six-mile C-Rig

quick report from this weekend. fished sat. 6/30, 530am-9 and literally caught nothing. Fishin partner and I were trying to force a grass pattern. Fished Points, and Humps that had scattered hydrilla in depths of 12-20 feet. It actually confused me that these fish wouldn't eat. i know they were there, cuz i caught them there a week before. C-rigs, T-rigs, drop shots, and cranks. Nothing. Very frustrating morning. Went in, got lunch, napped and regrouped. We decided to avoid grass all together in the pm. Went to a deep hump that only covers about 30 square yards with no real cover on it. Top of the hump is 24', surrounded by water ranging from 35-37 feet. It turned out to be a good decisiion. We got to the spot at 545 and fished until 830 and caught a total of 26 fish. 21 Largemouth, 15 being over 14". Our biggest 5 weight right at 18 lbs. other 5 fish were, 3 white bass, 1 spotted bass, and 1 drum. As for the pattern, all the fish were suspended off the bottom, ranging from 17-20 feet from the water's surface. Caught 5 fish in about 15 minutes on 6XD crankbaits. Then the school slowed a bit, Made a switch to 3.5" jiggin spoons. It was on fire from then on. Caught 20 on jiggin spoons and lost 5-6 more. ok, sorry for the long post..

see it all the time in bass i catch in the marsh... in redfish too..

thanks, cajun... my thinking IS MOST LIKELY FLAWED, but i've been throwing around ideas in my head that i want somebody who doesn't know the lake, and might use some of my spots if his aren't producing... i fun fished thursday evening, only hit 3 spots, only fished from 5-815 and my best 5 (i only had 10 total) were around 16.5lbs... now im hoping those holes will produce earlier in the day when i'll need them, but im not really counting on getting to fish them... so MAYBE just maybe, someone who isn't familiar with the lake may use a spot of mine, since i fish this lake in excess of 50 times a year. well that's at least what im hoping.... now, in all honesty im really only fishing this event to try to learn from a ""pro"".. maybe see if i'm overlooking something out here on the bend, or see if they might try something i had never thought to throw here, and if it works, i'll employ that technique in the future... fishing 1 lake so often people tend to get caught up doing the same 4-5 techniques in the same holes... so i'm definitly looking to learn something.... how great would it be to get paired up with tommy martin, jim tutt, todd castledine... the biggest delimma i have is trying to decide what tackle to bring in my bag... i bought a tackle bag that holds 7 (9"X14") boxes, and 5 sippered pockets to stuff other stuff in... I'm gonna try to be out of the way of the ""pro"" so i'm thinking only 5 rods, that's i'll have to use multiple techinques with the same rods, so im going to leave my normal drop shot setup (which i don't use very often) at the camp, if i need to drop shot, i'll just do it on a baitcaster instead of my spinnin rod... My A-rig rod loaded with 65lb braid is going to have 3 uses, arig - frog - and c-rig ( i keep pre-tied leaders in a box, Jig rod, Crankbait rod and topwater... life jacket, drinks/snacks, rejuvenade, culling clips, spare reel already spooled up incase i backlash the hell out of one, spool of line, general fishing tools... and looking at the weather i won't need rain suit... am i forgetting anything???

Anybody fishing the Everstart Series, next Thursday - Saturday??? I'm fishing as a CO-angler.. and will be at the camp all week to prefish and fish the tourney.. hope to see ya'll there..

north of the bridge can be great, i just don't know it that well, if i did i'd help ya out... But patroon did produce a 14.62 earlier in the year, so i wouldn't count it out..

