Fished from 7:30-9:45 this morning. Tons of shad all over the creek. Catch and release on a bunch of sands and yellows from 7:30-8:30 it was just about every cast. 8:30 on it was sloooow. Saw a few hybrids landed, I broke one off.

On my way right now south of miller rd

Good luck Mario5227

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.

yep...

almost over....

Had fun this year. Hope to see everyone again next year.

BRING A ROPE !!!

Just got back from RC. Very little bites. Switched from rooster tail, to live minnow, to jig and berkley minnow (which Ive had incredible bites on). Saw a bunch of people go home emptyhanded this evening. VERY weird day only thing i managed to catch was a catfish at the very end with a blue fox lure.?? '___' ... also stopped at gas station off dalrock, people were getting sandies of the bank at hubbard. I think they are making their way back.

Fished from 7:15 to about 10. Caught two hybrids on live shad, about 18" and 20". Caught 7 or 8 sand bass on a small swimbait. Released them all, didn't feel like cleaning fish today.
It was my first time at RC, looking forward to going back a few times next year.

Well I think this it for me time to make my way north to Texoma for my annual top water bank fishing....we y'all next year.

1 inch of rain so far. Creek should flood to at least 10 feet.

I think this will flush them out, but I could be wrong.

Right now creek is at 7 feet and rising.

Flow is 300 cfm and rising.

Gonna try one last time this weekend. Hopefully they will stay in the creek after the rain if not will see you guys next year.


Lee

Creek is at 12ft and 2200cfm flow.

Any word on the "cat fish run" patterens, temps, ect. last year I caught almost all cats and hybrids in my little channle I fished next to a hole full of sandies that every one else targetted down by the gr. I havent caught a single one yet this year and would like to target them with or without sandies running. I know I can throw cut bait and wait but last year it was a nibble every cast even if they didnt take it right away. Any tips or info and when they show up and leave ect would be great. Thanks!

Creek peaked at 13' and is coming down.

Flow at 2270cfm and coming down as well.

Don't try today...

Went out and tried crappie. Didn't catch many crappies but mostly channel cats on crappie jigs. So the cats should be in once this front passes. I'm worried the crappie spawn will be over before I can get myself some crappies. Maybe we should just let this sandie/hybrid run be over. This year's run is ridiculously good. I'm pulling no more sandies/hybrids out of water any more. LOL. The coolest thing this year was observing sandies going through shallow rapids to their spawning spots like salmons. what a sight.

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.