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Fishing Reports
Blackshear: Level: Full pool at 237. Temp: 63-65 degrees. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “Bass fishing has been really good lately, with most of the fish still in the prespawn phase. I expect the spawn to kick off somewhere around March 25 down around Spring Creek and will continue throughout the month of…
Maurice Van Hall made his first trip of the year to Blackshear on Monday, March 4. “The lake is full and water clarity is well recovered from the heavy rains a few weeks ago, stained but fishable,” Maurice said. “Surface temperatures are 58 main lake and reached 60 degrees in the creeks I fished. “I…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 below 237. Temp: 59 degrees. Clarity: Still very muddy on the main lake and stained off the main lake. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “March is the best month of the year to catch a big bass on Blackshear. This month, as the lake stabilizes and continues to warm up, big female…
Blackshear: Level: 1.7 feet below 237. Temp: 46 degrees. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “Fishing has been relatively tough as of late. Frigid temperatures and heavy rains have made for a bad combination of cold and muddy water. The extended forecast calls for more rain, so I don’t expect the water to clear…
Blackshear: Level: Full at 237. Temp: 59-62 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “Fish are almost completely transitioned into their winter patterns. Heavy rains and cold nights have made the fishing a lot tougher. Fish are suspending in deeper water near underwater structure such as stumps and brushpiles. Deeper-diving jerkbaits and crankbaits are…
Blackshear: Level: Full at 237. Temp: 64-66 degrees. Clarity: A light stain but should muddy up soon with recent rains. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “The fishing has been really good lately. We have been in a long drought, so the water is extremely clear for Blackshear. We just had a big rain, so that…
Blackshear: Level: Full at 237. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “The bite has been inconsistent the last few weeks. A pattern that has been producing quality fish is a white popping frog fished over grass mats. Work the frog extremely slow. The bass are smart. Another way that will…
When crappie are stacked up over brush on the river channel ledges at Lake Blackshear, October is a great time to catch them. Find the right place, and you can catch a limit of good eating-size crappie. Crappie love wood cover like brushpiles and standing timber. And if that wood is on a channel drop,…
Blackshear: Level: Full at 237. Temp: Mid 70s. Clarity: Stained but pretty good for Blackshear standards. Bass: Tournament angler Chris Gray reports, “The last couple weeks of cooler nights have the bass firing up. Shad have begun to move back into the sloughs and pockets all over the lake. The early morning topwater bite has been getting…
Blackshear is full of tempting targets. Cypress trees run for miles, and there are grassbeds everywhere. But in January, anglers should bypass that good-looking cover and look instead for rocks near deep water to catch Lake Blackshear bass. You don’t have to run all over the lake to find rock if you know where to…
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