Went to steps for a few hours. Water is real nice. Caught 14, largest being 15 inches. Also found an arrowhead on the gravel bar.

Awesome, glad to hear you had another good trip down there...And sounds like, some of the bigger boys are starting to move up from the Lake...Thx 4 the report

Okay, so I had so much fun yesterday, that I had return today. Unfortunately I didn't have the same results today. Fished for 3 hours and caught 9 whites. The water has cleared up somewhat, so maybe that was the difference. My largest catch today was close to 12 inches, nice little piggy. Everything else was 10-1/4 to 10-1/2. Oh well, that's better than getting skunked. It was fun, and that's the main goal when out enjoying a nice weather day on the water.

Thanks for the report fishytx! Sounds like fun! I can't wait to get back on the creek banks!

I think there will be a good bite tomorrow, Friday. Warm temps today and tonight should get these fish moving and feeding. Plus the bite always seems to pick up right before a weather change, which is forecast for tomorrow night. It's gonna get a little chilly Saturday and Sunday which will cause the bite to slow down. Saturday may be okay, but after that it will be slow again for several days. Of course this just my predictions based upon the years in the past. Just an assumption. Hope you can get out there before the cold front arrives.

Steps were very crowded and most were not doing so well, small stringers. Me, I had a blast. Caught 27 whites, 4 crappie, 2 small black bass, and 1 perch. When the cold front arrived, the bite simply stopped for me, therefore my trip ended. But this has been my best trip so far.

If I had to guess, I would think the bite might be slow due to these few cold nights. Thursday and Friday next week should be okay, then we have another cold front next weekend.

I hope you are right fishytx about the cold weather shutting down the bite.. Sunday at Somerville and Monday up near Huntsville I couldn't buy a bite.. Reports from last Friday suggest it was a peak of significant proportions most everywhere.

I went Friday evening, down to Irwin, for a couple of hours and managed 1 nice male on a rooster tail. Throwing upstream into a current and not snagging on structure was not easy, and expected. Lost 3 rooster tails, got a few hits and one got off right at the bank. I let the one lonely one on the stringer go back when I left. It was muddy, but there were fish in there.

I've never been good at throwing lures upstream. I get hung up too much. I stick with throwing downstream to straight across. Very rarely upstream. Thanks for the report!

The weather was so nice I couldn't resist going fishing. When I first arrive, I like to look off the bluff at stringers anglers have. Today I saw two to five fish on stringers, they were not loaded. So I go my place and start casting. OhLord, it is not looking so good. I fished for twenty minutes without one single bite. Sao now I'm trying to decide if I really want to wade across the river and continue to fish ot not. My thoughts were to go back home. But if I did that, then I would be skunked and that I have a problem with. So I crossed the river..
Just going to give the short version. Caught 12 whites, 1 crappie, 1 perch, and 1 black bass. I can only think the bite.will be better this afternoon and tomorrow because it can't get any slower than it was today.
Even this guy who fishes a fly rod down there daily wasn't catching anything at all, or I never saw him hook a fish in thirty minutes I was around him.
I really have no complaints, the weather was amazing and I caught a few. The bite was in deeper calm waters, the fish simply were not feeding.

I'm with you on that one, I hate to cast upstream, almost guaranteed to hang up. But there are times and places where you have to in order to get bit. One break off and I'm done though, I won't do it twice. I only cast upstream out of desperation.

Usually the only time I'll throw the jig upstream is if it's the only option in a spot that looks like it could hold fish. Or if it's a spot that looks relatively snag free.

Fished yesterday afternoon and was horrible. It's acting like the end of the spawn but I haven't seen them.soawn yet. So I don't know how that can be, but it's fishing Ike that. Any how, I ended up with 7 whites 1 crappie. Might have to hit yegua and see what I can do on that creek.

Driving 45 minutes for catching 3 keepers in 3 hours(7-10) this morning, not good but still enjoy the outdoor.