catch and get a picture of someone will have to teach me how to post or post them for me. Its rough getting old.. lol

Your not alone with that. I know we took some pictures of some nice ones back in the spring that never got posted....cause we couldnt get it to post. I've got to figure this out before Sept. 1st

On the water by 5:30 this afternoon with martyk8. Looking for an afternoon bite for Hybrids. I think we caught everything but a Hybrid. Loads of sandbass .... several Black bass and catfish.. plus one crappie. All fish were caught on Med. size crankbaits and TNT slabs. Just didnt get any nice Hybrids this trip.

Were any of you guys at that boat show at the Horesfarm on
friday night ? Don't know if they were catching or not , but
there were about 10 boats clumped in a small area just about
sundown.
I fished sunday, caught a few hybrids , lots of sandies,
one lost green trash fish , a crappie , 2 species of
catfish, Just a drum shy of a Lake Pal grand slam.
all on a silver prism jiggin spoon , 10 to 17 ft, west
side.


good luck

Mo

Yes HrT and I were out there Friday Mo, and we seen the boat show going on. We stayed south of it about 200 hundred yards and caught loads of fish on TNT 180 slabs. Couldn't see what the boats north of us were using but didn't see anyone catching many fish. All in all it was a fun afternoon/evening.

I'd be glad to help. PM me if you want. I'm on the forum most weekdays during business hours.


Sounds like a great time Mo. I've only hit the Palestine Grand Slam once. But it was over a whole weekend, 48 hr period. So I'm not sure it counts... Still itching to get back out there. Haven't done any good fishing since July 4th weekend. We were out there 2 weeks ago but did some entertaining with the skiis and the tube. Didn't even put the fishing gear in the boat. I'll probably be out there mid Sept to give you guys come competition!

CnB--
to go in the official record book and become eligible for
the Lake Palestine Hall of Fame, , it has to be in a
single day , 12.00.01 till midnight. You do get exta credit
if they all come from the same lure. The only lure to my
knowledge ( and I am the official LPGS rule keeper, ) to
complete the slam is the silver prism jiggn spoon.

Like this only silver.


Good luck


MO

LOL

Mo ... yeah im not sure what was up with boat show friday. They all seem to be waiting for something to happen. Funny thing was none of them was catching anything....while me and marty was put'n the whoop on some fish. Im just glad they never came over towards us.

Went out Sunday morning with Iberia....Fished from 5:45am till 9am. Caught only two....things had changed since friday for sure. Im also thinking maybe the bite didnt start till later in the morning...cause the Moon was to rise alittle after 10am. But we had to be off the water by then. Maybe im just reading to much into it. Tend to get like that when i get my butt kicked! Ha!

ChaseNTheBite....I expect to see you post some nice ones on the board. And you cant do that pulling tubes around the lake with no fishing gear in the boat!! Ha

Hey guys! I'm a newbie to this site, but fish Palestine regularly. I was on the lake Friday afternoon/ evening. I caught a lot of sandies at the Horsefarm in the afternoon, found a large school of largemouths early in the evening at another spot, and went back to the horsefarm right before dark. At the horsefarm, I saw a Skeeter that was on my best spot, which I now see was a couple of you guys! I then went further north to my second spot and found a school of sandies and immediately started catching them. They soon started surfacing, and the barges that were just hanging out and another boat came over to join in the action- hence the boat show! You are right in that it seemed that they didn't catch much....

Welcome to the TFF Texas Ranger, Iam sure you'll enjoy this site. Theres a great bunch of folks on here. Next time you see me out there (red and white Skeeter/ Yam 115) stop by and say hello. Iam out on Palestine a good bit. And get in on the Fall Hybrid Contest, its going to be fun.

Martyk8 - I will definitely get in on the fall contest. I believe I have seen you out on the water a few times this year. I have a blueish & silver Ranger fish/ski combo with 200 Merc and judging from Friday night, I apparently fish the same areas you do. I'll stop and introduce myself the next time I see you out there - especially if you are on top of the fish! Just kidding - I always try to make sure I give everyone their space on the water.

Welcome' Texas Ranger!

Looking forward to a good fall season.

I think its going to be great fishing this fall... In fact I think it just might be great today.. I think I'll go ! LOL

I'll see ya at the ramp. Maybe we can find some of these

Those are spring fish , the hybrids I'm catching now
are lean and mean. They will fatten up when the water cools
down


MO

Hows this for a springtime hybrid fattie...

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This is my buddy Chads, he caught in Febuary.

