Hookem

In all actuality, there are only two seasons in Texas... Spring football and Fall football. 8-)

Winter in Texas starts around 4:30am and ends around 8:30am, Dec 21- Feb 20. ;D At any other time, its still summer.

If you mean the dirty dancing, then yes. Not to be confused, when I say two spawns I meant the lake not an individual bass. If I am catching 1-2" bass (yes that happens... : > ) in December before the spawn, where did they come from. (The lake did not receive a stocking.)

Smell my fingers! ;D

Yep!!! Seen them confused boogers on beds in Oct on Bastrop. The "real' spawn on Bastrop is usually late December. Seems that power plant cooling lakes have a couple of spawns a year. When the temp gets DOWN to about 75 in a few weeks and then the "real" one starts when the lake gets DOWN to 62-70. Y'all noticed I said DOWN. Last weekend it was 97..... ;D :

Right before all hell broke loose, I've seen my buddy's hair stand on end. But the whites were going crazy. ;D Lightning can kill. Golf ball sized hail just bruises and batters! Young and STUPID. :

The difference for me in wind and WIND is a change in tactics and locations. My best days are wind at 20-25, working the shallows on the windward side of the lake. Wind has never ended a trip. It just altered it a bit. Give me wind or WIND, from any direction, any time over the opposite. 8-)

Locally.....Austin, Travis, Bastrop, Fayette, Georgetown, Choke Canyon and a few ponds. Internationally.......Dibble, Flatrock, Basket, Barrel, English River, Smirch....All smallmouths and all in Canada.

Boundary waters of Minn and Canada for smallies. 8-) No place but Texas for largies!

When all else fails..... A good ole Johnson Spoon with a trailer. 8-)

Does anyone tune in to Bill's show to watch him fish or do you tune in to watch him catch? Who cares where he fishes. If I had those types of ponds to fish and catch, then I probably wouldn't hit a public lake ever again. 8-)

If I gotta leave TEXAS, then, well, Minnesota for its boundary waters. 8-) Then its right back home for the winter.

The picture I was referring to is the one on this link http://fishing.about.com/od/bassfishing/l/blbrbrecordbass.htmwith the caption "The Family Admires Replica".

If its the photo I'm thinking of, it is a photo of the replica mount. There isn't a pic of the actual bass.

Texas................. VEGGIES!!!!!!! Any time of the year

Did y'all notice that .....two are brothers that caught a SAL on the same lake on the same day, different boat. What are the odds?

When donated to the SAL, they end up in the Lunker Bunker at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas. Read more: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/hatchery/ After they are done with them, the angler who caught it can release it anywhere he wants. I think most are returned to the lake at which they were caught.

Matt, Did ya hear about the 15.04 out of AH? New lake record and it WASN'T entered into the SAL. Haven't seen a pic but word of it is on other forums.

There is one tied on every trip in any season. 8-)

5/17/91 at 5:11pm. Just under 11lbs.

<====My handle should cover it! Hook'em Horns!

Another instance..... Power plant cooling lakes are a different beast. You need to look to when the water temp gets DOWN to 68 or cooler. Since mid-December, we have seen beds on one of our local power lakes. Water temp at the beginning of Dec was 71-73. When it hit 68, we started to see males in the shallow staking out spots. Currently, the water temp is in the mid-70s with most spawnning over. On to another lake where the spawn is more usual. Water temps on that lake has reached 59-62. 8-)

We do have a trout stocking program. Its just not intended for bass dinners. But I might have to start fishing the waters down river from the stockings. 8-)

Thats what I said on another post........ btw, our current state record LM was caught by a crappie fisherman and the current state record crappie was caught by a guy bass fishing.

An update.....They keep on coming.... 2 of the fish had already spawned! One on a beetle spin I am neither of these fisher(persons). :'( TPWD News Release Four Fish in Three Days from Four Lakes ATHENS, TexasFriday afternoon David Utz of Lovelady did what no other angler in the 20-year history of the Budweiser ShareLunker program has done: Caught 13-pound-plus fish on back-to-back days. About 6:00 p.m. March 3 Utz pulled a 13.03-pound bass from Lake Ratcliff in the Davy Crockett National Forest, the day after he caught a 13.65-pounder from the same lake. His entries became numbers 402 and 403. Utz was using a jig and pig in 5 feet of water. The fish was 25.25 inches long and 20.75 inches around. Three other ShareLunkers were caught over the weekend. Dr. Mark Smith of Allen caught number 404 from Lake Fork Saturday. The 14.09-pound fish was 24.75 inches long and 21 inches in girth. Later that same day Tanya Sorter of Hemphill reeled in Budweiser ShareLunker number 405, a 14.25-pounder from Toledo Bend Reservoir. Her fish was 25.75 inches long and 22 inches in girth and was caught on a Rattlin' Rapala. Both the Smith and Sorter fish had already spawned. Sunday morning Trey McCollum of Nacogdoches caught a 13.13-pound bass from San Augustine City Lake, a 200-acre impoundment stocked with Florida largemouth bass in 1979, 1980 and 1992. McCollum was fishing with a Beetle Spin. His fish was 26 inches long and 20.5 inches around, and like the other three was in water between 3 and 5 feet deep. One anglerJim Gorehad two entries into the program on the same day, but one of those entries was a 6.5-pound male, the only fish of that gender ever entered into the program. It was the largest male largemouth bass Budweiser ShareLunker program manager David Campbell had ever seen, and he wanted that fish's genes incorporated into the ShareLunker breeding program. The total number of entries for the current season now stands at 15, with nearly two full months left. Anglers legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass in Texas waters may enter it into the ShareLunker program by calling David Campbell at (903) 681-0550 or by paging him at (888) 784-0600. For information on the Budweiser ShareLunker program, including current and previous season records, go to http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/budsharelunker/ The Budweiser ShareLunker program is made possible through support from Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Since 1991, Anheuser-Busch, in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, has contributed millions of dollars in funding to support conservation causes and fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation programs in Texas.