Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Report from TPWD (Feb. 12)
GOOD. Water stained; 57-61 degrees; 0.69’ low. Largemouth bass are good in shallow water working crankbaits, worms, and spinners. White bass are fair on minnows moving up from deep. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs casting shallow structure. Catfish are good on live and stinkbait.
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports (1 - 20 of 387)
Winning a tournament is always pretty cool, but winning the way Anthony Sharp did in the second Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine event in the Cowboy Division presented by A.R.E. is...
by Tom Behrens on 2/18/2020
A record 218 teams showed up to fish the 3rd Sweet Sixteen Tournament presented by Daiwa this past Sunday. Fishing seemed to get a lot better than it had been this year. Twenty-three teams brought in bags over...
by Tom Behrens on 2/17/2020
The annual white bass spawning run has either began or is about to begin on rivers or creeks that feed into popular Texas lakes. With a warm winter like we have had this year, it is possible some fish have...
by Tom Behrens on 2/17/2020
Check out this 14.36 pound lunker, caught by Blake Cockrell at Lake Alan Henry this past weekend. This is the first Legacy Class ShareLunker of 2020.
If you catch a 13+ pound bass and loan it to Texas Parks...
by Tom Behrens on 2/13/2020
Congratulations to Tanner Riley and Kaleb Stewart for their outstanding performance in winning the DETX fifth qualifying tournament and for catching a giant 10.76 lb green monster.
Top 10 finishers: 1 Youth...
by Tom Behrens on 2/13/2020
Cold fronts, high winds, fluctuating water temps and transitioning fish had the fishing jumbled. The patterns the top 10 pros employed throughout the week followed suit at the FLW tournament at Lake Sam...
by Tom Behrens on 1/27/2020
Ryan Pinkston and Scooter Clark took top honors at the Skeeter Bass Champs Team Tournament at Lake Sam Rayborn, Jan. 11, 2020.
TOP 10 TEAMS:
1. Ryan Pinkston - Scooter Clark 5 fish, 25.34 lbs.
2. Chris...
by Tom Behrens on 1/24/2020
Berkley pro John Cox of DeBary, Florida, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 21 pounds, 7 ounces, Thursday to grab the early lead after Day One of the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit at Sam Rayburn Reservoir....
by Tom Behrens on 1/24/2020
When crappie get a little finicky, give them a little something extra to keep the bite going.
Berkley Crappie Nibbles:
One of the more popular crappie teaser are the Berkley Crappie Nibbles, in chartreuse,...
by Tom Behrens on 1/7/2020
The 2020 Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine opened competition Saturday at Sam Rayburn, featuring a record-setting field size – 230 boaters and 230 co-anglers. The season opener, the...
by Tom Behrens on 1/6/2020
Deep or shallow for bass at this time of the year? Winter normally means dropping water temperatures, but Texas being Texas, if we have 3-4 days of the daily warming, the bass will get more active shallower....
by Tom Behrens on 12/31/2019
Crappie are being taken on traditional crappie baits … jigs and minnows. On the deeper impoundments the fish have been found suspended in 30 feet of water, about 14-16 feet from the surface. You can...
by Tom Behrens on 11/27/2019
Braxton Resweber, the St. Martinville Louisiana bass angler and his UL Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns Bass Fishing Team partner, T.J. Norris of New Iberia, had a solid five-bass limit in the livewell, weighing...
by Tom Behrens on 11/25/2019
The team of Tommy Hill and Bubba Frazier captured Team of the Year for Outlaw Outdoors Fishing Tournaments. The second place team of Will West, Jr and Dean Ady, Jr was on their heels as was the third place...
by Tom Behrens on 11/25/2019
Seventy-two teams enjoyed the awesome weather on Sam Rayburn while not only taking part in The Outlaw Outdoors November Open Tournament, but also helped make Christmas better for a lot of kids in Jasper...
by Tom Behrens on 11/20/2019
As the winter approaches, the crappie should start moving upriver and stream channels in Texas’ large water impoundments, locating on underwater brush or other structure. Some will prefer bridge pilings....
by Tom Behrens on 11/6/2019
High School youth from all over East Texas teamed up to fish in the Deep East Texas Qualifier 1 on Lake Sam Rayburn, Oct. 12, 2019. Jace Lindsay and Jaxon Evans, students at Beckville High School, took first...
by Tom Behrens on 10/15/2019
It looks like it’s getting that time of the year when jigs, worms (big) are the choice of bass. The lures that caught winning fish at FLW Tournament on Grand Lake in Oklahoma were mostly an assortment of...
by Tom Behrens on 10/8/2019
Mother Nature gave the anglers an almost perfect day for the Outlaw Outdoors Average Joe Tournament. Seenty-nine teams decided to forego the opening weekend of bow season and opt to fish the Average Joe...
by Tom Behrens on 10/3/2019
When fishing for catfish remember: “The worse it smells, the better.” When I lived in Oklahoma City, a friend and I would have it all set up to leave from work on Friday afternoons, heading to Ft...
by Tom Behrens on 9/27/2019