CD

So how was it today? I went Friday morning right after the storm, and it was SLOW....

It was slow today. We did stir up a couple short hybrids and a few magnum sandies. Along with 2 small blues 1 channel plus a black bass. Did not see any schooling what so ever. Nice afternoon to be out on the lake... just alittle slow.

I almost forgot....1 nice crappie. Baits used...med. size crankbaits, rattletrap and pet spoon

Gezz..i read that last post and it almost sounds like we had a good trip. While we did catch fish...it was slow. Seems like it was something different with every catch. The catfish have been killing the crankbaits or slabs the last couple weeks. Its always funny to see them caught on lures....just seems odd when you see them. Just about all fish that was caught or marked on graph came in water 16 to 22 feet. Get'n ready to give it a go again this afternoon.

I'll be ready at 7:00 pick me up at my dock,


MO

I don't fish much during hunting season but count me in

Well, it's Sept 1 and I guess the contest is on. Any fish weighed today?

None seem to be posted yet. But there will be at some point. Myself and MartyK8 gave it a good effort yesterday to get something on the board. Didnt even catch any short ones.

Great idea. I have just signed up on TFF. Have been reading posts for months so I thought I would get involved.

I live on Lake Palestine and spend as much time as I can on the water.

Should get going when the water cools down a bit.

I usually start catching the bigger fish when these fronts start moving through. Carolina rigged shad on the windy clay points has been a good pattern. Tried it Sunday evening and caught a bunch of whiskered fish and a few drum but nothing that would make the clicker scream.

Welcome Xray, good luck!

That has got to be one of the fattest fish I've ever seen
What was the weight on that?

We never weighed it. But it was just probably around 8 or 9 lbs. It was'nt that long. We caught many fat fish that day, but none of us had ever seen one like that. This fish was caught on Tawakoni.

CD

I actually did weigh it and that fish was only 17 inches long and it weighed a little over 8 lbs. Couldn't keep it even if we had wanted to because it was under the 18inch length min. 17in 8lb

Hey StriperShack,

Good to see you on the forum. That truly was a great catch.

Cd

You got a teal hole lined up for the 12th? Don't be holding out, if you go scouting and find a bunch right before opener you better be giving me a ring!!!!!

Still no entries yet??? I'll be there this coming weekend. Hopefully I can find a few.

yeah, i thought there'd be at least a couple n the board by now.... i haven't had a chance to get out since about 3-4 weeks ago and it's killing me.

I know martyk8 got into some Hybrids last friday. I think he said they were around 4 pounders but he was look'n for better ones to post. We went out yesterday to give it a shot but got run off the water with lightning know sooner we got started. I myself will post anything over 18 inches just to get the board started.

Off topic, but you guys seeing alot of trash floating around out there after the rains? Is the lake turning over yet? Sulphur smell?

I havnt noticed anything different. The surface temp is falling....its down to around 81 degrees as of Sunday

Water still looks good at this point.
Lake turnover is an often miss-used term. The correct meaning
has to due with the surface water cooling and sinking , displacing the water on the bottom( which rises. Happens in the late fall, early winter.

Many people use the term to describe the effect of low dissolved oxygen in late summer causing bottom vegetation to
die off , and rise to the top , causing brown water and a
objectionable odor. ( sometimes a fish die off happens if the
o2 gets too low). Does not happen on every lake or all portions
of a big lake. Lake Palestine doesn't have a lot of vegetation
in many areas , It is not usually a problem on the south end,
where I live.

good luck

MO

When asking about lake turnover, I was referring to the lake temp decreasing, surface water sinking, and forcing lower water up. See the link below.

http://www.onthelake.net/fishing/turnover.htm

I would assume this affects the bite, but I haven't noticed a huge change in the past 2 years. I'm sure the lake is just dealing with the new water coming in from creeks from the recent rains.


Sorry for the off topic post, but it leads to a discussion about the bite...

Nothing off topic at all. I thought it was a great question!

CTB--

I think that our lakes cool so slowly as opposed to
northern lakes , that turnover is not as large an issue.

I have seen the southend of Palestine go brown some years
in the late summer/early fall , and that always puts a damper
on the fishing for a little while.

I look for the bite to steadly improve with decreasing water
temps , and turn on big time after the second COLD front.

good luck
MO

Thanks Mo.

still nothing on the board yet? i thought that w/ the rain last week they'd have turned on, surely the water temp has gone down into the 70's by now, this mornign on ktbb they were saying that most of the lakes are cooling nicely & the fish are moving into the shallower waters. anyone go out there this morning? any topwater action yet? they ware wearing them out on topwater at texoma according to Brian @ stripers inc.

