Fished the sticks in the small cove just beyond the boat ramp catching a few small white bass.
Was trying to catch some perch but never found any.
Spent too long in the cove so did not do much fishing around the island since did not start out towards island till after 8PM.
Saw several schools of fish in around 18-20 ft of water around island.
Another beautiful might with full moon over a glassy smooth lake.
Tried a diver on my fly rod while coming back working shore of island and any tress sticking up.
Diver makes a large blurp when pull it and it goes a little underwater releasing lots of air bubbles trapped in deer hair.
Nothing tried to hit it.
Since first time to clear lake park, will chalk this trip up to an exploration trip.

Fished the railroad bridge tonight for a bit.
Arrived just as someone was leaving it.
After paddling from Lavonia south and having never been there before decided to fish it.
Caught 2 cats 2-3 pounds on shad. Liked having multiple small dead shad on one hook.
No bites on crappie jigs, rooster tails or lake fork shad,
Put out 2 juglines along riprap and one had a catfish at some point as I had to hunt for it in the dark and had slime all over line.
Saw 2 otters swimming in the lake.
Lots of gar. Think I brought my paddle down on one which was quite exciting and as the kayak would come close to others the water would explode.
Tried fishing along riprap and shore with chatter bait, no bites.

Actually I saw 2 river otters swimming.
Had previously seen on the boat ramp and nearby rip rap at Lavonia South.
http://dfwurbanwildlife.com/2013/02/12/dfw-urban-wildlife/river-otter-field-and-stream/

Fished Mallard Park tonight.
Lots of good shad near the boat ramp.
Tried a bit of everything: Jugs with shad, chatter bait, diver, rooster tails, storm minnows,
Road Runners, jigs.
I got 1 bite and brought in a small crappie.
I only saw a coupe of fish at a time on my fish finder tonight, not the large schools like last week.
Worked tmainly east of boat ramp down to where cove starts to narrowthen drifted back through stumps and trees.
Fortunately avoided the trot lines tonight.

seems pretty slow

Fished down by the dam on Saturday morning.
Caught a couple of large mouth bass on a diver in the shallows with my fly rod.
Lots of bait fish up in the shallows.
Caught a couple of small crappie on jigs.
Caught a few white bass on rooster tail and a couple on crankbaits out while paddling to/from dam.
Appeared that those fishing for minnow were catching more crappie.
Tried shrimp and cut up shad on a couple of jugs and another rod, no bites.
Most of the crappie action stopped by about 10:00AM
Fish Finder showed larger schools of fish were in about 12-16 feet.
Going deeper and when paddling would only see a couple of fish at a time.

Fished the dam from Lavonia South for a little bit tonight.
Caught 1 white bass while paddling to the dam trolling a white rooster tail with a small storm minnow trailer. It bit the storm minnow.
Fished for Crappie at the dam. Fish had moved from 14-16 feet to 7-9 feet.
Caught about 8 small crappie on minnows from 7-8PM 1 white bass after 8 on a minnow with the head pinched off and quit seeing any fish by 8:30.
Had a rod out for catfish with shrimp on it, no bites.

Have you seen or heard of any reports fishing below the dam?

I went with my son in the evening about 2 weeks back stayed a couple hours.
Fished off the wing dam for catfish and crappie
There were a couple other people there and saw 2 perch caught and 2 bites on shad for catfish when thrown about 5 - 6 gates out.
Very slow night.

Thanks!! Exactly what I needed to know.

Went to Highland park tonight and fished from the bank.
Caught a couple of 2-3 lb cats on live shad with one hook in head and one in tail.
Bites were very light like came up and gently took bait and just sat there.
Maybe there were a few turtles out there stealing my bait also.
No action after ~8:45 till I called it quits at 10:15

I decided to go crappie fishing Thursday morning did not get started till 10 AM.
Started looking at a few brush piles in 12-17 feet, found one that was loaded with crappie.
Started out with 1.5" chartreuse/black jig, no takers, switched to the 1.5" electric chicken, that's what they wanted.
I would catch one every 3-4 minutes for about 30 minutes, then they shutdown.
Left that spot with 5 keepers, went to another brush pile, would catch 4-5 then they stopped biting.
Hit a few more spots it was the same, pulled up a few and they would stop biting.
It was getting hot so left at 2 PM with 11 keepers, threw back a lot of smalls.

A spot over by the island, there were small schools sandies popping shad, I could have caught all I wanted.
They kept this up from 11:30 till I left at 2 PM.

Lots of good size crappie taken at the dam this morning on minnows
Also a couple of nice sunfish.
Fish biting from 10 - 18 feet around structure.
A couple of white bass while trolling.
No catfish liked my shad or shrimp.
No luck with top water along rip rap before and after sunrise.

Fished out of East Fork Park tonight.
Fished the cove between East Fork and Avalon with crank baits, storm minnows and small silver spoon,
Did not see many fish and got no bites.
Then paddled back to the East Fork side of the cove in ~20-25 feet depths looking for structure.
Did not see much and few fish on finder.
Going back to the dock after it was dock, tried top water along the show and in the area where sticks sticking up from the water.
Not a single bite tonight and saw few fish on the finder.
I have decided that kayaking I do not cover a lot of ground expecially if I want to try fishing.
It takes me a while to locate structure and build up places I want to look into going back to.
Still exploring East Fork.

Could someone give me some pointers on where some structure is around East Fork Park?
Maybe I need to put in on the ramp that is on the main lake and got back towards Collin Park? I heard there used to be trees in the water just out from the cove, imagine now brush piles and stumps out there some where.

Beautiful night on the lake. Little wind and the water was glassy smooth at sunset.
Very colorful sunset and few boats/jet skis on the water.

Fished Lavon yesterday for the first time in awhile. Pulled 6 nice crappies off of the trees and caught maybe a dozen more. It was super nice on the water with the Cowboys playing last night.

Ocelot, if you're launching at East fork, I would paddle over to Avalon. I saw your other post looking for a paper map. PM me if you want to