The roads are finally open so i was wondering if anyone has been catching any. prolly gonna try it soon.
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The roads are finally open so i was wondering if anyone has been catching any. prolly gonna try it soon.
Wearing the Bream out, most people getting limits, crappie are slow and not much size.
thanks the bream got any size
Going to the refuge Monday for the first time. Wanted to bass fish early and try to get a limit, then chase red ear and crappie. Any tips on methods I should use, trolling, jigging cypress knees, casting road runners or beetle spins, crickets or jigs, etc. Thanks in advance for any help.
for crappie i would spider rig minnows and jigs out in the middle. just troll around until u find some. for bream just pitch crickets up against cypress trees and brush tops move until you find the bigger ones. good luck and let us know how you do.
Dont wait too long! the time to go is now, I was there(h-lake) tues morn, kept 21 8-12in most came in open water spider rigging with whte hair jig tipped with minnow. If you can find tree top in 8+ ft of water the fish (crappie) are there. Be prepared to cull as many as u keep! we were fishing 4-6 ft deep
The bream we caught were nice large, filleting bream. But I was using a 1/8th jig with a blue and white skirt on a small beetle spin. You don't catch many small ones on this rig. We caught 63 on Friday afternoon and 73 on Saturday, we were fishing in Little Round pond on the west side of the river, can only get there by boat or four wheeler. have to carry a boat in.
My brother and I caught our limits of bass and brim fishing escronges and h lake. The bass were hitting bandit 100s and h20 crankbaits. the brim tore the crankbaits up also. Caught a few crappie spider rigging in the middle of the lakes, but it was too hot to fish out ofthe shade for very long. We had a bunch of fun and I will be going back.
Hey Slabs, me and the better half hit 100 Monday, not counting goggleye and bass, only seven crappie tho, still chunking blue and white on Little Round Pond. Hope to meet up with you on the mud bank one day.
I went Saturday and kept 23 filletable bream. Got tired of catching the little ones on crickets and switchedto crappie jigs and started catching larger bream and a few smaller crappie. Don't ask about water depth because I don't know how deep it was, but I had about 6-8 feet of line out. It was probably the most fun in several years fishing I have had.
On vacation. Planning on going to H Lake tomorrow. Just got report that Columbia Lake was high and muddy and fish not biting. Anyone give me an update on H Lake conditions? Or any lakes on South Unit? Pretty long drive for me and don't want to get there and find out everything is high and muddy!
i hope not i am planning on going wednesday
the 1st Crooked was H-O-T this past weekend
Went yesterday. Struck out on bass. Picked up a few bream up on jigs and also small spinner bait on ultra-light.Quote:
Originally Posted by deltamudpuppy
went today and the crappie are slow. water is a little high but managed two limits of bass. only caught about six crappie and they were small ones. couldn't get any crickets so didn't try for bream but talk to some guys at the ramp and the had around 100 huge bream in a cooler.
What did the bass hit? I tried Baby Brush hog and crank bait day before and struck out. Bream kept hitting brush hog though.Quote:
Originally Posted by rieve
When we were down a couple of weeks ago, the bite was good on topwater early then switching to a crawfish cranks, brown and orange. I would atleast give swimming a jig a whirl and maybe a texas rigged zoom speed craw too.Quote:
Originally Posted by deltamudpuppy
buzzbaits for the first hour of daylight and then i switched to watermelon worms. at one point i caught a bass on the buzzbait four casts in a row. we had our limit in about 3 hours.
Reckon I am snake bit. Brush hog was watermelon. Nar a bite.Quote:
Originally Posted by rieve
What is the best way to get to H lake coming from Dumas ? I see it on the map , just not sure of the best way to get there. Thanks for any help..
Hiway 1 thru Dewitt. A couple of miles out of Dewitt turn right on 153. Stay till intersect 17. Turn right, go to Ethel and turn left. Follow pavement to refuge. Then follow refuge signs. Little over 50 mile drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by buckbrush
Any one been lately? Heading up there tomorrow or Wensday.
Hey mudpuppy, thanks for the directions to the lake. I have not made it up there yet. Everytime I try to go work gets crazy. O well maybe some day..... if you go give us a report......
10-4.Quote:
Originally Posted by buckbrush
man thats where i deer hunt every year