I have seen posts about this lake being back up to normal levels now and that the ramp is good now after all the rain we had. I have been waiting on it to get better since i bought my boat and this weekend will be my first time out there. I have never even seen this lake before and i live in Joshua. Hell, i didnt even know there was a lake there until about 6 months ago. Is there anything I need to watch out for in this lake? Any major stumps or anything that is tricky to manuver around that i wont be able to see because of the risen water level? Any thing i need to watch for? I have been to some of the other lakes around here (Benbrook, Whitney, Cleburne) when the water was low so i could see where structure was before it filled up some.

No stumps, pretty steep ramp though

No stumps to worry about the east side around the point gets shallow a ways out, but with the lake up it should be no problem.

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I was out there late Sunday evening with the wife and kid for about two hours and caught several BB at the far south east end of the lake. We were using a chart/white buzz bait and a pearl white Zoom Super Fluke in the shallow grass. The wife was using a LG View cell phone that caught NOTHING!!!

It has been at least ten years sense I have fished there (haven't owned a boat in this time). I plan on going back tomorrow and will give a report ASAP.

I have fished Whitney, Cleburne and Alvarado so far and Alvarado sure has helped with my confidence building.

If any of you guys have any pointers for Alvarado or just a secret fishing hole; I'm all ears.

Bass, Crappie or Cat

Thanks in advance!!!!

I hope it can do the same for me. I havent really lost my confidence because i havent been ripping fish out of the water on every outing because i am still very new to this and im learning alot. But it would be nice to go somewhere where the body of water is smaller and where fish bite, so you can catch something. I havent had very good luck on cleburne and whitney is sooooo big i dont really know where to go. I have caught sand bass in whitney over by the white bluffs but havent found the bass yet, and i have caught some fish down at Cleburne but it was hit and miss.

CWCW - I fished Alvarado again this morning. I did't find em' in the same place, but I did do well again flipping a jig n pig around the docks and spinner bait between the docks. I was sure the top water bite would be on again with total cloud cover this morning, but I was wrong and learned another lesson on the fly (fish don't play by the rule book). I took a pic. of one of the fish I caught with my phone, but I'm not smart enough to post it yet. She was about 4.5 lbs.

At Alvarado use a senko or a fluke around the docks

and reeds,,,,,,also a shallow running crankbait I have

had success with running it parallel to the bank

out about fifteen to twenty feet from shoreline...Hopes this helps you

LMAO!!

Hero - I did the rattle trap thing parallel with the bank trying to catch the jumpin' little bastages! I thought it would be on like Donky Kong, but I was wrong (didn't catch a one). I guess they were running shad up. The bait fish was very small and silver.

Is shad the bait of choice at Alvarado and is there a good population of sand bass?

Thanks for the tip!!!!!!!

Would sand bass be in a lake that small that doesnt have a connecting river? I aways assumed sand bass were more of a river fish that were in bigger lakes or ones that had river access. Like Granbury, PK, and Whitney or a lake that was pretty substantial in size. Anyone else know if Alvarado has sandies? Im used to chasing sandies up river in the brazos north of Whitney.

Alvarado has some nice sandies but I don't think there is a ton of them.

have caught quite a few sandies out of the lake myself.

Killed 'em yesterday on a Mann's 1-, pearl white/chartreuse back. Fish the wind blown shorlines northern half of the lake. Strike King Red Eye Shad in ayu color also produced.

I haven't tried the north shore (the dam I guess)yet. I think there are some brush piles there; running a crank bait off the rocks would have to produce year round. I have updated the ol' Astro with a new Humminbird 535 that I installed yesterday. This should help me out with finding the brush piles. I'm chomping at the bit wanting to check it out, but I don't really want to get soaked doing so. Looks like I will have to see next weekend.

Good info here, don't let any else know our secrets!!!

We won the Cleburne open last Sunday in the first 45 minutes of the tourney,and culled 8 times.Everyone else caught 2 or 3 all day.We fished docks with a lime green top yellow bottom H20 3-6'diving crank,and a blue fleck/firetail worm drop shotted.Fish the docks on the southwest end of the lake,past the no wake booyes.Fish sloooooooooowww,lake get's pressured.

all u guys no that u need that special jig from alvarado custom tackle to catch fish on alvarado!!!!!! lmao

Way to go ugotthatcash! Right behind where you were I have had very good luck fishing the grass with a chart. Lunker Lure buzz (early)/Spinner bait and bone colored Pop-R's.

I have yet to try the docks.

As soon as I get a little bit better I will be out there with you guys.. $$$$

Send me a dozen, I've heard they are the shizzle!!!!!!

TRying to get one this lake. Drove down CR 405E until it deadended inot what look like a boatr ramp but the gates were closed. Is this normal? When is it open? I didn't get out and look so the gates could have been unlocked, but it looked like they were trying to keep people out.


Was I in the right spot?

public boat ramp is on park lane off of cr3136

so just follow cr3136 and I'll see it?

u have to turn on park lane road. u cant see the lake from cr3136. boat ramp is at the end of park lane.

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