What are Ghost minnows and where do you get them?

I wish someone would do this for Granger!! Very nice post BankAngler!

They are a long, skinny, almost opaque minnow. We catch them with a throw net.

Caught many a channel on them and sandies too out of Grapevine. Live or dead they work better than anything. I used to thread them on a hook like a worm and slow drag them across the bottom off of sand bass point. I caught mine with jugs and cornmeal. If I had help we just seined them along the sandy bank.

Pretty good description and advices above. Yes 1/4" mesh castnet or a 2 men minnow seine will catch the minnows. I usually start at the boat ramp, then any hard bottom shore line as mentioned above should catch plenty of minnows.

thanks kodys'papa for sharing this info, only you would know these details from inside city hall. It's one of a kind park as far bank fishing goes. The irony is other on weekends, this park actually the whole lake is under utilized 3 seasons out of a year. When I goes on week days usually not many people were fishing there at all, Springs and ear summer probably the only time you see people lining up the banks, and even then there's plenty of room for everyone to fish.

If I can help it, we need more bankers at Tawakoni, so that the politicians won't do what they did to Dalrock Park at ray Hubbard.

So come on y'all, go catch some fish at Tawakoni. Everyone at all age can catch fish at old T-wok. If you're not sure where to start keep follow this thread, I'm going through the process in reverse order by giving the necessary info to those experienced anglers first, such as what baits and where, but will gradually going into the nuts and bolts for beginners soon after I cover weather, winds, water temperature and currents which is intermediate level of fishing. So stick around y'all.

If anyone have any questions please don't hesitate to ask here in this thread or pm me.

Thunders -- get off the water and seek shelter. fish go deep and lock jaws. Don't touch your graphite rods.

Drizzle, light rain and shower can be really good for catfishing....

More later....

BA50, thanks for sharing your wisdom with fellow bankers. I don't know if i will ever get to fish at that lake, but i really appreciate your honest effort regardless to help out other bankers. Other's might worry about ruining their honey holes, but that's their agenda. you do what you believe is right. nobody can satisfy everyone, it's just part of our lives.

Besides that, i just found my old castnet from the garage which i haven't used for like a decay.. how would i go about targeting this ghost minnows around lavon or lewisville? Do i need to hire "ghostbusters".. sorry couldn't resist..

I would like to try the lewisville broken dam someday with ghost minnows for cats and hybrids. I don't know when that will be but for the future reference.

I can't seem to search up the location of Arm Point park....is that a "local" name?

Just Google "Arm Point Park" and it pulls up a map and everything...What are you doing to "search up"?
Here's the link to the Google search:
Google Search for "arm point park"

Here's the screenshot of the Google search:

Thank you for being kind to us kinda new bank fisherman. Ive had some good luck there but only been to a few spots. I really appreciate this post!

You're welcome DD, and thanks for the kind words. First you probably need to buy a new net, 1/4 inch mesh net to catch minnows. I would start at any wind swept boat ramp especially those that has those green slimy algae, ghost minnows love those green algae. Wear polarized sunglasses so you can see them. Throw the net where you see them. Look for those green algae to give you clue how deep you need to throw, usually one side of the boat hold more minnows than three other. Throw once to right side, then throw once to the left, then one more throw to middle, now your done, minnows are gone, you have wait st least 30 minutes before they come back

Any hard bottom areas, sand, gravel, or compact dirt along the shore will hold minnows

Catfishing Weather

Thunders -- get off the water and seek shelter. fish go deep and lock jaws. Don't touch your graphite rods.

Drizzle, light rain and shower can be really good for catfishing. I usually fish with waders and wader jacket ($20 from Academy ) so rain never bothered me.

The day after a good soaking rain with runoff is excellent for catfishing. Find a little pocket of water where wind current push the water back into that pocket, food stubs (insects, worms and other nutrients that were washed down from the fields) tend to collect there, schools of blue catfish will come. I especially like the north winds and three places never failed to produce, 1. Little cove in front of the SRA boat ramp , 2. Little pocket of water on the right hand side of the northern main point arm at State Park. 3. Little cove on east side of West Tawakoni City Park point. Nightcrawlers are the ticket. It's a little tricky when lake has flowing currents when water level is over pool as it is currently. I'm going to say the SP spot should still produce, but the other two might not. The reason being current might carry food stubs away from those places.


More later....

Anyone go fishing Twok tomorrow morning?

Here's a good example, you got some rain today and assuming the ground was fairly saturated from previous rains, there was runoff water into the lake. Steady NW winds 9-10 MPH. wind die down a bit but steady N wind 4 mph into the morning. Moon won't be up till pass 3 am,... perfect for dawn catfishing tomorrow morning. Under normal years conditions, ie no flowing currents in the lake, West Tawakoni City Park East side of the point would be crawling with 4-5 lb blue catfish, so would SRA Boat ramp, and SP north point both sides.

thanks for the updates! I'm going up there next weekend to try it out and I really appreciate all the helpful advice.