Lake Conroe 2025 Bulkhead Thread!

[Man]

Love this thread and am going to participate as much as possible in it this time.

[Quackerbox]

All these old azz pictures on here

Pipe down old man. Don't be hating since you ain't boating without scoping

[slayr]

If you didn't find the crappie, you didn't look hard enough hand

Somewhere, a bass fisherman just lost their ****

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

I’ve been waiting on this! Care to share your bait set up?

I lived on the lake for about 30 years. I also commercially catfished for years on the lake. A small weighted cork, barrel swivel, 15-20 lb. leader of 20-30” mono, and a 3/0 circle hook baited with shad. The shad needs to be fresh for best results. Small threadfins can be used whole. Larger ones I cut in half. Gizzard shad get cut into 1 inch squares. Shrimp will work. Fish right against the bulkhead. Not 3 feet away. You catch more the closer your bait is to the bulkhead. You can fish on the bottom with a weight but I prefer the cork. Fish the docks also. Get as tight as you can against the poles. You can fish rip rat too. The cork is a must when fishing rip rap. This will fill your ice chests I promise.

[Snowflake Killa]

Maybe we should have a catfish get together

[Man]

I lived on the lake for about 30 years. I also commercially catfished for years on the lake. A small weighted cork, barrel swivel, 15-20 lb. leader of 20-30” mono, and a 3/0 circle hook baited with shad. The shad needs to be fresh for best results. Small threadfins can be used whole. Larger ones I cut in half. Gizzard shad get cut into 1 inch squares. Shrimp will work. Fish right against the bulkhead. Not 3 feet away. You catch more the closer your bait is to the bulkhead. You can fish on the bottom with a weight but I prefer the cork. Fish the docks also. Get as tight as you can against the poles. You can fish rip rat too. The cork is a must when fishing rip rap. This will fill your ice chests I promise.

Is it typically a sun up bite with a hard shut down, or can i do well dropping the first line in at 9am?

[Quackerbox]

Is it typically a sun up bite with a hard shut down, or can i do well dropping the first line in at 9am?

I haven't seen a sunrise on that lake since I quit shooting ducks on it. When it's right you can catch them till noon. It's just much faster early in the day

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

Is it typically a sun up bite with a hard shut down, or can i do well dropping the first line in at 9am?

Earlier in the season the bite can last until 12-1pm. As we get closer to May the bite period gets shorter.

You can often extend the bite by fishing docks attached to the bulkhead or bulkheads with the wind blowing in on them. Bulkheads with a little deeper water can help also. Riprap with wave action can be run later in the mornings. Cloud cover can also extend the bite. Fishing dock poles 3-3.5 feet down in 5-6 foot of water also extends the bite.

Wind blowing into where you are fishing is your friend. You can find clouds of plankton, midge larvae in wind blown areas and fish will be under them almost every time no matter the time of day. It will look like a brownish cloud or dirt in the water. Find that and it will be on.

[trophy8]

I lived on the lake for about 30 years. I also commercially catfished for years on the lake. A small weighted cork, barrel swivel, 15-20 lb. leader of 20-30” mono, and a 3/0 circle hook baited with shad. The shad needs to be fresh for best results. Small threadfins can be used whole. Larger ones I cut in half. Gizzard shad get cut into 1 inch squares. Shrimp will work. Fish right against the bulkhead. Not 3 feet away. You catch more the closer your bait is to the bulkhead. You can fish on the bottom with a weight but I prefer the cork. Fish the docks also. Get as tight as you can against the poles. You can fish rip rat too. The cork is a must when fishing rip rap. This will fill your ice chests I promise.

Thank you! I’m not fishing Conroe. Gonna try it at Somerville. Different set up. But I’m trying different stuff. Just learning and enjoying being on my boat!

[Snowflake Killa]

Earlier in the season the bite can last until 12-1pm. As we get closer to May the bite period gets shorter.

You can often extend the bite by fishing docks attached to the bulkhead or bulkheads with the wind blowing in on them. Bulkheads with a little deeper water can help also. Riprap with wave action can be run later in the mornings. Cloud cover can also extend the bite. Fishing dock poles 3-3.5 feet down in 5-6 foot of water also extends the bite.

Wind blowing into where you are fishing is your friend. You can find clouds of plankton, midge larvae in wind blown areas and fish will be under them almost every time no matter the time of day. It will look like a brownish cloud or dirt in the water. Find that and it will be on.

Perfectly written

[hogslayer78]

Like I said yesterday they are scattered still but a good mess is possible. Put 23 in the cooler today. That was 2 or 3 here and there and bouncing around. Next couple of weeks will 40 to 50 per trip easy.

For those that ask I Carolina rig shrimp with 1/2 oz egg sinker and about 14" leader on a 3/0 circle hook. When shad run starts I still fish with shrimp. I have fished shad and they will catch more blues for sure but we catch more with shrimp for channels. I fished both side by side last year to see what was better and it was 2 to 1 on shrimp vs shad for channels. Now Livingston in April its 100% shad all day. Chicken liver catches the hell outta channels on Conroe all day long on bulk heads but shrimp isn't near as messy lol. East Texas Bowhunter is spot in too if you like throwing a cork for them against the bulk head.

[hogslayer78]

We baked some up tonight and man was it good!👍

[kurt68]

I’m in!

[Bjones2571]

I need to go get some crappie!

[Snowflake Killa]

Like I said yesterday they are scattered still but a good mess is possible. Put 23 in the cooler today. That was 2 or 3 here and there and bouncing around. Next couple of weeks will 40 to 50 per trip easy.

For those that ask I Carolina rig shrimp with 1/2 oz egg sinker and about 14" leader on a 3/0 circle hook. When shad run starts I still fish with shrimp. I have fished shad and they will catch more blues for sure but we catch more with shrimp for channels. I fished both side by side last year to see what was better and it was 2 to 1 on shrimp vs shad for channels. Now Livingston in April its 100% shad all day. Chicken liver catches the hell outta channels on Conroe all day long on bulk heads but shrimp isn't near as messy lol. East Texas Bowhunter is spot in too if you like throwing a cork for them against the bulk head.

Look at the head on that... not the catfish