So Yall Want To Learn Sam Rayburn

[hunterfishes]

I actually  sent you a PM with  our email address  back in march  and did not hear from you  figured you were like  us  Very Busy.  

 

We were actually getting worried   he only had a small keeper at noon and they  were to check in at 1pm. we went back to a cove that we  had caught small ones in a mile or so above peach creek and got lucky  we had been fishing  the  coffee bean plants, but as we approached the  secondary point   he threw out  away from the  bean plants in a little deeper water, and caught   a 3.5    as I was putting it in the livewell he threw back to the same area and the 7.46  took off with it.  He was throwing  unweighted flukes and had to just dead stick it, but  that little cool front had backed the  bigger fish off the bushes to the first drop  approx 2 to 3 foot  down to 4 to 5 foot.  I wished we had figured   that out a little sooner We were late adjusting but he still won  big bass big stinger and the Major league Division so we'll take it lol   we probably caught 10 fish in the bushes but only one was a keeper.  Thanks for the offer too, give us a shout if we can help up this way

[arva butler]

That's really good, guess we are going to fish points up north this weekend and hope to get onto some fish

[back water]

Hunterfishes: I answered the PM and told you to contact me when you were coming down. I don't know what happened.

Have a club tournament on TB this weekend. I would assume they will still be shallow. We will be fishing out of Lowe's but can trailer so really don't know where we will put in. I like 6 mile, but not to many good reports coming from there. That is Shaneus home turf. He is building a cabin there, I don't know if he has finished it yet.

Keep up the good work and get all the experience you can.

[TxGator]

When yall talk about up north are yall talking about north of 147?

 

G

[shaneus]

okay ready for some updates finally got to spend some time on rayburn dont have any tournaments for a while.....ill start with the tournament i won a couple weeks ago. we fished northern coves out of the northwestern winds because they warm the quickest. we threw trickworms and red river special swim jigs (white) around grass, caught a few on smaller swimbaits also. i think the scattered grass had a lot to do with holding bigger fish thats where the two big girls came from. right next to the grass was some sort of channel swing or where 2 channels came together or a ditch. lots of smaller fish were on the flats in the bean bushes. i havent caught many fish from the buck brush this year. we had another club tournament yesterday and it was brutal fishing for me. tuesday the winds were 25-30 mph so prefishing wasnt very good i did cross the lake in my new basscat and it handled the 4 foot swells really good, just gotta know how to run. ( i hate public service announcements) IF YOU HAVE NOT RUN IN ROUGH WATER DO NOT ATTEMPT IT BY YOURSELF THE FIRST TIME. i grew up fishing sabine lake and have lotsa of expierence running rough water, make sure you guys new to bass fishing and boating get someone to show you the tricks of running rough water before you attempt it on your own. tuesday was the roughest ive ever seen big sam 4-5 foot swells comming out of caney boat ramp so i just prefished around there. i fished coleman bird island deer stand caney and a few other flats with no bites yesterday for our tournament. i caught one keeper on a top water frog and one on a trick worm, i didnt find a school of fish till 2 pm then went through a dink fest tring to round out my limit. ended up weighing 2 fish for like 4 pounds. went from being on top to catching 2 fish stinks, but we cant win em all.........to new tournament fishermen/women set goals for yourself at the beginning of the season. my goals this year after fishing the same club last year was/is to win 1 tournament, and to weigh in 1 fish every tournament (i scrsatched on keepers 2-3 tourneys last year). it has helped me keep a better outlook on things. ive won a tournament this year and so far have weighed in something every tourney so far........

[hunterfishes]

Back water   sent you a PM

[henrylewis]

Thank you for the report shaneus will keep that in mind

[texasoldtimer]

Headed to Rayburn Sunday. Are there fish on beds down south? What is the best color on flukes? Thanks for any help?

[hunterfishes]

Good Morning everyone want to give a Rayburn update and Bragg a little too.   Hunter and Chase fished the High school Regional Tournament help on Sam Rayburn Sunday. While they did not get  as big a bites as they had gotten in practice, Chase did have one close to 4 and Hunter put 4 more in the livewell for 12.10 lbs    it was good enough to finish 23rd out of 234 teams (not bad for seventh graders) The finish should put them around 15th place  in the overall standings the region averaged around 240 teams per tournament so I'm very proud of top 15.   I also want to thank Chase's dad Eddie  for stepping in to boat Capt. this weekend (I couldn't be there  due to work) he did an outstanding job of putting the boys on fish.  As for the update   they did get a few hits on a frog, but all keepers came on senko, Fluke, & trick worm (shakey head and wacky)  in watermelon colors  with the tail dipped. They actually would have had close to 19lbs Saturday and then had  another 12 Sunday  the fish were shallow 1 to 5 feet, and were clearly post spawners that were moving out of spawning coves and holding on secondary points They also caught  30 to 40 fish a day but most were 13 to 13 1/2.  Good fishing everyone

[TxGator]

Sounds like yall had a good day. Ours wasnt too bad, but fell short of the limit I was hoping for the boys to catch. They caught 4 for 10.44 and released a couple of small fish. I think they did pretty well considering the shortcomings of their boat captain. Ours were all on swim baits is shallow water, 1-2 and right up in the thick grass or in brush. It also seemed like they needed deeper water close by, when we got away from the creeks, we stopped catching. Never found any fish deeper, though the wind prevented us from trying a couple of spots I wanted to try.

