If this amount of rain actually falls, RC will have a small run and it should get better. Its obviously producing fish for those that know where they are and what they want.

Report: Actually it truley was slow.



When we got there the pressure was 30.18 and rising slow. No biggy at all. We quickly land 8-10 fish, then it was crickets chirping. Did I really catch everything out of this hole already? My client keith said "check the pressure", it had jumped .07 points. Well, all I said is, we can only wait it out and hope it steadys out again.....

2 hours later the bite picked up again and started landing fish. You cant do anything about it but wait or go home, but, you will still pick up a fish here and there, but most of the time its affects them and slows them down...... Big time when they are in the creeks and rivers in the shallower water.

Got a couple doubles here and there.



Minnows were still king of the day. Great action when they were biting and they didnt go more than 5 minutes in between bites.

nice

That's a lotta catchin. Nice!

Hey Carey, do you think we will get some sandies out of the river below Lavon this year? Or Hybrids?

The three main things sandies want in rivers and creeks:

1. Moving water for the eggs. If silt build up on them they will not hatch, which the river has no moving water right now, or wind blown banks for that matter, making enough current for the eggs to hatch. The River at Hubbard will not have a run of sandies in big numbers unless the water is moving. Lake Lavon is 9 ft low. They will not be opening the gate anytime soon. (they will be opening the gate for a couple hours in April or March to flush it out a bit "I heard". But that will not trigger a run.) There are some that will make it up there, but not in numbers worth driving the boat up there to get.... There is one hole up there that has year round sandies in it, but maybe 50-100 of them in one spot....Most wont even spawn, the ones that make it to the river and no current happens. They will just absorb all the eggs.

2. They go up rivers and creeks to spawn not ony in the current, but rocky sandy and gravely spot for the eggs to get good flow over them. It only takes like 3 days for them to hatch. You will see the fry all over the creek if you look (when they are spawning).

3. Temps: I see them start to spawn at 58-61 degrees, temps in the creek that is. Two of the creeks I am fishing at right now are 57-58 degrees and the females are starting to trickle in as the males always, usually, arrive before the females do. IMO

how far down from firewheel is the hell hole

100 yards south of the bridge.

Great information again Carey

Can you park on the south side of Firewheel Bridge? It looks to be posted? -Fat

Only the South East Side of the Bridge.

Report:

I was 50/50 on going out this morning with front and all. 28 degrees when I woke up, brrrr. Landed 10-15 fish from 730-9 with 5 being keepers. Lock Jawed and no fun. So about 9 am I called the trip and resceduled for a day next week. -Sometimes it happens, not often though, lol. I really hate cold fronts.

Good call Carey. I went out scouting the creek yesterday afternoon with my boy and got skunked. We threw minnows on bobbers, 1/16 rooster tails, 1/16 road runners... all with no success. But it was still a nice day and we had a good time. -Fat

Cold front is here and lingering around. Some of my spots are still producing high numbers of fish, but it has slowed down a little bit. The best bite seems to be as the day warms up. Around 2-3PM during the day is when they seem to be biting best. Minnows on the bottom, 4 pound line, small split shot, seems to be the best way to produce a large stringer of sandies. Small Rapala's In chartreuse, and anything in minnow colors works as well too. If the fish are slow, put a small split shot above your Rapala and sink it on the bottom. So basically your Carolina rigging your Rapala. If there's enough current, it'll just bump it along the bottom with the Rapala floating a little bit above the school of fish. On cold fronts and high-pressure days you got a fish slow and keep the bait in the strike zone for as long as possible. If you really want to throw Rooster Tails ( 1/8 oz )and you keep snagging and losing your rooster tails, take off the back treble hook and replace it with a size 6 or 4 single bait hook. Make sure you use a bronze colored hook, that will keep the yellow bass off the rooster tails hook. Those small yellow bass are hitting your shiny hooks and not the main lure. So if you get rid of your shiny hooks, your yellow bass catch ratio will go down. And again, most of the fish at Rowleet Creek, are from the bike trail parking lot all the way to Miller. It really need to warm-up before those fish make a huge run-up that creek, and a nice warm rain or flood would help out a lot as well.

This is a perfect time for me to take a mini vacation with this cold front lingering around for the next week. So, I'm off to Vegas, leaving in the morning. Have fun and be safe.

Good luck in vegas.

Report: Sunday March 3rd

Hit the creek a bit later than I wanted to. So we didnt get there till 730am. The Minnow place didnt open till 7 am....

Got to the water and landed a fish on the first cast. Limited in less than 1.5 hours after Jack stayed out of the trees. Those tree fish were biting today.

Lures: Jig/Bobber & small jerk baits & Medium minnows.