No appology needed catt... Most of the fish have spawned, just not all... now for report... fished tuesday-friday. Fished every morning from 6:30 - 12, spend parts of each day in 6mile, housen, ind.mounds, toro/pirates, and slaughter.. Caught decent numbers everywhere except toro... 80% of the fish i caught were in the 12-18 foot range. All the rest were caught on spawning flats in 3-5 fow. All fish came on cranks, and A-rig, most on cranks though. Now, most of the fish i caught were post spawn, and a few still spawning, and 1 fish for sure pre-spawn. the pre-spawn fish i caught was thursday near ind.mounds, in 20 fow and was FULL of eggs. Didnt' catch any real big ones, lots of fish in the 2-3 range. Did get a nice 6lb post-spawner though.

no doubt.....

looks like im NOT the only one......

not trying to start a debate... but 13-14 of the 30+ fish we caught were females that still had eggs in them.....

lots of em'....

fished housen and 6mile.... flipped buck brush all day... almost all fish were caught in 1-2 fow.. I MEAN SHALLOW!!!!... we flipped our baits as far back into the brush we could.. some of the fish were in water as shallow as 8-10 inches.... there was lots of other boats near us and i noticed they were struggling, mainly because they weren't fishing shallow enough, most of them were just casting up to the bushes, not back behind them.... we saw upwards of 40 beds in the 3-4 foot of water range, but those fish were simply uncatchable.. they had seen hundreds of baits and boats, and they were spooked....

this weekend was great.. fished saturday... partner and i caught about 40, all on beds, sight fishing.... didn't catch any real bigguns, saw a few, but they were VERY spooky....

So how'd you do??

forgot to mention, FLW is launching/weighing in from San Miguel park. BassnBucks is weighing in at Big Bass (trailoring allowed) and the Oilmen's is weighing in at Cypress Bend. There wll be around 1000 boats saturday/sunday just for tournaments.

wow, terrible weekend to have a club tourney with the 3 MAJOR tourneys going on. FLW-BFL will have 150 boats, Bass-n-Bucks will have 70-80 boats, and the Oilmen's already have 700+ boats registered...... good luck

OUCH, probably have to respool after that birds' nest

What depths were you throwing???? Inside grass line? creek channel edges? reason i ask, is me and my partner has a steady bite this weekend on the edge of creek channels with jigs. The cold front that came through on friday pushed them back a little bit and we found them in the same staging areas that we've been catching them on for the past 3-4 weeks. These creek channel edges were in the 10-14 foot range. All said, Sunday we had 16 fish with 12 keepers... 1 fish @ 4 1/2 , and 3 fish right at 3lbs... and many more in the 2-2 1/4 range.... nothing of spectacular size but was definately a great outting.

Good luck... nearly most the guides on fork that advertise heavily are already booked up through april, and have been for months..... Maybe you can call one of them, and they'll let you know of some other guides that might have openings,

yea, 36 is an excellent day, BUT 25+ for a 1 day tourney is very common on TB

i thought some of you would enjoy this. Saturday Feb. 25 on Toledo Bend Ryan Pinkston caught this 14.62 during the bass-n-bucks tournament. This fish, along with an 8.0, helped give him a 36.60 bag.

here's a pic of the fish Ryan Pinkston and his 14.62

for those of you who haven't heard yet, today on toledo during the bass-n-bucks tourney 36.6 pound sack won, with a kicker fish of 14.62!!!!!!!!!!!! You can see the pictures on bass-n-bucks facebook page.

Abu - Vendetta, 7'3 Heavy..... These rods run a little stiffer than what some of my other heavy rods are... so its more of an Xtra heavy.... I use this for Heavy Cover Flippin and Pitching Great Rod, Great Value Retails for 89.99

just a little report.... Fished today 1/28 from roughly 7-1. Wind was ridiculous on the way to the first fishin hole. The pattern was consistant all day. The fish were in creek channel bends and on the edge of flats very close to the creek channels, ranging from 8-15 fow. Caught fish on multiple presentations, cranks, spinners, jigs, and plastics. Pics of the best 2 from today, a 4.0 and a 6.0

That rocky point on the northwest corner Tx island is a good summer/fall/winter place to fish.. i personaly have caught many fish there, I usually carolina rig that point... If you're gonna fish mill and pirates anytime in the next week or two, concentrate on secondary points near creek channels.