Are sand bass showing up in the Neches River at Chandler yet?
Jack

dont think so as very little traffic at ramp and parking lot

I’m glad you made this thread, i usually make one every year for everyone to keep up with and to update through out the white bass run at Neches in Chandler. Now i don’t have to! :)👍🏻

Did a scouting trip Friday 1/20/23. A few males sniffing around, but no numbers. The run hasn’t started in the Neches at Chandler.

there were 12 cars in lot on north side of 31 and 8 in south lot by ramp. Water rising and moving nicely.

Went yesterday caught 10 large female Sandy’s in about 3hrs. Water temp was at 47*. I hope they will be moving in soon.

wen ttoday , no fish no bites. as i was leaving 1 guy fishing slack water caught a nice one. 11 cars in lot. Water running well but looks like chiocolate milk , if that matters

I walked down the fence line a ways but swampy there.

Do the hybrids make their way up during the spawn there also?

Could be wrong, don't think hybrids actually spawn...if they're hybrids , they should be sterile...

Mixed opinions but maybe they are wired to spawn even tho they are sterile but...... We catch a lot of juvenile hybrids on cedar Creek and none have been stocked in eons. . In the past we caught good sized ones up Lacy creek pretty far from the lake.

Don't matter if they're sterile or not. They will still run through the same spawning process as their parental species.

This is what they do & Eric is right about Lacy Creek!

They definitely follow their ancestry. A few years ago I caught nothing but hybrids one day during the peak of the run.

They still go thru the process of spawning. They typically show up a couple of weeks after the sandbass show up. I can remember catching 5 man limits on Rowlett creek using crawfish tails for bait.

Why would hybrids be sterile?

Stopped in at Academy in Tyler, on Monday... spoke to a couple that were loading up for bear... they showed me their pictures from the day before.. they got their 50 quick..:) up kickapoo.. and said there were lots of folks fishing from the bank at neches..

I limited on January 6th - I haven't fished in almost two weeks - but between the 6th and 1st week of Feb it was very hit or miss.

I expect things to start picking up now with the rain and warmer weather.

I bet Roadrunners are hard to find in Tyler.

MO

Anybody have have a report or been by there

I'm going to try Chandler river park at some time this week and will report back.

I have been twice in 7 days now, I too am looking for more details and data to follow the run. Here’s my report from the day-

Current was minimal, I have an express h20bay and went as far up river as I could without a chain saw, also went down to the mouth of the lake. I marked several schools with livescope and was unable to catch anything. We threw the tackle box at em and nothing. Looked to be many smaller on the graph but grouped well. All down river past the RR tracks. River is still up past its banks, 47-48 degree water from both ends. Everyone we talked to said they didn’t catch a thing, close to 50 people lined the banks with no stringers in the water. As we were getting off, one guy in a kayak had 2 fish- he said he went way up river and found 1 spot that they had 4 bites with 2 keepers. I personally believe it is “early” since the dog woods bloomed then went back, then tried to bloom again, then another freeze. Think the fish are as confused as nature is.

Im going back out Thursday or Friday to try my luck again. Hope this helps.

Are you able to launch at the Chandler River Park Ramp?

Good Luck,
Bozz

Thanks for the report. Plan on going out n the next couple of days. I will report back. Thanks again for the report.

Yes I could put in at boat ramp off 31. Have to get the truck a pretty good ways in the water to load, but wasn’t too bad at all.

Planning to go do some fishing Thursday again to see if there’s a change with this warmer weather we are seeing

Went yesterday water temp was 65*. There were a lot of folks fishing on bank and about 15 boats. Fished for about 4 hrs and caught 6 sand bass. Everyone I spoke with said the bite was slow.I guess one good thing is the fish I did catch were large.

We fished Friday Feb 24th. Saw a few mixed stringers of white and yellow bass and people with the best white bass coming from further upstream than we went which if bank fishing would require waders. Not too crowded and everyone I met was polite and friendly with the nearest group fishing by us reporting a string of 70 the day before mostly yellows. The probably had 30 or 40 mostly yellows yesterday. We managed 16 yellow bass which fried up real tasty.

I took my first trip to the Neches at Chandler Park today. To say that I am obsessed with fly fishing the white and yellow bass run every year would be an understatement. So, of course, the Neches has been on my white bass bucket list.

I was planning on going next weekend but with the rain coming on Wednesday and Thursday I figured I better go today. Thanks to Mudbelly's report I tied up a bunch of yellow bass flies.

I worked my way upstream and found fish in multiple spots. I really enjoyed the day despite it being one of the most fly fishing unfriendly places I've ever fished for white bass.

I ended the day catching over 40 yellow bass and 13 white bass. A couple 10 inch yellow bass and a 15.5 inch / 1.64 lb. white bass really made the day special.

Do I see a yellow Moe better

That's a variant I call the "Yegua Yoda"

Why do you call this place fly fishing unfriendly?

trees

Yes, trees on the bank, trees in the water and trees under the water I also couldn't find any place to wade into the water. And the sticker vines everywhere.

The best placed I stopped at was on a high bank with trees all around me and sticker vines at my feet. My fly line was constantly caught up in it, tearing it up.

But I would do it all again tomorrow. Great fishery

I've lived on Palestine for over 20 years , I never caught a yellow until a couple of years ago , I wonder how they got in ?

Mo

Birds are usually the transportation device for both fish and zebra mussels

Thanks for the update and glad you caught them. I probably won't make it up there again as the catfish slip cork bite is getting hot and that's closer to home.

i stopped yesterday . It was packed. I forgot mud boots so I could not get past pasture going up the river . Some fish being caught but no big stringers in area near big parking lot. I was trying to fish a road runner without a swivel and major line twist ended my stay in a hurry.

Went there this past Tuesday fished just south of hwy 31. Not many people there, all I caught were yellow bass.

Anyone been this past week? Taking my boys out there tomorrow. Are they further up river? Or closer to the lake?

lotsa yellows. did catch some nice sandies not far from bridge one day. kickapoo in yak did well once I found em. this was a week ago