Been out 2 nights in a row without catching a single fish. Hit it hard last night determined to find them. Toledo Bend is sick. Or I suck. Most likely both I guess.
Been out 2 nights in a row without catching a single fish. Hit it hard last night determined to find them. Toledo Bend is sick. Or I suck. Most likely both I guess.
Toledo is hurting, but you can't tell team ziplock that even tho their having a tough time filling up a pint sized bag.
Drove up to Rayburn yesterday and boated 17 by chasing schools.Never been there before but gaurente ile be back. Now im really undecided on where to go in October.
Told ya. Rayburn is hot.
When your right your right...lol.Originally Posted by Charlie206
Team ZiplockMind if I use that one?
There was a time that I didn't fish but I cannot remember it.
R.I.G Rest In Grease
Not at all.Team Ziplock
Let a lake get ranked #1 and Team Ziplock will be there.
Here's some numbers from the local biologist from creel surveys.
Toledo Bend bass retention rate is 64%-70%.
Sam Rayburn bass retention rate is 24%-30%.
Almost 3/4 of the bass caught on Toledo go to the grease.
Almost 3/4 of the bass caught on Rayburn are released.
I can't imagine why Rayburn is fishing so well.
Think I saw that for the rest of the state, it's even lower than Rayburn. Think that was on one of Ken Smith's videos.
I guess I heard Driscoll wrong, those numbers are not what I heard on the KS video.
Bryan McDonough
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I don't know what was in the KS video. The numbers I posted were told to me by a TPWD fisheries biologist that was on Toledo last year doing creel surveys. He said the common factor was that the LA boats were more prone to keeping vs releasing, where the TX boats were more C&R orientated. The same observations were made on Rayburn.
Here it is ... I haven't watched it again, but it is Part 3 of 6 videos with Todd Driscoll. This one, retention/harvest rates get covered. One of the topics covered is removing smaller bass from lakes. Seems to me that when Ivie went to 2 fish under 18" on a 5 fish stringer, it was to remove the smaller fish from the lake and the anglers were encouraged to keep hose fish. Now that being said, all the under 18" I've caught have been released ...
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Ok Ok Rayburn for vacation in Oct especially after my last trip there.Final answer, Oct 14-18.
Im just too lazy to clean fish I guess. Buddy of mine says thats why we have bad days of fishing. Karma. Said we would change our luck if we cleaned a few! Haha
TB's current state I think is a combo of different things over the last few years. SRA spraying for sylvania and in turn killing all the other grass, two years in a row of being the #1 lake, crazy amounts of pressure, crazy rainfalls. Maybe team ziploc, lol. We keep a limit every now and then, I see no problem with it. We keep a lot more crappie than bass thoughand lately they've been easier to catch.
Currently boatless but will always drive a Bass Cat
The near normal and above lake levels over the past several years has changed the fish behavior. I have not cracked the code as to why they "ain't been a being where used to be", for several yrs. now.
Back in the mid to late nineties and on to about 2012 (not considering the bad drought in ~2011), the lake was NEVER CLOSE to being full pool. Spring fishing acted just like Spring fishing and the deep water fishing was OUTSTANDING, and quite predictable.
I do not understand why the fish have not been on those deep water (16-24') spots since the lake came up and stayed up.
"ain't too smart.....but I'm always thinkin"
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