Take it slow.

Well I've been too busy to fish lately, but I have heard some news. The news is that you can use a dark Texas rigged worm worked very slowly in 4 to 10 feet of water. When I say slowly I mean timed with a calendar slow.
I told you that there is always something to see, even if the fish aren't biting.

Heatin' up.

Went out for about an hour and a half today. The water is a little clearer today and a bit warmer. I could see the lure about a foot and a half down. The water temperature was 60.8 degrees. The bass should be staging for the spawn now. Try to find clearer water and 1 degree warmer can make all the difference in catching fish and not catching fish.

The beginning of the 2012 fishing season.

Well,it took some doing but I finally figured out how to get back on the blog. I was able to get my boat out of Monterrey Park launch Friday the 27th of January. I caught only one fish, but it was a pretty good first fish of the year. I caught it on a gold, black and orange Rattlin Rogue in about 3 feet of water. Water temp is 58 degrees already, so I think the spawn will be early this year. Bass usually start the spawn around 60 to 62 degrees. I went out 2 more times and have caught a total of 4 fish. Not earth shattering but not bad for the end of January. The water is quite dirty from the recent runoff. I will keep you posted.

Good day on a bad day.

 Well, it was bright blue sky, very windy and about 20 degrees cooler than the day before. A cold front had gone through the night before and I left the boat launch at about 1:20 PM. These are not ideal conditions by anyones standards. But, as you can see I did quite well. I saw people catching fish on white frogs over grass. I couldn't get a strike on my pop r so I changed locations and baits. I started throwing my gold and black rogue and started catching fish. I also caught fish on my ribbit around lilly pads. The rogue was producing near hydrila in about 5 ft. of water. The lake is probably 9 ft. low and very clear.
I ended up catching 15 fish in about 4 hours on what I would call a bad looking day.

Mine was bigger.

10.74 lbs Wins Sam Rayburn McDonald’s Big Bass Splash Robert Laird brought in the first double digit bass of the event at 10.74lbs Friday and held the lead to win the McDonald's Big Bass Splash on Lake Sam Rayburn, TX.

Laird is a big bass fisherman ! Leads on day 2 at Rayburn.

Robert Laird of Livingston set the hook on a 13.19 pound bass.  Laird was fishing in 6 to 8 feet of water beside the U.S. 190 bridge across Lake Livingston. He was using a Bagley crankbait.

Laird’s fish is the first ShareLunker ever entered from Lake Livingston and is the new lake record for largemouth. The fish also was the big fish in the Polk County Bass Club tournament Laird was fishing in and helped him win. The fish bested Lake Livingston’s previous largemouth record of 12.45 pounds caught February 16, 1987.

Lake Livingston is not known as a big bass lake, and some of Laird’s friends doubted him when he said he had a fish over 10 pounds to weigh in.

“They didn’t want to believe me on Lake Livingston,” he said. “When I pulled her out of the bag, all their eyes flew open.”

Any angler legally catching a 13 pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit the fish to the Toyota ShareLunker program by calling program manager David Campbell at 903-681-0550 or paging him at 888-784-0600 and leaving a phone number including area code. 

Big Bass Splash results, day 2.

I've been waiting for day 3 results but they are not yet available, soooo, I will publish this. For all hourly results of the 1st 2 days, http://www.sealyoutdoors.com/

                                                       Day 2 of the McDonald’s Big Bass Splash on Sam Rayburn started out with very cool temps in the 40’s and the wind was already rolling. Robert Laird is still in the lead from his Day 1catch weighing 10.74 lbs. He was closely challenged on Day 2 as Joe Kirbow (photo on right) of Beaumont, Texas ran to the scales with the biggest catch of his life – a 10.36 lb fish! The top 5 leader board nearly had a complete turnover by the end of the day.

1st	Robert Laird	Livingston, TX	10.74
2nd	Joe Kirbow	Beaumont, TX	10.36
3rd	Tommy Hammons	Jacksonville, TX	9.73
4th	Russell Spacek	Dime Box, TX	9.52
5th	Bob Sims	Orange, TX	8.98