Been fishing allot of nights lately. Only thing I can offer: I have been catching allot of sandbass along the Dam at night, there is a ton of bait down in this area. The sandbass I am catching are in the 8-15ft range and along the rocks. In the AM I occasionally see some action near the north east corner of the dam over by the tree (small point about 100 yards from the corner). Day bite for bass is brutal, to be honest. I went to the humps north of the crusher on tuesday about noon and there were crappie on both humps. No sandbass, or bait seen in this area. Caught crappie, and gaspergoo (drum). I haven't been looking for the sandies, but run into them occasionally. Hope all are well, and the cooler temps are really nice at night. Water surface temp is @80 F right now. Been catching some big bass off the beaten path, and some decent bass on the lower end. Tuesday morning when it got light it was really tough, I picked up my crappie rod with a small berkley paddle tail with 6lb test. Casting as far down chunk rock banks, with deep water close yielded some surprising bass, and it was actually fun. Did this in Twin coves, and close to Grapevine point. I stopped at a couple spots on main lake points with a steep rocky drop and this worked for small fish. You cannot cast shallow enough, and if you have some shade on the bank it's even better. There are allot of main points with this, and when all else fails scale down in gear/tackle. Somebody had to be on the sandbass, and maybe they will add some info.. Crappie are out, and it's just plain cheating with livescope. It's so much fun picking on them.. For bass I have been throwing a black spinnerbait slow rolling it, bumping whatever area I am fishing. But if you don't make contact your spinning your wheels.

Night pix from Sunday 9-25, day pix from tues 9-27 morning.

Haven't posted in a while. Fished Sunday and Tuesday night all night. Bait galore in the creeks, and I have been seeing shad hanging out in the north East corner of the dam in 7-20 ft of water (all night long) for a while. You can go ever there during dark hrs and throw a cast net out and pretty much catch 6-8 shad on each throw. I threw my 12ft net to see how big the bait was, 1.5"-3" long. Sandbass are on the rocks of the dam as well, favoring this area. If you stay near the bait, you stay close to the fish. Lots of bait seen in the back of twin coves as well. Lake has turned, and there are spots on the lake that have a funky color to the water. Fish are looking for the best oxygen I'm sure, and I'm not a biologist so I hunt and peck to find the green fish. But typically the depth you find the bait, is the sweet spot for catching sandbass and definitely the green fish. Crappie are everywhere, and even on the humps in small schools. I caught a magnum crappie on a black spinnerbait on Tuesday night that was impressive. I was pretty excited seeing such a large crappie, prob 16"long at least. Haven't been looking for the Sandbass, but crossing paths with them occasionally. They are fat, and most I caught this week during the night were gorging on shad. Most had tails sticking out of their stomachs. Bass fishing has been real good at night, and brutally tough during the daytime.. Take care all..






Prosise

I have been on some very good Sand Bass and Crappie in this cove the past few weeks. The water is very stained i have been using a silver spoon and I put some black strips on it with a sharpie (it helped a lot!) and a Swimmin Super Fluke Jr in white pearl seem to be on point.

My wife and I were chasing the black bass this Saturday but I saw two sizeable boat shows presumably after the sandies-one was off the island ledge/channel swing and one was on Sandbass Point. That's more main lake than anything. We did not catch any "by mistake" fishing pockets and creeks. This was all between 10am and noon as they had scattered by noon. Marked a TON of shad in and around Silverlake marina but didn't see any bigger marks with them.

Managed 3 smallies on a bone jerkbait off the dam today on my lunch break.
Hopefully this is signs of fishing taking a turn for the better!

Fished yesterday, and had enough casting practice for the Green fish. Ran into Mr. R near sandbass point, and they had caught some fish but they were small. He was hunting and pouncing. I went to Murrell Point and there were some good fish out on the end of the main point. I fished there for about an hour before it was getting slow, moved to the east side of the drop and the fish were chasing shad. Strange thing I noticed yesterday, the better fish were chasing shad near the surface and the smaller fish were down on the bottom. Never seen this, or that I can remember. The seagulls were showing the fish that were chasing bait, but you have to be fast to follow them. Now the interesting thing I saw, the fish were not pouncing on the spoon like usual. I was watching the livecheat and you could see the fish checking out the bait but not pouncing. I started semi-dead sticking the wafer about 3-6 inches off the bottom with an occasional very slight pop. about 70% just bit it, and the other 30% hit it on the slight pop. So, if your marking fish try and just hold the spoon, or jig without popping it.. Worked well for me yesterday. We will just say I caught allot, I stopped counting after a big number. Have not followed the sandbass lately, so I don't know if this is repeatable. My fishing mentor did real well at sandbass point on monday in the rain. Anyhoo, bass bite was tough for me yesterday but I got lucky and picked up a real nice one in the afternoon. God Bless, and will hopefully get some more info on monday.

