Bois d'Arc Lake: GOOD. water normal stain; 83 degrees; 0.47 feet above pool. Bass morning bite is good around points or pond weed with topwaters. Offshore bite is better mid morning to evening on brush piles, long points with deep bushes and pond dams in 15-27 feet with Carolina rigs, Texas rigs and deep crankbaits.
(L-R) Jeff Rice and Lake Tawakoni catfish guide Tony Pennebaker show off a giant blue catfish landed from shallow water last week. (photo by Luke Clayton)
The KPMG Women's PGA Championship plays for the first time in Texas. That same weekend women's football crowns a champion at the world headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys
Bois d'Arc Lake: GOOD. water normal stain; 83 degrees; 1.67 feet above pool. Bass are good early in the morning around shallow bushes and main lake pockets with topwaters like frogs and buzz baits. Flukes and senko type baits are good mid morning.
The Paris American 10u All Star team competed in the District All Star Tournament this past weekend. The Paris 10U All Stars are led by head coach Garrett Sadler with assistants Landon Cope and Matt McGill.
Bois d'Arc Lake - There is a good bass bite in pond weed with popping or walking frogs 1-4 feet. Offshore bite has picked up as fish transition to pond dams and brush in 17-25 feet of water.
Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass good on Alabama rig, bill baits, buzz baits, crankbaits, flukes, in-line spinnerbaits, plastic baits, small lures and spinnerbaits.
They are catching smallmouth bass in 2-4 feet of water and throwing a Ned rig with a green pumpkin, worm-style bait or creature bait on about a 1/8-ounce chartreuse jighead.
Hamp Kennedy from Texas was fishing the Beaver Dam tailwater in northwest Arkansas with guide Austin Kennedy recently when he landed this impressive 24-inch brown trout.
(L-R) Mayce Marek, Garrett Freeman and Jill White are three of five Lions who qualified for the 2025 CNFR | photo by East Texas A&M Marketing and Communications
Our big fish have returned from the spawn and the mud is starting to settle and we can fish pretty much anywhere in the main lake now. Things are looking good again around here and we are blessed!