Thanks for the great trip Carey! More fish that I have ever caught before, and now I have a full freezer to boot!

One thing is for sure, Carey will put you on the fish. Until some D-bag decides he wants to troll through the schools/boats all day. Not the first time that guy has done it either, happened last weekend as well.

Special thanks to Carey for allowing us to tag along today. It's always fun to be on the water.

Yesterday produces about 40 keepers from 7-1 pm. Awful day. I have no idea why they wouldn't bite. Topwater for 2 mins. I side scanned schools, but they just had lock jaw and would haul butt. We would catch a few here and there every time we would stop, but the school kept on the move and would never stop swimming.

thank you Tarpon for trying to put us on the fish. It felt great to be on the water and catch so some fish.

Sunday fun day!

4 seats open for this Sunday morning.

$50/ seat

7 am till 10 or 11 am.

Call, text, email, or PM me to fill seats.

Hi Carey,
How are you doing?
Where are the rail road tracks?
Thanks

Hey Carey what kind of reels do u provide on the party boat trips?

Thanks Carey,
That's east of Hybrid point.
Thanks again

Every weekend till after September 20th is booked solid, but I have 1-2 days open here and there during the week for party boat trips or private trips. I bring spinning tackle and bait casters for you to use so all u bring is something to drink or munch on and fishing license and ID. I am geared up to catch anything that swims in the waters of DFW. So, if we limit on Sandies in an hour or so, you have the option of targeting Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Carp, Gar, Bowfin, Blue Gills, or Hybrids (every trip with me has that option depending on the lake we are on) By the end of the trip, I can teach anyone to learn how to use a baitcaster. - if you ask me to teach you during the trip. No closed face reels are allowed on my boat, lol. If you " old "enough, like 6-7 years old or older, it's time to put up the push button reels and learn the spinning reel ( my opinion obviously ). I had a 14 yr old using the baitcaster today and he only bird-nested 3 times, one was pretty bad.


SOON my posts in this section will disappear of awhile, because when the thermocline settles in, the crappie will start loading up in the brush piles. So after I finish y'all up on the Sandbass Trips, I start to merge into a Crappie Guide on Lake Lavon & Lake Lewisville and a couple Hybrid Striper Trips at Hubbard thrown in. I will be on the main lake till November and then i put the boat up and start walking the banks of Creeks and Rivers till May. While some of y'all are dead sticking freezing your jewels off, I'm sitting in the woods fishing a creek with no wind, getting limits of Sandies and Crappie. I posted a article full of information on my Blog page with Texas Fish & Game Magazine. Click Here for vids, pics, tips on Winter Crappie from the Banks .

Then February is the start of the White Bass & Hybrid Striper Run/Spawn. For a thread on how to catch Sandies and Hybrids out of local rivers and creeks, from February till May, Click Here for Sand Bass Run Link - it has all my reports, pictures, tips, and videos on how, when, where, and what -to catch these fish as they migrate from the main lake up creeks and rivers to spawn. I have seminars every 3 months or so at Bass Pro Shop with slide shows and how to do it. What is the Sandbass Run you ask? Picture in your head the Salmon spawning with bears all over the river eating them. Replace the Salmon with Sand Bass / White Bass & Hybrid Striper ( if the main lake, that the creek or river dumps into, is stocked with Hybrids/ Striper.


Fly Fishing, Bait, or Conventional Tackle on all Trips - Bank or Boat!


Sight fishing the Sandies and Hybrids during Feb- March, is something I really look forward to every year. I have been guiding them for 10 years or so from the Banks here in DFW. No boat necessary. You park and walk down to the creek and start fishing! Seeing a 7-10 lb Hybrid in 4 ft of crystal clear water, come up and tag your lure or fly is, priceless. I have a lot of videos on the sandbass run and more, on the link at the bottom of this page that's says Carey's Videos.

Now, onto current stuff.

Lake Lavon:

Today was good, not great in the morning. We put 47 keeper Sandies and a big blue cat in the box. Then the afternoon trip was a solid limit of 14-15 inch sandbass within 25 mins. They loaded up on the humps and submerged boat ramps that dot the lake. And today, I have some screen shots for y'all from Lavon with sand bass in the pictures too.


Click here for Video on Fishing Road Bed Sandbass





Finding and targeting fish on the road beds is simple if you have Side Imaging. Do not go directly over the road bed if its in 10 ft of water or you will spook them. If you snag the road bed, break off and tie a new slab on. Otherwise u spook em and no more fish for you! Or me. In the picture above you can see the Sandies loaded up on the road. All the white dots are Sandies on the last side of the cursor.



The picture above, I scanned a road bed and there are no white dots ( I call it pop corn ) if you don't see the pop corn things on the roadbed, don't fish it! Side Imaging doesn't lie. On the side of the roadbed, the rocks make a white return as does anything else very hard such as metal.



The road bed this day was loaded with huge White Bass! If you see that on your graph, you just limited within 30 mins.




Just North East or the cursor ( to the left of the cursor just a bit- and a little up ) you can see a bright white slash and a dark shadow there on the roadbed. I took a screen shot and said to myself, " dang, that was a big fish on the roadbed......"

We'll, I caught it!



Flat Head Catfish / Opelousas Catfish about 20-25 lbs. Very Healthy and Fat! She was CPR'ed.



Here above, is a school of Sandies balled up in a ditch on the right and some on the left bottom ish, on the ridge/drop off.



And, above, one of the whopping, 17 main lake humps, that are about 500 yards long.

Very nice and very informative. Thanks.

Today the Sandies put a whopping on me. Caught about 20 fish by 930 am so I cancelled the trip and I moved it, to a new date. -no sence in beating my clients up for nothing. -and me.

Why I post what I post:

I don't see the point in keeping Sandies and Hybrid locations a secret. No way r we going to actually dent the population of Sandies. ( maybe hybrids, but the fish usually move on to another honey hole everyday. You might get a pattern down, but that pattern only lasts so long. ) I see on other lake 20 boats surrounding a guide boat and following them everywhere. If I was not to give y'all the 7-8 spots to look for the fish on Lavon, you might be up my butt the whole time. I guess I really don't care if y'all follow me or not. It's not like crappie fishing where u have to be super precise on where u drop the lure. -Somedays it is, but rarely.

8-10 peeps have radios on Lavon now and it is working great. Sometimes I am not even on the fish in the morning. Somebody might jump on the radio and tell me that there are a hybrid point. Then I'll haul butt over the hybrid point. Everybody can catch them any day of the week when people work together like that. Helps me and helps you. There are a lot of people out there that can't afford to hire a guide. So in some shape or form, I don't think it's fair to people that read all about these adventures, and can't find the fish or catch a fish. And a lot of you take your kids out there. Everybody should have fun. We only live one time on this planet. And I plan to catch every freakin fish out of the lakes before I die. I didn't get to where I am by being a secretive prick like some other peeps. I don't have to post reports and tell you all this information I know, I do it because I love my job and I want to see everybody else have fun around me, even if I don't know you.

LIke the saying goes....sometimes your the bug sometimes your the windshield.

I am still trying to get to Lavon, I want to into to some of that summertime fishing.

Yes it was slow . Good to see you Carey and I LOVE MY NEW MARINE RADIO!! . I was able to talk to everyone on the lake. Hubbard guys ought to see about getting some for winter dead sticking. It will definitely save on cell phone expenses ( Dropping them in the lake )--LOL--.

Plus our radios float!