Frontier Bay
On Carrice Creek
Toledo Bend Lake
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Toledo Bend Reservoir Fishing Report
for
May 6, 2008
Dear Dad and Mom Anglers The month of May is one of the best months here at Toledo Bend to start taking young anglers and teaching them how to fish and experience the great outdoors. With the temperature warming and the winds (hopefully) subsiding, there just is no excuse not to go fishing and take your children. For many years while my own children were growing up, they and I looked forward to this time of year. The bream are spawning big time and are easy to find as well as catch. Just take a Texas rigged worm (purple red tail) and fish around the shallows. Bream will rat a tat tat the worm and usually you have just found a bed of the most fun fish to catch in the whole wide world. Young and old, just about everybody in between will agree that Bream are a joy to catch as well as eat. The Bass are still shallow this time of year finishing there annual spawns. They will hang around and eat on bream that are starting their spawn to build their strength and body weight back before the water temperature forces them to deeper water. This past week was almost a duplicate weather pattern that it has been for the last month or so. High winds with at the beginning of the week, followed by rain and a cold front sliding in by the latter part of the week. The fishing pattern hasn’t changed much either. When the wind is up fish the wind blown banks with Spinner-baits or shallow running Crank-baits. As the wind subsides go to the plastics such as Ribbit-frogs, Sinkos, Flukes, Finess-worms. Try Top Water lures like Zara-Spooks, Chuggers, Buzz-baits during overcast days. Work these lures in and around the lilly- pads and shallow grasses. Most of the Bass I caught this week were on these lures and patterns with a few Carolina-rig fish here and there. The big fish of the week was just over 6 lbs with an average of 20 to 30 quality bass per day. The Crappie has pretty well spawned out and is starting to move to depths around 10 to 15 ft. at this time. The one trip that I was able to take this past week was fishing a creek bend 22 ft. deep in the creek up to 8 ft on the bank side. The crappie was holding in 11 to 12 ft. of water. They were taken on live shiners and hair jigs. For information on fishing Toledo Bend in the up coming week or guide service give me a call @ 318-645-2674 or cell# 318-332-6800. Remember to be safe on the water and courteous to other fishermen.
Big Fish Guide Service
Randy Colson Fishing Guide
Your Toledo Bend Lake and Sam Rayburn Reservoir Guide for Bass and Crappie
Visit The Website - http://www/toledo-bend.net/bigfish