Okay so I live in Sweetwater Tx and can seem to find any honey holes!! Anyone know of a few good places around here? Been to phantom, oak creek,...Ive yet to try Alan Henry....Im targeting flats and blues....thanks for any help.

Lake Ivie is a good channel cat lake. I have heard that Stamford holds good blues but I have never really targeted them there.

Albert King seems to know a lot about this area.

I agree with FishHauler... Ivie is as good of a channel cat lake as there is. I spend alot of time on Ivie in the late winter and spring. Hydrilla takes Ivie over during the hotter months, so I spend more time on Lake Coleman and Lake Proctor during this time.

phantom is an excellent channelcat lake, think shallow

My brother in law was stationed at dyess(phantom) and we used to kill the channels and the blues at the electric plant run off. I don't know if it is still in operation or not but it was great.

Thanks guys, I might get over there and try lake coleman any tips philpot?

I would think up the Ned for cats on coleman, Watch it thier are stumps up there. It is still around 8' low now.

if ya can get on the clear fork you can do well in the deeper pockets
the little lake in sweetwater out by the scout camp can be good as well

O your talking about lake trammel? Wow I didnt think anyone even knew of that little thing lol....Thanks for all the input guys!
Gonna go catch some perch today and try somewhere tonight....ill post the results!

Well I tried Oak Creek Saturday night, with not much results. Then yesterday we went to J.B Thomas! I was surprised at the amount of 6 inch shad we were able to catch! We got set up and had plenty of action! But when it got dark, the bite disappeared. Highlight of the evening was a BIG OL DRUM! No pics....nothing that good lol

Did you fish with cut shad or use them live? We have been catching a lot with nightcrawlers and stinkbait.

We were using them both ways! We had one BIG HIT on a live shad. Are you also fishing JB Thomas?

Yes we go every couple of months or so. I really like stamford lake better as far as catfish go, we have caught some really nice channel and blue cats on jugs there in the areas around the anchor marina.

hey Smoky, I was just curious since you live in sweetwater have you tried lake sweetwater? I see where it has been stocked since 2007 when it filled back up. I would think the fish should be several pounds by now.

No howser I havent, but yes that lake is doing really well! Some of the channel cat are like 5 pounds already. I like fishing where theres a chance i could hang a big one lol.