Mar 01 2017
Rick Svoboda
Slot Fish
Member Since :
2011
Number of Posts :
199
Fishing partner Mike Svoboda & I fished Waco Creek Ranch Saturday afternoon (2/25) and Sunday 2/26. Saturday afternoon was sunny, sort of warm with a light breeze. The water temperature was 62 degrees and the water was pretty clear. We had a very good afternoon catching 27 fish. The biggest was 6 lbs, with two 5 lbs, 8 in the 4+ lb and the rest 2-3 1/2 lb. We harvested two huge black crappies and two bass. A small red crank bait and a small red rattle trap really worked well along the right bank to the right of the boat launching area, into the small creek immediately to the right and along the right edge of the big creek on the right. Bigger crank baits didn't work for us because of the amount of grass. Watermelon red Senkos wacky rigged also work well. We were also very fortunate to have a good top water bite at the end of the day with yellow magic lures.
Sunday morning was a whole different story. We woke up to 39 degrees and heavy overcast skies. The surface temperature had dropped to 57 degrees. We started out very slow and the baits that worked the day before and others, including top water were not producing until we switched to Texas rigged white flukes. We caught 32 bass on Sunday. Eight of them weighted between 4 & 4 3/4 lbs. Harvested one bass. We caught some of them in the same places as Saturday but also up the right side of the left creek between the grass and rock banks. Water temperature got back up to 61 degrees by mid afternoon. We were lso again very fortunate to have a top water bite at the end of the day with yellow magic lures. Half of our 4+ lb fish came late in the day on top water lures. Doesn't get any better than that for us.
Mike & I really enjoy fishing this lake.
Mar 01 2017
Shayne Wallace
Fingerling
Member Since :
2016
Number of Posts :
98
I’ve been wanting to go to this property but it’s right at a 9 hour drive from my house in La. my fishing partner is my son so I have to schedule our trips around his breaks and holidays. Tried to reserve it during his spring break but it was booked. I’ll try again when he gets out in May. But your comment about the grass concerns me. Do you think the grass will get worse with warmer weather and that clear water? If so, will it be fishable grass or that nasty “snot grass”?