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.