Dalton Tam

Well I can't promise that I'll be free this weekend quite yet. With a rigorous work and school schedule, I just don't know what will happen from day to day. I can tell you this, they have started to bite there. With the cold weather rolling in this week, I can't make any promises that they will continue to bite as well as they have. Here are some pictures from the last couple of days out on the water. The second photo was taken after the front blew in. It was so warm at the beginning of the trip that you could wear a T-shirt on the boat ride, then after 30 mph winds hit, rain, and the temp dropped about 20 degrees. The water temp dropped about 2 degrees while I was out on the water. If you go, we've been catching them on big bite craws (almost the same as a Paca Craw in Pumpkin green. But the most productive bait has been any spinnerbait that has a light wire and a big colorado blade to slow roll. They want it slow around the trees and button wood bushes. They wouldn't hit a willow leaf blade as well. I guess their metabolism is still slow and they want some vibration to make them actively strike. PM me and maybe we can figure out whether or not I'll be free to show y'all around. If not, maybe I can at least steer you in the right direction.

Hmmmm... Idk what that is on the tail, I think it may have had some discoloration and the camera picked it up as bright red cuz I don't remember that bright red ring. Although it may have just been some kind of defect in the pigment of the fish. We caught several that had black spots on them in unusual places.

Well I don't tend to post too much any more but I stop by every once in a while to see what's going on and to brag a little bit!

Yesss! I'm going to have to make sure that I find time to come visit and meet everyone. Even if it's for a day or two!

Thanks Catt will do brother!

After a grueling summer of nursing classes I'm getting a two week break so next week, Wed.- Fri., my cousin and I are going to make a trip to Lake Fork. I've never been and I know it's mid summer so the bite may not be ideal so I'm asking for a little help. Does anyone care to share any info with me so that I may be able to hook a good one this time of year? Thanks, Dalton

Thanks guys I just finished the grinding school work today so I'll get out and try it next week. But my cousin and I are gonna head to Lake Fork Next week and I've never been so I'm pretty pumped about that even though it's not the best time of year.

Ok, so I've been fishing a local body of water for the past few months. It was awesome pre-spawn through the beginning of summer. I caught a lot of nice fish, saw some pigs one beds so I know they're here. At the beginning of summer I caught all my good fish on secondary points fishing deep grass. Well I'm taking summer courses so I put the rods down for a while. But I went out just a few days back and this place is like the Dead Sea.... Idk what to do. This lake is super clear and basically hydrilla covers the whole lake bed. The grass is insane. Huge hydrilla mats extend 40-50 foot from the banks now that summer is here. I've tried going to a deeper pattern, staying way out and fishing the edges of deep grass and drop offs. Tried top water early in the morning, punching matts and dragging big worms down to about 20 ft. Idk what else to do. If there is anyone on here that has a lot of experience on lakes like this and can give me some ideas I would love that! Thanks a lot! -Dalton

Most of the lakes in my area are too murky to sight fish for bedding bass but this year I focused on fishing a local lake that has the clearest water near me and I learned alot about sight fishing. The biggest one I caught off a bed was 6.4 but she was the biggest one I saw that was "locked on". I saw some giants that just weren't locked onto the beds yet and they seemed impossible to catch. Anyway, I can tell you that, most of the time, if you catch the male first (right in front of the female), you probably won't get that female to bite. I practiced many techniques to induce a strike. usually starting by flipping a craw into the bed. If they were finicky and wouldn't take the bait right off, I would start switching it up. Sometimes I could illicit a strike by dying the pincers chartreuse. I would then try another bait such as a lizard or some creature bait that had as many "tentacle" (arms legs) as possible. I think the many moving parts of the bait "ticked" them off and made them strike. Another technique I found to work "wonders" was my drop shot rig because I could keep it in front of their face for a while until they got mad and hit it. My 6.4, however came off of a jig. I flipped my craw up to her several times and the male finally ate it and never let it go, so I set the hook once he swam about 30-40 foot from the bed. I caught him but I didn't release him to run back to the bed. I think if I would have released him, he may have released a pheromone that would have "spooked" her. However I fished another, say, 20 minutes to get her to bite, trying different things until i picked up a jig. When I flipped the jig in, It literally landed right on her head and she inhaled it. Which leads me to the last discovery I made about catching them off the bed. Towards the end of the spawn, they began to be really "hard headed". I guess fishing pressure gave them lock jaw. So I discovered that, if they were locked on, and you threw over the top of them and literally tried hitting them in the side of head with the bait, they would get mad and inhale the bait. That's the only way I could get a strike out of the hard headed fish. It was an awesome spring fishing and caught alot of 4-5 lbers. Just never found that 1 monster that was locked on! Maybe next year..... One more thing, most them aren't going to hit on the first cast. It took me on average 10-15 minutes per fish most of the time to get a strike (especially the bigger fish, sometimes 30-40 lol!). So patience is the key factor for bed fishing. I think it depends on the fishing pressure they receive on the body of water you are fishing. Just be patient and try what I told you. I believe you'll be successful if you use these tips. Here are a couple fish that I caught one morning this past spring, including that 6.4. I really thought she was gonna weigh more, but.... i guess scales don't lie smh.....