We stayed on the water the entire day Saturday. My wife and I stuck to trolling to try and locate a school. We found nothing. I tried every spot I've ever caught any at and we ended up with bupkis. I think we caught 4 sandies in 8 hours. I saw plenty of fish on the graph, but nothing that wanted to bite. Weird day. I never spotted any surfacing action. I got up in Caney Cove Sunday morning and i saw alot of Shad activity on the surface, but nothing wanted to bite what I was throwing. But a bad day fishing was still better than a good day working...

Myself and Curly Dawg was able to get 3 decent Hybrids this morning to get this board started. I'll post pics in alittle bit. Had one 26 inches ... one 23 3/4 inches and Curly's got one 22.

Are you guys fishing tomorrow ? I will be on the lake ,
chasing crappie or hybrids.

Mo

Im not sure if Curly is gonna fish. I might ... plus i know MartyK8 will not be doing any fishing for 2 weeks...His Doc says for him to stay out of the boat for 2 weeks. He's hurt his back. I'm working to get these pics up on here.... should be up in a few.

Curly Dawg with a 22" Hybrid



Caught on crankbait about 9:50 am

HRT with a 23.75" Hybrid caught on TNT slab about 7:50 am

HRT with a 26.25" Hybrid caught on TNT slab about 8:10 am



We also caught a few Magnum sandies this morning. Started out with live bait but wasnt picking anything up. I started throwing a 1oz. TNT slab and caught these 2 Hybrids pretty quick. Curly picked his Hybrid up trolling a crankbait.

1. headsRtails 26.25" on TNT slab 8:10 am
2. headsRtails 23.75" on TNT slab 7:50 am
3. Curly Dawg 22.00" on crankbait 9:50 am

Ya'll got some nice fish there. I figured with the water temps. comming down the action would start picking up. Doctor says I got to keep out of the boat for 2 weeks to give my back time to heal. As much as I hate it I am going to do like he said so I'll be good to go for the rest of the season. I got a feeling we all are going to catch some nice fish out there this fall.

who fishes out of the white Skeeter ?

Did you weigh the 26.5 ?

MO

Mo,

The 26" fish weighed in at just over 8 lbs. Today I got out fished.

CD

Mo ... I think your thinking about martyk8's Skeeter. Its the white hull with red trim. {Curly}-you didnt get out fished.

NICE!!! man those are some hogs! i'm glad to hear that the fishing is picking up again and see the pics from today. man, i'm really wanting to get out there soon. maybe sunday early morning for a couple hours will satisfy the urge for a few weeks.... work is really slamming me right now...

how about a little social get together one evening at lake palestine resort? whatya say saturday 10/10? as of right now i'm still off that day! they are serving all you can eat catfish and shrimp on sat. nights i think, will verify though.

take it easy marty, i feel your pain man, i've been having a bit of foot trouble myself lately...

Iberia...i see ya'll have got this Palestine Monthly Fishing Tournament starting up soon. When it says bass...is it only meaning Largemouth bass? We had talked about Hybrids and Sandbass Tournaments.

yeah, i was the only voice in support of hybrids and obviously was not enough to convince the chamber board to have a hybrid division. maybe we can have them change that if we (tff palestine hybrid hunters) all call the chamber and subtly ask them "is there a hybrid division?" i might be off sat. afternoon, i'll try to get clearance from the wife, call me arounf thursday, hopefully i'll know more by then...

Maybe in time we can get something rolling Hybrid wise. I saw were someone wrote sandbasscamp doing fine. Sure to see him put a nice one on the board soon. From the reports im hearing its been a mixed bags of fish as of late. Some Big Hybrids should be rearing there heads here before long. Remember at this point even an 18 inch Hybrid can make the board as there are only three on it. We are keeping up with the top 25.

I got one this weekend, but totally forgot to snap a pic of it. I was more worried about getting food on the table that night. Oh well. Hopefully I'll get on the board one of these days...

I've been skunked the last few trips looking for the Hybrids, so I just got back from Academy with a sack full of TNT baits to see if I can entice them this weekend.

Look forward to meeting most of you out there during the hybrid contest...great idea!!!

Welcome Mudbone....look forward to seeing some Hybrids posted.

