Toledo Bend Fishing Report?

[Suthrngntlmn]

Anyone have any reports on Toledo Bend? Going up there from the 21st to the 26th. Anything helps, looking for Bass, Crappie or Catfish. Got a funny feeling it's gonna be cool but not unbearable. We will be around the Cypress Bend area. Thanks in advance.

[Jordan]

Probably no other lake in Louisiana holds more potential for producing big bass than Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Louisiana-Texas border.
The largest reservoir in the South spreads across 186,000 acres along a 65-mile section of the Sabine River. The lake offers more than 1,264 miles of shoreline bristling with bass habitat that includes weeds and flats, flooded brush, standing timber and deep channels.
BIG BASS, BIG NUMBERS
While always known for producing numbers, Toledo Bend now offers quality fishing thanks to stockings of Florida-strain largemouth by both Texas and Louisiana. In fact, the lake produced a 15-pounder, the second largest bass ever caught in Toledo Bend, on June 27, 2009. Donnie Gill of Leesville, La., enticed the 15.03-pound bass with a Texas-rigged worm in 22 feet of water near the south end of the lake.

Eric Weems still holds the official lake record with a 15.32-pounder he caught in July 2000 while fishing in Six-Mile Creek, a major arm on the Texas side just north of the dam. The record fish hit a 1-ounce green and black jig sweetened with a watermelon craw worm.

Many Toledo Bend bassers bang woody structure with jigs, spinnerbaits or crankbaits or probe weeds with soft plastics. Main lake points and humps produce fish on shad-colored crankbaits. Sometimes, lucky anglers happen upon schooling fish busting shad in creek channels and catch an easy limit on topwater baits or chrome and blue Rat-L-Traps.

In the spring, many anglers flip tubes or creature baits into flooded brush. Shorter, but more bulky than lizards or worms, tubes resemble miniature squids and mimic crawfish. Using a long rod like a cane pole, swing tubes or jigs and drop them into open pockets between grass or twigs. Even when not feeding, a bass may react instinctively to the sudden intrusion of its lair.

TO THE WEEDS
As temperatures rise, big bass seek cooling comfort and an oxygen boost in thick weeds. Found almost everywhere on the reservoir, robust grass mats blanket many coves and flats. By late summer, nearly solid weed mats choke many coves. Across the weeds, toss Texas-rigged soft plastics like flukes, jerkshads, stick baits or similar lures. A plastic frog also makes a great presentation for weed-whacking bass.

In mid-summer and in winter, bass might escape temperature extremes by dropping into deep holes. If so, probe the depths with chrome jigging spoons. A 1/4-ounce chrome jigging spoon flutters down through the water column like a dying minnow or shad. After it hits bottom, jig it up and down a few times. Most often, bass hit spoons on the fall. A chrome spoon might also entice striped bass, yellow bass, white bass, spotted bass, crappie, bream and an occasional catfish.

Many marinas serve Toledo Bend in both Texas and Louisiana.

[Jordan]

pulled that off leesvillegrapevine.com.... heres link http://www.examiner.com/x-16491-Fish...rss-Recreation

[Suthrngntlmn]

Originally Posted by Jordan

pulled that off leesvillegrapevine.com.... heres link http://www.examiner.com/x-16491-Fish...rss-Recreation

Thanks Jordan

[jpeff31787]

look for schooling fish.. they'll usually start schooling that time of year. I've never fished the bend but I grew up bass fishing and love it to death! Proud member of the Big Mouth Hookers bass club =D

[Suthrngntlmn]

Well after the weather that passed thru Toledo last Thursday the fishing turned off big time. Talked to quite a few boaters along with the people at Cypress Bend and Toledo Town and the answer was the same NO FISH. Had been fairly good till the front passed Thursday then nothing, I don't think you could have bought a fish if you wanted to. Oh well we had a good time anyhow. Planning on another trip in the spring.

[Jordan]

dig deep... bass are low in the grass... wacky work texas rigged... alot are hanging under cypress trees... get u a flippin stick and heavy braided line (65lb power pro) and throw either a jig and pig or a long worm (10-12") reverse color of water clarity... if the water is clear... go dark bait colors... water muddy, go light bait colors (chart, shad, yellow, red) things should work out well. Troll up one bank and down the other working the banks back in the coves. you'll find a school of fish eventually.

[all star rod]

Maybe in the future?????? My father-in-law is about to buy a camp in TB. He is actually closing on it next week. TB has so much of an area to fish. That place seems like one of those area that it will take a lot of time to learn unless someone you know can point you in the right direction.

[speckdaddy]

Originally Posted by all star rod

Maybe in the future?????? My father-in-law is about to buy a camp in TB. He is actually closing on it next week. TB has so much of an area to fish. That place seems like one of those area that it will take a lot of time to learn unless someone you know can point you in the right direction.

call me bro, i got ten count em ten buddys that live on the lake. i got the hookup on them cats n sacalait

[Ray]

The White Perch will start biting around now by Big Bass and the bridge.
Just look for all the boats with a lot of poles sticking out of the sides.
My first wife was from the Zwolle/Converse area. We used to catch some White Perch in the Fall when the schooled up in the deeper water.