Went last Sunday, caught 1 fish all day. Water temp was 57-59. Maybe its slow because it's December, maybe because the water is low. It's been pretty bad since September though.. I don't want to have to give up on this lake, but I will take the boat to Fayette County if need be!!

Not the low water, I had my best years there when the lake was 20ft low. Fishing was easy, you could almost pick the spots where a fish was at before you got there. What lures are you using and what areas are you fishing? Don't be afraid to say and I'm not trying to steal your areas, esp. since you can't catch fish.

fishing 3 and 4 fingers. 0-15 ft of water, points and where ever looks good. Throwing everything from texas rigged creature baits to mag flukes, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs. I think its just slow. Haven't seen any posts recently with people just nailing fish

You ever tried a 8" Zoom magnum watermelon red lizard?

Im probably going this coming Monday. Ill let you know how it goes...

Yea tried it, not all day, but i threw it a couple times. Nothing. I caught my one fish a a tx rig mag fluke off a point in three fingers. I'm pretty sure that area is overfished to begin with.

The alligators are multiplying, and IMO they eat bass.
IOW I have a hard time finding fish too.

Cloud, you sure thats Choke there in your pic?

Ryano, you ever fish the mouth of Opossum?

Only a few times, and had no luck so I tend to stay east

Yes, but not recent, it was just prior to the start of the drop in water level. That spot is about a mile upstream of the bridge. I had worked hard trying to find fish over in the Possum Creek area, then just upstream of the boat ramp at Callahan. I loaded up and put in at the bridge ramp, and found a few 2 to 3 pounders.

There are no fish at the mouth, or any other part, of opossum. I would steer clear.

Some pretty good spawning areas in the possum. Lot's of sandy gravel bottoms. Think you might try a little harder. Or like Cracker said just stay clear.

Hey Cloud is that water hycenthia? Never seen that kind of vegataion in Choke but then again I don't go up river, not enough fish up there!

One last thing, a old pro named Elroy Kreuger once told me a secret... If you want to catch the biggest fish on Choke you have to fish the clearest water on Choke! Anybody guess where that's at?

And never waste your time fishing there if the water temp is 50 degrees or colder.

clearest water is by the dam

I would say the fishing dropped off in November for me. Prior to that I was pulling in 20+ fish in the evening. Last weekend we fished deeper with smaller worms than usual. 5 fish only. Fish are still being caught though. I saw a bay boat at the south shore ramp cleaning a good pile of bass. One thing I noticed were the fish don't seem to be fat at all. I was at Amistad and everything looked fat. I'm sure it will pick up soon enough.

Wait till March

water hyacinth:

O.K. so I spelled it wrong but is that what you were fishing in your pic?

I posted the photo with the flowers in hope that someone could tell us the name of the plant in my photo.
I don't know one water "grass" from the other. All I know is that I fish it when I find it.
But, I can tell you that I've never seen flowers on any of the water plants at Choke Canyon.

Buddy and I fished Choke this weekend. We found that chartreuse was key, no real bait pattern though.

I've fished Choke 4 times since Christmas. First couple of trips down there I had close to 32lbs as I found hundreds of 6lbers and an occasional 7ler mixed in all stacked up on some brushpiles. Went down again and same thing. Alright now I've got them figured out, let me take my buddies so they can have some fun too...fail!.

The last 2 times just before New Years the fishing was extremely tough. Ran the same patterns as before with no luck. In attempt to just put something in the boat I moved real shallow (1-2ft) and found some fish on hydrilla pacthes with mixed wood on big flats. Nothing big but we did get 2 that pushed 5lbs and a couple of smaller fish. Couldn't put a limit together the last 2 trips. Been towing boat down to Falcon ever since.

Time on the water is the best advice for Choke. Slowly dragging a watermelon senko w/ 3/16 or 1/4 weight can help on a slow day when nothing else will.

only way I have ever caught fish at choke is to run and gun. pick up 1 here and two there. some spots nothing. never been able to set in one place and catch fish one after another. I carry 11 rods and no two of them have the same bait on. if the fishing is slow, I will use them all at one time or another. some days I will find one bait that outfishes the rest and stick with that one all day.

Hows Falcon going for you, been thinking of going down next month.