Monday i got chance to fish with Iberia. While only having a couple hours of daylight. It was Overcast .. slight breeze out of the Northeast. We worked a large flat off a point....Thats been known to have paydays. But not that day. We finished off the day with one sandie.

Today...I fished with Martyk8. On the water by 2:30..Overcast..surface temps 74 to 75. We headed North above the 155 bridge just outside flat creek. Looking for some shallow water Hybrids. While we didnt find any Hybrids up that way. We got into a nice pocket of 1 to 2 pound bass. Sat in one spot and got 20 or more off it.
Martyk8

Lil green monsters


We made a move south after a while and found a cove busting with fish. 1 to 2 pound bass and some small sandies and little Hybrids. After catching 40 or more....



Knowing we only had an hour left...we moved to a deep water point. A nice school of Magnum sandies came up at dusk. We worked as fast as we could with some 17to18 inch hybrids mixed in with them. After catching quite a few... I nailed a 23.25" Hybrid for the last fish of the day. All fish today were caught on rattletraps,inline spinners,spinner baits and about a 1/2 dozen other baits. These pics are with a camera phone..not the best. Plus the 23.25" Hybrid pic was taken in the dark.



Fun day out...loads of fish...but the Quest goes on!
1. headsRtails 26.25" on TNT slab 8:10 am 9/24/09
2. headsRtails 23.75" on TNT slab 7:50 am 9/24/09
3. headsRtails 23.25" on BangTail inline spinner 7:00 pm 10/14/09
4. Curly Dawg 22.00" on crankbait 9:50 am 9/24/09

Ya'll get some posted!

It was fun getting out on the water today and fishing with HrT. If we'd been fishing for food today we sure wouldn't have gone hungry. Started catching fish sa soon as we got set up. Although at first they were not the Hybrids we were hoping for (LMB) it was sure enough was fast and fun. Our last stop of the day got us on some big Sandbass and a few nice Hybrids. I am just thankful my back problems have slacked off some and I can get back out on the water again.
Iam ready to get back at it again tomorrow....

nice... well it looks like headsrtails has a solid lead in the contest! man i guess we'll have to keep plugging away at it! it's got to get better soon. the neches river is higher than i've ever seen it since i've been living here, guess the spillway should start producing soon huh?

how'd you do today marty? i meant to call you but things got away from me at work and then i had my thursday night trap shoot and i'm finally getting home now...

...it's hard shooting in cold misty conditions... i'm having trouble getting more than a 20!

It was pretty rough out there today.. Didn't find any Hybrids, pretty much just took a whooping from the wind.

Wow nogeese....thats a fat one! Shame in didnt come out of Palestine Huh!

Mo-

Are you in a red/black skeeter? (or is that Parkenstein??) Last Saturday my dad and I were out in his pontoon and stopped at a spot you were sitting on. We stayed far enough away because I know they stack up there and if you aren't within 10 feet of either side, you won't catch fish-didn't want to spook your fish. (or whoever was there) We went all over the lake that day and didn't catch a fish. Horse ranch, chimney, saline, etc.

Out fishing with Martyk8 today. With somewhat High pressure overhead ... I really didnt expect much today. But we went out and gave in a shot anyway. Stiff wind out of the North and surface temps. 70 to 71. We headed North of the 155 bridge looking again for some shallow water Hybrids. First stop just outside Flat Creek produced 1 catfish and a 17" Hybrid. After seeing theres not much there.....we moved alittle further north to check a shallow flat. We found them there...but not the size we were look'n for. All about 17 to 18 inches. Also picked up a couple Black Bass. With daylight winding down....we made our move south back to a great spot that always has bigger Hybrids. Like clock work ... they were there. After catching several 19 to 20 inch Hybrids. Martyk8 caught a 23.25" Hybrid for the big one of the day. I ended up with my largest being 21 inches. While nothing big today....we did catch more Hybrids than other fish today.

Bass caught on Red Eye shad

Lots of these 17 inch Hybrids today

My 21"

Martyk8 with 23.25" Hybrid




Better than I thought it would be today

The Quest goes on!!!!!

1. headsRtails 26.25" on TNT slab 8:10 am 9/24/09
2. headsRtails 23.75" on TNT slab 7:50 am 9/24/09
3. martyk8--- 23.25" on Rattletrap 6:30 pm 10/17/09
3. headsRtails 23.25" on BangTail inline spinner 7:00 pm 10/14/09
4. Curly Dawg 22.00" on crankbait 9:50 am 9/24/09
5. headsRtails 21.00" on Rattletrap 6:40 pm 10/17/09

It took us a while to find them but when we did HrT and I started getting them in the boat. We just didn't catch them big ones up on the north end of the lake like we was hoping for, but them 17" and 18" Hybrids are sure fun to catch. The south end was where we got into some larger fish, it was great fun. I thought we'd see more boats out there today.

