is there any good bass fly fishing in sheldon reservoir in houston. any help appreciated

probably, I used to fish there 20 yrs ago & caught some nice bass

Phil Shook dealt with this topic in his book Fly Fishers Guide to Texas
There are plenty of fish...and gators

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/sheldon_lake/

I would try it if I were still living in Houston. Infact, next time I'm down visiting, I may check it out.

I drove out there a few months ago just to take a look. One guy was out there in a small bass boat, poking around. It's SO grown over from the bank out to approx. 20-30ft. out, I went home. Tried at both ends, you would need a boat. Those so called "fishing piers" are so old, and rotted, I was literally afraid of falling through, many railings are loose, or missing. Pretty disgusting, looks like it MAY have been a good lake, like 20 yrs. ago. Never wasting gas to go there again.

thats ashame, I used to work around the corner from there & spent many long lunches fishing off Garret Road

ya, i am probly gunna try goin there with a canoe. thanx for the response

good luck & let us know how you do...
I go to Houston quit a bit & need to head over there & look around .

How does lake houston treat you?

I should be more clear, I go down there for medical checkups, often with spare time on my hands, I havent fished Lake Houston , I used to fish the San jacinto River above & below the lake back in the 80's & did pretty good at times.

it was too overgrown and it was very low.sry i didn't respond sooner, i forgot i made this post. is there any other place to fish for bass?(preferably with bank access)

wow, that sucks... sheldon was pretty neat 20 yrs ago, have you looked down stream of Lake Houston on the San Jacinto ? a few ponds around town ? buffalo bayou & braes abayou (braes is intriguing to me, a concrete ditch with grass carp (white manure, I mean amur) in it. Conroe has a little bank access, and the there is the coast.. good luck

My grandmother/father used to take my dad and uncle fishing at Sheldon reservoir all the time. Probably not long after it was built/impounded and then stocked. My grandfather used to fish from a homemade innertube rig and could launch from the shoreline no problem. I guess that was 50 or so years ago. That place could probably be turned into a great little fishing lake again with some attention from TPWD and the COE.

i go and fish buffalo bayou for catfish carp and gar, but i never seen any bass? on the concrete lined bayous(whiteoak bayou), what do you look for, there isn't any cover at all and it is like 15 feet across. also what flies would you use in it for them amur carp