Great Top Water Action

I took father & son, John & Matthew Bowman out the 26th of May on Lake Fork.

We spent most of the day catching our fish on top water baits, Strike King square lipped shallow running crankbaits, & the mop jig with crawdad trailers on shallow drops from 3 to 14 feet.

John & Matthew caught 28 of the 30 fish boated that day.

We had a great GREAT DAY despite 30 mph winds.  I'm looking forward to their return visit soon!!!

On Off Days

The days I'm not guiding I'm always searching for new patterns.  Tuesday I took my wife after a 3 day cold front.

I  knew the bass were running with the white bass in 18 ft. of water.  It was sunny, mild with no wind and we found the fish where the deepest water touched the ridge.  The fish were sitting in 24 to 27 foot of water.

We used a combination:  carolina rig with zoom green pumkin vibra craw with chartruese pinchers;  a Cotton Cordell 3/4 oz. silver spoon;  1/2 oz spot remover green pumpkin mop jig with a Yamamoto 4" green pumpkin crawdad with chartruese pinchers;  and also same trailer with orange pinchers.

We dropped these baits from 16 ft to 27 ft off  ledges to the middle of the creek channel.  Several 4,  5 & 6's came on the drop itself and the 10.2 came off the bottom in the middle of the creek channel.

The importance of the way we fished was because we had 3 days of severe winds, overcast days and very cold conditions.  The fish had been on flats, tops of ridges, etc. in depths of 5 to 9 foot.  This day was bright, sunny and no wind  so I was looking for concentrations of fish rather than single fish in deeper water off the treelines.  We had a great day!

Off Time

Off Time

Nice 8lb. 6oz, Largemouth

I caught this great largemouth out in front of my RV while fishing with friend and neighbor, Johnny.  This was caught early evening on Lake Fork.....

Johnny Headrick 10 lbs. 5 oz.

Our RV  neighbor went out one evening in front of the park and caught this lunker.  He was casting a texas rig baby brushhog.  Way to go Johnny!

First Trip to Lake Fork

This is the first trip of many trips to come for these friends.  They had a great time!

Russ Schefer, Chris Cyr, and Dan Hetrick  caught 21 fish with the largest being 4lbs. 1oz. caught by Chris.  They enjoyed this trip so much they want to make this an annual event.

Vitro Company Outing

April 29, 2011 Last day for the Vitro company outing.

In the morning I had Lee Farlander and Richard Holtzclaw and we caught 7 fish while fishing road beds and stump fields. 

In the afternoon I had Lee Whalon and David Schwartz and we caught 3 fish with the largest being 4 pounds.  Rough fishing due to the weather conditions.  Extremely windy and overcast.

Half Day with Vitro Employees

April 28, 2011 Afternoon

Dan Mansir and Andre Cumming caught 5 fish and Dan caught a 5lb. 9oz largemouth.  We changed our fishing to deeper water, fishing ledges.  We caught them on spot removers and carolina rigs.

One Half Day with Vitro Employees

April 28, 2011

The next morning Andre Cumming and David Schwartz went with me and the weather was still bad.  It was very windy and overcast.  The fished road beds and stump flats and ended up catching 9 fish that  morning with the largest being 3lbs. 8oz.

Vitro-Company Outing April 27, 2011

Terrible weather conditions this day and we only fished a half day.   It was extremely windy and overcast.  Catching fish was difficult but we managed to put 12 in the boat.  The largest being a 6 pounder caught by Jeff Robinson.