Nice report!

"Then you have Keith screaming like a kid in a free- all you can eat candy store."
That made me laugh!!! I would pay money to see that video!

I took some video of beating the boat with a broom stick to attract the sand bass under my boat.

https://www.facebook.com/texasoklahomafishingguide/posts/1204295852928115

You can watch the blank screen fill up with fish within 2 mins.

Lake Lavon has been amazing.






It's been Insane. Top water bite has been greatness. Throw anything at them and they will bite. A three inch chrome popper will catch two fish at a time they are so aggressive right now.



You throw a topwater in the feeding frenzy, and before you close the bail on your reel, you have one. I like to burn the topwater back and have the Sandies popping at it- but just out of reach. You will figure out a speed to just keep the Sandy's trailing the popper without eating it.. When I see a bigger wake, or a blow up attempt that is bigger than the smaller blowups, I'll slow the popper down and walk the dog. These big 15-16 inch Sandies will launch out of the water hitting the poppers so hard it will actually scare you.



And not to mention the Hybrids we have in the lake now. I see them on a daily basis right now. Not a lot of them, but they are there. 17-25 inch fish there.



Limits of Sandies are almost a guarantee for the average joe that fishes every weekend.



Top water, rattletraps, slabs, cohoes, whatever. It all works. When they're on top. Try to fish the outside of the school and don't motor up and stop in the middle of it. They will stay up a lot longer that way.


Above is the Sandies just waking up and starting to bite. 630am





The fish can be up on top and feeding for so long that multiple boats will run their trolling battery out of juice. Even mine was just about out at about 700-730pm when the fish finally stopped. Probably had 2% left and was only going .25 mph. Crazy good days.



The fish are gorging so furiously, that they are getting fat! Just beware of all the shad they're going to barf up on your boat. And of course what they eat, must come out. Prepare for that, #2.


Did you see the fish suspended at 15 to 18 feet, get the slab out and make it as long as the rod. Then, most rods are about 2 foot distance from the reel to the first eyelid of the rod. So if Your rod is 7 foot, make 5 pulls of line from the reel to the first eye. You should be somewhere in the fishes face by then. Raise the rod tip up in the air rapidly like a shad would be, trying to get away from something, and let the Luer pull the rod tip back down to the depths -And repeat. You will start to feel them picking at the lure. Start setting the hook and have fun.



Down Imaging of suspended Sandies in open water.



Two-man limit of white bass, and we stopped at one brush pile to pick out some crappie. Limits of Sandy's usually take less than one hour. Most of the time 20 minutes or less once they surface. Instead of waiting out in the middle of the lake for the Sandy's to start surfacing, go check the points first. We've actually been limiting on Sandy's before they even start busting shad on the surface.


Above you can see dark shadows with round circle shadows. That's a side scan off a submerged tree. The round circles are huge crappie. 15-16' inches. With a few 10-12's mixed in.

Thump Buddies in White and chartreuse and also black and chartreuse 1/8 - 1/16 heads.





Above you can see some long round white shapes hanging off the side of the tree on the right side. We pulled 15 big Crappie off the right side of that tree in 15 to 20 minutes. And called it a day. ( meanwhile, Sandy's are blowing up all around my boat)



Catching Giants.



I can't say it any better than this. The fish are in brush piles and timber. The best spots are the spots you cannot see. 10 foot of water all the way out to 25 foot of water on anything submerged. Best depth of submerged structure seems to be 10 foot to 18 foot.

You can catch me up on Facebook @ Carey A Thorn

I've been doing some live video so while you're at work, you can watch the fish in action. A lot of tips tricks locations and videos on my Facebook page. Updated daily

Is the night time bite with green lights on Lavon as good as Lake Fork?

No.

Crazy good reports and pics, Carey!!!
I may try to hook up with you for a monster crappie learn and catch trip on lavon. I am clueless about crappie catching

Those are humongous Crappie!!

