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Welcome to Toledo Bend Guide Service & Lake Cottage
02/01/2005
Toledo Bend - TX,Huxley
Fishing Report for Toledo Bend 2/1/05
The lake is 168.9 ft msl.. High pool is 172msl. One generator is running full time. Water clarity on the north end of the lake is stained and clearing as you go south. Surface water temperature is falling and has been ranging in the 40s.
The recent cold weather has slowed the shallow bite down and scattered the bass compared to what it’s been when the water has been in the 50s. The bass have backed out to deeper water either holding on the ledges and drops along the creek channels and ditches or suspended in deep water. With a little warm weather the shallow bite should pick back up. Spinner baits, traps, shallow diving crank baits and finesse plastics (Flukes, Senkos, Trick or Wacky Worms) will all be productive. Until the water warms, work the ledges and drops along the creek channels and ditches leading to the backs of the coves with jigs, tubes, spoons and Texas or Carolina rigged soft plastics. The Cypress trees are also holding some fish as the bass migrate along the creek channels toward the spawning flats. With the lake at approximately 168 msl there is not much water in the bushes.
The Crappie are being caught in the deep creek channels on shiners and jigs in 18 to 25ft with some fish suspended in 13 to 15ft. Work the points and the bends of the creek channels and any areas holding brush or tops that have bait- fish will normally be holding Crappie.
The White Bass are starting to show up in the river proper and the bite is getting better everyday. Chartreuse Road Runners, chrome traps, shallow diving crank baits and spoons worked around the mouth of the sloughs, in the sloughs and creeks and in still water working best.
Good reports of Catfish on trotlines.
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