Well I am off today, due to not having a boat because of a blown SHO. My new boat I have on order is not quit ready, but will be here in a few weeks. I am staying with Triton , but will be running a Mercury this time. I like the way the SHO performed, but can not deal with two blown motors in two years. As much as these motors cost they really should last you a long, long time. To stay with my Triton deal that I have had since 1998 I had to switch dealers and I will now be with Texas Boat World near Waco. Cliff Brown is who I have made the deal with and I look very forward to dealing with him, in the future. I called him Sunday when my motor let loose and , he knows my situation about my Guide business and that I have booked days almost every day. He told me know problem get you boat up here and take mine and it is yours till we get your boat fixed. What a deal. So since I have never met him in person, I thought it was best to place ,
Today and tomorrow trips with one of my other guides and do the transfer in person. Yes I am going to miss the revenue , but It will be worth, meeting him and seeing their operation in person. Now about my old dealer Sandy Creek Marina . I can not say enough good things about them as they have took very good care of me in the past. I wish them all the luck in the world. After my trip to Texas Boat World and I get back I will be making some changes on my site to include their link. By the Way the fishing has be just great as it does this time a year. The hotter the better on Falcon Lake , that is just the way this lake is. Jay and I really do our part to post a fishing report everyday we go and that is just about everyday. I know when you travel down here you want to catch fish and From May thru Sept it does not get any better here. So plan your trip accordingly , and if you need a guide , give Jay or Me a shot , I will guarantee you one thing , that nobody will work harder than us two to make sure your trip is a great one. Good luck and make plans I will see you in a couple of days , Time to go get my boat fixed.
May 20
May 20th, 2013
Not going to say much, but had to post these two . I did my job , Now I know they will do theirs . We had some 8 pounders to go with these two, brutes. I have the pictures , but I did get their permission to post these , right now.
May 19, 2013
May 20th, 2013I have been on the water Sat and Sun. The lake has really gotten busy since Thursday. The wind has been brutal, but the fish have been biting if you can get to them. I have not posted any pictures , because I have some Bass champs guys and will have them tomorrow as well. We are driving around and looking at spots and getting them ready to fish the tournament in two weeks. We have when we could pull up on a place and make the cast , when there has been no boats within site of one of my spots, and have actually caught some quality fish just to boost their confidence . They are going to fish with me again Monday and there should be a lot less boats to deal with. I have some good pictures of some good fish , including a 9 pounder , 8 and heavy 7 pounder we boated yesterday . I think the way Falcon is fishing right now that it is going to take over that to wind , but the stringer we had today (Sun) would sure get a nice check. I never post pictures or names when I have a tournament client ,and will only do later , with their permission , after the tournament is over. I will have a full report with pictures when I get back to regular fishing come Tuesday. However I blew another SHO Today , so I am in a friends boat today. My new boat is not ready, so I really do not know what I am going to be able to do on Trips for the next few days , I sure need to work .
May 17, 2013
May 17th, 2013
Took out Karl and Troy today. Karl is one of my regulars and Troy is one of Jay’s regulars. They mixed it up a little and Fished with Jay yesterday and with me today. They had a hell of a stringer with Jay yesterday with over a 40 pound bag, so I had my work cut out just to try not to be enbarest today. We started out the day with Troy losing a really nice fish in the 8 pound range , after that we did not loose another big fish that we knew we had on. These guys really did a good job at putting them in the boat today and it really made for a good day. We did not quit get to 40 pounds today , but we caught a bunch of quality fish. We had about a 36 to 37 pound stringer and we weighted all the bigger fish. We were having a little trouble with the scales . Come to find out that my scale that we weighted a couple on was lighter that the scale that Troy had . My good scale , the battery went dead. But we did weigh them on both Troy’s scale and on mine , and at one time when we had a double , our scale weighted them the same. I think it was the wind and the boat rocking and the scales were locking in on the weight different. Anyway we had a bunch of big fish today. We caught several more 5 to 6 pounders that we did not take a picture of. They were very happy and that is all that matters. Jay I have to hand it to you , you kicked my as on weight, but I kicked your ass on numbers of quality fish. I think they will be back and fish with both of us again, good job friend .
