The game plan was for white bass, but I have done so well this year at the Nueces I was not mad enough at them to run all the way up the river and I always try for some blacks if things look good. We were fishing with 6-lb test and small cranks. She caught it by that small island that is out of the water in front of Mystic Shores. I always make a circle or two around that island before heading up the river and usually catch 3 or 4 small blacks with an occasional 3-lber. Any how I was going to troll some around the mouth of the river and about 1-mile into the river, but I saw others trolling and they were not catching any. I had some good looking live shade that I caught with a cast net and fished some around the well, but only caught some small blacks and crappie. I would not say they are not there because I only fished from 2 to 5 and I did not fish that hard for them.

Is there any bank spots that are good for sand bass on the river. I just moved back to SA and wouldn't mind getting into em like I used to up in the creeks in Dallas. If not Canyon then where? If you don't wanna post it plz PM me. If anyone wants a tag along I'll help with bait and gas as well.

For bank fishing I would go to the Rebecca creek launch and walk the bank down to the river. You can walk in the river channel pretty easily now ( I would wear waders though, some of it looks soft) because the water is so low.

Yea that's what I figured. Anyone want to go next week?

First time that i have gone upriver yesterday. Went past rebecca creek ramp bout 3 miles. There was a sand/gravel bar where i stopped. We trolled rattle traps various colors and other assortment of lures all the way up. Fished minnows in various places. Many boats but none had much. Ended up with 2 whites 1 crappie. Could of went further upriver but no reason i could see. People fishing on bank at rebbeca creek hadnt much luck either. Some had said they were catching whites couple weeks ago upriver.

Thanks tbud glad to know. I won't waste time. Any other area lakes south of SA with a white bass run?

Rivermouth doesn't seem to be holding them either. Yesterday trolled minnows from mouth up to first bend. Caught 2 Crappie keepers and one white. Not reward enough for nearly freezing to death.

How is the spawning run on the Guadalupe river usually? Any good action?

Unfortunately the spawn has been pretty bad the last few years. That's all in part to the fact that we've had a pretty severe drought just a couple years ago where that river pretty much dried up as far as having much of a flow to produce a decent white bass run.
We need some good rains to bring the lake back up, and then enough rains to maintain a good steady flow into the lake for a couple of years, and the whites will bounce back.

Do any of you know if there is enough water in Rebecca Creek to launch a kayak or canoe?

I've been wanting to take the kiddos out for some crappie but before the last rains, the creek was too dry to make it to the river without a portage.

I stopped at the ramp last Saturday while coming back from an outing at Guadalupe River SP and there was water all the way to the river. However when I say water to the river, it's a generous description because at one point it looked like the creek was only two feet wide and I couldn't tell from the bluff where I was standing if it was deep enough to paddle through.