The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of Oct. 29:

ATHENS — Lake Athens is four feet low and clear. Water temp is in the low 70s.

Peter Gould at Lake Athens Marina said bass are good to four pounds. Best results are coming on 'Traps and shad pattern cranks worked in 4-8 feet of water.

Trotliners are reporting decent results on cut bait and minnows. Rod and reelers are picking up channels to three pounds on night crawlers and shrimp.

CEDAR CREEK — Cedar Creek is six feet low and clear. Water temp is in the low 70s.

Black bass and crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on punch bait or cut shad drifted at night; no limits reported.

White bass and hybrids are fair on spoons and deep cranks over humps near the dam. A few fish schooling over points early in the day.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS — RC is 10 feet low and clear. Surface temp is in the low 70s.

Larry Winters at Midway Landing said bass fishing has been fair to about four pounds. Anglers are using Pop Rs and buzz baits early, then switching to spinnerbaits and plastics to probe timber out to eight feet.

Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair to four pounds on punch bait. Windy shorelines are good. Limits also showing up in timber, 10-15 feet.

PALESTINE — Lake Palestine is about four feet low and clear. Bill Miller. Water temp is in the low 70s.

Catfish are good on hand line and jugs baited with cut bait and minnows, mostly channels and blues in the 1-3 pound range. Several fish topping 20 pounds reported on jugs and trotlines.

Crappie are fair in 13-18 feet of water, mostly on minnows.

Black bass are slow.

NACOGDOCHES — Lake Nacogdoches saw a slight rise with recent rains, but remains about two feet low. Water temp is the low 70s.

Bass are fair on small spinnerbaits and light finesse worms worked tight to hydrilla beds. A few anglers are picking up some solid fish on jigs punched through outside grass edges. Some schooling activity early, but nothing to count on for consistency. Minnows and jigs are fooling keeper crappie. Brush piles are the ticket.

FORK — Lake Fork is about five feet low and clear. Water temp is in the low 70s.

Black bass are good to 10 pounds on jigging spoons and Carolina rigs worked on underwater structure. Key on water depths of 18-25 feet, mainly on roadbeds, ridges and points. Good numbers of slot fish taking soft jerkbaits, buzz baits and topwaters around shallow vegetation.

Crappie are good on minnows and jigs soaked around the FM 515 and 154 bridge crossings.

Catfish are excellent on stink bait and minnows in 15-18 feet of water.

TOLEDO BEND— T-Bend is about eight feet below normal and rising slowly. The water is stained up north and in the backs of the creeks.

Charlie Shively at Bill's Landing said catfishing has been good to 52 pounds on trotline. Good numbers of blues in the 2-5 pound range taking cut bait. Op are beginning to move into river holes in 14 feet of water.

Bass are fair to four pounds on spinnerbaits, topwaters and Texas rigs. The fish also are beginning to chase Rat-L-Traps and crankbaits.

Crappie are good on minnows. Brush piles are the ticket down south. Up north, anglers are targeting river and creek bends.

SAM RAYBURN — Sam Rayburn is about two feet low and rising slowly. The water is stained in the backs of the creeks.

Bass fishing has been excellent, according Ann Thomasson-Wilson at Ann's Tackle. Wilson said the fish are on the banks and chasing 'Traps, wacky worms and frogs worked over submerged grass and along inside grass lines.

Crappie are excellent on minnows fished vertical around deep brush, 18-25 feet.

Catfish are good on trotline, jugs and rod and reel.

SABINE LAKE — High winds and fresh water slowed the weekend bite, but trout and red options should get progressively better if stable weather conditions settle in for a few days.

Look to the jetties for mixed bags of reds and specks; flat fish in the main lake.

— Matt Williams