Lake Somerville, Jerdelle Creek 02/23/07

Put out 8 jugs (Redneck soap, beef heart, weiners with garlic, and minnow) from 10 am to 3 pm and didn't catch a thing, though some of the bait was missing or chewed on. Caught 1 white bass on a jig with spinner (white tail, fluorescent green head and big fluorescent green eye on spinner, don't know weight but pretty big).

On the west side of the bridge there's a quasi gravel road down to the creek ...

... this parking area is more quasi than gravel. It wasn't that bad today but from the looks of the old ruts it can get pretty muddy down here.


Looks like someone ran their trotlines shortly before I got there. These gar and drum were so fresh they didn't even stink yet!

Here's looking downstream under the bridge.

Looking the same direction except here you can see the well cut trails along the creek. Lots of bank fishing spots here.

Upstream view from bridge area.

A little further upstream.

I lost one white bass and caught one here. To the right is a 10 foot deep hole where my jug sat fishless for several hours. You have to pick up your outboard and paddle past the fallen tree. Note the bank trail runs at least this far on the right.

Another upstream shot.

My lonely white bass.

The creek drops off fast so it's tricky boarding and unboarding here, especially with a 10' boat.

Lake Somerville @ Welch Park 1/07

Here's some shots of Welch a few weeks ago. The lake is above pool and Yegua Creek was flooded well above it's normal banks. In fact it looked as though the entire creek valley was flooded below Highway 36. This is in the part of Welch closest to the dam.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll head out to Pecan Lake for a couple hours to fish for cats and crappie. Then I'll swing by the creeks on the south end of the lake to see if there's any crappie or white bass activity. If time/energy permits, I'll swing up to Big Creek Park to try for whites on the rocks.