Because as soon as your “spot” becomes a community fishing hole, it gets hammered with people who are using 50lb test and surf rods, cast netting sandbass, and leaving piles of garbage at the creek. People are tight lipped for a reason.

Mckinneycrappiecatcher is correct.

There is a reason the pool just south of firewheel has long been know as " the hell hole"

[censored] sakes last weekend some lady had her three grade school age children swimming in there while people where fishing.

Hope that had their tetanus shots , rabies shots, every other shot .

And to answer your question about line, 4 lb mono with a 4 lb fluorocarbon leader, set your drag and play them out. I use an ultralight right for sandbass, striper, crappie, and whatever else there is in these creeks.

Yep

Rowlett Creek runs right between two cities with hundreds of thousands of people so mentioning off the beaten path spots my not be to your advantage. I totally get the brotherhood aspect of fishing though.

I have all but given up on Rowlett Creek due to peoples' behavior while trying to fish.

There are about 20 or maybe more other spots like it in the Dfw area that are more secluded and better fishing.

That creek was granted third world status 20 years ago.

Yup I abandoned it years ago. It's way over fished. Biggest issue I have is the depletion of Hybrids. The dang cast net guys wipe them out at night. Ray Hubbard was a great Hybrid lake...was.

Yup I abandoned it years ago. It's way over fished. Biggest issue I have is the depletion of Hybrids. The dang cast net guys wipe them out at night. Ray Hubbard was a great Hybrid lake...was.[/quote]

I fished it and several nice hybrids were landed and stringered on rod n reel. They were definitely keepers with some pushing 24”. I heard one guy say, “only two more until I get a limit.” I watched him and he caught two back to back, then left the creek with 5. That was encouraging.

There were two more gents close by not fishing… hmmm. I did see what I thought was a cast net. I fished until dark and a couple groups of people stayed past dark. I didn’t see it, but we can assume that illegal harvest commenced after sundown.

I had a hybrid bite my curly tail 20 minutes after sundown and holy smokes! The power, felt like a bull red!! My 6# mono leader didn’t have a chance. I never got the fish turned towards me. What a rush for about 20-30 seconds.

My last comment is that we all have this resource to enjoy and we should protect it. If I see illegal activity (I didn’t on this recent trip) I will report it and alert the people as some just don’t know what they are doing is illegal. The language barrier might not get the message across from me but we can always try.

Couple nibbles but no real success in a few hours. I walked from the bike park all the way down to the dart rail. I checked it out on Friday and there were lots of fishing jumping and carp feeding near the surface. It was totally different today, very slow and dead. Maybe I'll try Miller, but it's probably better to just go somewhere else.

cast netters have defastated the population.

Do we think the spawn is over??

Hope they had their shots too. Most of that creek below Plano is treated sewage waste water.

Its over. Only saw one car at Firewheel today both times I drove by. A week ago there was 50 despite people getting towed and getting run off by Garland PD. LOL