Nice report and great tips. ...I've become a fan of Lady Lavon...
As the water gets warmer can u recommend a spot for me n my Tube ??

Until the thermocline settles in, crappie fishing is plain terrible. The sandbass are on fire though.

It takes me almost all day to put 20 crappie in the boat. They are just to spread out and to much baby shad everywhere you go. They are consistently full.

But for the white bass:

Fish were blowing up everywhere today. They didn't really start boiling till 830 ish. Then they stopped at 930-10am ish. It's dink fest out there, so if ur in a dink school, move to the next boil till u see or catch some bigger mags. I got a limit (25) of Sandies that were all 14-16 inches. Caught 100's of 8-11 inchers.

I was throwing a topwater and the small ones would just try to eat the hooks on it. Some people think they are tring to eat the whole lure. Not correct. The dink whites and yellow bass are not hitting your lure, they are trying to eat your shiny little hook that looks like a minnow to them. To shy away from the dinks and yellows, switch out your hooks to the duller colored hooks. Your dink ratio will probably go down 75%. I also add a bronze single hook to my slabs, instead of a treble hook. Way faster unhooking the fish, a little safer for humans -that decide to hook themselves, less wear and tear on the dinks or the fish your releasing. Those treble hooks destroy the little guys and rip them up pretty bad.

The amount of 8-10 inchers is amazing, from what I saw today during the boils. Next year 10-11 inchers is going to be easy. �

Again, I was using 12 lb Berkley Big Game/ 1/4 oz slab chartreuse/ saltwater steel hook size 1 with a Thump Buddy Jig 18 inches above it.

The fish boiled everywhere today. All over the lake. Mainly around the island and at the dam. But I saw them and caught them all the way North near the timber.

So right now I'm doing Black Bass/ White Bass on Lavon. Crappie trips will be back up in about a month or so.

Free seminars @ Bass Pro Shop Garland next to Lake Ray Hubbard.

August 3 rd on Saturday

How to walk the Banks for the following in local creeks and rivers :

Trinity Rivers North of DFW.
White Rock Lake
White Rock Creek
Hickory Creek
Rowlett Creek
..... And a few un-named creeks and honey holes.

Slide show w/ what, where, when, how, and how not to. I'll tell you everything I know, just take that info and go catch ya some fish!

3 pm: Annual Spring White Bass/ Hybrid Striper Spawn

4 pm: Annual Winter Crappie Run in Creeks/ Rivers


Question and Answer after each seminar. After the last seminar, we can go to the fishing department and get you geared up with the rods, lures, lines, reels, ect and I'll show you everything I use to catch the fishies.

Please do not call up there asking about the seminar. They have over 300 employees working at any given moment. Some people don't get the memo, that the World Champion is coming to do seminars. This will not be cancelled.

Nice Catch guys, I just got a new boat it been 2yrs seen I've been fishing. Thanks 4 the info.

There's some monsters in there!

Today's Report: Terrible. Caught 100's of dinks. East wind killed it. Tomorrow better looking. Glad the day is over.

How did you fish it today and what will you do tomorrow to hopefully produce better results?

sandbass? thats all thats in there are dinks!

Nice fish.

Lake Lavon Report: been super busy and to tired to post anywhere. So here goes the Lavon Report for the last 3-4 weeks. The wind has been absolutely terrible. When it's not to windy, under 12 mph, limits of the tasty fish r being taken. And to add to that, the crappie have grown enormous. 15-16 inchers are actually very common. We came .08 ounces from beating the lake record last week. One shad away, lol. I'm sure this year the record or a couple of them have been eaten. There is still a couple weeks left to catch a female full of eggs that weighs 3 lbs. I know she is out there ......






Gear: 10 ft & 12 ft Bass Pro Shops CrappieMax rods and Pro Angler rods.
Spinning reels with 8 lb mono

Jigs: Black Chart / White Chart - Thump Buddy's by lightsouttackle.com
Using hand poured 1/32 & 1/16 th oz pink jig heads

Fishing Areas: Rip Rap ( rocks ), standing timber, brush piles, submerged boat ramps, sandy coves or along the sandy beaches.



