Fishing Lake DeGray

[Jerry Blake]

Darryl and I took Outdoor Writer and Photographer Keith "Catfish" Sutton and a friend of his fishing on Lake DeGray this morning and had a pretty good trip.

Keith's new crappie fishing book is fresh off the press and I'll be making a post about it on the main forum.

[TJ Adams]

WOW... I need to go fishing!

[gooch]

You know to look at Keith you would'nt think he could write much less be my favorite outdoor writer. I hear he is a real nice dude who is a pleasure to hunt and fish with.

Glad you guys busted them this morning.

Jerry, are you seeing any huntable numbers of ducks on Degray or Greeson these days?

[grubby]

Very nice catch!

[bobberwatcher]

Extremely nice catch Jerry.

[Jerry Blake]

You know to look at Keith you would'nt think he could write much less be my favorite outdoor writer. I hear he is a real nice dude who is a pleasure to hunt and fish with.

Glad you guys busted them this morning.

Jerry, are you seeing any huntable numbers of ducks on Degray or Greeson these days?

Hey Gooch:

We're not seeing very many ducks at all on either lake. Fishing is good though!

[Jason Piper]

Good night! I haven't seen that many fish in over a month! What's the limit down there? I had 51 degree water this morning with only a few willing to bite. We are in a lull up here.
How deep were they?

[Jerry Blake]

Good night! I haven't seen that many fish in over a month! What's the limit down there? I had 51 degree water this morning with only a few willing to bite. We are in a lull up here.
How deep were they?

Hey Jason:

That's the best mess we've had in a long time and probably the best bunch I've ever taken from DeGray. The new condos we put down a couple months ago are really paying off. We also caught quite a few on some old brushpiles that a guy showed as and some that we found. Had about a dozen or so take a jig pretty well, which made it a lot of fun. We had a few triples and a lot of doubles. They weren't real aggressive most of the time and we missed a lot of real light bites. A lot of the time our floats wouldn't even go all the way under and we started popping them as soon as we noticed the floats wiggle or start down just a little bit.

We started out about 8:00 fishing about 12 to 13-feet deep on some block/bamboo condos that we put in pretty close to the boat ramp and caught a few off of each of them and then moved up the river to the mouth of a major creek arm and did well there fishing 15 to 17 feet deep.

About 11:00 we moved down the lake and fished some deeper bucket/bamboo condos - again on points in the main channel - and caught fish from 15 to 20-feet deep there. We quit about 1:00 so we were only on the water about 5-hours.

Our limit here is 20 per person and we had four people so we didn't have to worry about going over. There's no minimum length limit but the only ones we kept under 10-inches were a few that were fatally hooked. I didn’t keep track but I know we released at least a dozen crappie that were around 9-inches along with several bream and a few green carp.

I’ll be back on Greeson tomorrow and I hope they are as cooperative. Our surface temps in the main lake are in the mid 50s and with the stable weather predicted for our area I think they should keep on trying to fatten up for a while yet.

[L.A. stumpjumper]

That's a nice catch Jerry. I'm glad y'all are guiding on DeGray we really like that lake and like to camp up there. It isn't as far from us as Greeson. I showed Kathy the pics and we will probably fish with y'all sometimes this spring when it gets good camping weather.

[bobberwatcher]

L.A., when you get a change to go to Degray and need a partner, stop by the dice and pick me up! With a stringer like that on Degray, I may have to part company with Cane Creek for a bit.. LOL :D