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$250 / 2 people crappie fishing at Lake Lavon. Gates are closed and the fish are staying on pattern.

Crappie are averaging 13-14 inches with a few 2 pounders thrown in. 15-16 inchers!

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Same post as the previous one. Crappie doing good on Lavon.

I have an opening today at 3 pm till dark. Three people max on crappie trips. 14-15 inch fish some pushing over two pounds still.

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Report: June 15 th

Lavon Report:



Where did all the fish go? Took us a little less than two hours to get a limit of two different species. I thought I would've been able to do it faster but I'm blaming it on the 16 to 20 mph hour winds this morning. Throwback lots of 10.25 inch fish. We kept all the fish that were 11 inches and over. Only kept Sandy's that were over 15 inches except for one maybe two that we kille throwback lots of 10.25 inch fish. We kept all the fish that were 11 inches and over. Only kept Sandy's that were over 15 inches except one 12 inch that floated back up.



Sandbass: Feeding sporadically during the day. They are in 2 ft of water and out in 35 foot of water. Small fish in upper water column. Bigger fish seem to be cruising the bottom. When you are slabbing, don't lift the rod more then 2 ft off the bottom. They will even eat it dead sticking the slab, holding it just 2 inches from the bottom. Once you get about 2 feet off the bottom it's almost a guaranteed small sand bass or yellow bass.



If you're in one of the feeding frenzy's, it will start to trickle down and eventually stop. Within minutes the yellow bass will move in. I call them the cleanup crew. Once you start catching them it's time to Move On and go check one of the other spots. White slabs from moestackleshop.com are the only thing you need.



Crappie: they are holding to submerged in standing timber. They are starting to hold in some of the brush piles. Black and chartreuse and white and chartreuse Thump Buddies on 1/16 th oz jig heads are the only thing I use for crappie. They seem to work very well. Rocky Tops and Thump Buddies will last till you loose them. They are made of stronger plastic materials. 9 ft deep-25 ft deep. Most of your bites are going to get hammered 11 to 18 foot next to/or in structure.



If it's sunny, you really need to be tight to the structure. 2 foot off of standing timber you might not get bit at all.

Today and Yesterday:

Got a limit on White Bass.

Also same trip:

Got a Limit of Crappie




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Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it's time to give Mr. Thorn a call. That side by side pick of 25 and 25 looks pretty cool man.

Still murdering the fish..... Had some new to fishing people. Took a bit to teach them to set the hook and what a bite was. After an hour, they were catching crappie in the thick brush and slabbing up Magnum White Bass. The sandies were suspended today 300 yards out from the rail road tracks in 25 ft of water. They were hanging at 15-18 ft so we had to measure 15 ft of line to get a bite. If you were off by a foot, to deep or to shallow, NO BITE. It was very precise. Crappie were at 9 ft-18 ft on timber and brush. The bigger fish seem to be on timber, like the 15-16 inch crappie. Most are 10-11 inches on average with 10 being big usually.

Nice catch

I went Thursday afternoon and found a couple loaded trees in 19ftw, but they didn't want no part of what I was givin them. Caught a few, but not very active at all for me. I figured it was due to the "fish don't bite when the gates are open" myth.... However it looks like Mr. Thorn has busted this myth. Guess I'll try my hand again tomorrow morning.

Every morning we chase the sand bass to start the morning, cause they are just so huge and fight so hard- just plain fun. After about 830 am, we switch to crappie if the sandies slowed, or we switch over when we get the limit of whites.




If you don't want to do that, that's perfectly ok. lol. You hop on my boat, just tell me what kind of fish you want to target and we will go catch it. ( except catfish, just not my thing )



Now, back to Crappie. I don't know if I'm looking forward to the gates ( on the dam ) closing or if I am dreading it? Currently the dam is releasing 3059 cfi. The Crappie are pretty easy right now even with the gates open. We start in 6-10 ft early morning in the flooded willows and follow the fish out to 15-20 ft, as the sun gets higher and higher. With the lake up 4 1/2+ feet, there are willows all over the lake that are half submerged along the banks. The crappie are up in the feeding on the spawning shad, and the small fry that are hiding in the willows. As the sun comes up, the fish push out and find cover in 15-20 ft just off shore. I am finding them on my Super Secret Secure Crappie Brush Piles that are in 12-18 ft of water and Submerged Timber in 20 ft on average. A bushy standing timber bunch, in 20 ft, seem to be the ticket from 9 am-7 pm. Anytime before 9 am, they could be in 4-10 still hunting. Same thing for after 7 pm. Finding timber with regular 2D electronics is a bit difficult. Side Imaging helps with this 100%. If I didn't have it, My world be different.