Ok guys I fish alot of tournaments and I've noticed that a couple buddies of mine tend to listen to the same song every morning on the way to boat ramp for good luck or to just get their mind right. One of my friends likes "Dream On" by aerosmith. The other has a playlist of hip hop music he likes. I have a playlist of good country music and right before I launch my boat I play a little "Cinema" by Skrillex and "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites". My buddy introduced me to dubstep before a tournament and it helped me get pumped up so I like to turn it up right before the launch . I was wondering if any of you guys had a certain song or set of songs you like to listen to on the way to the boat ramp to get ready for a tournament or just a great day of fishing? GOOD = GOOD I also discovered the cool emoticons just now as well. lol good stuff

about two weeks before that. My friend was catching em in the grass punching with a 1 Oz wieght. catching some pretty good ones but we couldnt get any bites in practice and we saw several college teams that were doing it on tournament day and didn't do so hot. Danny Isle went south of Housin so I'm not sure what he was doing. My guess is that he was on some fish up six mile. He lives right up six mile and that's his domain. LSU Shreveport didn't weigh in a fish on day one but on day two they came in with a 16 some odd pound sack. They said they were fishing in 20-30 feet of water. They had an 8.5 lb kicker and swear up and down they had another one on as big or bigger but I have no clue as to where they went. Caught it on a heavy jig on the bottom is what they told me. I think if someone wanted to find BIG fish, that's what I'd be doing right now.

Its been a while since I've posted anything but I thought this would be a good place to post this. My friend and I took second place in the Boat U.S. collegiate Sam Houston invitational on Nov. 17-18. It was tough and there wasn't alot of heavy sacks brought in but we managed to find one spot that paid off for us in the tournament. This stretch couldn't have been more than 100 yards long but the way it was set up was key for the fish to be there. It was in the back of a feeder creek up Negreet. The shad seemed to be in the back of the creek and the bass were there as well. What made the spot so good was that the channel swung in really close to the bank or should I say a small flat that run out from the bank about 30 feet or so. Every now and then you'd see shad running up on the flat and the bass would follow up and strike a few times. The stumps just off the flat where it dropped to the channel was where most of the fish were suspended in about 4-5 feet. I say that because the bait that caught 90 percent of our fish and the bigger fish was a kvd 1.5 square bill. We caught them off the stumps and also just out in the open sometimes. Not sure how many we caught but it was enough to bloody my fingers up. Mostly 2-2.5 lb fish but there were some better fish mixed in. We ended up catching 16.04 lbs on the first day and 14.48 on the second day. giving us a two day total of 30.54 lbs. We were beat by Danny Isles who had 33 something pounds as a two day total. Needless to say it was a close race. Wish we could have pulled it off but hey, that's tournament fishing for ya! Other than that I had a great time and caught alot of fish. Oh I also caught a 3.5 pounder in about 23 foot of water on the first day just texas rigging a rage craw with a 3/8 oz weight. Also in the same area but in a brush pile right on the point of the creek channel a little closer to the mouth of the creek. Here are some photos of the tournament. I had a blast! This was our day one catch. We weighed in at fin and feather btw. First fish of the day on day 2. Clost to 5 lbs. Day two catch along with the other Louisiana Tech team that fished

My day on pickwick was a blast! Mr. Roger Stegall is a super nice guy and the fishing was great. I caught my PB smallmouth which isnt much but alot better than the knots I have caught out of the buffalo river. I hope I get to fish this lake again in the near future! Dad and I with my PB smallmouth caught on topwater! What a fight! Dad's with a nice fish caught off a ledge. Mr. Roger Stegall with a nice catch! Me with a ledge fish caught off of a football head jig. My first Pickwick fish caught on Topwater! Dad with this 4 lb toad caught on topwater.

Sorry guys I haven't posted in ages! Feel like I've neglected my bassresource family. Been working in Texas and now I'm taking a little vacation with the parents before i have to go back to school. We are up here at Lake Pickwick and I'm taking my first guided trip ever in the morning. I really hope the Stroke em! I'll follow up this post with some good pictures if the Lord is willing. Great to be back!

I'm taking my first guided fishing trip ever on Pickwick in the morning. I hope the bite is better than you guys say but I've never been here so if all I get to do is see the lake and put a fish in the boat I think I'll be happy.