At Gilmer on Thursday, March 19th, the big girls had lockjaw all day. So did the dinks - until 2:30 p.m, when the water temp in the back of the coves finally hit 63.5^°; it finally got up to 64.2^°, but the big ones never really turned on. I did lose one fish I couldn't turn, but it was on light tackle; I never saw the fish.

The road to lake was useable with no ruts when I got there Thursday morning, but there were deep ruts when I left….not caused by me, but by a ranch employee's pickup after he drove across the dam to drag the jon boat out of the water (it was half submerged when I got there).  The lake is out of its banks by what I would estimate to be at least 2 feet. Water is still very clear.

I caught one dink on a shad square bill; the other 7 dinks I harvested  plus the good fish that I lost were all on wacky-rigged, unweighted Senkos - either black/blue flake, green pumpkin/black flake, or watermelon/purple flake.  I had no hits on Rattletrap, deep-divers, jerkbaits, C-rigged worm, T-rigged brush hog, jigs, tailspinners, flutter spoon, chatterbait, soft swim baits, hard swim baits, or A-rig.

Give the lake another week of warm temps and little or no rain and it should turn on like gangbusters.

Tom