WELL I BOOKED THE AIRLINE TICKETS , RENTED THE BOAT AND NOW I'M GOING TO LAKE AMISTAD. I FIGURED A COUPLE DAYS OF SOAKING UP SOME WARM TEXAS SUN WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE COLD WEATHER BLUES. PLUS I FIGURED IF I CATCH A COUPLE BASS THAT WILL MAKE THE TRIP WORTH IT. SO IF THERE IS ANYONE WITH SOME GOOD TIPS FOR CATCHING THOSE LM BASS IT WOULD HELP ME ALOT. I HEAR IT IS A PRETTY CLEAR LAKE? WHAT ABOUT VEGITATION , STUMPS OR ROCKS. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO FISH THIS EARLY FOR THEM DOWN THERE ? THANKS ZIMMY 8-)

Zimmy, log into FLW, I think they are down there right now, so live stream weigh-in should give some detail final day.

Warmer days should have them moving up.

Also go back and look at Elite articles the past two years for areas that pro fished.

Hows Chicago?     And if you don't mind sometime, could you pass that info on to the forum about rentals and such.       Amistad could be lake on the menu someday for get together.

Hookem

Matt

Zimmy,

what airport do you fly intofor Amistad?  San Antonio?

Hope you didn't already go.  I've got a decent article on Amistad that should help.  Send me an e-mail address and I'll send it to you.  Way2busy2fish @aol.com

well i'm back from lake amistad and wow what a lake   the weather couldn't have been better. mostly in the 70s. did manage to get a nice sunburn. water temps in the mid 50s. since i rented a boat an didn't have a guide it took me a little bit to figure out the lake. there is a lot of underwater brush, stumps and rock points . the most sucsess i had was fishing a 10" berkley texas rigged in the 10 to 20' range. in around the stumps and brush on points with deeper water close by. watermelon or purple seemed to work well. the one morning it was cloudy then i did catch some in 2 to 8" range on slow rolling spinnerbaits. the best part was this winter i started to make my own spinnerbaits and caught a 4lb bass on it  8-) i caught a lot of bass in the 2 to 4lb range. i didn't catch anything huge but did have a lot of fun . the water is really clear and you can see down 10' or more with good polarized glasses. i stayed at the amistad resort, nice place with very accomidating people. the guys at the marina were very freindly and helpful. it appeared that most of the bass were staging and gettin ready for the spawn. i flew in to san antonio and drove down to amistad. overall a very good trip and would go again in a heart beat 8-) wasn't very happy to come back to indiana  :'( zimmy

Glad you had a good trip.  I'm going to have to make that extra 8 hour drive (6 hours to Fork for me) one of these days.