I will be fishing Palestine some this fall, going next weekend, and I will be down there most of Thanksgiving week, I'll try and post some pics of the hybrids we pull in

Sounds good 'Live Bait' The lake is up .... lots of water in the grass and with alot of small bait along the shoreline up and down the lake. Hybrids and pockets of bass here and there...once you nail one, theres more held tight in that spot. There not moving around alot as of late. That can change in a minute...and will. Everything caught the last two weeks is in depths 10 to 1 foot. But for one flat of 5' to 7' feet that drops off to 25' or better 'Quick'. Have got the bigger fish as of late still close to this deep water. Enjoy you time over..you should catch some.

rkd, it was probably sanbasscamp. He is in a red/black Skeeter.

Fishing with Martyk8 this afternoon. Left out of the Deep end around 3pm heading North into a West..Northwest wind blowing pretty solid. Surface temps 67 to 68 degrees. Water has stained up alittle the past few days. First stop...marked lots of fish...no takers. 2nd stop...made a pass drifting across a point..picked up couple Hybrids. Moved back up and made another pass...several more caught. These were nice ones! MartyK8 says its time to anchor if we can. We got lucky an caught anchor just right. Spent the next 3 hours just working that point with Rattletraps and nailing Hybrids. With the largest being 26" for today. The pictures below are of a few to add to the board. Its was a good day out. At one time we had Potlickers creeping bye...I believe they saw us release'n fish. Just glad they didnt ruin it.

headsRtails 26" 7.7# Hybrid




headsRtails 25.25" 7.2# Hybrid


With the tail spread out


martyK8 22.00" Hybrid




martyK8 23.25" Hybrid



headsRtails 21.50" Hybrid



Few more pics from today







Leader Board as of 10/23/09

1. headsRtails 26.25" on TNT slab 8:10 am 9/24/09
2. headsRtails 26.00" on Rattletrap 6:25 pm 10/23/09
3. headsRtails 25.25" on Rattletrap 5:40 pm 10/23/09
4. headsRtails 23.75" on TNT slab 7:50 am 9/24/09
5. martyK8--- 23.25" on Rattletrap 5:25 pm 10/23/09
5. martyK8--- 23.25" on Rattletrap 6:30 pm 10/17/09
5. headsRtails 23.25" on BangTail inline spinner 7:00 pm 10/14/09
6. Cury Dawg 22.00" on crankbait 9:50 am 9/24/09
6. martyK8--- 22.00" on Rattletrap 5:10 pm 10/23/09
7. headsRtails 21.50" on Rattletrap 4:05 pm 10/23/09
8. headsRtails 21.00" on Rattletrap 6:40 pm 10/17/09

It was sure fun just sitting in one place like we did today and catching all those fish. Like HrT said we got lucky with that anchor catching on the first shot. Its beeen a while since I've been able pull that many Hybrids out of one spot like that. I think its going to be a fun Fall Hybrid season.

I went back and did the best i could to make those picture alittle larger. You can only do so much working with a camera phone. Also to anyone that fishes Palestine. Please post a picture of your Hybrids being measured and get them on this board. The more ... the better this is!

Wow that water is up! How much higher is it than last week?

A foot or so....water is pushing over the spillway pretty heavy. Shallow water has been good. Not much schooling lately...hope to see some soon.

I'm in a grey 22ft bluewave, been gone to Salt Lake and
Wendover NV, for a week , anxious to get back on the lake.

I don't mind anyone approaching me on the lake ( just don't
rush in with the big motor )

Has anyone seen any birds working yet ? Should happen
soon, sometimes it starts in the back of coves as the
cold water moves out the shad towards the main lake.

good luck
MO

Mo .. There was a day last week that birds were working alittle. While not alot of birds...It does seem to be more around than a few weeks ago. That day they were working pretty good was in and around the front of a cove.

DID ANYONE FISH PALESTINE THIS PAST SAT OR SUN ?

Friday was great.....Saturday i did not fish but some others said it was terrible.....Sunday was so so

Grescobia--

I tried to call you back , Have you changed cell #'s ?

sunday am wasn't good , I did catch and release what would
have been a lake record , I have a picture on my cell phone,
I will have to figure out how to download it.

