Sandbass were on the end of murrell point, keepers and lots of them. Going to the edge of the drop was better than being in top of the large point. Slabs, inline spinners, and jigs worked. There were catfish, drum, and Sandbass all in the same area.

Thanks for the update. I plane on mid week and Saturday being out there.

I ran into a new contact Mr. "G", and a man that had a older champion like me. Both live really close to Eagle Mountain lake. Was nice meeting both, and we were spot locked 5-10 yards apart. There were allot of fish but some would not bite, these were the drum (I call them gaspergoo or goo). Don't know where I learned that from, but it stuck in my head when I was a younger man. I did have the Bluetooth thumper going, and fish would come thru in large groups right on the bottom. Thanks again Matt for the visit, and appreciate the kind words. He said people on GV are very nice and courteous. Except for the wake boats, as one drove between us earlier when I was fishing a ledge for the green fish. Dove ramp is officially open, but I haven't seen a kiosk yet. There are no "no wake buoys" at the mouth of Meadomere so please be courteous to the kayakers, paddle boards, and the such. I have only seen one boat plane out from the Meadomere ramp going out, so everyone knows what we should be doing. Heading out in about 30 minutes to fish the mid morning to dusk bite to see how it is. Bass fishing last wed was lights out after 3pm, but it was brutal yesterday from 5am to 2pm. Hopefully will find something interesting today, and I'm staying mid lake to lower. The area from Meadomere up is a light green stained water color (typical GV), and below this it's cleaner water which I have been doing better with. The exposed clay banks easily stain the water from (high wind days, and wake boats), so we will prob be seeing the old gv water color return soon. The gar and other predators of the lake are having a field day with the small bass. About 40% of the really small fish I am catching on the (rooster tail, tiny-trap, & micro square bill) show signs of them. Many have strips of outer flesh which were ripped off, or damage. Big green bite is deep, and tough to fish with all the wake boats plowing up the lake. I took some screenshots of the bait situation with the livescope yesterday which is very interesting. Before sunrise pretty much all of the bait in the lake is up in the 2-4ft range. As the sun comes up you can see the entire level of bait all move down slowly, and when it's full sun they are settling on the 20ft depth. This is where I focus for the green fish on ledges, humps, brush, or rock piles. I will add them below, I like this kind of stuff so hopefully it will not bore you. God Bless and if your down and cannot get out for a bit go grab some reels and do some cleaning/lubing. Tip: do not use grease on reel bearings, you want the lightest oil you have. A drop is too much, so I will take a toothpick and use the tip to apply just a skosh of oil to bearings. If you have a reel with line that's getting beat up and the end is in pretty bad shape, just let all the line out and flip it in the spool. I flip flouro line when the end closest to the lure gets cloudy looking, because it's so expensive. The line at the bottom of the spool is still new. But if the line is old, your better off replacing it. Since I fish allot I will only replace flouro if I have a professional overcast that it terminal, or if the spool doesn't have enough line on it.



Pay attention to the time on the screenshot, and the bait depth. The more light hitting the water, the deeper the bait goes for safety.

Correction Dove ramp looks like it's still blocked off painting

Was able to get out this morning and fished from 9 to noon. Caught three nice lmb, 20+ dink lmb, handful of keeper sandies, 2 spots and broke off a gar.

As Brent mentioned there are many 6-10 inch lmb to be had. I found them packed in a bird filled cove. Left them biting. The better bass were on a point in 12 fow. The sandies were kind of by catch but fun.

Fun day. Lake looks healthy. Seems to be fishing well. I had 30ish fish in three hours. That's fun!

^^^Nice ones Dan! I fished for just a little while from the bank and caught a few early AM sandies mostly dinks but a few nice ones mixed in.

I was also out on Grapevine yesterday but posted my report on the Kayak section ...

https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/15174540/morning-on-the-vine#Post15174540

I was on the other side of the lake... Two Dans in Old Town Kayaks on Grapevine on the same random Tuesday! Aye Caramba!

I caught all my fish on crankbaits. Did not try any plastics at all.

Great write-ups y'all. Always nice to take a kayak out in the morning before the Wake boats are out trying to run you over.

