I have read quite a bit on here about how good the catfishing is after a rain do the currents that are created and how the catfish will be in the shallows this time of year. Well, I went to Benbrook this past Sunday for a couple of hours during the afternoon. We headed back towards Bear Creek and achored up in the mouth on the open lake side. Water was muddy and there was a slow current. We fished with punch bait, liver and shrimp (did not have the almighty shad) in about 7 - 8 feet of water with rod and reel. We didn't get one bite over about a one hour period, so we decided to move.

We went up into the creek about 200 yards from the mouth and anchored up again. There was a little more of a current, but not to fast. We fished the flooded vegetation, the banks, out in the middle and only had one bite and missed that one to boot. What gives?

at the northwest side of the dam there are some humps in the area.... drift fish this area with fresh,cut shad... you can catch a ton of shad behind the dam in the little spillway cut.... some monsters live on those humps...

Thanks for the suggestion Ronnie. I'll give that a try. I was hoping some of the pros would speak up about how to fish the creeks when they are swollen like this. Anyone out there have any suggestions?

This may sound stupid...
Whats the difference between Shad and Minnows?
Do you catch shad on a throw net?

~gober

i went mon and tuse up in the river mouth and caught afew mon afternoon on live minows then me and a bud went tuse morning and caught a bunch and a few little hybrids on worms would not touch the shrimp had a good time

Does anyone know were a person can get a decent map of Lake Benbrook besides the free one they give out at the marina?

Online.

I spent almost a year checking for Benbrook maps every time I visited a sporting goods store; none of them had one.

The only available map I found was printed in the early 1990s, and is of questionable accuracy. It misses a lot of major features and doesn't agree with the actual shoreline particularly well.

killed the catts in the same spot on minows they are getting biger and had 3 snap my line at the boat wore out 3 dozen boated about 35 fish 4 nice sand bass

crapykrazy can you give us any help on the locations? I am out of town and won't be back for a few days so i hope they will still be biting.

clear fork right at the lake some guys at the barge yesterday said they had caught some their . i would say fish right at the brush line i put my boat right in the brush and caught all my fish in the current right in front of the boat on minnows on a bobber nothing on bottom. hope that helps ya out

COOL THANKS FOR FOR YOUR HELP HOPEFULLY THE WEATHER WILL STARIGHTEN OUT WHEN I GET BACK IN TOWN.

if i wasnt going turkey hunting i would be there right now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck on the hunt, Krazy.....and thanks for the input. Seems like we fished some of the same water before, but we were fishing on the bottom. I guess keeping it off the bottom is the answer. Be careful and I'll see you out on the lake sometime.

For maps see this site click on Sat and Topo

http://mapper.acme.com/

For a lake map of Benbrook, you can find one at Academy off of Bryan Irvin Road and I-20.