Lake Sam Rayburn Ranked Number Three




Bassmaster Magazine is ranking Lake Sam Rayburn as the third best fishing lake in its latest rankings. The rankings are based on the amount of fish and their weight.

Professional Angler Keith Combs said the recent high lake levels have caused the bass to move into the new areas with more food options. As a result this makes it hard for anglers to fish.

“When Rayburn comes up, when it comes up above full pool, like it has spent the entire spring and earlier part of the summer, as high as nine feet high, what happens is that water moves into thick stands of timber, grass, the bank line,” Combs said.

“The lake flooded all the way up into the pine trees which make the fish very hard to access,” Combs said. “They’re still there, they’re growing bigger and bigger and the population is getting better but with the high lake level like that, it just makes it a little bit more difficult to fish,” Combs said.

In the last eight years, the Lone Star State bass fishery has never ranked below 26.

Photo courtesy TPWD

 




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Lake Sam Rayburn Weather Forecast

Friday

Slight Chance Thunderstorms

Hi: 83

Friday Night

Slight Chance Thunderstorms

Lo: 70

Saturday

Mostly Cloudy

Hi: 85

Saturday Night

Mostly Cloudy

Lo: 70

Sunday

Chance Thunderstorms

Hi: 84

Sunday Night

Thunderstorms Likely

Lo: 67

Monday

Chance Thunderstorms

Hi: 82

Monday Night

Chance Thunderstorms

Lo: 67


Lake Sam Rayburn Water Level (last 30 days)


Water Level on 4/26: 161.19 (-3.21)



Lake Sam Rayburn

Fishing Report from TPWD (Apr. 24)

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 70 degrees; 3.49 feet below pool. Navigate with caution to avoid sandbars and stumps. Bass are on points and drains in shallow water spawning, and some are in a post spawn biting crankbaits and Carolina rigs. Some topwater along the grass edges. Crappie are fair in the shallows near stumps and fair on the brush piles. Some crappie are spawning near cypress trees, wade anglers can target these. White bass are schooling on main lake points but not surfacing yet. Catch some with jigs, minnows, crankbaits and jigging spoons. Catfish are slowly moving back to the points. Report by Captain Lynn Atkinson, Reel Um N Guide Service. Shad spawn is in full swing. Bass are good keying on hard clay points, grass edges and flooded timber with swim jigs, chatterbaits, topwater spooks or pop-r’s. Offshore bite is 10-20 feet on hard spots and flats, points and creek channel swings using crankbaits, Carolina rigs, shaky heads and dropshots. Crappie have finished spawning in 12-20 feet of water on brush piles and standing timber. Report by Captain Hank Harrison, Double H Precision Fishing.

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