I'm gonna try and fish one day next weekend, prob Saturday. I will return and let you know where all the fish are, that is if I leave any in the lake.

That lake is crowded. Fishing is better than choke but it's not what falcon has been for the last several years. At least not for me With the lake down it's been fishing pretty small. I would recommend going during the week and/or not the week leading up to any big tourney's. I'll probably go back to fishing Choke. 1-2 day trips to falcon are just no longer worth it for me.

Spent 1/2 on Choke today...caught two keepers....:-(

Sounds like you got in to 'em pretty good then.

GPS Coordinates!!!!

Fished up river from sunup to noon, then from 3 til 6 around Greyhound point. Guess how many we caught? If you guessed ZERO...you would be correct. 3 legitimate bites all day. Granted we probably should've landed those 3, but it's hard to keep focused with so little action.

Sadly, our last 3 trips to Choke have yielded 3 fish. After a pretty respectable spring, summer, and fall there.

Yea choke is blowing hard lately. I was thinking about fishin it tomorrow, but sounds like it still slow.

Has anyone fished the deeper drops in the river channel with a really slooooooowwww presentation with either a jig or large colorado bladed slow rolled spinner bait?

That seemed to have been the ticket in the past.

I'm heading there today after work, I'll try deep ledges up by 4 fingers.

I fished choke today. I used the ramp at Daughtery. The water temp was 68.8 when I left at 5:00 p.m. ish. I caught about 5 bass and missed about 5. The biggest bass was about 4.5 lbs. All the fish was caught shallow. The 4.5 was caught in about 6 ft. of water. I was using a tx rig with with a chigger toad by berkley baits in Bama Bug and I caught one bass on a black and blue finese jig. The river is pretty dirty but Sanmeguel (or however you spell it) creek water looks a prettier green. Hope this helps.

Living just 45 min from choke I fish it a lot, I learned how to fish out there, and have caught many bass on the lake over the yrs. My 2nd biggest bass has come from choke, a 12.4 lber back in 2008.

This being said, Choke is just not what it used to be!!! Yes, the fish are still there, and fish counts actually show increases in size and number, however, getting them to bite is just a whole lot tougher.

You got to understand, the pressure on choke quadrupled very quickly and I believe this really hurt the fishing on the lake. In 2009 and 2010, there were large tournys on the lake constantly, im talking every weekend had at least 100 boats worth of tournys. Then there was also the large increase in recreation anglers eager to fish the hotest lake in the statew. Falcon was still a secrete, for the most part around 2008 and CHoke Canyon was the "it" lake in Texas for a time period. It was featured in many mag articles and TV shows. Plus, in 2010 Choke also began to see lots more boat action by the way of duck hunters.

Choke Canyon is not as big as Falcon or Amistad, and just didnt seem to handle the increased pressure very well. The bigger fish became harder and harder to catch. You can no longer run the banks with a spinnerbait and catch 5 lbers all day. You have to open up the arsenal and try and fish areas untouched by the avg angler. I have even started to experiment with finesse techniques that I never thought Id use on CHoke. The bass have just seen a whole lot of lures over a short period of time, and I think they are just kinda shell shocked. 3 yrs ago it took at least 30 lbs to win any tournament on the lake. Now that is not so. I won a tourny the other day with just 16 lbs!

However, with the Falcon craze; and a resurgance of Amistad, I think that choke may bounce back for a little hot action here soon. Untill then you are just going to have to be more creative in catching fish. Try and do things that others are not doing. Though it may be slow at times, Choke still holds some monsters and at any given time you could hook up with a state record. Stay ready!

won some money in a tourny the other day by doing this. Was fishing these areas with heavy football jigs and tx rigged worms!

I haven't fished any tournaments in years, but when I did I was a success, and I followed one simple rule and that was, no matter what lake or time of year you fish, and if you, nor anyone else is catching fish doing what everyone else is doing, then you change your tactics and do what everyone else isn't doing.

That's just basic Bass Fishing 101.

What tourney risk

Oh hell, here we go again.

Bassmaster elites?

I might as well go to Canyon Lake. I heard they're starting to bite over there.
Can't wiat to try those new-to-me X-Cite 10" worms from South Texas Tackle, and with big X-Cite shaky jigs.