Rip Rap: vertical fish 1-5 ft of water up in the rocks and fish slow covering every nook and cranny. Make sure your jig is off the bottom about 6 inches or so. Also jig and bobber on 4 lb line is deadly and u can cover lots of water a lot faster. Small twitches is all that's needed and sometimes just casting and letting it sit, will entice a strike. I start with the bobber 6 inches deep and cover the rocks in 1 ft of water. Then I make the bobber 1.5 deep. I keep making it deeper till I hit 5 ft. Then I move to the next spot 40 yards down the rocks. Some days you won't have to move and you can limit out your 25 crappie per day.



Standing Timber: work your jig 1/2 foot off the bottom next to the standing timber and hold it still as possible. Work the entire water column on the piece of timber your working. Sometimes they will be a ft down in 15 ft of water hugging the timber waiting for the shad to come by. The shad are spawning everywhere in the mornings so the crappie are 1-2 ft till 7:30-8 am. As the sun comes up, the fish that are not spawning, move out to deeper water. I try to start the foot down on the standing timber, before I send the gym to the bottom. So try to work the upper water column first before you start yanking fish from the bottom through the school that's higher up.

Brush Piles: find brush piles in any depth right now and there should be a fish in it. I have been focused on 5-15 ft of water while targeting fish in the brush piles. Somedays they are hanging out around the piles and sometimes they r deep inside of them. Make sure you have a lot of jigs on board. If your not getting snagged, your not crappie fishing.

I fish the top part of the piles and then move to the outsides of the pile before dropping directly into the pile.

Submerged Boat Ramps: Lake Lavon is dotted with submerged boat ramps. When you find them, I like to fish them with the jigging bobber, no bobber just a Jig, and then I will vertical fish it. Crappie and bass are spawning on the merged boat ramps right now. Only way you can really find them is with side imaging. After you find them figure out where the end of the boat ramp is and start from there. You want to work your way up towards the beach.



Sandy Coves & Beaches: The sand is hard enough surface for the Crappie to fan out of bed and lay their eggs. Best way to approach these: is a jig bobber covering water from 1 foot 4 foot. Cast to the beach and work your jig and bobber back to the boat. I prefer to use 4 pound line with a 7 foot rod with the spinning reel. Medium action on the rod. Remember you have to adjust the depth a lot till you find out if they are in a pattern or not.

Tire Reef: Fish live minnows or checks going to six-foot down. They will actually spawn inside the tire so always start out 3 inches deep. Then go deeper as the day gets brighter. They will spawn on the sides of the tires and on the cables that old tires together. You're just looking for hard surfaces during the spawn. I can't Spohn in silt otherwise the eggs won't hatch and they know that.

Live minnows are obviously golden. But if you can throw a net, a 2-3 inch live thread in shad or same sized gizzard shad, with smash the crappie. They can not resist a live shad if they are near it. Minnows on a size 6 bait hook with a small split shot to keep them now at the depth you want it to stay. I use pegged bobbers. When pegging them in, tap it. Don't mash it in there or you kink the line.

If you look at your line and see a kink or fray, cut it off and re tie. The next fish could be the big one and when u go to sling it in the boat, your line snaps and you instantly say a curse word as you see your fish slip back into the drink.



To book a trip with me, my contact info is below. All morning trips are booked for three weeks out. I have a few PM slots open here and there. Let me know the dates you can go and we will see where we can fit you in.

Siri types everything for me. There's a couple words that don't make sense within the last post. Sorry. To lazy to re read it and fix them.

Great reports TF. looks like you are all over them

Great report TarponFly. Lots of nice fish in those pics.

Monday Report:

Did everything in my report from yesterday and had an epic day again. After my client limited, I joined in for some fun. We landed 150+ keeper crappie from 7:10 am till 10 am ish. This trip my guy limited by 815. Everywhere we went to we hooked into fish. 9 am we were releasing 14-15's.

Good grief! Why am I working!