Why? Cause I was bored.

Yesterday I took Al out to the creek. Caught about 30-35 on the fly rod and had lots of long distance releases.





Today we had 2 limits taken.

After I was done with the morning guys, I headed down for a limit. 20 mins later I was done with my limit.

What a day: Monday Funday ( multi species report )

Video Fly Fishing for Sandies ( Below )



Started at Creek X with a fly fishing client at 730am. His first cast didnt really go anywhere, but the next cast he rolled it out perfectly. And, wouldnt you know it, he hooks up.



He then tells me, "Going to be a slow day, huh?". He caugth 40-50 and he was done at 10 am. 95% of his casts resulted in a hook up or bite. And only two other fly fisherman on the entire creek.



Solitude at its best.


After I dropped him off his his car, I went back down and got a limit of sandies in 30 mins or so. -I was side tracked tring to float a fly past some 40lb Grass carp eating disk shaped seeds on the surface. All I had were some clousers and one elk hair caddis which they ignored. But, I have a good fly now, to throw at them next time. ( I was CPR on sandies today so no hero pic )

11:30AM: I arrive home and kicked stuff around the garage. I was bored, so I figured, I'd take the boat out to Lady Lavon for some crappie before the rain hits (sprinkled on me for 5 mins).

2:00 pm: I quickly arrived in a cove and started to fish the shallows in 1-4 ft of water.




I hit every stump I could reach. I landed 34 Male crappie, all keepers from 12-13 inches on average. Not one female. I probably hit 40-45 stumps. So, I went out in to 9-16 ft of water and fished brush and tree tops. In 45 mins I had landed 14 Fat Slabs and everyone of them was 14 inches or so.





All Crappie are still swimming.

5:30 pm: Im home again. Boat back in garage. I'm bored again. So, I am off to Rowlett Creek to find something big to pull some drag!

6:10 pm: My drag starts to scream!

Eye candy pics. And the first pic below is the new Junior Angler and adult record for Rowlett Creek at 7.65 lbs.






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.

Trout included in this post. This affects even the Broken Bow stocked trout.


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.

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

How does this website know where you are located? Do you enter a zip code or does the I-Phone tell it?

Sorry. That link is set for McKinney, Texas.

Here is how to start from scratch.

http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi

After u land on the map graph, click on " Latest Weather Conditions " and that will give you the Barometric Air Pressure graph.

I don't land on a map. I have to select a Region from a drop down menu - Texas. Then I can select a location - Dallas/Ft. Worth. Are you seeing a map because you registered and automatically log in? I really would like to use air pressure information when fishing.

Never mind. I got it to work.

I had a decent day last week. Kept 10 and threw back a few more

Nailed 86 keepers today and only a couple dinks thrown in. My clousers were a bit to heavy and actually spooking the fish as it landed in the water. You could see them scatter. Tied on a Olive Near Deer and set the indicator for just off the bottom. Small strips if any at all, need to trigger a bite. Out fished a buddy that was using lures 20:1.

Can't wait to go on Sunday. Hopefully they are still hungry and the weather cooperates.

Creek XX is where I was. The original Creek X is to low, along with RC.

Remember the Trinity River below Ray Roberts and below Lewisville always has water. LLEA, below Lewisville, is fun and usually pumping out enough water to get the sandies moving, but only open Friday-Sunday. Otherwise u can park at 121 and walk in. Stay in the flood plain. Don't hop out on the trails, otherwise ur on private property. Your water rights allow you to navigate any creek or river in Texas as long as you are in the flood plain. 50 miles of river and feeder creeks. You can fish all the way to the dam if you want, as long as you don't get out of the flood plain they cant say your trespassing. There are sandies all the way from above Ray Roberts all the way into Downtown Dallas in the river system. Don't eat fish past Downtown Dallas! Everything North of Dallas is safe to eat.

Navigable by Statute

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publica...rs/navigation/riddell/navigability.phtml

Under a law dating from 1837, a stream is navigable so far as it retains an average width of 30 feet from its mouth up. The width measured is the distance between the fast (or firmly fixed) land banks. A stream satisfying the 30 foot rule is sometimes referred to as �statutorily navigable� or �navigable by statute.� Under a court decision, the public has rights along a stream navigable by statute just as if the stream were navigable in fact.

Fly Fishing Creek XX: Had to sit Indian Style due to a tree in my face. Would have been easier to get them from the other side, but the glare was to much. When fishing the banks in Texas, That clay is dry right now that im sitting on. If you were to get some rain, There is no way you will be able to stand or even sit where I was. Get Soccer Cleats! My buddy almost slipped in 20 times.

Lol that your buddy slipped 20 times and caught less than 5?