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.

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.

Fun Family Tournament

This was a family fun tournament with dad and son versus cousin and son-in-law.  Tournament rules was who catches the 1st fish and the longest fish.  Father and son team won with the 1st fish and one that was 20 inches long (probably a 4 1/2 pounder.

Father and Son Get Together

April 15th

VERY, VERY strong 50 mph winds gusting to 60 mph.   Bob and his son Bobby managed to catch about 14 fish.  This is a picture of Bobby with his 4 lb. largemouth.  Unfortunately Bob released his 4 pounder before I was able to snap his picture.

Neighbors Having Fun

Our neighbors went out just for fun in front of the RV park where we're staying.  Johnny caught his fish on a green pumpkin centipede carolina rig.

Allen caught an 8.8 on a split shot watermelon fluke.  They caught 11 fish that day.  It was a very nice sunny day.

Family Quality Time

Jodi & Gary (aka Whitecloud), Burness Stoner (aka Nubbin) and Kenny (aka Root) came in hopes of seeing Zach and Justin....They were a couple days early, no Zach.  A couple of days after Jodi's group went home, Zach and Justin came here again! 

The severe winds and cold weather

 didn't stop these two from catching numerous fish one of which was a 10 pound 1 ounce lunker  that Zach caught on a spinnerbait.  Unfortunately I have no pictures of Justin.  When e get them, I will post it to the blog in order to complete  this article.  We are so looking forward to more good times here on Lake Fork!!!

Gary took what he had learned from wife, Jodi, and caught so many really nice fish. He shared it with his brother, Kenny  and long time friend Nubbin.  Sure was sad to see everyone go home !! We were having so much fun.  Well we'll be here when you want to come back!!!

Sometimes small is better !!

When Jodi & Gary came to fish Lake Fork the weather couldn't have been worse.  We  had strong, nasty winds.  Jodi decided to go smaller baits than the rest so she used a 4" lizard instead of the 6 " most were using.  That proved to be a very good move since her 1st cast hauled in a 6 pounder.  Her second cast brought in this real nice 4 pounder.  You go  girl!!!!

More is Better

For Gary Howard aka White Cloud....We had such fun when the family came to visit and fish Lake Fork.  We all said Jodi could've helped huh?!  For those who can't tell what's on WC's face, it's not bird poop, it's just an overabundance of sun tan lotion !!!

All the way from Japan

Shin Tamatani only had 1/2 day but he made every minute count.  He caught 6 nice fish 4 of which were 1 five pounder, 2 four pounders, and three pounder.

Revenge on Lake Fork

Last year Will Allred and Matt Rompala came to lake fork in hopes of  catching a ton of fish.  The horrible weather just shut the fish down  This year however, Will and Matt came back to try their luck again.  Will caught a 6 lb. 12 oz. largemouth.  Matt caught a 6 pounder and guide, Jim Nolan caught a 6 lb. 15 oz largemouth.  We had a great day!

Father and Son Guide Trip

Randy Dowdy and Brandon Dowdy.......fished half a day with green pumpkin centipedes on a carolina rig.   Our day was cut short because Brandon got sick and had to come in early.  Randy Dowdy (dad) caught  one about 4 lbs.   And Brandon (son) caught one abou 3 - 31/2 lb. bass.

Evan though they caught 7 fish they were able to catch the largest  fish ever!

Hope you feel better Brandon!!