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re: Toledo Bend - 2024 master thread
Posted on 1/30/24 at 4:46 pm to saintkenn
Posted on 1/30/24 at 4:46 pm to saintkenn
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Would love to go to the bend but it's a massive lake.
You don't "go to Toledo" really. Pick a cove, launch and fish. Different coves are like different lakes from one end to the other. Stay relatively close so you can get off the lake if weather blows up.
While you can run across to the Texas side, I'd suggest you only do it in light wind with no pop up storm possibility in the forecast. Dead of summer, no problem. Spring with pop up showers... You're going to have a bad time.
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Posted on 1/31/24 at 8:13 am to saintkenn
Yeah it’s 184,000 acres and stretches from Logansport to Anacoco, it can be like searching for a needle in a haystack trying to locate and keep up with fish. I haven’t fished it in several years and a lot changes in a year, I’d definitely get a guide my first trip.
Justin Cooper is a good guide in the mid lake area around Zwolle and Ebarb, I thought he’d be in the top 3 yesterday but he only had 36 lbs so it shows you some of those pros are gonna always find and catch fish and being local or knowing the lake isn’t as big of an advantage with all the new sonar and maps now.
Justin Cooper is a good guide in the mid lake area around Zwolle and Ebarb, I thought he’d be in the top 3 yesterday but he only had 36 lbs so it shows you some of those pros are gonna always find and catch fish and being local or knowing the lake isn’t as big of an advantage with all the new sonar and maps now.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 8:27 am to Clyde Tipton
We took a wave over the bow of a 24' deep draft bay boat in toledo bend before. It gets downright snotty with a stiff north wind.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 9:01 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I put my wife in a rod box once.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 1:50 pm to AlxTgr
The MLF boys have put one over 9 and four over 8 lbs on the scales today.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 2:07 pm to EagleEye99
It was a good morning we put 24 in the boat quick all on diff 2" swim baits all shad color spectrum. 8lb line and small hooks. We never got deeper than 8 ft. Went and hit some grass banks with red traps and knockers very little success 3 maybe 4 but they were bigger bites 3 lb range. Podna Mark caught a 7.2 and we let it go it was full full of eggs, like leaking out full while we was taking hook out. We gonna hit some white perch piles this evening.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 2:23 pm to One More Shot
quote:that's pretty dang small. I have crappie bodies bigger than 2".
2" swim baits
Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:01 pm to One More Shot
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Podna Mark caught a 7.2 and we let it go it was full full of eggs, like leaking out full while we was taking hook out.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:07 pm to HighlyFavoredTiger
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I haven’t fished it in several years and a lot changes in a year, I’d definitely get a guide my first trip.
Whatever you do, do not hire Jason Courville. He is a big piece of shite
Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:39 pm to AlxTgr
Maybe not 2” bodies, but definitely believable. This is Matt Becker from this morning.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 6:35 pm to StonewallJack
quote:Tell me more. I was thinking of hiring him to take me out in my boat.
Whatever you do, do not hire Jason Courville
Posted on 2/1/24 at 8:31 am to AlxTgr
He is an a-hole who is very protective of his "spots" which he stole from Joe Joslin.
I've talked to other people, and they all had similar experiences.
If you have never been fishing before, he might be the person for you since you would not know any better.
I've talked to other people, and they all had similar experiences.
If you have never been fishing before, he might be the person for you since you would not know any better.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 12:29 pm to StonewallJack
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Whatever you do, do not hire Jason Courville. He is a big piece of shite
I heard the same thing from a few others. Not much positive about their trips.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 2:34 pm to mrcoon
Just curious if there is a lake in the country that doesn't have at least a couple these types running around? 
Posted on 2/2/24 at 8:54 am to AlxTgr
Yea basically. Seemed the dead shad we were seeing floating were tiny so we attempted to match that and it worked. We fished the 4" Kitech and 6th sense the evening before and some jerk baits. Like 5 fish in four hours.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 9:11 am to One More Shot
I do get bass to hit my crappie bodies(Garland) some, but I seem to do better going up to at least the 3.5s.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 2:55 pm to AlxTgr
No doubt the FFS stuff has dominated so far in the MLF but we wrecked them up shallow today on a senko and chatterbait. I can’t believe more of the MLF guys haven’t gotten in that bite.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 2:59 pm to Bass_Fanatic
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I can’t believe more of the MLF guys haven’t gotten in that bite.
Sprague just caught of 5 pounder on a green pumpkin chatterbait throwing parallel to the bank in what I would guess to be 6-8' of water targeting isolated stumps.
Posted on 2/2/24 at 5:32 pm to Bass_Fanatic
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Bass_Fanatic
Initials J.S.?
This post was edited on 2/2/24 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 2/2/24 at 8:35 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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It gets downright snotty with a stiff north wind.
lost a good friend out there...
missing fisherman body recovered
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