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"


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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.