We stayed after dark a couple nights ago and set up in a cove and turned my lights on. 19 ft Green strip of LED's. Lights up the whole cove and brings in the bait fish super thick. Then the crappie come in. We didn't land any monsters, but landed tons of 9-12 inch fish. Only took about 30 mins and it was a bite of a fish every couple mins. Live minnows under a bobber 3 ft down next to the half submerged brush along the shoreline. -I would rather sleep than go out there at night. So no night trips, yet. Those start next month and will mainly be at Lake Fork.


I have been using Midnight Special Thump Buddies,

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We can go get a limit of sandies, then after that, go get a limit of crappie. Or just focus on one species. I'm just there to net fish.

I have not used White and Chartreuse, mainly cause I used them all a teaser jig for the Sandies. (LANE, SEND ME MORE!) They are so durable, once you glue them to the jig head, they don't break apart or tear. You just end up loosing them in the brush or on a 3+ lb crappie (or a massive sandbass). I caught over 2000 sandbass on one jig before it broke off...... -no fisherman exaggeration there.



As the sun gets up, having the jig more that 2 ft away might be to far to get a bite. You have to be very precise on putting that jig in 15-18 ft of water right next to the timber, or in the brush itself. Some single standing timber may be hard to find on the graph sometimes. Like, getting the exact pin point on where to drop a jig. Your GPS can be off 5 ft or so. so, sometimes the gps says it is right there, but it might be 5 ft to the right or left, or just somewhere not there, lol. After 2-3 passes I will move on to the next structure if I cant pin point it right away. But right now, I try to find the tree with the most stick ups or super big secret brush piles.

Todays Report: Some reports coming in, that fishing is slow. Well its not, its on fire and easy. ok, I say its easy cause I am a guide. Normally, its off due to the gates open and all. But, the fish are where they are suppose to be and they are hungry. They seem to nail it on the fall every time right now. I don't target the visible stuff. Most of that stuff has been hit 1-5 times through out the day by other anglers. I like the non visible stuff. Accuracy is very important in this game. Hit all my spots for sandies this morning, and they just were not awake yet. I bet they are going nuts right now though. we started at 630am, and at 645, I told my client, this is not going to happen today. Full moon, glass water, no bait fish activity like the last few days. Just 6-8 inch sandies eating the small fry all over the lake. I said we will keep looking though. 9 am or so, I confirmed its not happening on my end. He asked what else will eat a fly. I said "Carp, Drum, Black Bass, crappie, and even catfish in one spot...." -And, of course, what do you think he picked....lol, the hardest most temperamental freshwater fish out there. Crappie. I said no problem! Went to a Secret Submerged Timber pile and dropped a marker on it.



Caught the tail end of the structure. All the white little round circles are the crappie. Hazy pic sorry. Busted my phones camera glass. On the left is the sanding timber on the fish finder picture


I told him, to the left of the marker, is your target. The fish are 15-18 ft and precisely at that depth. ( this guy is no newbie at fly fishing) I picked out a Clouser fly, white and chartreuse, and backed the boat off about 30 feet from the target. I had him overshoot the marker by 15-20 and do a count down to 15-18 foot deep and make short strips. It was GAME ON after that. The rest is history. Killing Crappie with the fly rod, EPIC trip as usual but with a twist, lol. Crappie have never seen that, but they obviously loved it!




Every single fish my client landed engulfed the flies. Most pretty much had the fly in the back of their throat.



He was having a blast targeting those crappie. I was hoping he would hook a mag sandie to play with but just didn't happen. He was perfectly happy hooking crappie. We even left them biting.

I am completely booked solid this month except for a 4:30 PM trip on june 24th.

All weekends booked in July. I just have weekdays open here and there......I'm on the water from 6 am till 9 pm usually, so texting me is best way to get an answer.

Excellent report Carey

Awesome report! I always look forward to your updates.

