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Lake Fork is right at full pool. There is still a handful of fish spawning. In fact, we got 3 fish over 25 inches on beds in a 24 hour period earlier in the week, including a 10 pounder. But the spawn is definitely coming to an end. Most of the bass we are seeing in the shallows ...

Fishing Friends,


We were able to get all our trips in Monday thru Friday and then the "Weekend Cold Front" came in and spoiled Saturday's Trips again. Seems like we have a regularly scheduled Frontal System every week complete with a little rain ...

What a GREAT WEEK on Richland Chambers as we were able to fish everyday except for two when the Wind and Weather kept us off the Lake! The White Bass and Hybrid Stripers are going crazy and a full ice chest is the norm! We're catching most of our fish on RSR 1 oz. Slabs when ...

Lake Fork is right at full pool and still pretty muddy. The southern end is slightly clearer, but not very good for a sight fisherman. Most of the water that's warm enough for bedding bass is no more than a foot of visibility. The clearest water is still in the 50s.
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Saturday I was fortunate to be able to fish the Lake Fork guide tournament with Alex Finch (of Finch Nasty Bait co) and Finch prostaffer Kevin Bryant. Those guys are serious competetors! I was happy just to have a limit of bass at 2PM fishing Lake Fork in 49 degree water. But ...

We wish there was more to report from RC, but this past week we cancelled all but one trip due to the Wind and Cold. However the one trip on Tuesday was a good one with a Dad and Son Combo from Dallas catching some really nice Blues and having a ball doing it! Joe and Chris ...

The Arctic Blast that hit our part of the State last week kept us off the Lake until Saturday. The below freezing air temperatures lowered the Lake water temperatures from the mid 50's to the mid 40's and we were concerned it may have totally turned off the Catfish bite. Well....our ...

The cold weather seems to be a few weeks behind this year. Here it is almost December and the water temperature is still well into the 60s. With the warm weather expected this week, it looks like it will be almost Christmas before we see water temps in the 50s. What that means ...

In my 27 years experience guiding, I've found that 60 to 70 degrees is the absolute best water temperature for fishing. In the Fall, it usually gets in that prime range near the first or second week of October. This year, we are 2-3 weeks behind on the cool down. Despite all ...

Looks like Fall is finally here. It was cool enough to have frost on our grass this morning. Bass love the cooling water and will bite better than any other time of the year. I've found that when the water temp gets around 70 degrees the bass bite like crazy until it gets about ...

It's been a GREAT EARLY FALL on RC as the White Bass, Hybrid Stripers and especially the Crappie have been on a good bite! This past week, I fished four trips for Crappie and one trip for the Whites/Hybrids, and did well on all of them. The Crappie can be found on Brush Piles ...

It was a very good week on RC as I was able to fish everyday except for one and caught lots of fish each outing! While we don't do much Crappie fishing during much of the year, Fall is the exception. We caught Crappie every trip and really only fished for the White Bass on Saturday ...

Last weekend was the Sealy Big Bass tournament. So, my last few trips were to prepare clients for that tournament. It was a success. My client on Thursday got one over 24 inches with me and got 2 checks in the tournament on my homemade spoons. And I had 2 other clients get 3 ...

Can you believe all the rain we are getting in the middle of August? Normally, the lake is several feet low in August. Today, it is 6 inches over full! Fortunately, the rain has cooled down the lake and the fishing has drastically improved. When the water temps were 90 and above, ...

Night fishing on Lake Fork has been inconsistent. On my last 4 trips, I had one awesome night, one good night, and 2 terrible nights. Welcome to summer bass fishing! One trip, we went 6 hours without a bass. The next trip, our best 5 went over 30 pounds. That's summer fishing! ...