It weighed 28 lb on my boga grips ,
....




Did I mention it was a CARP ?


MO

I fished Saturday a.m. but couldn't get on the water till about 10 a.m. due to the starter going out on my motor.

A big shout out and thankyou to the guys at the Boat Center who dropped everything and followed me home and repaired it at my dock and got me going ASAP.

Caught one bass (21") and one crappie. Lots of junk floating in the water. Stopped at noon.

I fished Sat afternoon 3:00pm till about 6:30pm. Found lots of fish on my graph but just couldn't get them to bite. On Sun. HrT and I caught about 10 fish but they were small and we really had to work to get them.

thanks for the info. Mo I will call you and give you my #

grescobia, you doing any night fishing?

Yes. Most of my fishing has been at night. I have had some fairly good trips the past several weeks with a few bummer nights. I have noticed the hybrids are getting to look a lot healthier. The fish are filling out with some good girths. Heck I might even go tonight if the wind isnt blowing too hard

Went this evening. Fish several places that my buddy and I fish at night. Weather was wet but we manage to catch 11 hybrids and three bass. Fished about 2 hours till the rain was steady. Call it a nite

"grescobia" You have pretty luck chasing Hybrids at night? I can never seem to get them steady after the sun goes down. Though i have done OK in the dark before sunrise.

For anyone who lives on the lake, how high is the water now? Is it getting into boat houses? I'm only there on weekends and am a little concerned about the high water flooding my boathouse.

Thanks for your up to date information.

My dock is 39 inches above spillway and I have about 12
inches of clearance right now. Hopefully it will slow
down on the rain.

What part of the lake are you located ?

Mo

I have been doing a lot of nite fishing over the past several years and have found several places (mainly lighted docks)that seem to always give up a fish or two. Wehad about nine docks that we usually fish. when I fish in my buddys blue wave with a 200 on the back we can cover a lot of territory so it doesnt take long to see if the fish are biting or not.

Mo , weather isnt looking good starting thursday as the weatherman saids a new storm with lots of rain is coming.

Myself and Martyk8 caught some nice Hybrids this afternoon. I'll get these posted in a few.

HrT, I tried to get out there today. I was putting in at the old ramp in Chimney Cove. Backed her down and saw the ACC switch was on. Uh-oh. I remembered I had a friend over a few weeks ago whose son wanted to get in the boat. He was flipping all of the switches and apparently hit the power button.

Needless to say I was bummed. No power. Tried to jump off of my trolling motor batteries to no avail. I was wanted to try by the horse ranch and around by airport cove area. Maybe next time.

On the water with Martyk8 this afternoon. Slight breeze out of the West.Northwest. Surface temps 66 to 67 degrees. After make'n a couple stops with nothing to show for it. I was starting to wonder if today was gonna produce anything. We decided to head to a spot that produced some small Hybrids the other day. Well first cast by marty and it was FISH ON! From that point it just got better as time ticked bye. Lots of 18" to 20" Hybrids with a few decent ones also. Plus we caught a bunch of small Blackbass. Great afternoon to be out!

Martyk8 with 25.75" 7.3Lb. Hybrid




MartyK8 23.25"




headsRtails 24.75"




headsRtails 20.75"


Other Pics






Shallow water bite is on Fire!

O gezz....you gotta hate that. Today they wasn't doing anything at the Horsefarm. We got these over by Lollipop. They turned on about 4 PM.

That shallow water bite was on pretty good this afternoon, after we spent a little time finding them. I was afraid after we lost most of our cloud cover the fishing wouldn't be very good but things worked out fine. I noticed now that the water is cooling down the fish have a lot more fight in them. It was a fun afternoon..

YEAH!!!! look at that smile on Marty's face! That must be the one he caught whike I was on the phone with you. Mike you upgraded your phone? those are some nice pictures. I took my boat to The Boat Center in Dogwood City today to install some new electronics and trolling motor, I sprung for the HDS5 w/ Lake Insight and a Minn Kota Riptide 24 volt TM, hopefully they'll have it done by the weekend. Oh and they're going to fix the seat too!

They were much needed but it sure is hard for me to spend that kind of $$$$...ah the joys of boat ownership I guess...

