Lewisville

Any tips for a Lewisville first timer? Taking my daughter out there in a couple hours. Thanks

Lots of good folks on here that give lots of good Lewisville information but you gotta givem more than 2 hours. Might do a search on past posts.

Yeah just a last minute decision to go fishing. Lol

The lake is rough today. The fishing pier at Stewart Creek Park might be good.

Head for the creek mouths. Fish the dirty runoff from yesterday’s storms.

Not even a single bite yet

Move

I moved several times

Move again and keep moving till you get bit. If you strike out today and y’all are still wanting to catch some fish tomorrow then Y’all are welcome to follow me and my son around tomorrow morning. I guarantee we’ll find some fish and we very rarely take a skunk.

Gato's a good one to follow

True statement Ed. You wanna learn, listen to what the High Plains Drifter has to say! Looking forward to hearing what he, Action Jaxon and Disco the Cow Dog are gettin done today!

Thanks amigos! We did pretty poor today guys. We got a late start. We started out in 6 ft and fished in 2-8 ft. Shad were flipping up shallow and the egrets were lined up all over the lake. Lines were going down as soon as we got our baits in the water. We caught 12 fish up to 10 lbs real quick and then the wind picked up and blew us off anchor. Decided to go look mid depth and that was a mistake . Spent a lot of time looking and only found 1 group on a mid depth hump. We caught 6 more dinks and called it a day. We’ll be back after em next weekend...

12 fish up to 10 pounds would be a good day for most guys. We’re now on that category where success has spoiled us. Have a great week brother.

My measuring stick for this time of year is either 1 toad or 20 fish Tim. If we hit that we’re doing pretty good. Hit 30 and your doing real good. Anything over that and it’s hammer time. We ended up with 17 which is below average for us especially for this time of year with a good south wind. Next week we’ll be on the water for the early bite. Getting that early action is usually the key to big numbers.

Catfish stocking has started with TPWD, here's a link to their website. Also, soon as LLELA opens river access below the dam again it's always got fish, never been skunked fishing LLELA. Keep us posted and good luck.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/management/stocking/catfish_stocking.phtml

I started fishing LLELA back in the 80s. I used to ride my bike down there at least 2 times a week all summer. Fished it hard into my 20s. We first started catching striper drifting Shad under slip bobbers. I hung a Flathead one day and my life was changed forever. Those Lewisville floodgates are exactly where I caught big cat fever when I was a kid. I was completely obsessed with catching them after that 1st one. I’ve caught a ton of flatheads out of there back in it’s hay day. They filled in about 500 acres of swamp land when they built 190 interchange back in 1999 and that destroyed a huge part of their prime habitat. That and everybody hauling them out of there to eat. There is no way to fish it like I use to because there would be 12 yahoo’s on top of you as soon as you hang a big fish. Before you could blink an eye there would be 5 jack wagons trying to cast exactly where you were just fishing.. I take my son down to the LELLA trails to hike in the spring and summer and to see what it has become of the floodgates is sad. There is trash left all over the ground and even dirty diapers slung up onto the rocks. What type of person just throws their trash on the ground or slings a dirty diaper behind a rock? A sorry one! . Most of the floodgates I used to fish like Lewisville, PK, and Texoma are practically unfishable these days due to all the inconsiderate folks that fish them.

Here is the very first Flathead I ever caught on rod and reel back in 1988 out of those floodgates . I was 14 but I still remember that day like it was yesterday. That fish made a huge impact on my life. Back then we carried Polaroid instant cameras in our tackle boxes and I still have a stack of em. Great times!

El Gato unfortunately you are correct about the trash issue. Great pic and it's awesome you still have it. I do have one question for you, do you still have that hat?

I lost that hat and almost my life crossing the Brazos river below the Possum Kingdom floodgates while the BRA was generating power. I held onto my tackle box, fishing rod, and cast net but I couldn’t save the hat. Those were some fun times.

At least the hat is replaceable. Your not!!!