Awww, man!

Shad are still partying.... North Bank mid lake..

Good stuff!

I know this is off topic, but for those who like berries. The North side shores are flourishing with Blackberries right now. With the light rain they really took off. Just about any rocky bank has them, and when you find a large patch, you can clean up. I ate almost a quart on tuesday, and they were so sweet. Just flashed them with some clean water to remove the sand. I would heavily recommend some boots, and snake chaps. The little reptiles like to sit in the berries waiting for snacks.

On Topic...
I caught some donkey sandbass Mon/Tues on the hump over by the area where the wake boats migrate to.. West of Meadomere on the south side.. The wind shifted and was blowing out of the north Monday, and Tuesday so the shad were on the south side of the lake midlake.. There were still shad spawns going on, but more on the rocky banks. If you see some birds sitting on the water, or working the surface there are fish pushing bait balls during the day. I was not seeing birds, but there were some sitting up on top of the hump and a big square bill picked up some magnums. For the record this spot is about 4ft from the surface in one spot, and there is not a buoy marking the hump. I guess the safety buoy was lost, but I would hope the Corp of Engineers will replace it soon. This area has not been the best historically, but It has something that I always like to check.. Stay on the windy side, and scout around. Thumper approved, and recommended.


If you have the right tools, you could prob get a couple gallons in about 10 minutes on some of the Rocky banks which are on the North side of the lake.

Whites were still in the shallows on Thursday, along with a couple largemouth and a nice blue cat that slammed my crankbait. Turtles, ducks, herons and water snakes also out in force. Calm water made for easy paddling.

Thursday evening we found most of our fish out on the humps at Rock Crusher area.
Landed a 6 lb and a 9 lb blue with a couple of small channel cats thrown in, drum, crappie and a few sandies. All on Chartreuse slabs. It was slow from 5 to 6, but the last hour was pretty good.

If you are near the crusher goto these spots just north of the crusher. These two humps are dynamite.


These gps coordinates are about 40 yards apart, and there is a dip in between.
These are the highest humps within a half mile an any direction besides the north bank.

The Google links should allow you to use your phone to navigate to them, and then save the waypoint.



33°00'10.3"N 97°07'09.3"W
https://goo.gl/maps/mMHEmv3NTyEwPR669


33°00'10.9"N 97°07'10.5"W
https://goo.gl/maps/5HpsGsF6m42LgCP16

Yes, that is where we were last evening. We stayed there for an hour. Has been my best spot lately other than Meadowmere point.

Fished Thursday (May 18th) in my kayak and launched at Murrell Park early, just past sunrise.

Ran into sand bass almost right away and for about an hour it was basically every cast I would hook up. I was fishing a small Roadrunner. Fish were 9 to 13 in. All over that North Bank in that area pretty much. They would just pop up kind of randomly here and there. They wouldn't stay in one spot very long so I kind of had to keep moving around looking. Nothing real big but a lot of action that was cool. Also caught four largemouth bass and a spotted bass.

I went again yesterday Friday the 19th but this time just fished from the bank. Didn't bring the kayak. Went to the high water ramp and that Cove and caught six Sand Bass on my first six casts. After that fished another 50 minutes and didn't have a single bite lol. The fish obviously moved quite a lot haha

There was Shad everywhere... washed up on the bank, floating, flipping out of the water, in the mouths of all manner of fowl and snake. I feel like Grapevine might have the most snakes of any Lake I've ever visited. When I was in the kayak it seemed like everywhere I looked if I gave it a minute or two I'd spot one somewhere nearby. It's always been that way. I must officially Louisville my kayak 300 times. And only ever seen one water snake. I see at least a half a dozen every time I go to Grapevine doing the warm months. It's kind of strange you would think Lewisville looks more Snake prone but I find it's quite the opposite.

Well that's my little report. Good luck everyone! Hope to get back out there maybe next week.

I've noticed the same thing with the snakes. Only started fishing Lake Grapevine in the past six months or so, but I've seen more snakes there than I've seen in my whole life at Lake Lewisville.

I've noticed that grapevine can get some snakes - especially if the water level is at or above pool ( or during shad run). They come out easily - and can be aggressive. Still remember a few years ago when it was +20 above pool flooding and I went out kayak fishing with friends - one of the guys tried to find some bass around an isolated submerged tree (about 150ft from any above water structure) A snake decide he didn't like him and chased him for ~40ft.

Fished today for the green fish until about noon, started scouting around and found the Sandies stacked on a hump south west of the crusher. I put the coordinates in a thread from last year. The hump is a high spot, kind of like a ridge that is about 300 yards long. Hooked up with a big cat twice, but didn't stay connected. Had a good day, but the light winds made it tough on me with the bass. I did bring home 3.5 pounds of blackberries.

Easily caught 100+ keeper sandbass just casting the heavy soon down the top of the hump and dragging it back. There are some big cats in this area, and the sandbass are stuck to the bottom like glue. Not much bait on the south side in this area. Take care all, will be out tomorrow...

Shad spawn still happening just east of twin coves on the north bank. Just look for the birds along the banks. Caught several catfish on a white spinnerbait chasing the green fish early. Around noon I went and fished the long hump south west of the crusher, it is closer to the south bank. Caught several catfish, and Sandies but it wasn't as good as yesterday. Went to the humps north of the crusher and caught fish. Also caught my first double with one sandbass with a catfish. Not allot of bait on these humps, but the fish are hugging the bottom and will respond. I did better casting the spoon out, and working it back to the boat (dragging it). Since I am using two baits the upper bait is perfectly positioned. Wx was real nice, but we needed a little wind to help out the fishing. Afternoon wake boats came out in full force. 7 species (largemouth, spotted bass, smallmouth, sandbass, channel cat, blue cat, and one alligator gar.

Long hump south west of the crusher. The Google link will allow you to use your cell phone to get close. These waypoints are the ends of the long hump. It has deep water on both sides, and a nice little brush pile on the northern end.

32°59'57.5"N 97°07'39.5"W
https://goo.gl/maps/PEtxrrA3c5m1tBeu8

32°59'57.5"N 97°07'31.6"W
https://goo.gl/maps/DZRhvMiQB8eebz9w9

Graphing this morning. There was mention of snakes, and I took a nice little clip that is interesting. Found a nice size water snake in a battle for it's life with a catfish. Catfish had its fins outward and the snake couldn't swallow the fish. Sometimes I feel like the snake, sometimes I feel like the catfish.

Rain blew over and is really nice out this morning, so glad to get some rain. My fishing mentor is holed up recovery from knee surgery, so it sucks fishing without the fishing Professor.

I hope to be out this afternoon. I've been catching most of my fish west from meadowmere to just west of the rock crusher. Hopefully the weather is stable this evening.