Striped bass are biting the best. He recommends fishing between Prairie Creek park and Point 6. Stripers should move south as the water cools. Average surface water temperature is in the upper 60s.

Dunlap can spend eight hours to eight days, carving, sanding, smoothing and painting a lure. All the wood comes from the piney woods of East Texas. He bought a truckload from a sawmill in Ben Wheeler.