Hi everyone,
The Lake Lewisville Fishing Report-Spring is very good! Fishing has really taken off this past month. I have had great trips on all three lakes. The first few weeks of April were stellar on Lake Ray Roberts, and Lake Lewisville and Lake Tawakoni have produced boatloads of fish to finish it up. There seems to be an extreme abundance of smaller white bass on Lewisville and Tawakoni. Whether this is a result of a great spawn due to all the recent rain or some other reason, there are a bunch. I’ve had several trips the past couple of weeks catching between 150 and 250 white bass in five hours. We are just having to weed through the smaller ones for the keeper sized fish. It provides non-stop action and is perfect for your small kiddos. The past couple of years have had a similar pattern as far as a large influx of smaller white bass, but it has been a couple of weeks earlier and not near as many. Having said that, we may be a couple of weeks behind on Lewisville for large schools of hybrid striper showing up. I hope I’m wrong about that. The weather in April has been pretty typical. Storms and wind forced some rescheduling and moving trips, but safety is most important. I will be focusing all of my time on Lake Lewisville and Lake Tawakoni for at least the next four months. It’s hybrid striper time!
Brothers with a couple hybrid stripers from Lake Tawakoni.
I got to fish side by side a few times on Lake Tawakoni with the man who taught me how to really catch fish, Roger Gray. He is the creator and designer of Grayline Bait Tanks, the best shad tank around in my opinion. We became friends when I was in high school, and he has been teaching me ever since. Here’s a quick story… My grandfather had a house two miles down the road from Holiday Marina on Lake Tawakoni. My Dad and I were always driving out there to visit PaPa, to help work on the house, and of course go fishing. I always would love to see the fishing guides coming back to the docks to clean fish. It got my blood pumping. All of the guides usually did great, and this is where I met a lot of the other guides on Tawakoni as well. My Dad and I weren’t the best fishermen at the time, so seeing all those big stripers and hybrids was mind blowing. Anyways back to the story, a buddy of mine and I drove out there to fish. We fished the morning and did alright. This was mid summer and showers and storms would roll through for an hour or so and then usually be gone. The fishing was great after this happened. We were under the dock throwing the net catching shad, so we’d be ready when the storm passed. Roger pulled in under the dock, all the other guides were gone, and we got to talking. He jumped in my little bass boat at the time and said, “You need to go fish here and here” as he was putting waypoints on my old black and white GPS and sonar. After that, he half way smiled and said, “Did y’all catch any bait?” We told him we had, and so he told us to get our rods and transfer our bait into his tank. He took us out in his boat, and we proceeded to catch big fish after big fish until we were tired. I was beside myself. This fishing guide just took my buddy and I out for free, and I know he had just as much fun as we did. This is just one of many memories made with my fishing mentor and good friend, Roger Gray.
Roger Gray standing next to his and my boat before a morning of fishing. He built both of these boats. One of my favorite pictures of all time!
Lake Lewisville Fishing Report-Spring
As mentioned earlier, there are thousands, probably tens of thousands of smaller white bass on Lake Lewisville right now. Some schools have more keeper fish than others. These white bass right now can be caught just as easily on a slab as they can be on live shad. I always have live shad though just in case. A lot of times, the more mature fish will come off the shad rather than artificials. Fish are holding on structure, points and humps, in anywhere from 2-30 foot of water. I have found them feeding on the bottom and suspended in the water column. More hybrid striper are showing up, but it’s still not game on yet. When we find the right spot, it’s obvious. If you’re reading this for fishing advice, my suggestion is to trust your sonar. Learn to use it and know what you are seeing. We drive from structure to structure until we find what we need, and if that spot plays out or doesn’t produce I leave quickly. It is not a waiting game, and I never keep people in a particular spot longer than ten minutes if we have not caught anything. We have caught hybrid striper on Lewisville lately on both live shad and slabs. The shad are starting to spawn on the banks and catching bait will soon become much easier.
One of the boys with his big hybrid from Lake Lewisville.
Lake Tawakoni Fishing Report
Schools and schools of smaller white bass are on Tawakoni as well. Again the keeper fish are mixed in with them here. Slabs are out performing live shad at the moment for white bass 10:1 for me on Lake Tawakoni. These white bass are holding tight to structure here as well. We have been looking shallow for big hybrid striper early in the morning, and it has paid off. My last two trips here have been great for both hybrid striper and white bass. A chartreuse sassy shad or cohoe on a 1/2 to 3/4 ounce jighead has been a great bait. The fish have been feeding close to the surface early in the morning. You can scan the lake with binoculars and see fish blowing up from a long ways off. This is fun fishing when they are eating like that. If you like casting and reeling to big fish slamming your bait, then now’s the time to give me a call.
We threw this many or more hybrids back this morning on Lake Tawakoni, plus we caught close to 200 white bass.
If you’d like to go fishing, have some fun, and create memories with the people in your life, please give me a call. I’d love to get you out on the water. You’ll get my best every trip!
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Thanks for fishing with me, Wes Campbell-214-282-7093