I own some property about 35 minutes away from choke canyon and was wondering if someone could tell me how the fishing is. I live and fish at lake Texoma and am used to fighting the strippers. Am planning to retire and move down there this fall

I thought everyone who bass fished had a boat sponser wrapped, and had what looked like grasshopper legs on the rear deck and wore those sponsor shirts zipping between spots up on plane and runnin and gunnin!

All I know is there is a 14" lenght limit, and you can have five fish per person in the ice chest when you get to the fish cleaning table.

There ya go!

What the hell man! What did I miss? Got damnit!

guys give rsk a break he is just saying fishing is alot tougher and i was his partner in that open tournament out there that we won a little money end

Eric, thanks for the support but I dont even sweat these nuckleheads. They are just trying to start trash cause they got nothing better to do. YOu know I could care less about some guy that doesnt even get out of the house. And even if they actually do fish you know we would smoke em, easy!

I havent made but 2 or 3 post on this forum in a long time cause I dont have the time, but every time I do the same 2 or 3 guys jump on with their same tired put downs. Trust me guys, you are not even on my radar, or level for that matter, so just quit. These guys must have absolutely no life whatsoever to just sit around and wait for me to post every 2 or 3 months so they can talk smack. It is really sad and I feel bad for them.

The funny thing is that I would be nice to them if they didnt try to start mess every time I post. I dont have ill will towards anybody. Life is too short and Im winning anyway!

Hey RSK, I'm nice to you! I was just wanting to know what kind of tourney you fished? Was it like a working mans tourney? Or club tourney? You have to tell us this kind of stuff or our little pea brain minds will wander and concoct all kinds of wierd things. Since you don't fish there much anymore, you want to give me a hint as to where you caught the 12lber? A hint being defined as the exact spot. Best bass I ever caught there was a hair over 9 and it was a long, long, loonnngggg time ago.

Hey guys, I didn't mean to ruffle feathers and I don't know anything about what was posted in the past, or who posted it, and I apologize for my weak attempt at making a joke.

Bass fishermen can be a little sensitive when it comes to their sport, and I know because I used to be active fishing for them for several years.

Ya'll keep catching and good luck, but don't feel sorry for us old farts that don't get out much anymore, and you're right about life being too short to worry about it.

Gotta tip 'em with more than just a dollar bill. Nothin worse than an angry stripper. C'mon on down and retire here at Choke; the gators are much nicer.

hahahhahaha!!!

gators are nicer from afar

The fish are Skeered of them Gators !!!!

I'm scared of them gators too. And, I'm not happy about them stuffing their gut with bass(the kind with the big mouth).
But, I sure like alligator boots,....and shoes.
I'll have to keep an eye out for the gator.

Not sure what rsk said for people to bash him and not sure if people did bash him. But i think what he said is right on the money. Choke is tough right now just like it is this time every year. I appreciate what he had to say and hopefully someone reading it will take it to heart and learn something from it

Personally, I think anglers who routinely catch amounts of fish that seem to the rest of us astonishing should be treated with far more deference than has been shown here. Shame on you.

I'm going to start a new thread with actual Choke Canyon fishing reports. This is getting out of control.

I was just wondering what tourney he fished. Wondering if it was walkers local tourney. I think it is funny because people get on here and start all this bs and never really answer a simple question. Rsk gave a report over a tourney just wondering which one. I'have fished walkers local tourney and had a great time and was wondering if that was the weight that won the last one since I could not fish it. Everyone gets on a soapbox and never reply to the folks who have a legit question. Plug for walker he runs a great tourney. Last time I fished it in dec 17 lbs and change won it with three teams right around 15 lbs.RSK What tourney thanks bro

i fished with him and i am not sure what tournament it was it was one i found on a website just said open tournament sorry

i think the guys name was chad but i could be wrong

Cool that was chad walker congrats again nicely ran tourney.

I have a feeling that once we get into spring and these fish get out of their winter funk, Choke is going to be awesome thus year. And with everyone in the world going to falcon, we may have her to ourselves again.

Anywho, have a club tourney next weekend and will prefish one day this week. Will let you guys know how the tourney goes.

My comment wasnt aimed at you it was aimed at the guy(s) that are always trying to start mess. They know who they are!