Fishing Between Showers! Catching Good Quality Fish!

Been fishing between thunder showers the past two weeks! With creeks a muddy mess,and the Guadalupe River being muddy to stained along with a fast current not to mention WAKE BOAT SEASON, small ponds,community lakes,and a small hill country river are providing some good fishing. Been catching some good numbers and quality fish from these locations. Fish are very active and are holding by grass beds,reed beds,and over hanging tree limbs. Getting good numbers of Bluegill and Redear. Also catching some Rios,bass,Redbreast,and even some Red Spotted Sunfish. Both float and bottom techniques were used. Worms and Berkley Trout Worms were the baits used. All water bodies were in GREAT shape! Looks like this will be the plan of action for the next couple of weeks. There is a chance of THUNDER STORMS for the next eight days. Catching some good quality fish between storms. It just don't get any better!

That's some good lookn fish & water in those pics.....
I fished a local to me clear water lake this past w-end, should have took some fish at the boat in tha water pics to show it's clarity.....
Might get a chance to get back over there soon.....
WTG on tha catchn.....

Thanks SK for the reply. The locations of the water bodies where I fish have a lot of lime stone around them which makes for some pretty good water conditions. One of the ponds/community lake was stained but due the amount of rain we have been having I can't complain!

You're making me jealous. I need to get out... Been hectic traveling with work and for pleasure lately though, so no trip has materialized. I thought about getting on the Guadalupe yesterday (Mon) but decided to smoke a brisket instead; glad I did when the downpour tried to drench my charcoal at 6 am!

Good work! Still hope to run into you guys on the Guad sometime!

Thanks Doc for the reply! You made the right choice by staying home. Corp of Engineers has started letting out more water from Canyon Lake last night. Current on the Guadalupe is very fast! Forecast is saying between 3 to 7 inches of RAIN this week!

unless someone is living or fishing in the Concho river drainage, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH with the rain. Chuck what we need more than anything is stability. Kudos to you for even finding a fishable water shed right now, much less finding good fish. Just a heads up, a source at GBRA told me last Thursday that it would be "Not Wise" to yak fish between his dam at Canyon and Dunlap til July at least lol. I really think he was serious.

Thanks Kent for the reply. Yes Sir stability in the weather patterns would fix it for sure. I the mean time just keep looking for nice water.

Well done, as always, Chuck... Love the pics of fish coming out of water!

Thanks HC for the reply! Love those action shots.

Banker, that picture looks like you are fishing over submerged matted hydrilla. Do you fish it with your normal bottom rig, across the top of the hydrilla, maybe with a smaller split shot, or what? Can't figure out how you get fish out of that stuff. I fish around hydrilla with a drop shot rig, but it is not that thick and I still hang up in it a lot. I give it a sharp jerk when it hangs and it will normally jerk free, although I lose my bait part of the time. Hate fishing in the stuff, but that is where the fish are, so have no choice.

Fish 'till I drop: The ponds where I fish have a lot of grass/weed beds. When using bottom techniques I do use a BB type shot. I also use a float. I do loose some fish that get pulled off the hook through the grass beds but I do manage to catch a bunch.

Thanks Banker. It is a strange thing, but I can't seem to catch fish using a float. Even when I wait for the float to go completely down, when I lift up it doesn't catch the fish. When I fished Lake Austin several years ago, before the grass and fish disappeared, I used a float all the time and rarely missed. It may be that the only bites I'm getting on the float are tiny fish.

Another thing is that most of the large fish seem to be on the bottom where I'm now fishing, and don't come up to take a bait hanging under a float. I get probably 5 bites to 1 fishing a bottom rig over a float. I have also tried slowly swimming a jig over the hydrilla and do not get many takes that way, unlike last summer when that was the main way I caught them. The only thing I can think of is that lake conditions are different this year due to all the rain and lake level. Funny/strange how things change. Anyway, fishing on bottom in hydrilla is a real challenge as you said, at least it is for me so far this year. Always good talking to you.

I am a lot like you. I miss a lot of fish while using a float. I do use small floats that are easy to take down. The more aggressive the bite the easier the hook set especially when a float is used. You may also want to try a slip float and fish the bait off the bottom that way. When fish are suspended float fishing for me works pretty good especially if the bite is aggressive. I do catch my bigger fish off of the bottom!

Appreciate the reply Banker. Although I try to balance my float and split shot, your mention about using a small float reminds me to try using a smaller float than I have been using. Slip float, and setting the depth to fish it above the bottom is the way I've always rigged it.

I use the slip float the same way! You can also use a drop shot method. Set the hook further up from the bottom. I do not use the drop shot method but friends of mine who do have pretty good success.

Nice ones as always Chuck. Bet those ponds are really looking great? Any of those ponds you fish have any creek or river accesses?

Thanks Gitter for the reply. One pond has fairly good creek accesses. Especially during heavy rain spells.

Nice ones Chuck! Glad to see the stable weather patterns setting in. Had a super day this last Thursday fishing the east side of the Guadalupe. The bite is really improving!



Side Note: Drove by Dunlap yesterday. Current is really fast! Guess water is being let out of Canyon. Current is also very strong on Mcqueeney. Have you been fishing the Guadalupe?

Have not been fishing the Guadalupe since mid spring. Getting plenty of nice fish in ponds and creeks.

Guadalupe bite has picked up! Lots of nice sunnies and Crappie on the east side! Current has slowed down!

Thanks Curtis.