Choke, Big Fish Vanished!!

Well, I havent posted in a while because I have been very busy.  I recently started my own business, and have been fished three tournies in the past month!  This has kept me away from posting for some time.  I finally have a chance to catch my breath now, before heading to Falcon this weekend!

Anyways, Choke Canyon has been very difficult the paast several weeks!  Not in the way of numbers, but in solid fish.  Fish over 2 lbs have been a rarity, even for good anglers.  They arent biting shallow or deep and you basically just have to get lucky and hit them on the head right now.

Two weeks ago BassChamps did put up a 26 lb winning sack, but the last payout was only at 13 lbs!  Thats very week for Choke, it usually takes close to 26 lbs on a 3 fish limmit, and 13 lbs should never get you a check on this lake.  The day after, my leage only had a winning weight of 18 lbs.  Take in mind that we have some very good anglers, including some of the bass champs guys like Jimmy Johnson!

This weekend, my leauge and the Fed fish choke again.  This time, our winning weight was only 16 lbs and the team even had a 9 lber!  The fed was a 3 fish limmit and only won with like 12 lbs!  Thats horrible!  My leauge is even a team tourny!

Now, the small fish are easy to catch.  Me and my partner probably caught 200 fish on sunday, but only ended with about 11 lbs!  I dont know what is going on for sure, but the only thing I can think of is that the bigger fish are becomming very lure shy!

I talked to TPWD a month ago or so, and they said that our shocks showed better numbers and size than we've almost ever had.  The lake has filled up to near capacity and the weather has been very warm.  Since the little fish are bitting so well, it just makes me believe that the enormous increase in pressure has smartened up the older bigger fish making them very hard to catch, even in deep water!  One thing that I noticed this past weekend was that a lot of the fish that I caught had hook wounds all over their mouths!  This should tell you something!

It was very sad, a lot of us anglers actually had to resort to finesse like tactics to catch better fish this weekend!  The touny winners were those lucky enough to put one solid fish with a sack of 1s and 2s!

All I can say is that I am glad tha OH Ivie is turning so many heads.  Maybe people and tournys will start going there and give Choke a breather so that the fish can settle down a little bit!

There is no way that Choke should be spitting out sacks less than 20 lbs, no way!