Three guys today are from Utah so 2 of them fly fished, one is actually a Green River Float Boat Trout Guide up there. That's my fav trout river, so we had lots of stories to tell. Wind was a bit high but the crappie were biting on every spot we went. Even rolled up on some new spots loaded with them. While at the dam, we were dropping on brushpiles in 20 ft. Clients were catching them on the fly rods and regular rods. I was slabbing in hopes to find a mag sandie while they played with the crappie. I ended up never hooking a sandy at the dam, but I did land 12 crappie over 14 inches. They were hovering two ft off the bottom on the drop off. We wended up with 68 keeper fish over 11 inches and many many 9-11 inch fish. Some of this timer has like 50-100 crappie in them. Got lucky and had one give us 19 keepers as fast as we could drop down to them. Same depths as last report above. Average was 6-10 keepers per spot with some dinks. The Spotted Gar were working new hatching shad schools on the surface and they guys thought that was a hoot. The caught some great looking monster crappie today. 15 inches is gigantic to them as their crappie up north are 4 inches he said. I told them their moms are close by. They got hot to fish them now, so they are going to try and replicate it on their home lake and drop some brush. Hope they get them!

Wow was it good to be back to some great fishing.



Once we got to the spot, it was game on the rest of the day. Mainly Crappie. Had a 4 year old in the boat and he reeled in over 99% of the crappie today. Lost a few, lol. The little one got to put the fish in the box or let them go. Some of the big fish never made it in the box and he threw the big girls in the water giving us a heart attack! He was really funny to, Every time I would check to make sure the fish was legal on the golden ruler, he would tell me, "Its over the line, Ill put in in box." We left them biting and went in before the kid had a melt down. It gets hot out there with a vest on. Don't keep your kid out there against their will. If they want to leave, leave. Or they wont want to come back out with you. They took home around 35 Crappie or so. Black and Chartreuse Thump Buddies and minnows today. It didn't seem to matter minnow vs jig as the jig caught just as many fish. Shallow to start. 4-5 ft then merged out and followed them to 15-18 ft.



Dropped them off at the dock and my Brush Pile Seeds came in the mail. So I planted 2 of them today. I plan on catching 20 minimum at the new -secret for now- brush piles. I hope they grow up by tomorrow morning.

After that, it was dead calm and HOT. I jumped in the water a few times throughout the day after 11 am. My mission now was to find where in the heck the sandies went to. They have been hiding a bit for a couple days. I ran into a school on the surface near hybrid point and pick 3 mags out of it. But just to man dinks in the school. Most were just over 10 inches. Went over to Intake cove and joined up with PlanoKeith and caught a few mags there. But again, It was just to hot. We decided to split up and do quick looks at the spots they are usually in. Not there. I ended up at glass house as last stop and saw Keith stop in the middle of the lake and I saw his trolling motor down so I figured he was on the dinks on top. Cruised up there and they were going ballistic on top.9-12 inch fish. I got bored of every cast so I tied on a 5 inch top water spook and started burning it across the school. I would only slow it down when I saw a big fish behind it or I got a good explosion. These Mags would come up and just slam it! 15-16 inch sandies knocking my spook 2 ft in the air. Then you have Keith screaming like a kid in a free- all you can eat candy store. He got a bit quiet when he saw I was videoing., lol. It was awesome. Every time you would bring a fish to the boat there were 10-20 behind it. Lots and lots of times, I could a reached over the side of the boat and hand fed the exploding fish. They would boil right up next to the boat. The shad would try and hide around the boat. I had to pick 40-50 dry baby shad out the back of the boat and stuck to the engine. They were apparently jumping all the way out of the water trying to get away.I might be able to get a vid up. Movie maker not happy right now.



In the middle of the ciaos, I had a school of 8-10 4-6 lb blue cats under the surface swim by looking for shad. There were shad flying out of the water everywhere and sandies just crushing them for acres all around Keith and I. You would see a ball of 3 inch shad roll by the boat on the surface. they would get 20 ft from the boat and just get pounded by the fish. It was like a national geo documentary.



Then about 20 mins after the top water mags was over, the 8-12's were still going mad. Keith said he had big fish under him at 15 ft. I did too. So I counted down 15 ft with the slab and started slabbing at 15 ft deep in 35 ft of water. Then it was game on! Mag after Mag after Mag. in the 1 hour were there I bet we caught 80-100 keeper sandies. No idea how man dinks we caught.

Nice report Carey, I ran into a big school two weekends ago in the middle of the lake by the Island. All dinks though but still fun to catch. I only keep about 8 for dinner anyway...