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Welcome to Toledo Bend Guide Service & Lake Cottage
08/02/2006
Toledo Bend - TX,Huxley
Toledo Bend Fishing Report
The lake is 164.8 msl, and high pool is 172 msl. Both generators are running from noon to 8pm. The north end of the lake is stained and clearing as you go south. The water temperature is running in the upper 80s. The lake is steadily falling and care should be taken running areas you are not familiar.
It looks like we might set a new low lake level if we don’t get some desperately needed rain. Right now the lake is a foot lower from what it was this time last year and it’s falling approximately six to seven inches per week.
We’re getting out at first light and trying to pick up some bass on top water plugs, crank baits and plastics off main lake points and areas close to deep water and then we're moving to the river channel ledges and drops with Carolina rigs and crank baits. The numbers are not there but the size has been good. Most the better fish have been coming out of brush tops or heavy cover on drops. The colors and sizes of plastics have been across the board from chartruese frech frys to ten inch Red shad worms, redbug trick worms Texas rigged and all the watermelon flavors. Pearl (Texas shad) and fire tiger have been the best crank baites. After a couple hours, we’re then heading to the sand bars and usually loading up the boat on White bass. This week was pretty slow as the Whites had scattered and suspended after the front that passed through.
Early morning and late evening work a top water plug, buzz bait, frog, trap, and finesse plastic or shallow diving crank bait around pepper- grass close to deep water. As the sun gets overhead and the bite slows down work soft plastics and deep diving crank baits on the creek and river ledges and main points falling into deep water.
The White bass have moved into their typical summer patterns with much more schooling activity showing up on the lake in boat lanes, timber- lines and flats. Slab spoons and tail spinners working best on main lake sand bars from 10 to 24ft. Chrome traps and top water plugs working best when the bass are schooling. Look for the birds feeding on shad to locate the schooling fish. It’s not hard to limit out in short order once you get into them.
Crappie being caught in 20 plus feet of water around planted brush. Better catches coming in at night.
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