Good stuff dude...

Even the fly fisherman were catching fish - amazing. Every now and then we fly fisherman can catch fish.

Every time i see a fly fisherman down at the creek he is out catching everyone --LOL-- And that's no joke either

The hybrids are still there. Thinning out, but there. Had lots slap the fly today, and some monsters r still there. This rain Thursday might push them all out. �Or, bring in another batch. I'm calling for pushing them them out. Shad are showing up thick though. I have seen the Sandies and hybrids stay in the creeks till the end of may due to large amounts of shad come up to spawn every morning and evening, and the fish stay when the bait is plentiful. Thursdays rain will tell. If it flood the creek up, Sunday will be the best day ever, or very worst day. Carp are spawning all over the creek. 100's of them.

Caught the new Black Bass / Large Mouth Bass Record for Rowlett Creek.



Fly fishing is very challenging at Rowlett Creek. But obviously it can be done done. I get just as many strikes using a fly I tie as the minnow guys. 90% of the time u can out fish everyone.

Nice Carey, I saw you're truck at bass pro today. Sounds like the creeks are still good.

That is a great catch Carey. Nice job. I had a blast with my fly rod up at the other creek sunday. Even though the pressure killed the bite I really got the hang of whipping that fly rod. And I actually caught a fish on it --LOL-- Thanks for the tips and report

Hey Carey , I was wondering if you have ever tried muddy creek off of liberty grove? Me and some buds went this weekend and limited out! Great spot.

Yes I have been to muddy creek. Fun, but my clients loose to much tackle.

Man did the creek shut down this morning or what? 645-730 was crazy fast action. My two clients had me running all over the place. Every 2-3 mins I was jumping in the water to grab a hybrid of their line. It's definetly almost over though. Half of the hybrids today, I did surgery on. Lots of them had hooks dangling out of their mouths from previous people breaking off. I see this every year. When u start catching fish with hooks in them, the population of fish is dwindling down to nothing. I am not saying its completly over, but the rain will definetly tell us what the creek will produce after the creek clears up. I will try one more time this weekend, maybe. Otherwise, it's time for me to leave the creeks and start putting people on limits of channel cats, crappie, Sandies and hybrids from the boat.

Here is my opinion on the air pressure: Air pressure affects a fish's swimbladder as it rises and falls.

http://www.usairnet.com/weather/conditions/?station=KADS

From what I have come up over the years, the fish are more comfortable in a range from 29.85 to 30.10.

If the Air Pressure is 30.40, or higher, I will cancel your trip.

If the Air Pressure is 29.60, or lower, I will cancel your trip.

If the air pressure is 30.50 or higher, you are going to have a hard time even snagging a carp turd. I stay home and I won't even go fishing.

The reason I will cancel your trip sometimes are due to the air pressure, and I will give you an option to pick a new day, or go out anyways and only catch a couple. So if I call you before the trip and say: " you have an option" : that means I don't like the something about the weather, and I'd prefer we pick another day. I like to limit every trip and then possibly go limit on Sandies after crappie, or vice versa. If the pressure is out of wack, we are not going to do that.



Now, this is not by the book. This is all what I have noticed while fishing. Sometimes they will bite when the air pressure is all wacky, but 90% of the time, the air pressure, will prove itself.

I find that fish 15 ft or shallower are most affected by the rising and falling of barometric air pressure. The fish in deeper water, are already pressurized, due to the water pressure as you go deeper, so they don't seem to be as affected as the shallower fish. Again, this will only tell you why the fish have slowed down and are not biting anymore. There is nothing you can do about it, but wait it out till it stabilizes or just go home.

As an example:



This is a perfect day with the air pressure. You read it from the bottom up. The top number is current and the bottom number is hours ago. As you can see, the pressure is going up, but its rising slow and steady. That's a perfect day to fish in that scenario.



Now, the pic above is a very bad bad day to fish. We start at 29.83 and the pressure plummets all day and won't stop dropping. This really will shut the fishing down to a trickle or non at all.

My rule:

Example: If the pressure is at 29.87 and drops two points to 29.85, the fishing will slow down a bit. If it drops or rises .02 or more, your fishing trip might be a site seeing trip.

If it rises or falls .01 at time, you should be fine.

If it rises more than .02 fishing is slow.

If it falls .02 or more fishing is slow.

If its steady, or rising .01 or falling .01 every hour, fishing is good.

If the pressure rises or falls more than .05 an hour, I'll just go home.

I am pretty sure, a couple of you guys were out yesterday Crappie fishing Sandbass fishing or hybrid fishing, and that 830 in the morning the fish completely stopped biting. The air pressure had risen .02 points at a time within the hour and then it started to drop rapidly as the storm front started to roll through.

Example: We were fishing yesterday morning at Rowllet creek, as soon as we got there we started to pick up hybrids left and right every single cast. Then at about 830 the fishing completely stopped dead in its tracks. The air pressure had risen .02 points and and the fish completely stopped biting. We could see 20 to 30 hybrids sitting right in front of us but would not even budge. And again, there's nothing you can do about it, either wait it out or go home and come back when the air pressure stabilizes. I see this happen to me almost on a daily basis. I save the link in my smart phone, and refreshes every hour as I'm guiding to tell me what's going on under the waters surface.

Well I was off. All the creeks had another run. We hit the water at 730 and limited out by 755 am. My client landed well over 100 fish by 9 am. Every cast was a fish. Slowed down a bit as we left, but we were still landing fish after fish after fish. Forgot the hero pics this time. All on flukes. We were out fishing the minnow guys.

Way to go . You're the man

Thanks for the report, Carey.

I went to the creek for about three hours today. Cassnet it's some bait and immediately pulled in approximately 40 to 50 Sandbass. Also I landed 24 hybrids from 16 inches to 24 inches. Everything was CPR'ed.

I'm flying to Utah in the morning to go flyfishing the green river below the flaming gorge reservoir. So don't call me, leave me alone, I probably don't have any cell towers there anyways. See y'all next week!

The Rowlett Creek Hybrid Record has been beaten again by my previous client Jack! 8 plus lber certified!



Great job Jack!!!!!!!!!! That's a massive fish!

So the question of the day is are we going to have a spawn in rc? I'm ready when they are