Fished Rayburn the 18th through the 20th. I am never fishing a weekend there again. I ve always fished during the week mostly for the past 25 years. Seems like the idiots really come out on the weekends with all the tournaments and such going on. Getting worse. Anyway. Went to Jackson Hill Marina for a few days. Spent Friday trying to figure what to / how to fish. Narrowed it down to cranks and soft swimbaits like Keitech fats / owner flashy swimmer type hardware. Wind was projected 11 mph, was actually 20 + . Lots of 2-3 foot swells / white caps across the lake . Nitro got slammed...lol....Saturday was mainly buck bass to about 1.5 pounds . Caught 22 total in water from 2 ft to 12 ft. Wind had laid down. Much better fishing..... Sunday was a little better dialed in. Moved off shore to 18- 20 ft , no wind, fishing in Caney creek. Years ago that area was a small community . The formation of the lake submerged a lot of the old house foundations. Mapped an area in caney where the creek intersected an old road close to an old house foundation, 18 ft down. Boom. That’s where my son Andy caught the biggest fish of the trip. A nice 7 pound female . Deep crankbait . I told him it’s his lucky fishing rod that got it for him. ( rod was brand new last fall and he caught an 8-6 after 9-10 casts with it) . We caught several more decent fish in the 3 - 4 # range, all deeper than 12 ft. We also were STILL catching bucks in deeper water too. They were everywhere. Water temp was high 50s . The big girls haven’t moved in to spawn yet as far as I could tell. Maybe next week . Nobody I talked to had caught fish with any size to them.......My 2cents...

I have a place on S. end lake , weekends are crazy these days . I found a few big ones and they are just starting to develop eggs . I dissected one we keep to eat ( first time in 30 years ) for my Chef son. overlies we swollen and just two immature eggs . Fish were in 6 -10 feet hitting speed worms . No cover shallow looks like a moon scape . Bank beaters had a hard time and wind was insane . Two boats sank during College Tournament . Five Fingers area and open water spots were a no go unless you were demented . J.Hersch