On hwy 31 I usually pull off the road right before the bridge too the right heading from Tyler to Chandler. I just follow the trails all the way back too the power lines and fish the bends back towards the 31 bridge. I've always seemed to do good there but its usually middle of feb into March. When dog woods bloom youre almost too late.

I've done pretty good back towards the power lines but it's risky with the trespassing signs up now

I've always been curious about who owns that property, can't say I blame the land owner with all the trash that gets left back there.

We tried it out last week, caught few large mouth which was strange... fished it yesterday on both the neches and kickapoo and not a bite from anything. marked shad but no sandy's yet. Will continue to update as we continue to try and find them. Oh and just for those who live locally, just because the cars are out there doesnt mean they are biting just yet. I talked to every person as we were coming in and all said the same thing... "nope I think its still a bit early"

Feb 20th the run starts in earnest, peaks about March 7th, and is over in
the creeks March 20th. Look at this weekend's rain event.... 49 deg rain
falling on 49 deg veg & soil...the Chill for the fish will continue. Couple
of 60-70 deg days won't warm water in the creeks & main lake that much. Later
on towards the end of Feb we get night temps in the 50's and some 60 deg
rain/veg/soil + Full moon Feb 14 and the "Spawn Will Be On". As mentioned in
the above posts, ain't much going on....yet.

It's hard to stay off the water so we've been running trot lines and doing pretty good with that until the run starts. Catfish off westberry landing have been pretty steady for the last couple weeks. Caught some nice blues.

Caught a few this afternoon.

nice catch where they down river of the 31 bridge ? I did good, well up stream of the 31 bridge lots of them upstream past the power lines, in my yak

This weeks recap jig fishing.
1/28..2pm-4pm...(7)- white bass....aggressive bite
1/29..9am -1pm..(4)- whites (2) black...slow presentation
1/31..11am-1pm...(2) whites ...slow presentation
2/1.....6am- 8am....(4) whites (1) crappie...a very slow presentation

Are there any trees across the river, are you making it up the river without to much trouble

Went out this afternoon on Neches just south of Hwy31
at the "South Bend" of the Chandler Park. Caught one nice
male on the 2nd cast....Oh boy! Then the front blew away
the clouds, sun came out, and the wind picked up.
67 casts later, just before I left, caught a small male.
Tunahunter56 - I have also heard reports of males near the
Tyler airport - an FM road access. Color today: 1/8 oz
white jig head + blue/white triple tail 2" grub. Blue/White
was a very good color for me last year.

I agree that we don't need to put it all on here but most of um can't read this anyway.

Very well said Mike. As of a couple weeks ago there were trees down upriver on neches. Could make it maybe 1/2-3/4 mile in a surface drive but no further. That's with jumpin over 4 or 5 logs. Downriver there is one down at the first bend, but you can get around it easily. Clear all the way to the lake after that

U mean everyone's gonna be at the creek anyways

The forecast is looking pretty good for the weekend warriors....could be a major move happening with this full moon and warmer temps...