We were there at cedar creek today(2nd time to cc this year) from 6:45am-2pm and only manage 2sandie,1crappie,4cat, and 2 yellow. The lake is too huge and we didn't know where to start. *sigh*. I was hoping to at least do good. I didn't catch the sandies but my girlfriend and her mom,dad did.LOL! My girlfriend ended up doing better than me with 1 magnum sandie and one Fat crappie. As for me I gave up on the sandies and just cut my shad in half and knew 100% I could catch a catfish and I did! Two kitties! As for the sandbass, I've tried shad,chartreuse TNT ,swim bait, inline spinners and still been shutout. Fishing so far for me has been frustrating. I've have been to Texoma and got skunked over there with 1 fish to show for it. I have been skunked at Joe Pool, Lake Arlington and at Cedar creek. I've been hearing so many good reports and thought I could do the same. But apparently not. How are you guys doing? Hopefully I am not the only whos been skunked at 4 different lakes.

If i may offer a piece of "advice": Pick a lake, any lake! Get to know it,know it good! Keep hammering away, and exploring new places on the same lake, till you get to know where all the nooks and crannies are. Talk to the locals, get a feel for the way the fish on "your lake", move, feed, and stack. And by all means keep a hook in the water!

You'd be amazed how quickly that frustration might dissipate!

And if that fails, I hear Hank Haney can always use a new client at any of his numerous driving ranges scattered all over DFW!

You can still keep trying new waters, but once you get to know a lake or two, they can be your "fallback" waters where you can go for a quick "confidence re-boost".

And keep practicing on technique!

Good luck

Rudy

+1 I have been fishing LL longer than most of you have been on this planet and am still learning the lake.

Fishing101, there ar 2 essentials to catching sandies in a big lake. The 1st is knowing how to locate the fish. You can waste all your time fishing where there are no or few fish in a large body of water. I don't wet a hook until I've located a concentration of fish. The 2 most productive ways to locate them are (1) find surface schooling fish - look for birds diving and circling back and diving again over same area or look for congregation of boats indicating they are already on surfacing fish - ease up to the surface action and verify that some fish are actually hitting the surface and it's not all cormorants or loons chasing shad to surface - then stay at the edge and cast into the action and work something white or silver at different depths until you start catching them. (2) the 2nd and most reliable way is to get a good depth finder that shows the inverted v's instead of pics of little fishes and search submerged humps and main lake points and drop-offs - look for concentrations of fish just off the bottom in water any where from 10 ft to 30 ft with most productive usually in 12 to 20 ft - once you locate fish, mark them and then fish a slab, sassy shad or inline spinner down on the bottom working either straight down or by making a long cast and working it back to the boat. Water clarity is key for structure fishing - you can only work the deeper depths if water is reletively clear - the cloudier the water the shallower you have to look for fish - most of Cedar Creek is cloudy now - the clear water is in Clear Creek and Caney Creek area, and that's where the good action is.

After you have fished a lake for a while you will learn the humps and points that usually hold fish and can get to catching them faster. On a new lake (to you) it wil take longer to find them but the techniques above work on all of them.

Good luck!

thanks alot guys for the tips and advices. my home lakes are joe pool n lake arlington. I had a great day today at joe pool. 1 hour of non stop action.

You need to use a TNT slab with a Flies-By-Night fly above it.

So a flies by night on top with the TNT slab on the bottom end? Sounds good and all I do is drop it straight down and jig it back up? I don't really know how to work a slab, it sinks too fast.

getcha silver doller slab from bass pro. drop it jig it up an down an hold on brotha