I thought I caught a sharelunker on Sunday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqGHLD8GFM

Nice carp, they will fool you at first. I went out Sunday afternoon. Lots of shad coming up as it was getting close to dark. I watched a few 3 pounders come completely out of the water eating them.

Did ya'll watch the FLW College Fishing Regional Tournament on TV this weekend. It was at Lake Somerville. They caught some huge fish and SFA had a 26lb bag on the final day. The tournament was held back in mid Oct.

No time to reply.....loading boat/dog for drive to Somerville

You might check on Somerville before you go, Rocky Creek is abaout the only ramp working, and they closed Sunday 27th until Dec 5th for a deer hunt, so the ramp is not available till then

Thanks for info....will check tomorrow.

UPDATE: Went to Fayette County instead.

I put it at Rocky Creek Saturday morning with no problem. Sommerville was extremely slow for me. I fished it from 7 to 1. The water temp was 63-65. I fished shallow brush,deep brush, shallow rock, deep rock and only managed one fish. I thought the bite would have been better.

How was Gibbons this weekend?

Friday was relatively good for me. Caught 8. Biggest was 5.11 and also caught a 4.45. Didnt fish on Sat or Sunday. Headed to Bastrop this weekend for a couple of days of fishing.

Absolutely zero bite this afternoon at Gibbons??

Fished Gibbons today, one bite, nothing landed. Anyone do better?

Thursday on Gibbons was an absolute fabulous day on the water..... for my Yellow Lab. As for me and my bass fishing, it was dead.

I don't know how to bass fish on Gibbons anymore.

I'm glad I went to San Antonio this weekend instead of fishing! I'll probably focus on Bastrop and Fayette until Spring.

How is the water level at Gibbons?

At least 5 feet low.

The 60 degree and falling Gibbons' lake waters are balling up the quarter sized shad schools all over the lake and quite a few shad are dying off. The bass have been gorging and the few ones caught are stuffed full. Bass are understandably ignoring most any/all my baits.

Floating dying shad are attracting hundreds of birds of many species that are continuously picking the injured shad from the surface. 21 Pelicans, 2 bald eagles,, kildee, seagulls, blue herons, egrets, the usual turkey vultures and a halfdozen more species that I can't name have migrated to the lake. I have never seen many of them out there. Hard to fish being impressed by large flocks of feeding birds circling about.

The lake level didn't come up much with the rain, and is at an all time low and the boat ramp is not far from having to be closed. A paint mark has been made on the ramp dock wood even with where the concrete boat ramp abruptly drops off many inches and the edge was about even with the motor prop at launch/loading.

I have only a 19 foot, so a very much longer boat or a pontoon trailer would surely be at risk soon . My side imaging shows it would be a challenge to pull a single axle trailer back up on top of the concrete ramp if the axle/tires fully dropped off.

(4.4 day after xmas)

"I have only a 19 foot, so a very much longer boat or a pontoon trailer would surely be at risk already . My side imaging shows it would be a challenge to pull a single axle trailer back up on top of the concrete ramp if the axle/tires fully dropped off."

Grrrr....
I was thinking about going out there in a few weeks. Hopefully, more rain.

I drove by this evening. It was my first time to see the lake first time since early March.

All I can say is "wow". Where I used to catch is now dry land. Park ranger said 5.5 feet low. It is a different lake now from last time I saw it. I really wonder how good this Spring will be. If not good then that is not a good sign for the lake.

Today, couldn't pull my loaded boat out of the water.

It wasn't that I backed too far or off the end of the ramp. It was that large mounds of barely submerged sand have been pushed up on the concrete and as I was backing, I had to back left side of the trailer over a shallow submerged mound to get deep enough water to load the boat on the trailer. It is also a much steeper ramp near the end of the ramp.

When I attempted to pull out, there was just too high sand mounded in front of my tires and with the boat weight, could only spin the truck tires on the wet concrete ramp. Had to be helped and towed out by another truck pulling my truck and boat/trailer.


Folks, be careful with the ramp out there!

Just got the green light to hit the lake this Saturday. Any update on the level at Gibbons? Is anyone else going to be out there this Saturday?

I was there on Saturday for the first time in a couple of weeks. The lake level may have come up a little lately and I was still able to get in and out of the lake. The fishing was real slow for me.