Hey everyone we  have good news  Hunters partner  Chase talked to his Uncle and he has rearranged his schedule so that he can  boat Capt. for them Saturday. So looks like they are back on the water. I want to say thanks to everyone who  tried to help from phone calls to bass pro about our boat to  attempts to find a loaner boat  and to Chase's dad and uncle for their  efforts to get them back in the tourney.

 

Thanks to  the guys here  on the forum too we appreciate your support.

Great news!  Now get out there and catch em...good luck to yall!

Go get e'm hunterfishes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody been on Rayburn the last few days, trying to decide where to go to put the boys on some fish. Wish I could get up there ahead of time, but thats not gonna happen. Supposed to Launch out of Cassell Boykins.

 

Thanks

 

Gator

How did everyone do this weekend I caught two little ones phil (texas gator )caught two also slow day but it was fun

hunterfishes: I sent you a pm for your email so I could send you a copy of the latest Rayburn fishing report, but you never responded.

I sure could use some pointers on where to find bigger fish on Sam , would like to catch some bigger than 13 in. Any help plz .

About8 to 12 fow

We had 3 at the high school event   only weighed 7.75 though so another top 60 finish.  The  cove we were in had 17 boats in it.  I think   the pressure had killed Julie Creek.

back water sorry for the slow response  have been without a computer  just got the PM

Yea Julie was pretty busy, all of the fish we caught came from there. I guess no one was wanting to make a long run. One of the other guys I talked with caught their fish there and in Caney. Like us they struck out in Muddy. At least the boys caught a couple even if they didnt get to weigh anything in. Maybe next time.

 

 

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fish down here in the south will be spawning now through april in some cases, try to find fish where the boats arent stacked up......it is well worth it when you do. julie creek is a well known spawning area, as are many others around the 147 bridge. you can catch fish behind people but finding your own water is where its at this time of year, ill only fish shallow during the week

awh so you guy are the ones that chased off my fish in Julie, I fished the Bfl sat an ran all the way there in that fog an when i pulled in there was like 20 boats there  ,but i fished it any way ccause i had like 50 bites there friday an caught a 7.o lb mama in the back thought i was hung an pulled the bait an she was on the other end. Than sat we only had 5 bites in there an caught one keeper.  

we had good fish in there too the weekend before but  too many others did also.  To Shaneus point I spent Saturday trying some old coves  that are off the beaten path  but didn't have any luck.   Caught a decent keeper in caney finally, but had  several boats in there.  Caught short fish in the  shallows. had to back out to 8' to catch the keeper.  Hunter has a YFL youth tournament this weekend, but with the weather making another swing this week, not sure  the fish will be  moving back shallow by the weekend.  Don't know what  were gonna do at the moment.  Plan to watch the weather and hopefully get on the water Friday to check things out.  Water temp Saturday  in the mid lake area was 52 to 53 on my lowrance, Its been years  since I  saw water  that cold  the second weekend of March.  I also looked pretty hard this weekend  and did not see any evidence of beds even started  in the shallow water. Looks to me like the males haven't started to prepare for the females yet.  Maybe someone else has seen  something I haven't but looks like a late spawn  this year  to me.

Well I was in the back of Harvey sun. saw some areas where some faning had taken place but the beds wasn't defind, also caught a couple small males in the back on senkos , we went to 8 differant places an tried 1-10 fow with no luck i was fishing with Mike Taylor the owner of the Stump  he had 3 fish for 7 lbs an finished 12 th in the ABA.Oh an a co caught a 9 lb she was full of eggs an her tail was just now had a red tint to it, all the fish i lookd at in the live rel boat  the tail had no bleeding only the big fish had a little blood. so am thinking the spawn my be late this year.

So I haven't fished big Sam in about a year or so but it was during the spawn and what I found was odd to me. Hopefully some of you can explain. Everybody was catching off of beds but I only found about a dozen myself. How deep do they normally bed because I was looking intently and just was not seeing many of them? I did pick up a six ponder but I was expecting to see lots of beds from the reports I was getting and just couldn't locate.

The Cleveland Bass Club had it's tournament on Sam this week-end out of Jackson Hill. We fish Sat., safe light until 3:00 p.m. and Sun. safe light until 1:00 p.m. The rain on Sat. held off until 2:00 so only had an hour to contend with that. It rained all night, but quit at 5:00 a.m. so that worked out nicely also.

Heavy stringer on Sat.(5 fish limit) was 13.84 followed by 13.02 and 12.74 for the top 3 - big bass was 5.92 lbs. - on Sun. - heavy stringer was 18.04 followed by 14.38 and 12.85 and big bass was 6.22.

Heavy stringer for the 2 day tournament was 30.78 followed by 27.40 and 26.69

Most of the bass came from the shallows 1-3 ft. with the favorite bait being a weightless senko - a few on spinner baits and traps.

All in all a good tournament with allot of 5 fish limits. Now is the time to be on the lake.

Enjoy - keep a tight line - God Bless

Hey guys it's been a while since I posted. Hope everyone is doing good, and was hoping we could go over some more Rayburn stuff. I been studying rayburn a little off and on. I found google earth is pretty awesome for part of this lake.

Headed to big Sam this morning, report when I get back

to Back water  plz check your mess.

Sorry, I was golfing

Has the spawn started yet I heard that they were in 6-8range

The females caught last weekend had a little pink on the bottom of their tails, but were not tore up and bloody. They were shallow and the water temp was up to 63 in some of the creeks.

When do you think it will start back water?

I think it will start immediately with this next warmup coming along.