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Papa John is spending the summer in Pagosa Springs, Colorado this year and trying to learn to fish for rainbow trout. His friend Bud Durfee is pictured with a nice 5 pound Rainbow Trout and Papa John has one much smaller. Bud has been trying to teach the catfish and bass fisherman from Texas a thing or two about fishing; but, he is not having very much luck with the old buzzard.

The Fishing Guides and various tournament directors are still sending fishing reports to Colorado and we are keeping the Fishing Report for Lake Conroe up-to-date and accurate.

With the summer heat in Texas, the fishing on Lake Conroe has been tough for some fish. Crappie fishing has been real tough, hybrid and white bass fishing has also been a real challenge. Bass fishing has slowed; but, all the tournament fishermen are still having some real good stringer weights. The guides are fishing most days and are catching nice stringers of catfish and bream. They are still finding some crappie and bass. The guides like to leave the marinas early to be sure and be at their fishing spots while it is still cool and before the boat traffic gets to the Lake.
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Summer heat drives bass to either thick heavy shaded cover or to the deeper drop offs and humps. When searching for the deep structure bass look for the following to increase your chances to catch your limit.

1- Bass often relate to a significant drop off near a flat. A flat can be defined as a large expanse of relatively flat bottom in depths from 3-10 foot deep. A significant drop essentially be double the flats depth. For instance, a flat is 10 foot deep and a drop to 20 feet in a short distance would be significant. Try these areas with a Carolina rig or deep crankbait trying to work somewhat parallel to the drop with an occasional cast up the drop or down.

2- Find underwater structure such as weeds and timber along drops or humps. This structure can be a bass haven. Bump your worms and crankbaits into the structure to aggravate the fish into striking.

3- Look for schools of baitfish near the drop offs by using your depth finder. Large underwater schools of bass maybe gorging themselves on these shad. Again, focus on the pods of baitfish near humps or drop offs.

4- Look for creek channel bends in the Lake and work both sides of the drop offs on the bends.

5- If you get bit or catch a fish, throw out a marker buoy and fish the area thoroughly.

Follow these guidelines for deep water bass and I’m sure you’ll be doing more catching with less fishing.

Nice Solid Bass

Gman lives on Lake Conroe and goes fishing most days when school is out. When his grandfather visits, they go out in a small boat and fish Lewis Creek and other areas of the Lake. He had a great day catching nice Blue Catfish, Huge Bream and Black Bass. He caught the Bass in 20 feet of water, the Blue Catfish in 17 feet of water and the huge Bream in the docks at Point Aquarius Marina. This trip was one where the “Gman” caught them all. Gman!!! Great day on the Lake!!!

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Joseph and I caught these Friday. Nice 2 to 4 lb cats on earth worms (baby
snakes) and chicken liver at bridge in 30 ft of water. Caught crappie holding at 12
ft on orange/yellow jigs. Did not fish for crappie very much. Caught them back
to back in thirty. Just wanted to see if they were there. Enjoy your memorial
day weekend–DUKES

I follow your fishing reports on the Lake conroe fishing guides website. I also saw this email adress to share “fish stories.” So, here is my story. Went fishing yesterday on 4/21/10. We planned to fish on the lake all day, even with a few stops at Papa’s and El Dorado Jacks for a cold one We fished all morning with only a nibble or two. Tried shallow and deep; rocks, marinas,,,, not a fish to show. Around noon we tried a spot near a wave break near a marina in about 5- 8 ft of water. I tried my 4″ Yum dinger in a shad color (black and grey) rigged wacky style. Second cast in the water I twitched and felt a “heavy feeling” on the end. When fishing wacky style, a heavy feeling on the end of the line is either a fish or a snag. I set the hook and felt a monster on the other end. I yelled “big one!” to my fishing buddy and we saw this monster fish jump! We both basically said “holy Sh##” at the same time…. lol….. I took my time, loosened the drag since I had only 10 lb test line…. after a few minutes of letting the drag run and a few scary jumps by the fish, i got the fish to the boat and saw that she was barely hooked in the corner of the mouth. I grabbed her huge lip, hauled her in, and the hook just fell out!!!!! DAMN I was lucky!!!! We weighed her… 8 lbs. 12 oz……. that is the largest fish I have ever caught! I was pumped!!!! We didnt’ catch any more bass for the rest of the day. just a few sunfish…… That one fish made our trip!…….. Doug

Chris & Fishing Partner

Leigh & Jason

Papa John, On Saturday and Sunday night my fishing partner and I took some of his family from South Carolina cat fishing on the North end of the Lake in about 6 feet of water. Saturday night the bite was really lite but we managed around 20 fishing and kept 15. Sunday night we caught well over 30 fishing in 2 an a half hours keeping 28. The bite was a little more aggressive on Sunday. The people in the one picture are Leigh and Jason, a married couple from South Carolina who had some of their best fishing on our Lake Conroe. Thank you, Chris

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Yes, the grass carp are not going anywhere!

Many residents are now catching grass carp off their docks when fishing for catfish. M. Lorch and his kids were fishing for catfish off their dock with hotdogs for bait and caught this huge grass carp. They did not weight the fish; but, as you can see, it is very large. These fish are supposed to eat grass????? They are also being caught on crankbaits, hotdogs, spinner baits, night crawlers, liver and I guess just about anything else I guess. These fish put up one heck of a fight and are lots of fun to catch; but, they have to be released back into the lake alive and in good condition. Not sure why at this point; but, that is the lawl

Taylor With 14 Inch Crappie

Crappie are still being fished by both adults and kids in the various docks around the lake. The larger crappie are being caught with both live minnows and crappie jigs, depending on your preferance. Easter weekend was very busy all over the Lake; but, many were still able to catch some nice fish. Taylor is pictured with his 14 inch fish caught on Saturday 4/3/10. He was fishing the Point Aquarius docks and his fish was the second largest fish caught on these docks this year. Congratulations Taylor! Other family members were also lucky that Saturday and they went home with a nice stringer of fish. Guess Dad got to clean fish!??

First fish is a huge crappie

Catch after two days of fishing with Dad

Spring Break is always a great time for kids and their dad’s to get out on the Lake and just have fun together. Spring Break this year was great the first part of the week and then the weather turned on us; but; there were lots of kids fishing with their dads and this is one of the best parts of being able to be on the Lake and around the marinas every day.

Here is a photo of Brooke Fendley (9 years old) with her first fish caught entirely on her own…a nice 13.5 inch Crappie she caught using an orange and chartreuse crappie thunder jig with a 1/16 oz. jig head…caught at a secret “honey hole” on March 16, 2010…other photo is Brooke and the 22 keepers we accumulated in two afternoons fishing…no photo of the duck available (Rumor has it that Brooke also managed to catch a duck on this outing!) We look forward to reading your blog. Thanks. Mike Fendley

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Catching Catfish The Easy Way

I get some very strange fishing reports from readers; but, this one has to take the prize. We all know that we are blessed with a very plentiful population of catfish in our Lake. Often times we get reports of fishermen catching 50 to 100 fish a day in a party of four; however, this is the first time I have heard about someone catching a nice fish from a dangling, unattended line while the fisherman was taking a break.

This fisherman was taking a break from catching fish and stuck his rod in a rod holder with the line dangling in the water. When he came back to get the rod and start fishing, it already had a catfish on the line. Now I guess that is about as easy as it gets.

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