Company Outing

June 24th and 25th 2011

Industrial Oils Unlimited honored six of their employees with a guide trip on Lake Fork.  I had the pleasure of having Melvin Streeter and Randy Smith in my boat for the two days. 

Melvin and Randy caught around 27 fish the first day which included 4 fish around 6 pounds with the smallest being 3 pounds. 

The second day was windier and the size fell off but still caught 25 fish ranging from 3 to 5 pounds.

I enjoyed fishing with them and look forward to their return trip!!

June Fishing Can Be Very Productive!

We have had extremely high winds lately.  When calm conditions take over, the better fish are being caught in a couple different ways. One way is to fish creek channels using medium POP R's, Berkley Poppers, and Chug Bugs.  The other way is to fish main lake ridges using carolina rigs, jigs, and spoons.

I caught a 7.7 lb using a carolina rig with Zoom's green pumplin Vibra Craw.  It was slightly windy that day.

 June 21, 2011 our neighbor, Lisa Barrow caught an 8 lb. 3 oz. using a chug bug on a main lake stump flat.  She was fishing from the bank right in front of her RV.

 The next day, June 22, 2011,  my wife Paula caught this 9lb.7oz. on a main lake ridge.

Fishing Early Summer

Weather has been extremely hot this past week.  Winds have been 7 to 10 mph most days.

The fish are post spawn and feeding on mostly shad.  Good top water and small crankbait bites on the windier days.  This has been producing lots of 3-4 lb. bass with an occasional 7-8 lb in the mix.

As we all know, the fish are in all stages, being shallow, mid range and deep water.  Fishing points near creek channels with carolina rigs seem to be catching the larger fish.

NFL Player Comes to Lake Fork

Justin Rogers, an NFL free agent, and Kevin Trimble, his close friend chose me to guide them around Lake Fork for a relaxing day of fishing.  Lake Fork did not let them down with Justin catching  30 quality bass and Kevin catching 25 quality bass with the largest being a 7 pounder!

They caught all their fish in shallow water, in little ditches along flats in the backs of creeks using a variety of baits.  We used rattle traps, small jerk baits, carolina rigs with trick worms and big 12" texas rigged worms and some top water baits.

Looking forward to the return of both friends soon.

I had a blast fishing with these GREAT fishermen!

Fishing With My Neighbor

I was invited to fish with my neighbor Johnny today.  It was nice to sit back and relax..... that is until I had a great bite and my reel came off my rod!!!  That could have been the Biggin.

We were fishing 6 to 8 foot ditches that ran through flats.  We texas rigged green pumpkin/chartreuse tail baby brush hogs and 10 & 12 inch Berkley power worms.  That's what we caught them on all day!

What a GREAT day!!

Pictures Tell the Story

Memorial Weekend, May 29th and 30th 2011

We probably caught at least 30 fish for the two days.  The lst day was calm and sunny, absolutely a beautiful day!  We fished ridges with creek channels close by.  We used mop jigs with Yamamoto green pumpkin crawdad with chartreuse pinchers.  We also used Zoom green pumpkin vibra craw with chartreuse pinchers on a carolina rig.

The 2nd day was windy and overcast so I chose to look for protected areas.  Started off using the spot remover head with a Zoom trick worm with chartreuse tail.  We ended up going to the road bed using the carolina rig and trick worm.

We caught all sizes up to a 10 pounds.  It was a great weekend with the wife!

20 Fish---Half Day

May 28, 2011

Don Walters and son Floyd hired me for a half day so they could practice for the upcoming Skeeter tournament.  We fished a shallow road bed with carolina rigs and a spot remover head with Berkley blue fleck 7" worms.

We ended up with about 20 fish.

If you have limited  time to practice,  hiring a guide to show you around can be an advantage.

Friends From Home

May 27, 2011

Charles Thompson and his son Stephen visited last week.

We caught some fish throwing carolina rigs on drops from 8 to 15 foot.  We caught about 5 fish this way.
We threw blue fleck worms on texas rigs at the edge of tree lines in shallow water.  We caught about 5 or 6 more fish and they were better fish.

We had about 30 mph winds so it was pretty tough.