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| Fishing Report: Lake Palestine, Texas (05/07/05) |
Posted By: matternguide
Trip Date: May 7, 2005
Location Information:
Spot: Lake Palestine
Country: United States of America
State: Texas
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Number of Anglers: 3
Water Clarity: Slightly Murky
Weather Conditions: Partly Cloudy
Number of Fish Caught: 38
Water Temp: 68
Air Temp: 78
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Tackle Used:
Shimano curado reel on medium heavy 7 foot rods spooled with 17 lb. P-Line.
Report:
Hello everybody,
Fishing has been tremendous this week with Bass coming to the boat over 6 lbs. and several of them. Early mornings have been best and late evenings for some great fishing. Topwaters have been great in shad patterns and as the day gets warmer go deeper with Texas rigs throwing watermelon creature baits and worms also black & blues and junebug. There are so many baits that will work now. Your most confident baits or go to baits will produce now but remember Bass feed heavily early and late just like deer move the best in the early and late of the day. What I call low light times of the day. When its lightly raining or overcast they as the Bass will move longer even during the mid-day.
The Spawn is like the rut you can expect the deer or Bass to be moving at anytime of the day but after the rut or spawn their patterns change to low light and dark. Now is the most predictable time of the year for pattern fishing. Fish shallow early and move deeper as the day goes on. Even deeper water Bass move to the uprise or break to feed on those early and low light times of the day. Their are still a few male Bass guarding Bass fry but for the most part the spawn has ended on Lake Palestine.
Lake Palestine is roughly 25,000 surface acres of water and has everything from Florida everglade looking backwaters to wooded fields of water. Boat docks and hundreds of them and open deep water points.
The stripers and Hybrid stripers are also feeding great in the early morning hours and fish have come to the boat over 10 lbs. They have been hitting spoons jigged fast early and rattle traps in silver blue or silver black. I have been using the 3/4 ounce for big fish over 7 lbs.
White bass or Sandies have been schooling early and then hitting deep on jigging spoons. They are spotty on the Lake you have to look for them they have been staying up for about the first 2-3 hours of the day. Hitting little goerge's or small spoons or roadrunners.
We also caught crappie this week on minnows under a cork in about 2 feet of water and around boat docks. They sure were good eating. They also bit around bridge pilings and off deep points in about 24 feet of water. They seem to be all over the Lake.
Catfish were caught on freshly netted shad fish around points and channels in about 12 - 18 feet of water. I also caught some under corks while fishing for crappie so I believe you could do the cork thing and catch a mess also.
On Richland Chambers the white Bass or sandies are starting to break loose with catching 100 a day not uncommon. Some on top and then jigging spoons or slabs during the middle of day.
If you want to book a trip give me a call and I will book you in. Call me at 903-478-2413 or 903-724-0961 or e-mail me at donmattern@risecom.net. Hope to hear from you soon. Don Mattern Sr. with Mattern Guide Service
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