Taking the canoe out of Trophy Club Park to look around. There's catfish up in the shallows where I launch my canoe. The very back side of the park closest to the mouth of the lake. Big catfish sucking the debris off the top of the water. We'll report more when I get back

Wonder what specifically they are feeding on in that scenario...

Hope it was a productive or at least interesting run!

The upper end of the lake is pretty flooded with debris, quite a few trees traveled down Denton Creek into the lake. I took the canoe down about 3 mi on the North Bank. Looking around. Found a kayak that looks like it was lost and drifted down the lake. If you know anybody that lost a kayak, have them get in touch with me. Catfish are biting pretty good in Denton Creek at the mouth of the lake. Went home and me and my son went back out. We caught about a dozen catfish near the parking lot at the back side of trophy Club Park. The creek is running pretty strong.

There was a couple of fishermen on the bank where we were fishing and they had quite a few good catfish as well. We released everything we caught.


Trophy Club Park

I fished from 4am-1:30pm today, fish The lower end as the water is clearer. Fish for the green fish this morning and when the sun came up I was on the North end of the dam. Lots of bait and sand bass in this area. Pulled out my spinning rod and a rooster tail and caught quite a few large sand bass that were out roaming. I caught them using livescope, the schools were very small so it would be very hard to just go in this area and catch Sand Bass but they are there. There is a tremendous amount of bait in the Northeast corner of the dam area, so if you can stay around bait you can try to find some sand bass. I forgot to mention yesterday, the wild berries are out in full force. If you know where to look, there are going to be a tremendous amount available this week and next week. I will add a map below for the areas that I know of. Be careful of snakes , I wear snake chaps
nd good boots when I'm picking berries. Yesterday when I was in the canoe I saw a life vest on the bank, when I went up and picked It up there was a small cottonmouth underneath it about 2 ft long. Be careful out there. I launched at Katie woods ramp and the ramp was not visible because of the high water. When I came back they were putting up barricades to close this ramp. They opened the Katie woods high water level ramp so it's still available. I talked to the guy who was putting up barricades and they actually closed the outflow of Grapevine from 500 to 200 because of politics, So the lake will probably come up some more, he mentioned that the flow of 200 will probably be for the rest of the week. Bass fishing is brutally tough during the day with the high water, you got a flip brush if you want to catch a bass. If it's windy, find a Windy Bank and you might be able to use a moving bait but the fishing is really tough right now. For sand bass you got to go looking, I didn't look around too much on the lower end other than Sand Bass hump which is saturated with bait but there's no sand bass.



Katy woods ramp underwater



Berries

Great report! Another spring with a flooded gvine! As long as it doesn’t get 10 plus ft high,, im fine with it.

They do not slow the flow because of politics lol it’s pretty simple really. They use gvine as a holding lake since it is one of the few that can flood and not flood houses. They hold the water while the downstream flooding subsides. One it does, they dump gvine.

As always great report!!

I caught a bunch of sandies from the bank this AM on Grapevine on a Yellow Magic Magnum lol. I think it was working because of the moving water. I was not getting nearly as much action on Rooster Tails or a Spoon.

Shad spawn definitely happening caught a bunch of small sandies this AM shad all over the bank on the north side.

I will be out there tomorrow morning! Is the normal ramp still open at Murrell? Last week it looked like if the water came up any higher that would not work anymore and they would have to start using the high water ramp... Just curious if you noticed.

I was not at Murrell this AM but I certainly doubt the normal ramp is open at 4’ high probably have to go the high water ramp. I “think” Twin Coves ramp is still okay but not if the level comes up much more. I just looked on the COE site is has come up more since this morning the high water ramp in Murrell might be your best option. If not raining I may wade fish at Murrell in the morning.

Yah, i'm seeing 4.5' high being reported, and Denton creek is at 11'+ (minor flooding level, they say). Can't make a guess, but the lake is going to be comming up some more.

I meant for this to be on the lake thread.

Data is power. Here are some links to some websites I use regularly. We got a good rain last night, Grapevine will be way up in the next 48 hrs. I would say that Ferris, and the high water ramp at Katy woods will be your go-to ramps.
When I was talking to the guy that was putting up barriers on the Katy Woods ramp, he said someone backed down off the edge of the ramp. When I asked if they increased the outflow, he said "no". I was very surprised, and mentioned that some of the parks would be affected if we got anymore rain. He said it was not in their control, as Ray Roberts & Lewisville flows were affecting how much could be released by Grapevine. Grapevine was built as a flood control lake, so that's why it goes so far up, and down. But Lewisville really has GV by the"Cajones", as homeowners have been in legal battle to keep their property from flooding. The parks worker told me quite a bit of juicy info, and Said it costs Grapevine allot of money repairing the parks after the high water events.
Anyhoo, if you want to catch some good catfish, if be out at trophy club Park at the very back parking lot. You can fish if the bank, out from a kayak/canoe easily. You will need some bait, we caught a dozen small shad at the boat ramp at the park, but you need something more. The guys we fished with on Monday were using cut up carp.
Take care all, and be careful out on the lake. Try to collect any trash you see, "Lady Grapevine lake" appreciates it.

This is the map location we fished of the bank.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bk42mu8zubt213Sf6




Rainfall totals for the day.
https://dentonrainfall.com/areaRain.php

Last nights rain around Grapevine Lake






Wind
https://www.windalert.com/spot/574
When you goto this link, select the option (Blend) on the top two charts. The top will give you wind speed, and the red lines/dots are gusts. The chart below the top one will give you a forecast out 7 days. This is what I use to determine my plan for the coming days. This is surprising accurate, and I have validated it's forecast.








Water flow in & out of GV, and area lakes.


https://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/selectreport/

Go-to this link, and hit the "Submit" button. It will then give you a list of lakes, with flows that the lakes are discharging. And incoming flows to the lake as well. This chart tend to be updated at the beginning of the day.






Water level for Grapevine
https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/grapevine
This is a good site, the top chart appears to update at the beginning of the day, but if you go down it will show you by the hour.

What the worker said was spot on and has always been the case. Sucks for us but is the reality of flood control lakes. Gvine will end up close to 8-10 ft high if I had to guess. More heavy rain tonight and all weekend.

I sure hope not

I hope not too