Learn about FREE   FAMILY FISHING on your state parks HERE!

 

Get summer fishing advice here from the Chronicle's own Shannon Tompkins!

NO EXCUSE MOM & DAD!


Family Fishing is free and easy in Ponds 1S & 2S of the ELC. Bring you own tackle. Some cane poles are provided on a first-come-first-serve basis. "Family Fishing" is permitted Saturdays and Sundays only, for children accompanied by adults, in these two fishing ponds.

Bait is available at Pineland Road Bait located at 9125 Pineland Rd. (white marker on this map), phone 281-741-4911.

In 1943, Carpenter Bayou was impounded to form Sheldon Lake. Today there are 1,230 acres of open water with a maximum depth of 10 feet and an average depth of six feet. Sheldon Lake fishing is by pole and line only.

  • Crappie, largemouth bass, sunfish and catfish fishing are almost always fair to good in season.
  • A levee surrounds the lake along Pineland/Fauna Rd.
    • Fishing peer is available on the south levee.
    • Bank fishing is possible north of Garret Rd.-Fuana/Pineland "T".
      • CAUTION! Garrett Road is often busy with truck and commuter traffic. 
      • Park well on the shoulder.
  • Boat launch and trailer parking is available at the southwest corner of the levees on the east side of Pineland Rd. across from the county park playing fields.
  • Large mattes of vegetation including American lotus, fragrant water lily, hydrilla, hyacinth and giant salvinia cover much of the lake in summer.
  • Crappie, largemouth bass, sunfish and catfish fishing are almost always fair to good in season.

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