Looking for a good place for me and my son to bank fish at Benbrook Lake. We only live about 10 min. away.......
Any suggestions ??????

Longhorn Park is my favorite. Very peaceful little area with a free boat launch. The bank fishing is rocky and it seems due to all the scratches on my crankbaits, the bottom is rocky also.

Which way are you coming from?

i'm interested in fishing benbrook as well. any reports on holiday park, mustang park, and rocky creek park. noticed that they have creeks any crappie or sandies in the creeks?

right now, with the colder weather- fish the barges. rocky creek seems to have better water around it. if you really want to get serious, sour some maize/cottonseed mill/alfalfa cubes in a handful of toad sacks for a week- then carry it out to the lake and somehow get that nasty stuff out off the bank about casting distance.. that will draw in the catfish and carp... carp are fun to catch, and catfish are fun to eat

I'm just southwest of the lake right off 1187. I come through benbrook every day, since I work in fort worth. Thanks for all the input....... Keep it comming. I have been out of the fishing secene for a while and need all the catch up help I can get.

thanks for the info not really a big fan of carp. catfish on the other hand catfish is very appetizing. does shad or cut bait not do well there for catfish? i rather not go the route you suggested doesn't seem as much of a challenge. if i do that then to me it seems like i'm fishing a stocked pond. don't get me wrong, doing it that way guarantees a good catch.

I've fished from the banks pretty much all over BB recently and didn't catch any catfish. But I have seen some a few vids of some healthy cats being caught from deep waters out in the lake...via boat.

I havent really heard of anybody catching a hole lot at bb but for myself I have caught alot of sandies in the creeks.

It will improve your odds, but nothing guarantees a good catch.

Look at it this way- it puts bank fishermen on a more level playing field with boaters that can go where the fish would normally be.

There's not a lot more futile than fishing from the bank when 99% of the fish naturally stay in the holes beyond casting range. You may as well be fishing in a swimming pool.

And if you get a lot of bank fishermen in one place, it becomes a "recipe contest" to see whose bait recipe attracts them the best.

BTW, that remark isn't about Bennbrook Lake in particular since I've never been there.

And that "recipe contest" is actually pretty fun. I think bank fishing adds an extra challenge that boaters don't have. We have to bring the fish to us, instead of going to them.

Lake is very hard, when you get a good rain fish the creek the Benbrook lets out at rocky creek. its where you have to pay 3 dollars and its the creek where the boat ramp is. the only time I fish benbrook is when it rains hard. Me and my son have pulled some nice cats out of there when it rains. Use worms or cut shad.

Hi All,

I too live not too far from BB but have never fished there. So Rocky Creek Park is better bet than the others?

Someone posted this a while back. I forget his name, but it's pretty useful.

http://www.net4u.com/net4umap.asp?lid=72260&bhcp=1

I also like fishing by the dam, near the pump station. The hybrids will run under the lights in the summer, and the bluegills are usuall plentiful for kids to catch.

i have fished benbrook for a while and when the water is up i catch cat and if its flooded i do good, if the creeks are realy high during the sandy run its just as good as the nolan but hasnt been that way in a few years.