Awesome Trip Carey - Thanks! We obviously killed it but I really appreciate the fact that I was able to go back the next day and catch fish. Not quite as many but something I could not have done without your education. And the fish fry we had Friday night was insane.

Welcome!

Fishing has been absolutely amazing! I pretty much guarantee you a limit of sand bass every trip! I still have not missed my limit in over a month. Mostly working doubles nowadays murdering white bass, and getting away with it.



Every morning they start at approximately 715 and our full blast on the surface at 7:30. They will stay up till approximately 11:30 AM.

Some days they will actually go through the entire day up on the surface in the evening they start at 5:30 almost on the dot and go crazy till 730 pm. Sometimes they go till it's completely dark outside.


I have been picking 12 plus inch fish off the surface on 3 inch torpedoes all the way up to 7 inch Chrome pencil poppers. The bigger you go, the bigger the fish get. Sometimes we will get to mags on one popper. Sometimes we will get to mags on one popper Limiting out on a 7 inch pencil popper or on Lake Lavon, -been doing it every day.



Catching flat heads in brush piles once a week now.



You can throw the slab and jig combo and burn it to the school and pick out double after double. The bigger fish are on the outside of the school or directly underneath the mayhem. I preferred to fish the outside of the school so I don't spook the main school blowing everything out of the water. There are plenty of big fish all around the main school.

On the weekdays there's only about four of us boats out there on the whole lake, sometimes just my boat. So usually I just go pick my own five-acre school of boiling Sandies.

A tandem rigged silver and or white and or combo of the two, on 1/8 th jig heads with a swivel to prevent line twist, is almost a guaranteed double every cast. Before it hits the water, 2 to 3 seconds, start reeling and keep your rod tip up in the air to keep the jigs close to the surface.

Forgot to mention, right now what's driving the big one nuts is the big poppers, walking the dog quickly, absolutely pisses them off, and usually you can get a massive blowup.



After the fish dissipate for the morning, look at your graph. They might be suspended under your boat at 15 to 18 foot. Count your slab down to 18 foot. Lift your rod up 5 feet and then let it flutter back down to 18 then do it again.

I had Steve S. In the boat again for an action trip, One of the first things he asked me about was the popper. Was I really using a 7 inch popper? I handed him the rod with the popper on it and told him throw it all you want. He laughed, Sandbass limits on on 7 inch poppers, on Lavon? Then he laughed again when fish were blowing it up at 530, and shook his head with a smirk.



There's really no reason to get to the lake till 7 AM. Nothing happens really till then. But 1130 I get off the lake and come back at 4:30. I really don't have to be there till about five, but I don't want to be stuck in any traffic getting there. Sunday at approximately 6 o'clock most of the weekend ski fleas have vacated the lake and you usually can work at school by yourself. If there's 2 to 3 boats working to school it's a lot easier to block them from passing boats.

The fish are starting to get super fat gorging themselves so much.

Crappie bite has been good after 2 pm. Mornings are horrible. Then, the heat is 100 degrees when the slabs are biting.

Are some of the schools within casting distance of shore?

They get pretty close to Lavonia North boat ramp. If you go out to the point on the railroad track you should be able to catch a bunch. West side.

Had Brad Bill & Bart Bogard call at 430 asking to hit the lake and go fishing. Got to the lake at 6 PM and we were scooting across the water at 6:15. At 6:30 all hell broke loose and put a limit on the boat quickly. The entire time they threw 7 inch chrome pencil poppers. One of the guys has been on Hubbard a couple times chasing Sandy's. He pretty much laughed at me when he saw those tied on my rods. He wasn't laughing 20 minutes later when he was pulling fish after fish in the boat and throwing his catch at is buddy. They were knocking the poppers foot or two into the air sometimes. About 15 minutes before it was totally dark they stopped. We did use is the slabs at 15 to 18 foot in open water when I saw some mags grouped up under the boat. That lasted 10 minutes and they moved on. Then it was back to the 7 inch pencil poppers. Walking the dog fast is what gets those big ones mad.