Those MAL lures really work, glad to hear

Are you following the recommended techniques or you got your own pattern working

Fished today, whacked em with the big spinnerbait. Covered an enormous about of water today fishing for the green fish. Rock ledge had big sandbass sitting on top, caught about 8 before I moved on, but they were just sitting on top of the hump. After that all i saw were small sandbass during my travels on the North Bank. Caught some really nice bass, and a real good smallie. Saw several boats and a guide boat looking on Murrell point, but they didn't stay long so it must be tough finding them. Bait is everywhere along the banks, and surprisingly it was hard trying to find another area that is producing like the one I have been doing well on.

Normally, I do follow the recommendation of letting it drop to the bottom, retrieve for a bit, let drop to the bottom, repeat. Today when the fish were higher in the water column, I used a steady retrieve. I'm not sure it made a difference but it worked.

Great report!

I got out there yesterday around Murtell at sunrise. Wasn't very good. I caught only one keeper and five or six shorts.

I left at 10:00 a.m. probably should have gotten there at 10:00 a.m. Day before yesterday when I did pretty well almost all of my fish came between 10:00 a.m. and noon.

I saw those boats out there on Merrill flats and thought about trying to kayak over to that area. But the wind was being a little fickle and I was getting bites... Just not the right size.

I didn't see any shad actively spawning, but they were pretty much everywhere in the area. Actually snagged a couple on a jerk bait.

I took the canoe out of TC park and went lure hunting. Checked a couple of feeder creeks for GV, and picked up a handful of baits. Also, I crossed paths with a youtuber last week in twin coves. I told him i caught catfish fishing the rocks at the mouth of twin coves. He was going to put out some jug lines. I was fishing the mouth of twin, and it was my report where i was catching sandbass & catfish. He made a video, and caught some catfish in Meadomere.





Location of Lake fork guy catching catfish.

Refreshing personality ! Good video .

MAL lures definitely work both with a saw tooth or vertical retrieve. Key is to get that blade turning quickly with a couple of hard/fast turns of the reel handle on tight line then slow it down.

Good advice regardless of the method of retrieve !

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Thanks for sharing, Prosise. Good video. Makes me wish I still had my jug lines.

I ran into Lake Fork Guy up Denton Creek a couple years ago and ended up in his video briefly. I'll have to find it and share.

a couple of hard/fast turns of the reel handle on tight line then slow it down

The only problem with this method is that 2-3 turns of the handle, depending on the reel gear ratio, is about 6-10 Ft of wasted productive fishing area and multiply that by 3 or 4 times per each cast and that 24-40 Ft that never got properly fished.
I use Boblades from MRBaits made by Mark Bovee, they immediately get the blade turning no matter what speed the retrieval speed is, slow or fast.

Mark Bovee 512-796-0333. He is located in Rockwall.

1 turn on a 6:1 ratio spinning reel with a 2" spool = 27 inches of line taken up.

Neat thread.

Sounds good T Bird👍. I just threw this out there for information only. I have had great success with his baits.

Can you post a link to purchase?

I think I'll be on the vine tomorrow

Someone coming from tyler area to join. Best place for him to park and pick up at dock? I'll be out on the water already when he arrives. I'd like to help em set up his license plate ahead of time for parking as well

May bug Dan or prosise in txt and see what he says