Toledo Bend Lake Fishing Reports
Toledo Bend Lake Fishing Report from TPWD (Aug. 5)
FAIR. Water slightly stained; 84-85 degrees; 1.87’ low. Black bass are good with topwater between 2-8 feet till 10 am, deep diving crankbait between 15-20 till 4 pm, and long casts with soft plastic worms reaching down to 28 feet. White bass are fair and staying consistently under 20 feet. Crappie are fair to good above the Pendleton bridge on minnows and jigs evenly. Channel and blue catfish are fair on stinkbait.
Toledo Bend Lake Fishing Reports (1 - 20 of 231)
Southwest Bassmasters held their 10th tournament Sat. night August 1st on Toledo Bend. 1st place went to Mike N Donna Ingram and David Miller with 5 bass that weighed 22.70 lbs. 2nd place went to Blake Carrier...
by Tom Behrens on 8/4/2020
The top finishers, 1-11 at the Bass Champs Tournament.
1. MARSHALL HUGHESHEMPHILL , TX COLE STEWARTHEMPHILL , TX 3 10.62 21.86 $21,350 w/ Big Bass, CaptainsCash, Atlas, SureLife
2. JOE WILKERSONMANY , LA...
by Tom Behrens on 8/4/2020
Joe Joslin reports he and his clients have been fishing early from first light, until around 9 a.m. then returning to the lake at 5 p.m. and fishing until dark.
Bass ...
Summer patterns are definitely in...
by Tom Behrens on 7/29/2020
Branden Rannekleiv of Reeves, LA weighed in a 12.41 lb. fish in the 8-9 a.m. hour of day 2 of Lake Toledo Bend in the Sealy Big Bass Splash Tournament. His Tournament winning catch garnered him a Triton 19 TrX...
by Tom Behrens on 7/21/2020
A new bass fishing angler asks the age-old question ... when fishing a plastic worm; should I set the hook immediately when I feel a bump or wait a second before setting the hook?
My learning curve in fishing...
by Tom Behrens on 7/9/2020
A creative angler is always looking for the edge that will help him or her catch more fish. Take for example the popular Fluke manufactured by Zoom. Fluke baits are long, narrow plastic bass lures with a soft,...
by Tom Behrens on 6/18/2020
Jake Ortego displays his Toledo Bend lunker bass weighing exactly 10.0 pounds taken in San Miguel Cove May 12, 2020. Ortego caught his fish on a Texas-rigged Missile D Stroyer. (Photo courtesy of the Toledo...
by Tom Behrens on 6/15/2020
Henry West of Mermentau scored on this 10.80-pound Toledo Bend lunker fishing in Housen with a Carolina-rigged, Big Bite Rojas Fighting Frog. The fish was taken May 18, 2020, in 16 to 18 feet of water. (Photo...
by Tom Behrens on 6/15/2020
15 yr old angler part of the winning team
on Lake LBJ to win $20,000
Top 10 finishers below, full results on basschamps.com
1. PAT AMICK, BOERNE , TX & CONNOR HAGUE, BOERNE , TX 8.43 18.47...
by Tom Behrens on 5/17/2020
After a good day on the lake, your putting everything in the right place, making sure the boat is secure. A part of my end of trip ritual was gathering up all the used or discarded soft plastic worms,...
by Tom Behrens on 5/15/2020
The Tournaments are beginning to return to Texas lakes, but with revised dates and "social distancing" instructions. The following information are rules set by Bass Champs (May 16 Lake LBJ) and Outlaw...
by Tom Behrens on 5/11/2020
Hold on...don't break out any type of firearms. Dock shooting is "Specialized Crappie Fishing Strategy", made popular by crappie fishing pro, Wally Marshall.
Marshall has learned some hard lessons during a...
by Tom Behrens on 5/7/2020
According to the fishing reports, crappie fishing is rated good in just about all the lakes in Texas. Terry Sympson at Jackson Hill Marina on Sam Rayburn Reservoir recently reported that 16 year old Kobe Shird...
by Tom Behrens on 4/24/2020
Spring is tradtionaly the best time of the year to catch a trophy bass in Texas. The following is the top 50 bass caught in Texas and shared with Texas Parks & Wild Life ShareLunker Program.
Rank-Water...
by Tom Behrens on 4/16/2020
Toledo Bend anglers have been reeling in some mored whoppers.
Tabatha Green of Leesville, LA caught this 10.21 lb. fish on March 28, 2020 and weighed it in at the Keith’s Toledo Bend Tackle....
by Tom Behrens on 4/16/2020
It’s April, and if you are angler, you need to be out fishing, no matter whether your quarry is bass, crappie, catfish, speckled trout, redfish … etc. It’s just good time to go fishing,...
by Tom Behrens on 4/9/2020
For the first time since 2006, the Stephen F. Austin State University Bass Fishing Club has won the Abu Garcia College Fishing National Championship. The competition was held Feb. 26 through 28 on the Harris...
by Tom Behrens on 3/24/2020
Hemphill angler, Marshall Hughes, caught his limit of five fish weighing 26.86 lbs in the Media Bass March 7 Tournament. He returned to Hemphill $750 richer.
Top Five Finishes:
1. Marshall Hughes, five fish,...
by Tom Behrens on 3/12/2020
AUSTIN – If any superstitious anglers are wondering whether the Leap Day weekend is lucky or unlucky for catching the fish of a lifetime, two Texas bass anglers just made the answer very clear.
Angler...
by Tom Behrens on 3/9/2020
Boater George Jeane Jr. of Evans, Louisiana, brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 24 pounds, 2 ounces to win the 2020 Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine event at Toledo...
by Tom Behrens on 3/3/2020