Prosise

Prosise, you are a treasure trove of info. 😎 where would a good map be that I can look at to figure out where the rock crusher and all these other terms I’ve seen you use out there? I’m thinking about heading out there in the morning and looking for some black bass and sand bass. hopefully it won’t be all that crowded on a Saturday. It’s either grapevine for black and white bass, or whitney for striper. 🤔

i was out there on 10/27 in the afternoon from 3 pm till dark , we also caught about 30 sandies all big boys , we followed the birds from the island to sand bass point . All where in 5 to 10 feet of water . 3/8 CC SILVER SPOON was our choice of bait used . Be ready to move quickly to stay on the fish , as the birds were moving fast and diving on bait being pushed to the surface by the sandies. we used a casting out ,let the jig drop to bottom then start and stop retrieve on the way back to the boat. I am not a up and down jigging person so i may not catch as many fish , but we were plenty busy for the afternoon . water temp was 67 degrees .

when your going up the lake, just west of the point of meadomere & twin coves mouth. Dead center of the lake, you will see a buoy. That is the Crusher, just ease up to it. Don't know when they put the buoy on it, but it makes things easy to locate. To be honest, I have only caught a drum on it. I like humps, and the drop on the humps much better. And I don't like getting hung up.. But the thing has fish on it. Hope that helps.

Caught some nice sandbass at rock ledge park. Running a crankbait over the hump.

Tough day, but I caught fish here and there. Crossed paths with Joe, who have me two really nice hugging spoons. Much appreciated. Bait is everywhere, and fish are fat. Take care all.

Here is a good picture of how the fish are eating. If you look closely you can see the tail of a shad sticking out of this fish' throat.

Sandbass bonanza on Murrell point most of the day. Without the redneck thumper it was no good, with it thumping we did very well. Met a couple new people and had a good visit with Mr. B. We whacked em. All I will say is I caught more than allot today, might be close to my all time count. Will have to check the video.

Birds were showing the fish who were chasing shad. The fish pushing bait up were the better fish.

Also caught a g blue in the back of silver lake marina. Found a big sunken boat, was trying to catch some crappie off the boat when I saw something big. Dropped my senko down and the fish inhaled the worm.

Picture of the blue, and Mr.B. we had a good visit.

Windy today, looked at Murrell point but there wasn't anything there. South winds pushed bait up closer to the bank. Checked hump by sandbass point and caught a couple, but wasn't the day to fish for them. Went back to the green fish and caught a real nice one on a wiggle wart crankbait.

Fish today for the green fish until about 1pm. Took a break and headed out looking for some sand bass. Looked at Sam Bass Point, and the hump but it was no good. Check some humps by the island out in the middle of the lake and they were empty. Went over to morrell point and found some fish on the bottom, but they really weren't active. Poked around on the east drop, occasionally picking up a few fish. I went out to the end of morrell point and found a big school hunkered down on the bottom. Caught quite a few, talked to another boat and told him about The fish and we went back out to look for him. They weren't still there, which figures. We caught some fish, but they're really not jumping on the bait. Basically letting the spoon hit the bottom and just picking it up off the bottom and let it sit. They are liking the dead stick presentation. Caught a big buffalo, and a really nice blue cat (25 lbs) on the med size Cordell spoon.


Met the M family, they were the boat I recruited to beat up on the sandbass with. They were my witnesses on the blue cat as well. Hope to cross paths with them again.






Here are some footage of the Sand Bass school that I was working before I went and recruited the other boat. Of course they weren't there when I got back. But I wanted to try to get them on some fish. At the end of the video you can see the GPS coordinates.