Hybrid Board as of 10/27/09

1. headsRtails 26.25" on TNT slab 8:10 am 9/24/09
2. headsRtails 26.00" on Rattletrap 6:25 pm 10/23/09
3. MartyK8 --- 25.75" on Rattletrap 5:50 pm 10/27/09
4. headsRtails 25.25" on Rattletrap 5:40 pm 10/23/09
5. headsRtails 24.75" on Rattletrap 5:20 pm 10/27/09
6. headsRtails 23.75" on TNT slab 7:50 am 9/24/09
7. Martyk8 --- 23.25" on Rattletrap 4:30 pm 10/27/09
7. Martyk8 --- 23.25" on Rattletrap 5:25 pm 10/23/09
7. MartyK8 --- 23.25" on Rattletrap 6:30 pm 10/17/09
7. headsRtails 23.25" on BangTail inline spinner 7:00 pm 10/14/09
8. Cury Dawg - 22.00" on crankbait 9:50 am 9/24/09
8. MartyK8 --- 22.00" on Rattletrap 5:10 pm 10/23/09
9. headsRtails 21.50" on Rattletrap 4:05 pm 10/23/09
10.headsRtails 21.00" on Rattletrap 6:40 pm 10/17/09
11.headsRtails 20.75" on Rattletrap 5:55 pm 10/27/09

Parkenstein, I wish we'd known you was having trouble... we would've come over and jumped ya off with my crankin battery.

same ole' phone....just kinda get'n better at it(kinda i guess)
I know your just waiting to get that boat back...Cause there's Hybrids waiting on YA!!!!!

If not.....you could have got in the boat with us. I hate to hear that happen to ya today. There's more days to come...with lots of Hybrids still to be caught! In fact i don't think that 26.25" Hybrid is gonna hold first for long.

Man, you guys are killing me with these reports. It has been all work, no fishing for me the last couple of months. I'll try to join in the action pretty soon...

Good to hear from ya...I knew you hadn't posted for awhile. Hope you get a chance to get out soon. Plus ole' Cury Dawg who has been out of town for a month working...should be back anyday now. I'm sure he's ready to get on the water.

anyone have a vhf on their boat besides me?

I do

Man, I wish I was down there with you guys. My preggo wife is killing me with how fast she fills up our schedule. I haven't been out there since the beginning of Oct.

Good luck filling up the cooler guys!

Thinking of heading out this morning for awhile. Anyone else going out?

Fished yesterday evening. Caught lots of Sandies, Hybrids, and Black Bass. Nothing of any size....had some Hybrids around 22 or 23 inches. There's a Bass tournament going on this weekend with lots of boat traffic on the water.<(Kinda Crazy). Anyway fishing is pretty good.

Live on the south end and the water is about 10 inches below the top of the pier.

Welcome to the TFF MikeBr, I believe we met the other day out on the lake. Good to see you posting.

Went to toledo bend yesterday. The sabine river authority had every gate open at five feet high . Had not seen that much water going down stream in several years. It was impossible to fish as everything was closed to fishing and the roads were closed. If you want to catch a trophy striper just wait till the gates are closed as a lot of fish will be in the river . The main river was up to the highway .Guesstamate water was 20 feet higher than it shoud be. Sure was ,in my opinion , poor planning as they knew the water from up north was eventually coming their way. They could have open the gates about a week ago to ease the the flooding that was going on downstream. Just my opinion. It usually takes 3-4 days for the water around Longview to reach the dam at TB dam. Anyway my fishing buddy and I came back home to fish Palestine at night. We were going to fish for catfish but wound up fishing for hybrids as the first few places yieided several hybrids ,the biggest around 5 lbs, the action was steady at several of our sports. We quit around 11 .

Sounds like alot of water. I have not been to Toledo Bend in years. As a kid we used to go down there camping and crappie fishing. I got out with Iberia yesterday for a couple of hours (2:30 till 5 pm)to test out his new electronics(HDS-5)and trolling motor. We fished alittle...caught 9 I think. The past couple of days there has been alot of traffic on the lake with the FOM Tournament.

Went out this afternoon and did manage to catch one 5.3 lb 22" Hybrid. Ran into sandbasscamp over at lollypop and he was telling me late Sat. afternoon there was lots of schooling action going on there. The water today was just thick with baitfish. caught lots of LMB and small Hybrids.

Is sanbasscamp getting his computer fixed?? I was out yesterday afternoon as well. Trying to find some big blues. Fishing around Smith point, saw tons of baitfish, not much surfacing action.

I think from what sanbasscamp told martyK8 the schooling action was going on out in the deeper water. I wish sanbasscamp would get his computer up an running...he always has good info.