Fished yesterday and crossed paths with the sandbass around rock ledge park. Many large schools were moving around the hump in 20-30ft. Schools are doing drive by attacks on any bait they could find, the water on the north Eastern part of the lake is the clearest water. Bass bite was tough for me yesterday, and I wasn't seeing the numbers of bigger bass on the ledges and humps. One thing I did notice is the "safety in numbers" schools of bass have transitioned down to the 16-20ft depths. Any piece of brush, boulder, ledge, small stick has a swarm of small bass & perch on it. I'm thinking these "young-uns" have pushed the bigger fish off the juice. Still caught some nice bass, and a smallies right at 4 pounds. I checked murrell park point and it had fish on it, which were hugging the bottom. I had to scale down my bait for the green fish, as they were not entertaining anything. Smallmouth was caught on a 1" long swim jig paddle tail worm (looks like something you would crappie fish with). Crappie are big, and stacked in 25ft of water near brush/boulders/ledges but not in the brush. Don't know why they are doing this, but they are in large schools sitting near the structure. They might also not appreciate the small bass "millennial bass" who have taken over the brush and better structure. Caught some donkey crappie with a med size jigging spoon, thinking the fish were Sandbass or drum. Fish ended up being big magnum crappie. Someone has been busy sinking brush piles in the last few months, I bet I have found 10 more brand new brush piles in the last few weeks. For bass I would stay on the north bank, for sandbass I would hunker down on murrell point when it gets hot. With labor day coming, one thing I have learned from experience (don't even think about going out on Labor Day). The force is strong with the "village idiots" on Labor Day. Be good, and many blessings to all. Kieth prayers for your op on Friday...

Nice work up sir. I agree in full measure, no way to hit the lake on Labor Day !

I went Saturday afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of crazies on GV.
There were even parking spaces at Meadomere at 2pm. We hit a big school of gaspergoo(drum) out by rockcrusher. Other than that, the bite was hard to find till the wind shifted to the north. Then we hit the Murrel point, and it was on for over an hour till dark, with doubles and triples over the side. 90% were good keeper fish. I didn't have time to count with the clicker so no clue on numbers. all on slabs in 22' water. Never moved the boat once the graph lit up.

I fished yesterday from 10am-630pm and it rained on me all day. With that said, I felt like I was in paradise. I was the only one on the lake until about 5pm. Surface water Temps cooled down to 83-84 deg, and I was able to burn the north bank with big chunky rocks with a very small square bill and have fun. The Sandbass were up on the top of flats, and working bait in the shallower water. (Between twin coves mouth of the cove, and murrell) Bait is still out in 20-30 but I didn't see as much activity out in the deeper water. It was cloudy so the bait was probably easier to see up shallower. Sunday I went to the humps north of the crusher, they are stacked with drum. Tons of drum which look like sandbass, but you work a bait thru them and you might feel a tick when one pecks at the bait. You really have to finesse fish drum, but I got lucky. I was on the edge casting about 100ft over the top with my spinning reel. I had a med size cork spoon on the bottom, and another bait about 10"above the soon. If I slowly drag the bait and shake the rod, the top bait does the dance that the drum and catfish like. If you want to catch catfish, find the drum. There were some big gar, and big catfish roaming this area and I picked up a nice catfish on 10" test. Took about 20 min, but it was fun. Still not seeing sandbass on the humps above mid lake. Crappie are thick as I have ever seen them in 25ft (ledges, boulders, and some brush). For some reason the big crappie are not in the brush. All the crappie I'm catching off brush is about 5-6" long. The magnum crappie are on the rock ledges, and surprisingly sitting near buoy anchors (that was a little tidbit of a clue). The west side of the floating tires at Scott's Marina, if you will go to the north about 40 ft, you will see a long string of sunken tires. Stacked full of crappie. Anywho, caught a lot of nice fish yesterday. Nothing. That was really big but did catch a nice smallmouth. Heading out in a couple of hours. I have to dry the boat out so I'm going to fish till dark.

Yes, a lot the Rock Crusher humps are full of drum. We caught dozens of them Saturday. We hit 5 or 6 different humps out there and all had drum on them. I think we may have caught 2 crappie and a catfish out there, but no size to them. Should be a nice day out there again.

I sure appreciate your posts. Brings me great joy to see! I'll be on grapevine soon and very soon