 

Would you mind telling me why your thinking post spawn? I was thinking the opposite, that they were up there either about to start or just starting. I didnt see any obvious signs on the fish that they were finished. Maybe im not looking for the right things. Perhaps its the area of the lake too, we were in the san augustine area within a few miles from the park.

 

G

[hunterfishes]

Well it could be   the area they were in  they were up lake near the 147  bridge so the spawn could be in different  stage in your area down south.

  I also make that  assessment due to the location of the fish  they were about halfway back in the coves along flat banks with a little secondary  point or bar. the fish seemed to be moving  out  not into the  coves, also they caught  lots  of small bass in the backs of coves  that appeared to be male bass guarding nest. 

 

I'm no biologist and could be  totally wrong but that was the  impression I got form their waypoints and their description of how the fish were caught.

[Bass_Fanatic]

Congrats to the yall!  Thats awesome!  15th place out of 240ish boat...aint nothing wrong with that.  Sounds like postspawn to me too.  I know on Toledo, pretty much everything north of Lowes is post-spawn already. 

[Catt]

Great job boys & Capts!

Y'all dead on about the post spawn

[TxGator]

OK your making that decision by the areas then, not neccesarily physical signs you were seeing on the fish. I was thinking that there would be bloody fins or fin damage maybe following the spawn. Our fish seemed to come when there was deeper water near, I was thinking that was possibly due to the fluctuating temperatures weve been having this time of year, that they would want that escape route.

 

Sounds like i need to go spend some more time over around the 147. When we fished out of Castle Boykin, i saw some pretty water that was new to me as Ive never really spent much time up there.

 

Has anyone ever tried in the extreme north end of san augustine. Up around the bridge. Sure looks fishy from the highway, but it looks pretty shallow on the maps.

 

Thanks

G

[TxGator]

OK your making that decision by the areas then, not neccesarily physical signs you were seeing on the fish. I was thinking that there would be bloody fins or fin damage maybe following the spawn. Our fish seemed to come when there was deeper water near, I was thinking that was possibly due to the fluctuating temperatures weve been having this time of year, that they would want that escape route.

 

Sounds like i need to go spend some more time over around the 147. When we fished out of Castle Boykin, i saw some pretty water that was new to me as Ive never really spent much time up there.

 

Has anyone ever tried in the extreme north end of san augustine. Up around the bridge. Sure looks fishy from the highway, but it looks pretty shallow on the maps.

 

Thanks

G

[henrylewis]

Happy easter everyone

[texasoldtimer]

Spent Good Friday and Saturday on Rayburn. Friday we were in San Augustine flats and had a limit of small ones on C rig in 5-10 foot water. Saturday we put in at Caney and fished main lake points up to Mud and over to Coleman and Norris. Again a limit of small keepers on C rigs. Not a single fish over 3 pounds either day. Big girls must be in post spawn recovery. Maybe the ones up north are eating.

[henrylewis]

Hunterfishes did yall make regionals?

[hunterfishes]

Morning Henry    Yes Hunter and Chase did  make the finals, they ended up 13th overall. The limits they were able to catch in the last 2  tournaments helped move them up into top 15.  How did you do? they should be posting the overall standing in the next few days  on the  Setex web site.

 

Hunter is off to fayette County lake  for a YFL youth tournament tomorrow. didn't get to practice but hoping the bite will be similar to last year.

 

He is leading  the angler of the year standing in the  13 to 15 yoa  division so needs a good limit to hold on.

 

Are you fishing McBass.  Good Luck   if so  and be careful there will be lots of boats on Rayburn this weekend.

[henrylewis]

No sir we didnt & no sir im not fishing this weekend

[hunterfishes]

Sorry to hear that Henry,  The region is planning on being  even bigger next year so I'm sure you can take what you learned this year and do well next year.  

 

We  didn't do to well at Fayette either. It's a slot limit lake so they had a board tournament (where you mark the lenght of the fish you catch on a board  they then convert to weight)  hunter had 7 but  couldn't get  over about 17 inches for  the biggest. converted to 11 pounds, but on Fayette if you don't have  15 lbs plus you end up like he did  6th place. Thats why they call it fishing. We move on to Livingston on May 31 so hopefully he can  do better there.

 

Good luck to you and stay in touch

[henrylewis]

My grandpa use to live on livingston theres a cut that we aleays fished but I cant find it on the map ill try to find it and let you know

[Catt]

Great job y'all

Hunterfishes, top 10!

Y'all had a 6th, that's holding your own, that's difficult lake.

[back water]

Hunterfishes: Will probably fish Livingston in May - let me know if you find that cut.

[hunterfishes]

Thanks If anyone has  some ideas for Livingston  we would appreciate it   we have done real good on Livingston and we have done real bad, Livingston in May does worry me. Hunter is currently  in the lead for angler of the year in YFL  major league division so he needs to at least catch a few fish there and at Rayburn in June.