Just check the water flow at TB dam-----74500 cfs----thats a lot of water

Hey Marty, I fished yesterday at Lollipop as well. I did not see you there. Luke and I caught eleven fish, 2 sandbass, 3 largemouth, and 6 hybrids. The biggest was around 3 pounds, and we caught it by the 155 bridge. I also saw a ton of bait fish around Lollipop. But we could only manage small fish there.

Cd

Can you guys help me out? What's Lollipop?

Its Ledbetter Bay. Lollipop is just a Houseing addition on the west side of the bay. Its sometimes called Lollipop as just a general area of Ledbetter Bay. But keep in mind CNB that doesnt always mean that the fish were caught right in front of Lollipop Houseing.

I just looked at it on Google Maps. Raspberry, Cherry, Grape and Lime Streets. How cute... But at least now I know what you guys are referring to.

My sister lives on Grape steet. No Sh-t.

CD

What several of the oldtimers on Palestine refer to as
Lollipop is a large deep flat just south of the mouth
of ledbetter,
An area of 17-19 ft water surrounded by deeper water.
I've caught a lot of fish there, VERY good live bait
spot in late spring.

MO

Oh, by the way,
I was just minding my business late Sunday , crappie
fishing when those pesky hybrids erupted around the boat.

I think we are just a few degrees from some big time
action.

Mo

If my preggo wife would ever let me get away from the house, I'd be all over it!!

should have thought about that a few months ago,
things are ready to bust out ,

MO

Finally, I'm on the board! Caught this 22.75 inch hybrid in 19 foot of water on a humdinger. Now that I shook the skunk off hopefully I'll start catching some bigger fish!

Hey....thats what we like to see! Well done Parkenstein. I see what kind of bait you caught it on....do you got a round about time it was caught?


Palestine Hybrid board
11/03/09

1. headsRtails 26.25" on TNT slab 8:10 am 9/24/09
2. headsRtails 26.00" on Rattletrap 6:25 pm 10/23/09
3. MartyK8 --- 25.75" on Rattletrap 5:50 pm 10/27/09
4. headsRtails 25.25" on Rattletrap 5:40 pm 10/23/09
5. headsRtails 24.75" on Rattletrap 5:20 pm 10/27/09
6. headsRtails 23.75" on TNT slab 7:50 am 9/24/09
7. MartyK8 --- 23.25" on Rattletrap 4:30 pm 10/27/09
7. MartyK8 --- 23.25" on Rattletrap 5:25 pm 10/23/09
7. MartyK8 --- 23.25" on Rattletrap 6:30 pm 10/17/09
7. headsRtails 23.25" on BangTail inline spinner 7:00 pm 10/14/09
8. Parkenstein 22.75" on humdinger 11:50 am 11/03/09
9. Cury Dawg - 22.00" on crankbait 9:50 am 9/24/09
9. MartyK8 --- 22.00" on Rattletrap 5:10 pm 10/23/09
10.headsRtails 21.50" on Rattletrap 4:05 pm 10/23/09
11.headsRtails 21.00" on Rattletrap 6:40 pm 10/17/09
12.headsRtails 20.75" on Rattletrap 5:55 pm 10/27/09

11:50ish

Fished this afternoon with Marty. Surface temps came up a few degrees to 71-72. First stop on alittle cove we caught a few bass. Then we moved and found sanbasscamp catching fish. That was at the end of a Mid-Day bite. (When i rode by him Saturday he was catching fish) We hung out a bit...then moved up on the shoreline. Picked up some bass and sandbass... Marty got a fat Hybrid around 19" or so. Moved back out on a Hump the last hour. I hooked up with a really nice Hybrid that got lost trying to get it in the boat. Got a good look at it. That makes two Hybrids in the last few days swimming with my baits still in there mouth.

Parkenstine thats a nice fish, I thought about throwing some humdingers today but didn't. Now you got to get Jack out there and let him loose on some fish.

What is the water level like? Two weeks ago I had to go to my lakehouse at hideaway bay and raise the boat almost to the roof to get it clear of the water! Also the water was full of "floaties" (ie weeds sticks etc.)Any higher or clearer?

Its dropped alittle...like maybe 6 inches. Not quite as stained as it was. Overall it looks pretty good.

I heard monday it was on , early in the fog, hybrids on
top midlake. I have found them like that before , just have
to cut the engine and listen. Very spooky when you can't see the
end of your cast.

I bought my fist gps just for navigating in the fog.
still scary.

MO

Sounds like a blast!