May 16, 2013
May 16th, 2013
Well took out Carl again today for his final day on Falcon Lake. After the day we had yesterday , it was hard to feel like we were having a good day today. The boat traffic was just crazy today compared to the last few days. It was nusts out there today, trying to fish a place without someone just flat pulling in on you. At one point I had to crank my big engine just to keep a guy from ramming my boat. I am not joking about this one bit. Carl and I had to really grind to get the 20 to 25 fish caught today. We only caught a few big fish today as pictured , we did have a few solid fish in the 4 and 5 pound range as well today not pictured. I took one look at the Dam , when we put in and it looked like old times down there so I headed north. Well hell it was not much better in the Tigers as well , there was 12 to 15 boats in there as well , so I headed back south , knowing that idiot that nearly rammed me was in that direction and I had warned Jay and Tim to watch out for him, and guess what they got to see him up close and personal as well . All in all I would chalk today up as being a tough one with 20 or so fish most below 4 pounds and a 29 pounds for our best five .
May 15, 2013
May 15th, 2013
Took out Carl today. It was just him and I and man did we have a fun day. We did not catch any monster fish today, but we just hammered the 5 to heavy 7 pounders. I did loose two over 8 pounds and Carl lost a couple of fish that we did not see, but we sure boated enough that it did not matter. We had two great doubles as pictured and some more that we did not take the time to take a picture of. I really got on a strong jig bite at the end of the day and when I brought a fish to the boat , they had company, and we plan on throwing it a lot more tomorrow. There were very few boats on the water today, or should I say where we were doing all the damage. I have Carl for one more day and we are ready to battle again tomorrow. Cranks, Tex rig and hammerhead jigs were the baits today.
May 14, 2013
May 14th, 2013
Well what can I say other than , these guys went out with a bang today. I had Mike and Josh again today. I went to an area today that I had not bothered for a while and wow were they ganged up in there and they were good fish too. Mike and Josh had a great double and I had a double of my own as seen in the net with two quality fish on the crank at the same time. We had fish swarming the boat with the fish we had on. I like it when you know there is a bunch of quality fish packed together and they are competing for the bait. We had several doubles today , when one of us got a biet the rest of us did as well. Did we lose some big fish today, heck yea we did , but we had plenty of others willing to stay one and in the boat we boated , hell I don not really know , but something over 40 today. Josh lost the biggest of the day but still got his personal best a 8 lb even. I had a personal best two at the same time on the crank bait the bigger fish was 7 lb 4 oz and the smaller one was 5 lb 14 oz . We had a bunch more 5 and 6 pounders but I got tired of post pictures.
May 13, 2013
May 13th, 2013
Took out Mike and his son Josh today. This is Josh’s graduation present . I could not think of a better one to give. We caught a pretty day on Falcon Lake today. The fish were really biting today. We found that the size was one the small size though. Now the numbers we incredible , but we had had enough of that so I decided to just go deep, deeper than I had been in a while and , just as I thought , we did not get many bites , but the ones we got were the good ones. We will be back at it again tomorrow and probably do the same thing again . We boated about 40 fish today. I have one fish in the pictures twice . Not trying to deceive, just to even out the row. She was so fat , see deserved to be pictured twice anyway LOL
May 10, 2013
May 10th, 2013
took out Earl and his son Eddie today. It was a really nice weather day again today. We got started of strong with a nice double and really stroked the fish hard for the first 2 or 3 hours. We had a tough day with landing ratio today , even thought we caught over 30 fish today. Eddie was using only 20 pound floro today and it was not enough as he broke 4 big fish off at the boat today. He lost a really big fish on the crank bait as well. Now they di land some really nice fish , but we did not have a fish over 8 pounds today just a butt load of 6 and 7 pounders. Dad had had back surgery and had two 18″ long titanium rods installed in his back and had to use a spinning rod, and he did a great job on some good catches today. Just the thought of what he went through made me really admire the man. What a great two guys to fish with .
May 9, 2013
May 9th, 2013
Took out Tom again today . We put in south and skipped the dam today. Good move because our first spot produced back to back doubles and good quality fish. We were already happy about our start today. We really was not ready for what the rest of the day held. This lake is just something else. Tom just really kicked some but with his and his only 41 lb 13 oz stringer consisting of all weighted fish 8 lb 13 oz , 8 lb 11 oz, 8 lb 9 oz , 8 lb 4 oz , 7 lb 8 oz Total and pictured 41 lb 13 oz. When you are into fish like we were , you are going to loose some and we only lost three today that would have really helped our stringer, let me correct his stringer, I had a good one as well but he got me today. We boated around 50 fish today . Several things worked today . I really think they would have hit a bare hook today.
