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L ake Conditions
:The winds have laid this morning with temperatures in the 80’s for a high. The surface temperature of the water is warming fast at 78 plus degrees depending on the area of the Lake you are
fishing. The overall weather for this next week and weekend are looking real good. Not a lot of change. Some rain forecate with scattered showers early week. The Lake is at 198.78. We had some rain last week;
but, not enough to bring the Lake up any. We have added a NOAA & Willis Weather link to this page so you can check the weather just prior to going fishing.
The fishing for this next week looks outstanding. Lake Conroe is one of the best fishing Lakes in Texas. If you are visiting in the area and love to fish, don’t pass up an
opportunity to get out on the Lake with one of our guides. The natural surrounding of the National Forest and many beautiful homes is an added benefit if you have never been on the Lake. Fishing for all the
different types of fish has been great including Black Bass, Crappie, Catfish, Hybrids and Bream! Don’t let this pretty weather get away from you without spending some time on the Lake.
 Black Bass: The black bass fishing continues to be outstanding. All
of the guides are finding good solid fish in the shallows early; but, close to deeper water around boat dock and the rocks. Fish back off during the heat of the day to deeper water 12 -15 feet.
Phillip James, Phillip’s Guide Service has been reporting catching bass 2 to 4 1/2 pounds on Carolina Rigged
Watermelon Flukes,
Sinko Watermelon Red worms and
Zoom Watermellon Red with Pepper Fimesse worms in 7 to 16 foot of water.
Butch Terpe has also been catching good solid fish on his bass trips. Texas rigged worms in
Junebug, Pumpkin and Chartreuse have been productive baits. Reports of good catches on
Kickerfish High  Tail Worm
in the same colors. Smaller Shallow diving crank baits in Tennessee Shad and Chartreuse, and lipless crank baits on the surface have still
been productive. More and more fishermen are starting to use spinner baits in the flooded grass, around the marinas and around the bridges. The Conroe Bass Tuesday Night Tournament held on May 22nd
out of
April Plaza Marina was won by Mike Power and Chris Russell with 15.10 lbs. Larry Galik and Ken Scott Smith took second place with 11.51 lbs. Larry also had Big Bass weighing
7.13 Lbs Jeff Randdolph and Ken Robinson took 3rd place money with 10.79 lbs. The Tuesday Night Tournament is a 3 fish limit, $100 per team. New to the Lake??... check it out!
Click Here For More Results and Pictures and the Tournament Schedule for the entire Lake. There is also a Thursday Night Tournament out of
April Plaza Marina. Drop by the Marina and visit with one of the guides for more information or call Billy Mills at 936-520-7646. The T.T.B.C. Morning Series #5 Tournament held out of
Stow-A-Way Marina on May 20th was won by Ty Russell and Matt Russell with a total sack wieght of
24.49 lbs. Bo Harrell and Jason Harrel took second with a total sack weight of 20.03 lbs. Big Bass money was paid to Sean Hoernke & Curt McCauly with a fish that weighted in at 8.64 lbs. (
Sean is pictured with the big fish.) Check out the T.T.B.C. website for all of the lattest news and information.
It is updaed on a regular basis.
 Catfish:
Guide Tex Bonin, Texas Guide Service reported catching good stringers of 2 - 5 pound fish with some up to 8
pounds working baited holes using range cubes and sour mash for chum. All the guides are reporting good catches of catfish when on a ‘catfish trip’!
Phillip James, Phillip’s Guide Service has been catching nice Catfish on baited holes and main lake humps in 20-33 feet of water on StickIt! and Chicken Liver! His fish
have also been 3 - 8 lbs. Using chum and vertical fishing with Stick!It and punch baits has been great. (Why StickIt? - You can cast this bait and it won’t come off the hook and the catfish love it!) The
1097 Bridge has picked back up for catfish with good catches coming from mid-lake.
Carl Bostic, WetHook Guide Service reported great catches of catfish on baited holes in 20 - 30 foot of water on
baited holes and main Lake humps. Some of the biggest catches have come from fishing humps in the main lake along the river channel in 20 -33 feet of water, with the drop off to deep water near. They are
also catching lots of hybrids on these humps using liver for bait. Lots of the hybrids are small however. Remember the hybrids have to be 18 inches.
See Size Limits
 Crappie: The crappie bite has improved everywhere this past week. Richard Tatsch, The Fish Dude’s Guide Service has continued to get limits of crappie and catfish on most of his trips.
Click Here To See Pictures. All of the guides are
finding the crappie bite a little better this week. Fair catches have come from Marinas, brush on the edges of creeks 15 -20 and on the Old Railroad Tram. The 1097 Bridge has not produced much
even though there is lots of bait around the pilings. Richard Tatsch was catching his fish on brush piles in 17 feet of water. Phillip reported catching
crappie on bursh piles 17 -20 feet. The guides are using both minnows and jigs, with the fish taking minnows most of the time. Don’t forget, the crappie are also sensitive to the Solunar Tables.
There are now new
J&B Custom Crappie Jigs available online. Check them out! They will make up jigs
to your specs or show you ones that are working good for other fishermen.
 Hybrids: Hybrid fishing has been outstanding for both Tex Bonin & Carl Bostic and Phillip’s Guide Service. They all have been fishing the South end of the Lake. Richard Tatsch and
Butch Terpe out of Stow-A-Way Marina
on the North end of the Lake also report good catches of Hybrids.The  Hybrids have moved to deeper water humps in 25-30 feet of water surrounded by deep water to 40 feet. There continues to be lots of Hybrids caught in deep water with liver for
catfish. Seems the Hybrids love liver. Rich Tatsch has had a great week with the hybrids, crappie and catfish. The fish run from 5 - 8 lbs. Most of the guides use live bait as they are always a sure
bet after you locate the fish. Butch Terpe still is a big fan of jigging slab spoons! I spotted a “Alabama Rig” in a couple of the
guide boats catching hybrids. ????? Use your electronics to locate big pods of bait fish. Some fishermen are using DD-22’s and swim baits of all types with success. Several fishermen reported using
Leadcore-Line trolling with a Storm Wild Eye Swim Baits. The Leadcore-Line gets the bait down down
so you don’t have to troll so fast and will even let the bait bump the bottom in the shallower water. Tolling with a Pet Spoon behind a deep diving crank bait will be a hot tip for many fishermen.
 Bream:
Bream fishing has also picked up with the warmer water in the shallow areas. The mild winter is allowing the water to warm quicker this year and the bream are moving to
the rocks and shallows to spawn. Lots of huge bream are being caught fishing with jigs and  minnows for crappie. Tex Bonin has reported big catches of hand sized bream on his baited holes. Worms is always a great bait for bream. Meal Worms are also
an outstanding bait this time of the year for bream. They are in big schools around rocks, in brush piles, along the bulkheads, next to timber. All of the guides will have special places to catch bream.
Many serious bream fishermen will take a fish basket and fill it 1/2 way with range cubes. As the range cubes disolve, they shake the
basket. This will draw the bream and if your boat drifts a little bit, the bream will actually follow the cum. When you chum with range cubes or chicken scratch, you will attract all sorts of fish and the
fish basket will get the bream up off the bottom where you can catch them instead of grass carp. You can get “Meal Worms” wherever they sell bait around the Lake. Take the kids fishing! Bream are fun to catch
and GREAT to eat!!!!!
Keep A Tight Line & Enjoy - Papa John
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