Fishing Report Fishing is ranging from fair to great depending on if you make the right choices at the right time. Anglers are catching fish from one end of the lake to the other in 1ft to 30ft of water. My clients and I have been fishing mostly shallow to catch our fish but the are some good reports of deep fish being caught. I have stayed in 1 - 13ft fishing everything from hydrilla, pepper grass, coontail, timber and brush piles. We have been catching our fish on Lucky Craft Gunfish 95s, baby chugbugs, buzzbaits, Senkos (watermelon red), TX rigged (yamamoto 8" single tail grub redbug) worms, carolina rigs (watermelon gold Yamamoto Kuttail or Kreature), Lucky Craft CB DR, CB SR, and CB 12 all in either American shad or ghost minnow. I am throwing the deeper crankbaits around wood in 8 -13ft. I have been throwing the rigs in the same areas. Everything else is around shallow vegetation. Something I wanted to share with everyone that I my friend Jim Alphin over at the Yamamoto shop at Toled Bend just introduced me to. It is called an Easy Retriever, and is a lure retriever. You can stick this thing in your pocket and when you hang up your crankbait or any bait, pull it out, quickly slide it on your line and let it go. It slides down your line and knocks your bait loose. This is the easiest lure retriever I have ever seen. It will save you a ton of money. I do not know what shops carry them around the lakes area but I do know that the Yamamoto shop has them. BASS anglers start their official practice days tomorrow and will weigh in at Twin Dikes on Thurs, Fri. and Sat. Look for some really good sacks to come in and to hear several different patterns. I want to wish good luck to all our local guys especially the second best guide on the lake :) Jeff Buchanan. I have some open days available this coming week if you care to book a trip for either bass or crappie. I have a few days during the last week of the month and several in October. I will also be running a lot more fishing trips this winter and fewer duck trips. Look for some winter specials starting in November.