need your help outdoor board, im headin out to lake somerville after lunch. Where are the good places to go and what should should i use for bait. ive never been out there so i dont really have a clue where to go.

Do you have a boat? Well, it doesn't really matter - I've caught probably 10 fish in my life at Somerville. Of course, one is hanging on my office wall. Somerville pretty much sucks. If I were you, I'd rent a kayak from TAMU Outdoors and get in the Yegua or Nails creek.

Somerville has been hit or miss for me for several years. Sometimes I'm killin em, sometimes I'm lucky to get a bite.

This time of year for bank fishing, I'd try off the end of Welch Creek Park. It starts near the dam, but there is a peninsula that sticks way out into the lake that is the main park, and the very end of that peninsula is a low hill that is sometimes an island. Off the end of that hill, out in the lake, two old creek channels meet. White and hybrid bass school there, and sometimes catfish, too.

Best bait for there is to get a seine or cast net and catch shad and minnows out of the lake, and use those on a minnow hook with a sliding weight or bell weight about 24 inches above. Fish off the bottom, cast out as far as you can.

What are you fishing for. everything is biting right now.

The point at Rocky Creek Park should be good now. I'd wade a little bit and throw Rattletraps or Little Georges for white bass.

Or soak bait along the dam for a good chance at a Somerville Slam: cats, goo, whites, and hybrids.

Edit: report added from 2cool.
http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=208282

[This message has been edited by SanAntoneAg (edited 5/6/2009 11:26a).]

Getcha a really big treble hook, throw it over the spillway and wait!


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