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.
Another pleasant weekend led to many more fishing reports and fish photos for this time of year; that leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.